Wrestling: Case Western Reserve (1-0 Overall) and Manchester (Ind.) (0-1 Overall) at #13 Ohio Northern (11-0 Overall) at Mount Saint Joseph (2-4 Overall)
Saturday, January 7, 2023, 1 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Saturday's Tri-Meet: No. 13-ranked Ohio Northern will host a tri-match on Saturday with Case Western Reserve and Manchester (Ind.) ... Northern will wrestle Case at 1 pm, CWRU and MU will compete at 2:30 and ONU will wrestle MU at 4 pm ... The Polar Bears are ranked No. 13 in the latest NWCA Dual Meet Poll and are No. 17 in the NWCA Tournament poll ... Two Ohio Northern wrestlers are currently ranked by the NWCA ... Sophomore All-American Jacob Reed (141 pounds) is #2 and senior Chase Sumner (149 pounds) is #10 ... In the latest D3wrestle.com poll, Reed is #2 and Sumner is #9, while senior Jordan Hardrick (165) and sophomore Dylan Le (133) are listed in the "Honorable Mention" category as being ranked in the 19-26 group ... The Polar Bears are coming off a 35-13 victory at Mount Saint Joseph on Thursday ... The Polar Bears got pins from No. 10-ranked senior Chase Sumner, senior Ben DePrest and sophomore Teagan Hendricks to post the victory ... Thus far this season, Reed leads the team with a 24-0 record ... Sumner and Hardrick are second with 22 wins and a team-best 5 tech falls each ... Sumner also has a team-high 11 pins, while Hardrick has a team-best 6 major decisions ... ONU has wrestlers with winning records in nine of the 10 weight classes ... Hardrick is also just three victories away from becoming the 16th member of ONU's 100-Win Club ... A fifth-year senior, Hardrick is 97-40 in his career, ranking him 18th all-time in ONU history ... CWRU is coming off a 9th place finish at the RIT Invitational Dec. 3 at Rochester, N.Y. ... Case is led by Art Martinez with a 15-7 record at 141 pounds ... MU is coming off a 47-4 loss to Heidelberg on Dec. 17.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Wins | Pins | Tech Falls | Maj. Dec. | |||||||||||
| 1. | Reed | 24-0 | 1. | Sumner | 11 | 1. | Sumner | 5 | 1. | Hardrick | 6 | |||
| 2. | Sumner | 22-1 | 2. | Reed | 10 | Hardrick | 5 | 2. | Reed | 5 | ||||
| Hardrick | 22-3 | 3. | Layman | 8 | 3. | Hendricks | 3 | Le | 5 |
Head Coach Ron Beaschler: Beaschler is in his 35th season at the helm of the Ohio Northern wrestling program and currently stands as the longest-tenured head wrestling coach at the institution ... He sports a 365-247-4 career coaching record in dual action, a winning percentage of .594, making him the all-time winningest coach in program history ... Beaschler was inducted into the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Hall of Fame in 2008 and has been named OAC Coach of the Year three times in 1993, 2012, and 2013.
