Jess LewisThe 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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