Joey McKenna was injured. Chase Singletary had the flu. Malik Heinselman got spelled ahead of a huge battle Sunday. None of that mattered: Ohio State left Huff Hall Friday night with a dominant victory over Illinois, winning 23-14. The Buckeyes won 6 of 10 matches contested in the meet, including a tech fall by Micah Jordan and a pin by Kollin Moore. Myles Martin won the biggest match of the night, pacing No. 4 Emery Parker in an 8-4 decision. The two split a pair of matches in 2017, with Parker getting the upper hand in the second round of the NCAA tournament and snuffing out Martin’s chances of back-to-back NCAA titles. A match later, Kollin Moore needed just a little more than three minutes to pin Andre Lee, putting the meet out of reach for the Illini with two matches left to wrestle. It was the type of performance…
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