Wrestling: #13 Ohio Northern (10-0 Overall) at Mount Saint Joseph (2-4 Overall)
Thursday, January 5, 2023, 6 p.m. - Harrington Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Thursday's Dual: No. 13-ranked Ohio Northern open the 2023 portion of its schedule with a 6 pm dual meet at Mount Saint Joseph ... ONU is ranked No. 13 in the latest NWCA Dual Meet Poll and is 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 solid showing at the Wilkes (Pa.) Open on Dec. 22 ... Reed, who was seeded second, won the 141-pound weight class title with a 4-0 record ... He defeated top-seeded Josh Mason of NCAA Division I Bloomsburg (Pa.) 3-2 in the championship match ... Top-seeded Sumner was also undefeated on the day, finishing with a 4-0 mark and two pins ... He did not compete in the finals due to a medical forfeit to finish second at 149 pounds ... Thus far this season, Reed leads the team with a 23-0 record and 10 pins ... Sumner and Hardrick are second with 21 wins each ... Sumner is tied with Reed for the team lead with 10 pins and has a team-best 5 tech falls, while Hardrick has a team-best 6 major decisions ... ONU has wrestlers with winning records in nine of the 10 weight classes ... MSJ is looking to snap a 4-match losing streak after going 0-4 at the Kalahari Duals in Sandusky ... MSJ fell to Otterbein 32-10 and Concordia (Minn.) 38-18 and lost on tiebreakers after tying Adrian (Mich.) 21-all and Heidelberg 20-all ... The Lions are led by Desmond Diggs with a 15-5 record at 133 pounds and Alex Dobbs with a 12-5 record and 7 pins at 174 ... Diggs is also listed as Honorable Mention at 133 by D3Wrestle.com.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Wins | Pins | Tech Falls | Maj. Dec. | |||||||||||
| 1. | Reed | 23-0 | 1. | Reed | 10 | 1. | Sumner | 5 | 1. | Hardrick | 6 | |||
| 2. | Sumner | 21-1 | Sumner | 10 | 2. | Hardrick | 4 | 2. | Reed | 5 | ||||
| Hardrick | 21-3 | 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 364-247-4 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.