Beavers on verge of Top 25 ranking
February 09, 2016 | Wrestling
Corvallis, Ore. – The Oregon State wrestling team remained unranked in this week's USA Today/NWCA Top 25, but the Beavers nearly tripled the number of points they received in the weekly poll.
The Beavers received 14 points, up from five in the previous poll, just nine fewer than No. 25 CSU Bakersfield, after going 2-1 on a Pacific-12 Conference road trip through California. OSU knocked off then-No. 22 Stanford and Cal Poly before falling 21-20 to the Roadrunners on Feb. 6.
That victory moved the Roadrunners into the rankings at No. 25. Arizona State (11) and Stanford (10) joined the Beavers in the also receiving votes category.
Penn State stayed No. 1, followed by Iowa, North Carolina State, Oklahoma State and Missouri.Three Beavers were ranked by InterMat or The Open Mat. The Beavers were not listed in InterMat's team or tournament rankings.
Redshirt sophomore heavyweight Amarveer Dhesi (21-3) remained ranked No. 9 by The Open Mat and No. 10 by InterMat. Redshirt junior Joey Palmer (21-8) moved up one spot to No. 19 in The Open Mat's rankings, but is not in InterMat's top 20.
Sophomore 125-pounder Ronnie Bresser (23-6) dropped one spot to No. 7 in InterMat's rankings and two spots to No. 9 in The Open Mat's poll after going 2-1 last weekend.
OSU (8-6, 2-2 Pac-12) faces No. 7 Oklahoma (9-4) at 7 p.m. Thursday at Gill Coliseum and then hosts unranked Air Force at 5 p.m. Sunday. Those duals conclude the nonconference portion of the schedule.
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