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1/3/2001
The top-ranked Golden Gophers are back in dual meet action with a home bout against the 25th-ranked Oregon State Beavers at the Sports Pavilion on Sunday, Jan. 6, at 2 p.m.
Minnesota enters 2002 with a 5-0 record in dual meets while OSU comes into the meet with a 5-3 mark.
NO. 1 MINNESOTA (5 - 0) VS. NO. 25 OREGON STATE ( 5-3)
SUNDAY, JANUARY 6 • 2 P.M. • SPORTS PAVILION
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Probable Minnesota (5-0 overall) starters |
01-02 overall, dual record (pins) |
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125 - No. 2/4 Leroy Vega (Sr., Portage, Ind.) |
14-2, 4-1 (0) |
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133 - No. 1/1 Ryan Lewis (Jr., Vernal, Utah) |
13-0, 2-0 (5) |
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141 - No. 2/2 Chad Erikson (Sr., Apple Valley, Minn.) |
10-0, 3-0 (4) |
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149 - No. 3/3 Jared Lawrence (Jr., Sandpoint, Idaho) |
14-1, 4-0 (5) |
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157 - No. 3/3 Luke Becker (Jr., Cambridge, Minn.) |
16-1, 5-0 (7) |
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165 - Nate Baker (RS Fr., Lakefield, Minn.) |
23-6, 2-0 (6) |
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174 - No. 6/7 Jacob Volkmann (So., Henning, Minn.) |
13-2, 4-0 (5) |
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184 - No. 8/8 Damion Hahn (So., Lakewood, N.J.) |
13-6, 3-2 (1) |
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197 - No. 3/3 Owen Elzen (Sr., Eyota, Minn.) |
15-2, 5-0 (4) |
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Hwt - No. 5/7 Garrett Lowney (So., Freedom, Wis.) |
11-2, 4-1 (4) |
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Probable Oregon St. (5-3 overall) starters |
01-02 overall, dual record (pins) |
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125 - Michael Delaney (Jr., Tracy, Calif.) |
9-7, 2-4 (2) |
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133 - NR/No. 20 Nathan Navarro (Sr., Ontario, Ore.) |
12-3, 4-0 (1) |
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141 - Casey Horn (Jr., Salem, Ore.) |
13-6, 5-2 (6) |
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149 - Jordan Barich (Fr., Newberg, Ore.) |
5-5, 4-3 (1) |
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157 - Micah Houston (So., Arlington, Texas) |
4-7, 2-5 (1) |
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165 - Jed Pennell (So., Cave Junction, Ore.) |
9-7, 4-3 (2) |
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174 - No. 9/15 Nathan Coy (Sr., Oregon City, Ore.) |
4-3, 2-1 (0) |
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mmmmor Jake Huffman (Jr., Scio, Ore.) |
13-5, 4-0 (1) |
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184 - NR/No. 20 Isaac Weber (Sr., Newberg, Ore.) |
12-8, 4-3 (1) |
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197 - Jason Lovell (Jr., Turner, Ore.) |
11-8, 4-3 (1) |
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Hwt - No. 9/8 Jason Cooley (Sr., Anchorage, Alaska) |
6-2, 2-1 (0) |
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mmmm or Andy Bowlby (Jr., Newberg, Ore.) |
15-3, 4-0 (4) |
About the Beavers: Oregon State began the season with four dual meet wins over lesser opponents at their own tournament before losing three of its next four meets. The Beavers picked up a win over archrival Oregon via tiebreaker, but lost to nationally-ranked Arizona State, Nebraska and Oklahoma State to move their record to 5-3.
The Beavers return seven starters and four NCAA qualifiers from last season. OSU's led by seniors Nathan Navarro (ranked 20th at 133 pounds), Nathan Coy (9th at 174 pounds) and Jason Cooley (9th at heavyweight).
Oregon State finished in 19th place at the 2001 NCAA Championships with 25.5 points. The Beavers had one All-American, Eric Jorgensen, who finished fifth at 157 pounds. Jorgensen is now a graduate assistant with OSU. The Beavers placed third at the 2001 Pac-10 Championships with Jorgensen and Coy earning conference crowns.
The Series: Minnesota holds a 4-3-1 record over Oregon State, dating back to 1973. The Golden Gophers and Beavers last met in 1998 with Minnesota winning 26-12 in Corvallis, Ore. Prior to the 1998 meeting, Minnesota and OSU had not faced each other since 1983 when the the Beavers tied the Maroon and Gold 22-22. Oregon State has not defeated Minnesota since the 1975-76 season when OSU downed the Golden Gophers 30-11.
Meet Webcasts: All of Minnesota's home dual meets will be webcast live on www.gophersports.com. Former Golden Gopher wrestlers Willy Short and Jesse Krebs will call the action from the Sports Pavilion or Williams Arena for the season. Listeners can access the webcast by clicking on the Gameday section of gophersports.com, the official Internet home of Golden Gopher athletics.
In addition, TheWrestlingMall.com will provide updated match-by-match results for many dual meets throughout the season, including the bout versus Oregon State.
Third at Midlands: Minnesota captured third place at the 2001 Midlands Wrestling Championships in Evanston, Ill., last weekend with three Golden Gophers finishing in second place in their respective weight classes. The Maroon and Gold finished with 110.5 points, behind first-place Iowa (151 points) and second-place Iowa State (126.5 points). Minnesota was competing with a shorthanded lineup as the Ryan Lewis (133 pounds), Chad Erikson (141) and Garrett Lowney (Hwt.) did not compete.
Leroy Vega (125 pounds), Jared Lawrence (149) and Luke Becker (157) each took home second-place honors. Vega, seeded first, compiled a 4-1 record in the tournament, falling to two-time World Champion and 1996 Olympic bronze medalist Alexis Vila of Cuba, 6-5, in the championship match. Lawrence, also seeded first, lost to No. 2 Mike Zadick of Iowa, 5-2, in the title bout. It was Lawrence's first loss on the year as he moved his record to 14-1 overall. Becker, seeded second, fell to No. 1 seed Yoshi Nakamura of Penn, 5-3, in the championship match. Becker, now 16-1 overall, also suffered his first loss of the season.
At 165 pounds, redshirt freshman Nate Baker captured fifth place, going 6-2 in the tournament and winning by medical forfeit over Aidek Pardakulov of Central Missouri in his final bout. Third-seeded John Hardy fell to Baker in the consolation round by medical forfeit. At 174 pounds, third-seeded Jacob Volkmann failed to place and suffered his first losses of the season. He is now 13-2 overall. Redshirt freshman Josh McLay went 1-2 and also did not place.
Second-seeded Damion Hahn finished fourth at 184 pounds, losing to No. 3 Jessman Smith of Iowa, 5-3, in his final match. Hahn, 13-6 overall on the year, was 5-2 for the event.
At 197 pounds, No. 3 seed Owen Elzen captured fourth place, falling to Jon Trenge of Lehigh, 6-5, in the third-place match. Elzen also got his first losses on the season. Now 15-2, Elzen lost to No. 2 seed Lee Fullhart of Team Excel in the semifinals.
Battle with Iowa Approaches: Undoubtedly the highlight of the 2001-02 schedule, archrivals Minnesota and Iowa face off at Minneapolis' Target Center on Friday, Feb. 1, for conference bragging rights in a rematch of the Golden Gophers' two nailbiting triumphs over the Hawkeyes in 2000-01. The border battle also exists as an attempt by Minnesota to break the NCAAwrestling dual meet attendance record of 15,291, set on Feb. 22, 1992, when Iowa def eated Iowa State 29-8 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa. The Hawkeyes return just two All-Americans in Mike Zadick (149) and Ben Shirk (165), but, as always, Iowa boasts a top recruiting class which is helping in their reloading for 2001-02.
Tickets for the much-anticipated meet at the Target Center are available through Ticketmaster at (651) 989-5151 or www.ticketmaster.com.
Iowa holds a 53-20-1 advantage over Minnesota in a series dating to 1926. In the last meeting between the Golden Gophers and Hawkeyes, No. 1 Minnesota edged No. 4 Iowa 17-16 in an electrifying dual meet in front of 10,048 fans at Carver- Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa. The Maroon and Gold stormed out to a 14-0 lead and held on to hand the Hawkeyes their fourth loss of the season and snap their 15-dual meet home winning streak.
Gold Country's last loss to the Hawkeyes came in 1999-2000 in front of a school-record c rowd of 13,128 at Williams Arena as No. 1 Iowa downed No. 2 Minnesota 20-13.