St. Cloud, Minn. – No. 2 St. Cloud State Wrestling begins a two-match road trip on Thursday evening with a dual at No. 21 Southwest Minnesota State. The dual will begin at 7:00 p.m. CT in Marshall, Minnesota at the PE Gym.
Video streaming and live results will be available on the NSIC Network and TrackWrestling respectively, available through links on the SCSU Wrestling page, along with match-by-match coverage provided on Twitter via @SCSUHUSKIES_WR
The Huskies dominated Upper Iowa last week 34-2 at Halenbeck Hall, winning nine of ten bouts with four bonus-point wins. St. Cloud State currently has nine wrestlers ranked by the NWCA, while SMSU has one – returning All-American 184-pounder Caden Steffen. SCSU last faced the Mustangs in November of 2019, steamrolling SMSU 42-0 in their 2019-20 NSIC opener with six bonus-point wins. Devin FitzPatrick, Robby Horsman and Kolton Eischens each recorded pins while Garrett Aldrich, Garrett Vos and Noah Ryan added major decisions.
Probable Matchups – No. 2 St. Cloud State (9-1, 2-0 NSIC) vs No. 21 Southwest Minnesota State (1-4, 1-4 NSIC)
125 – No. 7 Paxton Creese (10-2) OR Robby Horsman (11-4) vs Jackson Stauffacher (8-1)
133 – No. 3 Garrett Vos (15-1) OR Daniel Valeria (6-7) vs Hunter Pfantz (9-10)
141 – Cameron Riggs (9-2) OR No. 1 Joseph Bianchini (19-0) vs Luke Peterson (3-4) OR Justin Sampson (1-2)
149 – Jake Barzowski (13-5) OR Nicholas Novak (14-2) vs Bobby Shields (7-8)
157 – Anthony Herrera (11-1) OR No. 2 Colby Njos (12-2) vs Lucas Hodges (7-10)
165 – No. 12 Devin Donovan (15-6) OR Jared Head (10-5) vs Nate Moore (2-6) OR Elijah Sterner (2-8)
174 – No. 5 Dominic Murphy (17-3) OR Shaeden Scheidt (12-4) vs Carter Marx (11-6)
184 – Cade Linn (4-2) OR No. 7 Billy Pitzner (10-2) vs No. 4 Caden Steffen (13-1)
197 – No. 2 Noah Ryan (15-0) OR Grant Parrish (3-0) vs Dillon McEachran (9-8)
HWT – No. 2 Kameron Teacher (8-0) OR Kaleb Haase (10-8) vs Jacob Dykes (8-6) OR Neil Hanson (9-5)
The Huskies will travel next to No. 21 Southwest Minnesota State on Thursday, February 3 for an NSIC dual.
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