University of Minnesota Athletics
Oklahoma Defeats Golden Gopher Wrestling Team 37-9
1/17/2004 12:00:00 AM | Athletics
Minnesota wrestled without its two senior All-Americans due to injury. Defending NCAA Champion Damion Hahn sat out the match after suffering an injury in an earlier match with Northern Iowa. Jacob Volkmann is sitting out the National Duals after suffering an injury last week.
Seventh-ranked Sam Hazwinkle got the Sooners on top early with a pin against 10th-ranked Bobbe Lowe. Hazwinkle got the reversal in the third period and got Lowe on his back to give OU the 6-0 lead.
Oklahoma extended its lead at 133 pounds as Mimi Miller posted a 13-6 decision against Quincy Osborn. Defending NCAA Champion Teyon Ware gave the Sooners a 13-0 lead with a 10-1 decision against Minnesota's Tommy Owen.
The Sooners' Jeff Eckloff shocked the crowd with a pin of true freshman Jeremy Anderson in just 15 seconds to put Oklahoma ahead 19- 0.
Sophomore Matt Nagel stopped the Sooner streak with a come-from- behind 3-2 decision against Charles Jones. Jones led 2-0 before Nagel registered the takedown with two seconds to go. He was awarded a bonus point for riding time to claim the win.
Minnesota was unable to capitalize on the victory though, as OU's Rafael Maturino pinned Casey Flaherty 36 seconds into the 165 pound match to make it 25-3. 13th-ranked EK Waldhaus followed with a 6-2 decision against Jon Duncombe at 174 pounds.
Oklahoma's Justin Dyer got three points for a near fall as time expired to break a 4-4 tie and claim an 8-4 decision.
After the Sooners were awarded six team points on Damion Hahn's forfeit, Minnesota's Cole Konrad secured the team's second win of the night with a pin at 4:59 against OU's Jake Hager.
"We have a number of guys in our lineup that experienced this atmosphere for the first time," head coach J Robinson said. "We can't use that as an excuse though. We didn't wrestle the way we are capable of. We have to finish strong tomorrow and get ready for our Big Ten opener next week."
Following tomorrow's seventh-place match against either Hofstra or Penn, Minnesota will begin Big Ten play at Michigan State and Michigan next Friday and Saturday.
Oklahoma 37, Minnesota 9
125 - #7 Sam Hazwinkle (OU) pinned #10 Bobbe Lowe (MN), 6:06
133 - Mimi Miller (OU) dec. Quincy Osborn (MN), 13-6
141 - #1 Teyon Miller (OU) maj. dec. Tommy Owen (MN), 10-1
149 - #13 Jeff Eckloff (OU) pinned Jeremy Anderson (MN), 0:15
157 - #15 Matt Nagel (MN) dec. Charles Jones (OU), 3-2
165 - Rafael Maturino (OU) pinned Casey Flaherty (MN), 0:36
174 - #13 EK Waldhaus (OU) dec. Jon Duncombe (MN), 6-2
184 - Justin Dyer (OU) dec. Josh McLay (MN), 8-4
197 - Joel Tapler (OU) wins by forfeit
HWT - #9 Cole Konrad (MN) pinned Jake Hager (OU), 4:59
