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    Lewis wins his round, Brock Gutches struggles in Oregon Greatest Athlete poll

    Jess Lewis
    Jess Lewis, former Oregon State mat champ and football star, won his round in the Oregon's Greatest Athlete online poll Thursday, while Brock Gutches is struggling in Friday's balloting sponsored by The Oregonian newspaper.

    The poll seeks to determine the greatest college athlete ever in the state of Oregon. The Portland-based newspaper has created an online poll, complete with seeded brackets with the names of 64 athletes from various eras who attended college in Oregon ... including a total of five amateur wrestlers.

    So far, collegiate wrestlers with ties to Oregon are four-for-four in the poll. In the first round of voting, Oregon State's Les Gutches from the 1990s and Robin Reed from nearly a century ago, as well as Portland State's Rick Sanders, all won their match-ups Tuesday ... joined by Lewis, two-time NCAA heavyweight champ for Oregon State in the late 1960s who was a member of the U.S. men's freestyle team at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The Beaver wrestler/All-American defensive tackle scored 60.66% of the vote (404 votes) over Ad Rutschman, described as "a legendary football and baseball coach at Linfield", who received 262 votes, or 39.34% of the vote Thursday.

    Brock Gutches is the fifth and final wrestler in the bracket, among those in contention in today's polling. The four-time NAIA champ who just graduated from Southern Oregon University is up against Terry Baker, a 1962 Heisman winner who also played basketball for Oregon State. As of 2 p.m. Friday, Baker had 167 votes to Gutches' 14. To vote, click here.

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