No. 16 Wrestling wraps up OAC slate with 6-1 slate after 36-9 victory at Otterbein
By Tim Glon
ADA — The No. 16-ranked Ohio Northern wrestling team wrapped up the Ohio Athletic Conference portion of its schedule with a 36-9 victory at Otterbein on Tuesday night at the Rike Center.
The Polar Bears improve to 20-3 overall and finish OAC dual meet action with a 6-1 mark.
The Cardinals fall to 7-6, 3-4.
The 20 dual meet victories are tied for the second most in school history, trailing only the 22-2 squad of 1977-78.
Northern now sits one-half game behind No. 5-ranked Baldwin Wallace in the OAC standings, who is 6-0 and clinched a share of the OAC Regular Season title with its 36-24 victory over Wilmington on Tuesday. ONU would share the league title with a Mount Union victory over Baldwin Wallace on Sunday.
Senior Logan Painter (Marysville/Early College) and No. 2-ranked sophomore All-American Jacob Reed (Lancaster) each had pins to lead Ohio Northern.
Painter's pin at heavyweight wrapped up the match and Reed's pin at 141 gave ONU an early 15-0 lead.
Painter improves to 23-13 on the season and is 4-0 in OAC action, while Reed moves to 36-0 and finishes a perfect 7-0 in league competition.
No. 11-ranked senior Jordan Hardrick (Dayton/Wayne) and sophomore Gavin Layman (Chesterton, Ind.) also finished 7-0 in the OAC.
Hardrick posted a 16-0 tech fall win at 165 to improve to a team-best 37-5 on the season and Layman had a decision at 184 to go to 31-5 on the year.
No. 10-ranked senior Chase Sumner (Ada) won by major decision at 149, moving him to 33-3 overall and 6-1 in league competition.
Sophomores Dylan Le (Powell/Dublin Scioto) and Adam Myers (Springfield/Shawnee) each won by decision and sophomore Colin Mellott (Wapakoneta) won by forfeit at 125 as the visitors win eight of the 10 bouts.
Le is now 29-13 (5-2 OAC) at 133, Myers is 21-9 (1-1 OAC) and Mellott is now 20-4 (3-0 OAC).
The Polar Bears will wrap up its regular season on Saturday at the Mid-States Invitational at Adrian, Mich.
#16 Ohio Northern 36, Otterbein 9
125 — Colin Mellott (ONU) won by forfeit
133 — Dylan Le (ONU) dec. Zach Orseno, 9-4
141 — #2 Jacob Reed (ONU) pinned Andrew Sas, 1:15
149 — #10 Chase Sumner (ONU) maj. dec. Nathan Leko, 8-0
157 — Ryan Whitten (Ott) dec. Teagan Hendricks, 1-0
165 — #11 Jordan Hardrick (ONU) tech fall Jacob Williams, 16-0, 6:52
174 — Adam Myers (ONU) dec. Logan Cormell, SV-1, 3-1
184 — Gavin Layman ONU dec. Kyle De Moss, 8-1
197 — Jared Setliff (Ott) pinned Ben DePrest, 2:40
285 — Logan Painter (ONU) pinned Zach Stray, 3:28
Time — 1:06