WICHITA, Kan. – Oklahoma City finished its men’s wrestling season with five All-Americans and a program-best third-place finish at the NAIA National Championships on Saturday.
The third-place finish marks the best finish for the OCU men’s wrestling team.
“As the head coach of this program, I’m incredibly proud of our guys and my assistant coaches,” said OCU Head Coach Justin Ensign. “We made program history season and did an awesome job picking each other up and fighting all weekend. Lots of highs and lows, but we’re coming back with a lot of hardware and our first team trophy and five All-Americans.”
John Wiley and Tate Picklo finished as NAIA runners-up, Kaden Fetterolf and Omari Smith placed third and Vincent Citrano placed fifth for the Stars.
Wiley lost in the finals to Douglas Terry of Life, 5-0, and Picklo fell to Kris Ketchum from Grand View, 8-0.
Fetterolf beat third-ranked Nik Yancy of Campbellsville, 7-3, then scored a major decision over Mario De La Torre of Southeastern, 12-0.
Smith continued his impressive string against higher-seeded wrestlers, getting a sudden-victory decision over sixth-ranked Trent Bloomquist from Embry-Riddle, 4-1. In the third -place match, Smith scored a takedown on second-seeded Gio Jackson of Life and Jackson was injured on the move and was unable to continue. Smith was 5-1 for the tournament with five upsets.
Citrano won the fifth-place match with an 11-4 victory over 10th-ranked Izaeh Bowers of Cumberlands.
OCU Results
157 – No. 1 John Wiley (2nd Place)
Wiley pinned Willard Sprenger, Bismarck State, 3:35
Wiley pinned No. 16 Vinnie Abbey, Indiana Tech, 1:53
Wiley MD Hunter Hobbs, Providence, 11-2
Wiley pinned No. 5 Bryce Boumans, Grand View, 6:38
No. 3 Douglas Terry, Life, dec. Wiley, 5-0
174 – No. 1 Tate Picklo (2nd Place)
Picklo MD Jackson Potts, Southern Oregon, 12-4
Picklo dec. Konlin Weaver, Life, 10-3
Picklo TF, No. 8 Shadrick Slone, Campbellsville, 19-4, 5:55
Picklo dec. No. 4 Daniil Gorshkov, Embry Riddle, 7-2
No. 3 Kris Ketchum, Grand View, MD Picklo, 8-0
149 – No. 1 Kaden Fetterolf (3rd Place)
Fetterolf TF, Brayden Elkermann, Missouri Baptist, 19-2, 4:48
Fetterolf TF, No. 16 JR Downing, Corban, 16-1, 4:32
Carlos Stanton, Arizona Christian, dec. Fetterolf, 5-2
Fetterolf MD, No. 14 Kris Arrey, Missouri Valley, 11-3
Fetterolf MD No. 4 Elvis Solis, Life, 8-0
Fetterolf dec. No. 3 Nik Yancy, Campbellsville,7-3
Fetterolf MD No. 6 Mario De La Torre, Southeastern, 12-0
197 – Omari Smith (3rd Place)
Smith dec. No. 13 Tyler Rowland, Cumberland, 9-2
Smith dec. (SV) No. 3 Elijah Hymes, Missouri Valley, 4-1
Smith dec. (SV) No. 5 Gentry Smith, Southeastern, 9-7 (G Smith DQ afterward)
No. 1 Garavous Kouekabakilaho, Grand View, dec. Smith, 4-2
Smith dec. (SV) No. 6 Trent Bloomquist, Embry-Riddle, 4-1
Smith default over No. 2 Gio Jackson, Life, 2:20 (up 4-0)
133 – No. 4 Vincent Citrano (5th place)
Citrano TF Kai Carson, Eastern Oregon, 19-4, 7:00
Citrano MD No. 13 Alex Tabor, Lindsey Wilson, 18-4
No. 5 Nick Alayan, Rocky Mountain, pinned Citrano, 4:46
Citrano dec. No. 8 Riley Bettich, Campbellsville, 7-3
Citrano dec. (SV) #3 Matthew Terrence, Doane, 4-1
No. 6 Luke Rioux, Indiana Tech, MD Citrano, 11-1
Citrano dec. No. 10 Izaeh Bowers, Cumberlands, 11-4
141 – Jace Province
No. 3 Sammy Shires, Cumberland, dec. Province, 15-10
Province dec. Dylan Clark, Southern Oregon, 8-3
Province pinned No. 4 Andrew Voiles, Southeastern, 1:44
No. 5 Marckis Branford, Grand View, pinned Province, 3:58
165 – Hayden Brown
No. 3 Zander Ernst, Morningside, MD Brown, 11-0
Brown MD Hayden Santora, Reinhardt, 14-2
Brown dec. Lomeli, 15-10
No. 12 Dylan Whitt, Grand View, MD Brown, 14-2
184 – Cole Olguin
No. 3 Tre Morrisette, Life, TF Olguin, 19-4, 7:00
Olguin dec. No. 14 Jason Bowers, Friends, 12-9
No. 13 Barret Brandt, Concordia, pinned Olguin, 1:45
165 – No. 13 Jordan Lomeli
Lomeli TF Graham Kilpper, St, Mary, 19-4, 4:08
No. 4 Jasitin Kubwimana, Campbellsville, dec. Lomeli, 11-5
Hayden Brown dec. Lomeli, 15-10
157 – No. 9 Jake Moon
Cole Zoller, Southern Oregon, dec. Moon, 4-3
Moon dec. Jordan Tobias, Hastings, 8-7
No. 7 Avant Stepherson, Southern Oregon, dec. Moon, 4-2
125 Pounds No. 11 Cash Donnell
Kane Bryson, Montreat, pinned Donnell, 0:32
Isaac Gibbs, Doane, MD Donnell, 15-7
