Kosta Karageorge should be standing on the Ohio Stadium turf today, recognized as one of 24 senior football players at their final home game as an Ohio State Buckeye. But the walk-on defensive tackle remained missing last night, and he won’t be there for the game against Michigan. Karageorge, 22, was last seen walking out of his apartment around 2 a.m. Wednesday. Now, his face is on more than 5,000 fliers blanketing windshields, utility poles and walls near his apartment in Columbus; and near the area in nearby Grandview Heights where his cellphone was last traced. More than 150 people gathered yesterday to get the word out that Karageorge is out there somewhere. Jeremiah Webber, who coached Karageorge as a wrestler in high school, organized the effort. “I’m very scared for him,” Webber said. “I’m worried. I’m trying to remain optimistic. We love him, and we want him home.” Columbus police are treating his disappearance as a missing-person case, with nothing to indicate there was foul play. Adult men are allowed to go missing, said Sgt. David Pelphrey, a Police Division spokesman, but the family has concerns, and police are ramping up their response…
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