2019-20 WRESTLING UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY JAMES WARNICK | ASSISTANT SID | E: [email protected] | C: 801-376-0814 | O: 801-863-6231 2019-20 SCHEDULE (1-1, 0-0) UVU VS. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE & #4 WISCONSIN NOV 2 at Cowboy Open No Tm Score FRI, NOV. 22 | 11 AM MT vs. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE OREM, UTAH | UCCU CENTER 9 vs Sacred Heart % W, 40-3 SAT, NOV. 23 | 1 PM MT vs. #4 WISCONSIN OREM, UTAH | LOCKHART ARENA 9 vs Purdue (RV) % L, 12-30 VIDEO: WAC DIGITAL NET. VIDEO: FLOWRESTLING.ORG LIVE RESULTS: TRACKWRESTLING.COM 10 at Journeymen Classic No Tm Score 22 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE *^ 11:00am 23 #4 WISCONSIN 1:00pm QUICK HITS DEC 6 at Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite All Day • The Wolverines will enter the weekend with a 1-1 dual record after splitting a pair of contests at the Journeymen Northeast Duals two weeks ago. Utah Valley won nine of the 10 bouts en route to a 40-3 7 at Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite All Day victory over Sacred Heart, before falling to Big Ten foe Purdue, 30-12. UVU is currently ranked 16th in the InterMat Tournament Rankings, 18th by FloWrestling, 20th by Win Magazine, 27th by TrackWrestling, and 15 at Reno Tournament of Champs All Day just outside of the latest NWCA Top 25 Coaches Poll. JAN 2 at Fresno State * 8:00pm • UVU then took part in the Journeymen Collegiate Classic the following day and sophomore heavyweight 4 at #17 Northern Iowa * 6:00pm Tate Orndorff led the way by winning the 285A title. The then 10th-ranked Orndorff went a perfect 3-0 with a pair of upset wins over No. 2 Tanner Hall of Arizona State and No. 3 Jordan Wood of Lehigh. After 9 #11 IOWA STATE * 7:00pm the big weekend, Orndorff earned Big 12 Conference Wrestler of the Week honors as well both USA Wrestling and The Open Mat National Wrestler of the Week accolades. He also moved up to as high as No. 11 UVU OPEN 9:00am 3 in the national rankings, making him the highest ranked Wolverine in program history. 24 STANFORD 7:00pm • A total of five Wolverines will enter this weekend’s dual currently nationally ranked. Tate Orndorff leads the way by checking in at No. 3 at heavyweight, while senior Demetrius Romero is No. 6 at 165, junior 26 vs. #24 Wyoming * (Green River, WY) 2:00pm Matt Findlay is No. 9 at 149, senior Kimball Bastian is No. 13 at 174, and senior Tanner Orndorff is No. 19 at 184. Tate Orndorff leads the group with a perfect 5-0 record on the young season. The rankings listed 30 AIR FORCE * 7:00pm are the highest ranking taken from the latest InterMat, FloWrestling, TrackWrestling, The Open Mat, and Win Magazine polls. FEB 3 NORTH DAKOTA STATE * 7:00pm • The fourth-ranked Badgers will mark the second highest opponent that the UVU wrestling program has 14 NORTHERN COLORADO * 7:00pm hosted in program history. The Wolverines previously welcomed No. 2 Penn State to town on Feb. 11, 21 at Ohio University 5:00pm 2012. UVU dropped the contest by a score of 39-3. Utah Valley has also wrestled the nation’s No. 1 team just once in program history, when it took on the top-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes in a neutral site contest at 23 at West Virginia * 11:00am Uintah High School in Vernal, Utah, on Feb. 6, 2010. Iowa took the contest by a score of 38-0. MAR 7-8 at Big 12 Championships (Tulsa, Okla.) • Friday’s home opener against SDSU will mark UVU’s first dual held in the UCCU Center since the 2011-12 season. That season, the Wolverines wrestled a trio of duals in the UCCU Center with contests against 19-21 at NCAA Championships (Minneapolis, Minn.) South Dakota State, North Dakota State, and Cael Sanderson’s No. 2 Penn State Nittany Lions. The Wolver- ines will enter Friday with a 1-2 all-time record in the UCCU Center with a 21-18 victory over SDSU on Feb. 10, 2012. All times listed in Mountain Time Home matches BOLDED & contested at Lockhart Arena THIS WEEK'S PROBABLE LINEUPS ^ SDSU match contested at the UCCU Center UTAH VALLEY (1-1, 0-0 BIG 12) SDSU (0-1, 0-0 BIG 12) #4 WISCONSIN (5-0, 0-0 BIG TEN) % Journeymen Northeast Duals - Troy, N.Y. 125: Josiah Nava, RFr. (1-8) Kahlen Morris, Sr. (0-1) Michael Cullen, RSr. (3-2) * Big 12 Conference Dual 125: Will Edelblute, RFr. (3-2) 133: Taylor LaMont, RJr. (0-0) Zach Price, RFr. (3-2) #1 Seth Gross, RSr. (5-0) 133: Ty Smith, So. (0-0) 141: Cameron Hunsaker, Fr. (4-3) Clay Carlson, RFr. (4-1) #6 Tristan Moran, RSr. (5-0) 141: Nick Rino, RFr. (3-0) 149: Landon Knutzen, RFr. (1-3) #16 Henry Pohlmeyer, Sr. (4-1) #13 Cole Martin, RSr. (4-1) 149: Brigg Hoopes, Fr. (7-3) 157: Jed Loveless, RSo. (2-3) Colten Carlson, Jr. (0-0) Garrett Model, RSo. (2-3) 157: Jerry Rubio, RFr. (4-4) 165: Koy Wilkinson, RJr. (4-4) Kenny O'Neil, RFr. (3-1) #2 Evan Wick, RJr. (5-0) 165: Spencer Heywood, RSo. (2-2) Garrett Jordan, Jr. (3-1) 174: #13 Kimball Bastian, RSr. (1-4) Cade King, Fr. (2-3) Jared Krattiger (1-2) or Tyler Dow (3-1) OFFICIALLY UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY 184: Gary Jantzer, RSo. (1-2) #19 Zach Carlson, Sr. (2-1) Johnny Sebastian, RSr. (1-1) As of July 1, 2008, the official school name is now Utah Valley University. The words ‘state’ and 'college’ are no 197: #19 Tanner Orndorff, RSr. (2-3) #4 Tanner Sloan, RFr. (3-0) Taylor Watkins, RSr. (0-4) longer part of our identity. Please refer to us as Utah Val- 197: Jayden Woodruff, RFr. (4-4) ley University, Utah Valley or UVU. 285: #3 Tate Orndorff, RSo. (5-0) Blake Wolters, Jr. (2-3) #2 Trent Hillger, RSo. (5-0) 285: Chase Trussell, RFr. (3-0) Andrew Salemme, So. (4-2) GoUVU.com @UVUWrestling @UVU_Wrestling UVUWrestling 2019-20 WOLVERINE WRESTLING ABOUT UTAH VALLEY WELCOME TO THE TOP 25 The Wolverines will enter the weekend with a 1-1 dual record after splitting a pair of contests After spending a program record of 10 consecutive weeks in the NWCA Top 25 Coaches Poll at the Journeymen Northeast Duals two weeks ago. Utah Valley won nine of the 10 bouts en last season, UVU will enter the week just outside of the NWCA Top 25 Coaches Poll. The route to a 40-3 victory over Sacred Heart, before falling to Big Ten foe Purdue, 30-12. UVU is Wolverines will also enter the week ranked 16th in the InterMat Tournament Rankings, 18th currently ranked 16th in the InterMat Tournament Rankings, 18th by FloWrestling, 20th by by FloWrestling, 20th by Win Magazine, and 27th by TrackWrestling. Utah Valley spent a week Win Magazine, 27th by TrackWrestling, and just outside of the latest NWCA Top 25 Coaches last season ranked 21st, which marks the highest NWCA ranking in program history. Poll. OLYMPIC REDSHIRT NO MORE UVU then took part in the Journeymen Collegiate Classic the following day and sophomore After previously declaring that he would take an Olympic redshirt and miss the 2019-20 sea- heavyweight Tate Orndorff led the way by winning the 285A title. The then 10th-ranked son, junior 133-pounder Taylor LaMont has since decided to return to action and will wrestle Orndorff went a perfect 3-0 with a pair of upset wins over No. 2 Tanner Hall of Arizona State the 2019-20 season for the Wolverines. LaMont was sidelined in 2018-19 with an injury, but and No. 3 Jordan Wood of Lehigh. After the big weekend, Orndorff earned Big 12 Conference previously posted a 27-5 record as a freshman in 2017-18. That season he reached the ‘Blood Wrestler of the Week honors as well both USA Wrestling and The Open Mat National Wrestler Round’ at the NCAA Championships, became UVU’s first Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational of the Week accolades. He also moved up to as high as No. 3 in the national rankings, making champion, and earned the Wolverines’ highest national seed at the NCAA Championships by him the highest ranked Wolverine in program history. entering nationals as the No. 7 seed. A total of five Wolverines will enter this weekend’s dual currently nationally ranked. Tate Or- U23 WORLD GRECO CHAMPIONSHIPS ndorff leads the way by checking in at No. 3 at heavyweight, while senior Demetrius Romero A pair of Utah Valley wrestlers in Taylor LaMont and Tate Orndorff qualified for and represent- is No. 6 at 165, junior Matt Findlay is No. 9 at 149, senior Kimball Bastian is No. 13 at 174, ed Team USA at the U23 World Greco-Roman Championships on Oct. 28-Nov. 3 in Budapest, and senior Tanner Orndorff is No. 19 at 184. Tate Orndorff leads the group with a perfect 5-0 Hungary. The appearance marked LaMont's seventh consecutive age-group World Champion- record on the young season. The rankings listed are the highest ranking taken from the latest ships after competing at the Cadel level from 2013-15 and the Junior level from 2016-18. InterMat, FloWrestling, TrackWrestling, The Open Mat, and Win Magazine polls. Orndorff led the way by going 1-1 while LaMont finished with an 0-1 showing. LaMont is a former Junior World bronze medalist after winning the bronze in 2016.