Wrestling: Heidelberg (3-8 Overall, 1-1 OAC) at Ohio Northern (11-6 Overall, 0-2 OAC)
Thursday, January 16, 2020, 7 pm - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Thursday's Preview: Ohio will returns to the OAC portion of its schedule on Thursday against Heidelberg at the ONU Sports Center ... ONU will honor its seniors, Brandon Bartlome, Seth Transue and Jeff Andrews and manager Brock Jones prior to the match ... The Polar Bears finished 6th of 16 teams with a 3-2 record at the Lycoming (Pa.) Budd Whitehill National Duals last weekend ... Transue and freshman Chase Sumner each went 5-0 at the tournament ... Sumner (#16 at 149) and Andrews (#24 at 141) are ranked at their respective weight classes in the Jan. 14 D3Wrestle.com rankings ... Thus far this season, Transue leads the team with a 27-2 record ... Sumner is second with a 25-4 record and Andrews (23-7) and junior Schuyler Caprella (23-6) are third with 23 wins each ... Junior Cash Thompson and Sumner lead the team with 10 pins each ... Andrews leads the team with 8 tech falls and Transue leads the team with 8 major decisions ... Transue (87-41) leads all active ONU wrestlers with 87 victories, which ranks him tied for 20th all-time in ONU history ... Andrews (85-52) is 24th all-time in ONU history, while Thompson is tied for 34th all-time with a 75-33 career record ... Heidelberg returns to OAC action after posting an 0-2 record at the NWCA National Duals last weekend at Louisville ... HU fell to Wisconsin-Whitewater 37-11 and RIT (N.Y.) 22-21 ... The Student Princes are 1-1 in the OAC with a 54-6 win over Wilmington and a 25-15 loss to John Carroll ... Senior Dylan Roth is ranked #3 nationally at 184 pounds and leads HU with a 23-0 record and 12 pins ... Senior Hayden Bates is ranked #22 at 141 and is 13-4 on the season ... Sophomore Dwight Parker is 15-11 at 149 pounds ... Junior Jeremiah Slagle and sophomore Devin Miller have 14 wins each.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Wins | Pins | Tech Falls | Maj. Dec. | |||||||||||
| 1. | Transue | 27-2 | 1. | Thompson | 10 | 1. | Andrews | 8 | 1. | Transue | 8 | |||
| 2. | Sumner | 25-4 | Sumner | 10 | 2. | Caprella | 5 | 2. | Lenhoff | 6 | ||||
| 3. | Caprella | 23-6 | 3. | Spears | 9 | Transue | 5 | 3. | Sumner | 6 | ||||
| Andrews | 23-7 |
Head Coach Ron Beaschler: Beaschler is in his 32nd 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 335-239-4 career coaching record in dual action, a winning percentage of .583, 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.
