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Mark Budd

The Rankings Killer

Junior Mark Budd (Orrville, OH/Orrville) has beaten both the Division I and Division II top-ranked wrestlers this season. He downed Findlay's Andy Uhl, 7-3, in a Nov. 19 dual meet, but it was last Friday's win against Edinboro's Shawn Bunch that will really turn heads, as the junior 133-pounder shocked Bunch with a 6-4 sudden victory decision at the War at the Shore. Budd. who is 19-3 this season, has beaten four Division I ranked opponents.

It's Gotta Start/Stop Somewhere...

Mark Budd's win over the No. 1-ranked Shawn Bunch is the first time in the school's Division I era that a wrestler had beaten the top-ranked wrestler in the country. It also snapped Budd's three-match losing streak to Bunch, after he dropped two decisions by a 6-4 margin and one by a 6-3 score in 2003-04.

Budding Onto the National Scene

Junior Mark Budd earned his first national ranking in the WrestlingReport.com's Nov. 16 poll, ranking 30th, and has ascended ever since. Budd, who is second on the Bulls with 18 wins this season, has won two tournament championships this season, winning the Slippery Rock Open and the Mat Town USA titles at 133 pounds. He rose to 18th in WrestlingReport.com's Nov. 28 poll and has earned a ranking of 12th in the latest W.I.N. Magazine poll and 15th in both the Amateur Wrestling News and WrestlingReport.com polls.

Mickey Moran

Another One Bites the Dust

After a 7-23 rookie season, sophomore Mickey Moran (Pittsburgh, PA/Shaler Area) has already posted some remarkable numbers during his second season in Amherst, as he has started the year 17-5, following a 7-3 decision against the NWCA/InterMat/NWMA's 15th-ranked Deonte Penn on Friday night. Moran has posted three place finishes and has beaten two nationally-ranked opponents during this season.

En Fuego

Senior Kyle Cerminara (Lewiston, NY/Lewiston-Porter) has won 20 straight matches, which is just four shy of tying the school-record of 24 straight victories, set by John Stutzman in 1996-97. This is the second record of Stutzman's that the 2004 All-American has chased this year, already breaking Stutzman's mark of 135 career dual meet takedowns, with Cerminara now owning the school-record of 149.

Undersized, Underdog

If there is one thing senior Harold Sherrell (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) has always been, it's an underdog. For three years, he wrestled in the shadow of senior Kyle Cerminara before finally stepping into the starting role at 197 pounds while Cerminara redshirted, finishing 22-18 and in 23rd in the nation in wins at 197 pounds. This season, Sherrell, wrestling at 218 pounds, has posted a 17-4 record, and picked up individual titles at the Mat Town USA Invitational and the Slippery Rock Open.