Wrestling: Ohio Northern (14-8 Overall) at NCAA III Central Regional Championships
Friday-Saturday, February 28-29, 2020, 11 am-10 am - Merillat Center, Adrian, Mich.
| NCAA III Central Regionals site | ONU Individual Results | D3Wrestle.com Central Regional preview |
This Weekend's Preview: The Ohio Northern wrestling team will begin its post-season this weekend at the NCAA Division III Central regional Championships at the Merillat Center in Adrian, Mich. ... The tournament is an individual double-elimination tournament featuring the 10 standard 10 NCAA weight classes with 17 teams from the Central Region in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana ... The top 3 placers in each weight class will qualify for the NCAA III Championships March 13-14 at Cedar Rapids, Iowa ... Eight wrestlers will place in each weight class ... Seniors Seth Transue (6th at 125) and Jeff Andrews (8th at 149) and junior Cash Thompson (7th at 184) placed in 2019 ... Five ONU individuals are ranked at their respective weight classes in the Feb. 12 D3Wrestle.com rankings ... Senior Seth Transue (#9 at 133), freshman Chase Sumner (#16 at 149), sophomore Jordan Hardrick (#20 at 165), senior Jeff Andrews (#22 at 141) and junior Cash Thompson (#24 at 197) are all currently ranked ... Thus far this season, Caprella leads the team with a 39-8 record ... Sumner is second at 33-4, senior Seth Transue is third at 32-2 and Andrews (31-12) is fourth ... This marks the first time in school history that four wrestlers have reached the 30-win plateau in a single season ... Junior Cash Thompson is 26-7 and is second on the team with 14 pins ... Caprella leads the team with 11 tech falls and Sumner leads the team with 9 major decisions ... Andrews (93-57) leads all active ONU wrestlers with 93 victories, which ranks him 17 th all-time in ONU history ... Transue (92-41) is 18th all-time in ONU history, while Thompson is 29th all-time with a 81-36 career record ... Caprella recently broke into ONU's top 50 with a 70-48 career mark and is now tied for 41st.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Wins | Pins | Tech Falls | Maj. Dec. | |||||||||||
| 1. | Caprella | 39-8 | 1. | Szigeti | 16 | 1. | Caprella | 11 | 1. | Sumner | 9 | |||
| 2. | Sumner | 33-4 | 2. | Thompson | 14 | 2. | Andrews | 10 | 2. | Transue | 8 | |||
| 3. | Transue | 32-2 | 3. | Spears | 13 | 3. | Transue | 6 | Lenhoff | 8 | ||||
| 4. | Andrews | 31-12 |
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 338-241-4 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.
