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Jacks host double dual Saturday
1/31/2008 1:00:00 AM | Wrestling
The South Dakota State University wrestling team will face a busy Saturday as the Jackrabbits host a double dual at Frost Arena.
Action begins at 4 p.m. with SDSU hosting Dakota Wesleyan.The Jackrabbits close out the day with a 7 p.m. dual against Western Wrestling Conference foe Wyoming.
The Jackrabbits remain in search of their first dual victory of the season, entering Saturday's action 0-6 overall and 0-3 in the WWC.
DWU is the 19th-ranked team in NAIA and is one of four Great Plains Athletic Conference schools ranked in the top 25. Individually, 165-pounder Tony Duarte is ranked fourth at 165 pounds.The Tigers, coached by former SDSU assistant Josh Hardman, entered the week with a 3-7 dual record.
Wyoming entered the week with a 1-6 overall record and 0-1 in the WWC, following a 40-0 shutout at the hands of Northern Iowa on Jan. 18.The Cowboys are scheduled to wrestle at North Dakota State on Friday before traveling to Brookings for Saturday's dual.
The Cowboys' Carter Downing is currently ranked 15th in the nation at 141 pounds.
SERIES RECORDS: The Jackrabbits will be in search of their first-ever victory against Wyoming.The Cowboys have posted an 8-0 advantage over the Jackrabbits in the series which dates back to the 1953-54 season. Since SDSU joined the Division I ranks at the start of the 2004-05 season,Wyoming has won all three meetings, including a 31-12 victory last year in Laramie.
Against DWU, SDSU has won both previous meetings.The Jackrabbits recorded a 23-15 victory during the 2004-05 season and were victorious, 32-16, during the 2005-06 campaign.
LAST WEEK: South Dakota State started strong, but North Dakota State dominated the second half of the dual in downing the Jackrabbits, 35-10, in Western Wrestling Conference action Jan. 23 at the Bison Sports Arena in Fargo, N.D..
SDSU remained winless in duals, dropping to 0-6 overall and 0-3 against WWC competition.
The Bison, wrestling in their WWC opener, evened their dual record at 7-7.
The Jackrabbits held the upper hand in the early going, winning the first three matches. Returning NCAA qualifier Ryan Meyer opened the dual with a 10-0 major decision over Mike Quamme at 165 pounds. Justin Retallic followed with a 4-2 decision over Shannon Fettig in the 174-pound weight class, and Tyler Sorenson made it three wins in a row with a 7-5 overtime decision of Kenny Moenkedick at 184 pounds. For Sorenson, it was his fourth consecutive dual victory since rejoining the team after the first semester.
From there, it was all Bison, who won the next seven weight classes. Jacob Bryce at 197 pounds and 125-pounder Eric Hoffman each recorded pins, and NDSU added a victory by forfeit at heavyweight and another by injury default.
NORTH DAKOTA STATE 35, SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 10
165: Ryan Meyer, SDSU, major dec. Mike Quamme, 10-0
174: Justin Retallic, SDSU, dec. Shannon Fettig, 4-2
184: Tyler Sorenson, SDSU, dec. Kenny Moenkedick, 7-5 (SV)
197: Jacob Bryce, NDSU, def. Jeremy Swier, by fall 4:06
HWT:Tyler Hemmesch, NDSU, won by forfeit
125: Eric Hoffman, NDSU, def. Alan Marvin, by fall 4:36
133: Eric Sanders, NDSU, dec. Derek Pirner, 5-4 (tiebreaker)
141: Gabriel Mooney, NDSU, dec. Jeff Cooley, 6-3
149: Andrey Patselov, NDSU, def. Marc Wermersen, by injury default
157: Adam Aho, NDSU, tech. fall Nick Genereux, 18-2 (3:00)
ROSTER CHANGES: The Jackrabbits have had a few roster changes since the beginning of the new calendar year.
Joining the team at semester break was Jeremy Swier, who is expected to fill the 197-pound weight class for this week's duals. He is a sophomore from Colton, S.D., and a graduate of Tri-Valley High School.
Also working out with the team is former Jackrabbit football player Mitch Pontrelli. A native of St. Paul, Minn., Pontrelli was a two-time state placewinner in wrestling for Johnson High School. He made his collegiate wrestling debut by posting a 7-2 decision over Jared Little of Northern State in a home dual on Jan. 18.
Pontrelli closed out his football career this fall by earning second-team all-Great West Football Conference honors after tallying 56 tackles, including eight sacks, from his interior defensive line position for the conference championship squad. Pontrelli, who never redshirted for football, is a junior eligibility-wise for wrestling. He would wrestle in the heavyweight division.
The newest addition to the team is 157-pounder Weston Blasius. A redshirt sophomore from Kimball, Blasius won a Class B state title at 145 pounds in 2004.
Coach Jason Liles also announced that 141-pounder D.W. Bradshaw and 149-pounder Nick Herrboldt have left the team.
SORENSON RETURNS: The Jackrabbits regained the services of sophomore 184-pounder Tyler Sorenson, who wrestled for the first time in nearly a year when he made his season debut during SDSU's duals at Utah Valley State and Northern Colorado in early January.
Sorenson split his first two matches, losing by fall to Casen Eldridge of Utah Valley State, before returning to form with a 13-5 major decision of Vincente Mendez against Northern Colorado. He is currently on a four-match winning streak, entering the week with a 4-1 mark.
A Garretson native, Sorenson ranked among the team leaders in victories with an 18-6 record during the 2006-07 campaign before suffering a season-ending injury in February 2007. Despite missing the final month of the season, Sorenson led the team with 247 match points and eight victories by technical fall.
MEYER IMPRESSIVE AGAIN: Sophomore Ryan Meyer has picked up where he left off following an impressive redshirt freshman season in which he became the first Jackrabbit wrestler in the Division I era to qualify for the national championships.
Meyer, who began the season ranked 20th at 165 pounds by WIN Magazine, has compiled a 17-7 record, good for second on the team in victories. He opened the season by placing second in the 174-pound division at the season-opening Warren Williamson/Daktronics Open on Nov. 3, and won the 165-pound division a week later at the DWU Open in Mitchell.
Meyer ended the 2006-07 season with a 23-13 mark.
EVERSON LEADS TEAM: Redshirt freshman Adam Everson could become the first Jackrabbit wrestler this season to reach the 20-win mark.
The Mitchell native enters Saturday's action with a 19-9 overall record, including a 2-3 mark in duals. Everson opened the season with a fifth-place finish at the Warren Williamson/Daktronics Open, following that performance with a third-place effort before a hometown crowd at the DWU Open on Nov. 10.
MARVIN MAKES A DIFFERENCE: After splitting time between 125 and 133 pounds last season, junior Alan Marvin has held down the 125-pound slot for the Jackrabbits during the 2007-08 campaign.
The lone SDSU wrestler to appear in all six duals so far, Marvin has posted a 3-3 mark duirng the dual season to up his overall record to 9-7. He has won two of his last three dual contests.
PIRNER TOUGH IN DUALS: In his three seasons with the Jackrabbits, senior Derek Pirner has proven to be one of the squad's most reliable competitors in duals.While sharing 133-pound duties this season with Nick Kulseth, Pirner has posted a 2-1 dual record this season.
Since transferring from Nebraska after his freshman season, Pirner has posted a 20-8 dual record, including a 10-1 mark during the 2005-06 season.
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