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ARIZONA STATE WRESTLING 1988 NCAA Champions • 16-Time Pac-10 Champions SAVE ASU WRESTLING www.ASUWrestling.com WEEK 6 - RENO TOC TOURNAMENT #2 SUN DEVILS at RENO 2008-09 SUN DEVIL SCHEDULE at Reno Tournament of Champions Overall Record: 3-2, Pac-10 Duals: 2-0 Thursday, December 18 • All Day Home: 3-0 (2-0), Away: 0-2 (0-0), Neutral: 0-0 at Downtown Convention Center • Reno, Nev. Date Opponent W/L Score N 8 UC Davis • 1 W 26-12 ASU Wrestling Returns to Nevada for Reno Tournament 14 Portland State • 2 W 40-0 Sun Devils coming off 18th-place finish at Las Vegas Invite two weeks ago 21 at #1 Iowa L 41-0 23 at #2 Iowa State L 24-11 30 [#13] Embry-Riddle W 38-6 For the second time this month, the Arizona State University wrestling team will travel to D 5-6 at Las Vegas Invite 18th place Nevada for a tournament as the Sun Devils (3-2, 2-0 Pac-10) will travel to Reno, Nev., for 18 at Reno TOC All Day the Reno Tournament of Champions on Thursday. The tournament will feature 27 collegiate 29-30 at Midlands 3 All Day teams, including three that are nationally ranked in the NCAA Division I, as well as two of the J 3 at Grand Canyon 5 pm top NCAA Division II teams. 4 CS Bakersfield • 6 pm 18 #20 Oklahoma 2 pm BADER IS THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER 23 #12 Minnesota 7 pm 31 Cal Poly • 7 pm Over the weekend, former Sun Devil All-American Ryan Bader stepped into the Octagon inside F 6 at Stanford • 7 pm the Palms in Las Vegas, Nev., and won the light heavyweight division of the eighth season of 8 at Oregon State • 2 pm the Ultimate Fighter. 'Darth' Bader, as he is known in the world of MMA (mixed martial arts), kept 14 CS Fullerton • 6 pm the fight on its feet in the opening minutes of action and exchanged punches and kicks with his M 2-3 at Pac-10 Champs. 4 All Day opponent, Vinny Magalhaes, before landing a huge overhand right that dropped the world cham- 5 19-21 at NCAA Champs. All Day pion jiu-jitsu fighter from Brazil. Bader moved in with some more punches on the ground before Home duals in bold; • Pac-10 dual; All times local to site the referee stepped in and called the fight for Bader at 2:18 (TKO). The former three-time Pac-10 1 - at Mesa HS; 2 - at Maryvale (Phoenix) HS; 3 - Evanston, Ill.; 4 - Fullerton, Calif.; 5 - St. Louis, Mo. Champion at 197 pounds will now receive a contract with the UFC. [##] - NAIA national rankings 2008-09 DEVIL DATA BUSY TIME Location ................................................. Tempe, Ariz. While tournaments are always tough, the RTOC will certainly be no different as no fewer than six Enrollment ...................................................... 67,082 nationally-ranked wrestlers will be entered into each weight class in a tournament that lasts just Nickname ................................................ Sun Devils one day. The RTOC is the only individual tournament the Sun Devils will compete in this year that Colors ............................................... Maroon & Gold lasts only one day. Conference ................................................ Pacific-10 University President ...................... Dr. Michael Crow TOUGH FIELD VP for University Athletics ........................ Lisa Love Of the 27 teams slated to compete in the RTOC this week, 19 compete in the NCAA Division Home Venue ................ Wells Fargo Arena (14,198) I, including five teams that received votes in the December 9 InterMat/NWCA rankings. Both Head Coach ........................... Thom Ortiz (8th year) Boise State and Oklahoma State enter the tournament ranked No. 13 according to the poll while Career Record ............................. 77-54-1 (8th year) At ASU .......................................... 77-54-1 (8th year) Edinboro is No. 17. CS Bakersfield and Oregon State each received votes. The NCAA Division II ASU All-Time Record .......... 465-265-13 (47th year) will be represented by a pair of storied programs as No. 3 Nebraska-Kearney and No. 4 Adams Assistant Coach ...................... Al Fuentes (1st year) State are set to compete while the NAIA also will have three ranked teams entered: No. 10 Assistant Coach ..................... Brian Stith (2nd year) Southwest Oregon CC, No. 11 Clackamas CC and No. 13 Western Wyoming. Assistant Coach ............. Zach Roberson (2nd year) Athletic Trainer ......................... Joe Silvey (1st year) GETTING A FEEL FOR THINGS Wrestling SID ........................................... Alex Ryan While the tournament will be a good test for the Sun Devils and provide the team with chances Email .................................... [email protected] to build their resumes for entrance into the NCAA Championships in March, it also will provide Phone .......................................... (480) 965-4987 Arizona State a chance to see all of its conference foes as the other eight schools are slated to Fax .............................................. (480) 965-5408 enter the event. Those teams are No. 13 Boise State, CS Bakersfield, CS Fullerton, Cal Poly, Oregon State, Portland State, Stanford and UC Davis. THE SUN DEVILS.COM REVIEW: 2007 RTOC ASU PROBABLE STARTERS The Sun Devils had three individuals place, including runner-up Jason Trulson at 197 pounds, to Wt. Sun Devil All (Dual) score 49.5 points and place 11th overall in the event. No. 6 Central Michigan won the tournament 125 Anthony Robles (8/9/8) ..................... 8-3 (3-2) with 152.5 points and was followed by No. 5 Oklahoma State (128), No. 17 Cornell (99), No. 21 133 Orlando Jimenez ............................... 1-3 (1-1) Navy (91) and CS Fullerton (86.5). Along with Trulson, Patrick Pitsch (165) and Chris Drouin (141) 141 Chris Drouin (5/8/12) ......................... 8-3 (4-1) both placed in the Top 6 as they finished fourth and fifth, respectively. 149 Vicente Varela ................................... 5-5 (2-3) 157 Jerrad Trulson .................................... 2-4 (2-2) & Michael Swigart ................................. 0-1 (0-1) RENO HISTORY 165 Kyle DeBerry ..................................... 6-4 (3-2) This year's tournament will mark the 10th year in a row the Sun Devils have compete in Reno 174 Eric Starks ......................................... 5-4 (2-2) where they have finished no lower than 14th place, including six Top 3 finishes. Arizona State first 184 Jake Cranford .................................... 3-1 (3-1) competed in the 1999 tournament and finished third overall before taking second at the 2000, & Jake Meredith .................................... 2-3 (0-1) 2003, and 2004 tournaments. The Sun Devils also added third-place finishes at the 2001 and 197 Thor Moen ......................................... 2-4 (2-2) 2002 tournaments. 285 Erik Nye ............................................. 3-2 (3-2) (##/##/##) InterMat-AWN-W.I.N. individual rankings LOOKING FOR WINS According to the national rankings of December 9, both Anthony Robles (No. 8 at 125) and Chris Drouin (No. 5 at 141) are the highest ranked individuals in their respective weight classes and COACH ORTIZ & TEAM NOTES HEAD COACH THOM ORTIZ COMPLETE 2008-09 SUN DEVIL SCHEDULE Thom Ortiz is in his seventh year as the head coach of Date Opponent Location Score Overall Pac-10 Home Road Neut. the Arizona State University wrestling program and holds N 8 UC Davis • Mesa HS W 26-12 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 a career 77-54-1 (through Embry-Riddle dual). He has 14 Portland State • Maryvale HS W 40-0 2-0 2-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 guided the Sun Devils to three Pac-10 Championships 21 at #1 Iowa Iowa City, Iowa L 41-0 2-1 2-0 2-0 0-1 0-0 in his short stint in Tempe, including the 2003, 2005 and 23 at #2 Iowa State Ames, Iowa L 24-11 2-2 2-0 2-0 0-2 0-0 2006 crowns. In a vote by his peers, he has been select- 30 [#13] Embry-Riddle Wells Fargo Arena W 38-6 3-2 2-0 3-0 0-2 0-0 ed as the Pac-10 Coach of the Year three times. D 5-6 at Las Vegas Invitational Las Vegas, Nev. 18th place 3-2 2-0 3-0 0-2 0-0 Since taking the reigns of the program, Ortiz has coached 18 at Reno TOC Reno, Nev. 13 different wrestlers to 20 Pac-10 Championships, 29-30 at Midlands Champs. Evanston, Ill. including three-time champion Patrick Pitsch (165, 2006- J 3 at Grand Canyon Phoenix 08) and eight different Sun Devils to 12 All-America hon- 4 CS Bakersfield • Wells Fargo Arena ors. In his second season with the program, he helped 18 Oklahoma Wells Fargo Arena Eric Larkin reach the finals of the NCAA Championships 23 Minnesota Wells Fargo Arena for the second year in a row, this time walking away 31 Cal Poly • Wells Fargo Arena undefeated and as the national champion. At the 2006 F 6 at Stanford • Palo Alto, Calif. NCAA Championships, Ortiz helped Brian Stith, the tour- nament's 10th seed, finish second in the nation. 8 at Oregon State • Corvallis, Ore. 14 CS Fullerton • Wells Fargo Arena Prior to taking over at ASU, Ortiz worked along side his M 2-3 at Pac-10 Championships Fullerton, Calif. collegiate coach, Bobby Douglas, at Iowa State where 20-22 at NCAA Championships St. Louis, Mo. he was named a runner-up in the 2000 NWCA Assistant • Pac-10 Conference dual; [##] indicates NAIA ranking Coach of the Year honors. Ortiz helped recruit arguably the best collegiate wrestler of all-time in Cael Sanderson, the undefeated four-time NCAA Champion. should be among the favorites to win an individual crown in Reno. Should any Sun Devil win a crown this week, it would snap a streak of four years in a row without an individual winner.