{"id":54837,"date":"2020-03-24T16:48:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=54837"},"modified":"2020-03-24T16:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:48:34","slug":"cooper-jones-amongst-top-dominant-dii-wrestlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=54837","title":{"rendered":"Cooper, Jones amongst top dominant DII wrestlers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8211; A pair of Fort Hays State wrestlers were highly ranked in the final tally of wins via pin and technical fall, released Tuesday (March 24) by the NCAA. <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2facd68758-aab8-4915-86a8-09c9e8e9a3de%3felinkdata%3d149135&amp;c=E,1,aFfe6zZR2Jq8HlFtdDXvCTG_j7xoPjeQccdp4V23JMs9j0xsSaBhIuseupEwdfAP-s3P_yIOfpINqyyygrlp2ek8jU6cFQL6KagUsrbAQ-znQuM,&amp;typo=1\">A.J. Cooper<\/a> finished the season with the second-most pins in Division II, while <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffhsuathletics.com%2fservices%2fgo.ashx%2fc5909496-fd68-454c-99ec-b95c96994944%3felinkdata%3d149135&amp;c=E,1,TU1FMsAccNBH6BlI_xVlK6dvnFkyH2_vaecHand1NL6aWzm8W3kQLLMLn1C_rI0a6Il4AM1HtMtUxPP-ljAjsNKCIePx9EDYNxlQnM35A5Y,&amp;typo=1\">Aryus Jones<\/a> wrapped up the season tied for sixth in tech falls.<br><br> Cooper pinned 14 DII opponents on the year, more than all but one other Division II competitor. The junior finished the year 36-11, leading the team in victories. He added four tech falls and two major decisions. Cooper captured first place at this year&#8217;s Swede Open and RWC-Jet Invite while placing fourth at the Super Region 4 Championships at 285 pounds. The Cimarron Kan. native earned All-MIAA status after being named runner-up in the dual meet championship<br><br> Jones racked up six technical fall victories against DII opponents this season, tied for the sixth-most in the country and second-most amongst MIAA competition. The Junction City, Kan. native also led the Tigers with eight major decisions, finishing the year 28-9 overall. The sophomore was a national qualifier after placing third at the Super Region 4 Championships and was the champion of the Swede Open, the Bob Smith Open and the RWC-Jet Invite at 174 pounds.<br><br> Only bouts against other Division II opponents count towards these totals. Overall, 16 of Cooper&#8217;s 36 wins came via a pin, while Jones tallied seven total tech falls on the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION INDIANAPOLIS &#8211; A pair of Fort Hays State wrestlers were highly ranked in the final tally of wins via pin and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7349,784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-wrestling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54838,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54837\/revisions\/54838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}