Five Vikings placed in the Dana Open with senior Terrence Almond leading the way. Almond finished the day with a 5-0 record and claimed his fourth tournament title of the season which ties him for the most tournament titles in a season. Almond is now 26-1 on the season and is fifteen victories away from tying the all-time career wins held by Leister Bowling. Almond claimed the title as Dana freshman Brian Graham reached the finals but the match was not wrestled. Brian Graham has now placed in four tournaments on the year, reaching the finals in two of them. En route to the finals, Graham defeated two University of Missouri wrestlers in Vince Hannon 2-0 and Amond Prater 8-7.
Senior Craig Trampe reached the finals with a 1-0 victory over Missouri Valley All-American Billy Exline. Trampe fell short of the tournament title with a loss to University of Missouri's Tony Pescaglia. At 157, Dan Pray finished the day in fourth place.
Junior Wade Jordan ranked sixth in the country capped off the day with a third place finish at 197 pounds. En route to his third place finish, Jordan defeated three Missouri Valley wrestlers in a row including Jeff Cobb who was a 2004 Olympian by a score of 2-1. Jordan then finished off another Missouri Valley opponent in Wade Empting 6-1.
Juniors and two of the four team captains, Burke Barnes and Webster Farris pulled out of the tournament with minor injuries. Barnes was 2-0 and Farris was 2-1 before pulling out.
The Vikings will be in action this weekend at the NWCA National Duals held at the UNI Dome on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA. Dana is the defending duals champion and will head into the duals as the tournament's sixth seed. Action will get underway for the Vikings at 11:00 am on Saturday January 13th against McKendree College.
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