Top-ranked Wood named to wrestling all-star meet
January 8, 1999
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State senior Oscar Wood has been named to next months National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Star Dual. The meet matches two of the nations top wrestlers at each weight and will be held Feb. 1 at Oklahoma State.
Wood will wrestle T.J. Williams of Iowa in the meet. Wood is the first Beaver named to the NWCA All-Star Dual since 167-pounder Chad Renner and 177-pounder Les Gutches competed at Iowa in 1996.
Wood is ranked first in the nation by Amateur Wrestling News and third by InterMat this week. Williams is ranked third by AWN and second by IM.
Going into this weekends Virginia Duals tournament, Wood was 14-1 with eight pins this season. Last season, Wood placed third in the nation at 142 pounds and earned the Manuel Gorrarian Award for recording the most pins in the least time at the NCAA Championships.
The pairings for this years NWCA All-Star Dual (Amateur Wrestling News rankings):
125 - No. 1 Teague Moore, Oklahoma State, vs. No. 2 Stephen Abas, Fresno State
133 - No. 1 Eric Guerrero, Oklahoma State, vs. No. 2 Pat McNamara, Michigan State
141 - No. 1 Mark Angle, Clarion, vs. No. 2 Michael Lightner, Oklahoma
149 - No. 1 Oscar Wood, Oregon State, vs. No. 3 T.J. Williams, Iowa
157 - No. 2 Casey Cunningham, Central Michigan, vs. No. 3 Clint Musser, Penn State
165 - No. 2 Kirk White, Boise State, vs. No. 3 Joe Heskett, Iowa State
174 - No. 1 Mark Smith, Oklahoma State, vs. No. 2 Leo Giel, Rider
184 - No. 2 Cael Sanderson, Iowa State, vs. No. 5 Vertus Jones, West Virginia
197 - No. 2 Lee Fullhart, Iowa, vs. No. 3 Andrei Rodzianko, Penn
HWT - No. 1 Stephen Neal, Cal State-Bakersfield, vs. No. 2 Wes Hand, Iowa
Exhibition - No. 6 (157) Jimmy Arias, Oklahoma State, vs. No. 1 (157, Division II) Jody Marple, Central Oklahoma
Coaches - Jim Zalesky, Iowa; Tom Borelli, Central Michigan; Kerry Volkmann, John Carroll; John Owen, North Idaho Junior College
