Jim Zalesky
Jim Zalesky
Jim Zalesky is American college wrestling coach and is currently the head wrestling coach for the Oregon State Beavers and a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Prior to joining the Beavers, he was the coach of the University of Iowa wrestling team from 1998–2006. At Iowa, he succeeded Dan Gable as head coach, under whom he was a three-time NCAA champion. He guided the Hawkeyes to NCAA team championships in 1998, 1999, and 2000...
expect fine michael prepared
Michael has prepared as the starter, so we're fine in that regard. We expect the same from him that we do from everyone.
against close learn lost michigan turned wrestle
We just lost some close matches. We need to get those things turned around for us. Against Michigan State, we didn't come out and wrestle aggressively. We have got to learn to turn things around. Things don't always go your way.
close healthy last looking mark motivation ready wants win
Mark is healthy and ready to go. You can just tell from looking at him how much he wants to win the Big Tens. We think he should. He was close to doing it last year, and I think that's motivation for him this season.
fought needed though
We needed that kind of competition. Even though we got beat, I thought we fought hard.
crowd good guys roll tough win
We have to win the tough ones to win the dual. Our guys did a good job. You have to get on a roll to get the crowd out of it and get some momentum.
ahead beat came last ready year
We thought we had them beat last year when we got way ahead and then they came back and beat us. We have got to be ready to wrestle. We have got to come out aggressively.
gives gotten wins year
One thing I see he has more this year more than anything is confidence. He's gotten some big wins and that gives you confidence.
guys hard
When you have guys that don't wrestle, it's hard to make it exciting. Overall, I thought we wrestled well.
couple few fixing goal guys others prepared week wrestle wrestling
We've got a couple guys right now at 149 and 141 who are wrestling really well. But we've had a couple guys banged up and a few others who regressed a little during the season. We've been fixing things this week and getting everyone prepared for the Big Tens. This has been our goal all season, and we feel that if we wrestle like we should that we could win.
beat chance good lost matches tough
We had a chance to beat (Minnesota) and the matches like at 141, 149, 157 were all pretty tough matches and we lost them all. We just weren't good enough that day to beat them.
push
It's one of those things where we don't want to push it right now. He really can't do a lot without getting hurt.
cost dual
That's probably what cost us the dual more than anything.
bottom guys knock ourselves stay top win wrestle
We didn't take ourselves out of it. We've got to keep the individuals on top winning, and the guys on the bottom have got to come back and win and stay in the tournament. We've got to knock some guys off. If we wrestle to our seed, we're not going to do much.
bring guys next room step year
We've got guys in the room we feel can step up next year and bring us back up.