Co-head coaches John Azevedo and Mark Perry will send the Mustangs against Southern Oregon at 11 a.m., Cal Baptist at 1 p.m. and Menlo College at 3 p.m.
On a second mat, Cal Baptist will wrestle Menlo at 11 a.m., Southern Oregon faces Menlo at 1 p.m. and Cal Baptist meets Southern Oregon at 3 p.m.
Cal Poly was idle last week for Fall Quarter finals. The Mustangs placed 14th in the 29th annual Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational on Dec. 3-4, with Boris Novachkov placing second at 141 pounds and Ryan DesRoches claiming third place at 165 pounds.
Novachkov currently sports a 9-1 record -- his only blemish a 3-2 loss to No. 1-ranked Kellen Russell of Michigan at the Las Vegas tournament -- while DesRoches is 15-1 with eight falls for the season, losing only to No. 4 Justin Kerber of Cornell 17-7 in the quarterfinals at Las Vegas.
Novachkov is ranked No. 2 at 141 pounds by WrestlingReport.com, No. 3 by Amateur Wrestling News, No. 4 by InterMat and No. 5 by WIN Magazine. DesRoches sports national rankings of No. 9 by Amateur Wrestling News, No. 10 by WIN Magazine and No. 13 by both WrestlingReport.com and InterMat.
Mustang 157-pounder Barrett Abel (6-3) is ranked No. 16 by WIN Magazine and No. 20 by WrestlingReport.com while 285-pounder Atticus Disney (7-2) is ranked No. 19 by WrestlingReport.com and No. 20 by InterMat.
Filip Novachkov (2-2), who has competed only in the Las Vegas meet and is not expected to wrestle Friday, is ranked No. 7 by both InterMat and WrestlingReport.com, No. 8 by WIN Magazine and No. 11 by Amateur Wrestling News at 133.
Cal Poly’s lone dual meet of the season so far was a 36-14 win over Cal State Fullerton on Nov. 13 in Mott Gym.
Southern Oregon is 1-1 in dual meets, defeating Pacific (Ore.) 40-10 and falling to Great Falls 28-12. Menlo also has split its first two duals, defeating Skyline College 43-9 and falling 43-3 to Northwestern, while Cal Baptist is wrestling in a dual meet for the first time Friday, having competed in seven tournaments so far.
Southern Oregon is ranked No. 12 in the most recent NAIA national polls while Menlo is No. 14.
Southern Oregon is led by Tommie Hooper, an NAIA All-American a year ago and currently ranked No. 3 in the NAIA at 157 pounds, and Austin Vanderford, named most outstanding wrestler at the Southern Oregon Open and currently ranked No. 5 at 174 pounds. Kyle Wirkuty is ranked No. 4 at 141 pounds while Jared Dalgleish is ranked No. 11 at 133 pounds.
Menlo’s top wrestlers are Christian Martinez, a returning NAIA All-American and currently ranked No. 6 at 141 pounds, and Jason Moorhouse, ranked No. 1 at 125 pounds.
Cal Baptist finished eighth in the NAIA National Championships a year ago with four NAIA All-Americans, all seniors last season.
Following Friday’s four-team meet, Cal Poly will have just three home duals the rest of the season, hosting Wyoming on Jan. 14, Cal State Bakersfield on Jan. 28 and San Francisco State on Feb. 13.
Cal Poly’s lineup is expected to include Jake Tanenbaum (pictured above) (10-6) or Britain Longmire (7-2) at 125, the same pair at 133, Boris Novachkov (9-1) at 141, Stephen Thalin (2-2) at 149, Barrett Abel (6-3) or Pearce Swerdfeger (7-2) at 157, Ryan DesRoches (15-1) at 165, Steven Vasquez (5-4) at 174, Kelan Bragg (3-5) or Stephan Hampton (1-2) at 184, Ryan Smith (1-0) at 197 and Atticus Disney (7-2) or Jim Powers (3-2) at 285.
Recommended Comments
There are no comments to display.
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now