Beavers fall to No. 15 Jackrabbits, 30-13

Friday, January 5

Brookings, SD

4:00 PM

Oregon State

South Dakota State

Photo by: Sam Janicki

January 05, 2018 | Wrestling

Results SDSU

By: Athletic Communications

BROOKINGS, S.D. – The Oregon State wrestling team dropped a non-conference contest at the No. 15-ranked South Dakota State Jackrabbits on Friday night inside Frost Arena, 30-13.
Oregon State drops to 2-2-0 on the season while SDSU improves to 5-2-0.

Redshirt junior 125-pounder Ronnie Bresser started things off on the right foot with a 15-3 major decision over Connor Brown. Bresser was in command the entire match, putting the Beavers on top of the Jackrabbits early, 4-0.

Devan Turner had a tough draw at 133-pounds. South Dakota State's Seth Gross is the No. 1- ranked wrestler in the country at the weight class, who used his experience to his advantage pinning Turner, putting SDSU ahead 6-4.

141-pound redshirt senior Jack Hathaway dropped a close decision to Henry Pohlmeyer, 5-2. The two wrestlers met at the Midlands Championships last weekend which saw Hathaway come away with a win, but Pohlmeyer got the best of Hathaway this time as the Jackrabbits now led 9-4.

Sophomore 149-pounder Kurt Mode notched a win aginst Colten Carlson by decision 10-7, pulling the Beavers to a two-point deficit, 9-7.

The match at 157-pounds proved to be the most exciting of the evening, pitting freshman Hunter Willits against the 11th ranked Luke Zilverberg. Willits battled and held a 4-3 lead in the final minute of regulation, but a second stall call awarded Zilverberg the match tying point sending it to sudden victory. Zilverberg eventually came away with a 5-4 decision.

Oregon State dropped the next four matches at 165, 174, 184, and 197. No. 11-ranked redshirt junior Corey Griego dropped a 9-4 decision to the No. 6-ranked 197-pounder Nate Rotert in the only contest of the night that saw two ranked wrestlers pitted against each other.

In the final bout of the evening, No. 6 Amar Dhesi pinned Blake Wolters in 2:43 for his first dual victory of the season. He had previously been out of the lineup with an injury.

Up Next
The Beavers finish their two-week long Midwest road trip at Iowa State (Jan. 7) at noon pacific time.

Oregon State begins Pacific-12 Conference action on the road against Arizona State on Saturday, Jan. 20. The Sun Devils were the 2017 Pac-12 Wrestling Champions.

This year's Pac-12 Championships are hosted by the Beavers on Feb. 25 in Gill Coliseum. The NCAA Championships are March 15-17 in Cleveland, Ohio.

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No. 15 South Dakota State 30, Oregon State 13

125: #10 Ronnie Bresser (ORST) over Connor Brown (SDS) (MD 15-3)
133: #1 Seth Gross (SDS) over Devan Turner (ORST) (Fall 1:10)
141: Henry Pohlmeyer (SDS) over Jack Hathaway (ORST) (Dec 5-2)
149: Kurt Mode (ORST) over Colten Carlson (SDS) (Dec 10-7)
157: #11 Luke Zilverberg (SDS) over Hunter Willits (ORST) (TB-1 5-4)
165: Logan Peterson (SDS) over Billy Bigelow (ORST) (Fall 4:54)
174: #9 David Kocer (SDS) over Myles Terry (ORST) (TF 21-6 5:16)
184: Martin Mueller (SDS) over Seth McLeod (ORST) (MD 16-8)
197: #6 Nate Rotert (SDS) over #11 Corey Griego (ORST) (Dec 9-4)
285: Amar Dhesi (ORST) over Blake Wolters (SDS) (Fall 2:43)