Wrestling team ties for ninth-place at Pete Willson Invitational

WHEATON, Ill. – The Olivet College wrestling team finished in a tie for ninth-place at the 2020 Wheaton (Ill.) College/Pete Willson Invitational at King Arena in Wheaton, Illinois.

• Thirty-four NCAA Division III schools comprised the tournament field. Six of the schools were included in the most recent National Wrestling Coaches Association Top 25 poll.
• North Central (Ill.) College won the team championship with 120.5 points.
• The Comets had 63.5 points to tie University of Mount Union (Ohio).
• Senior Cole Hersch was Olivet's top finisher, as he placed fourth in the 157-pound bracket.
• Also finishing in the top eight were senior Haydn Kinjorski (fifth at 174 pounds), sophomore Owen Miller (seventh at 285 pounds) and junior Trevor Piggott (eighth at 197 pounds).

• 157: Cole Hersch – 4-2 record – 4th-place – pinned Jacob Horsch (Heidelberg, Ohio) in 2:43, won 7-5 over John Broughton (Wis.-Whitewater), won 14-2 over Charles Lipps (Mount St. Joseph, Ohio), lost 7-5 to Rafael Roman (North Central, Ill.), won 11-1 over Stephen Maloney (Messiah, Pa.), lost 6-4 SV-1 to Steve Bonsall (Chicago, Ill.).
• 174: Haydn Kinjorski – 5-2 record – 5th-place – won 9-7 over Hunter Harrison (Wheaton, Ill.), won 8-3 over Josh Te Stroete (Concordia, Wis.), lost 14-4 to Cornell Beachem (Mount St. Joseph, Ohio), won 7-4 over Nick Miller (Trine, Ind.), won 3-2 over Drew Matticks (Milwaukee School of Engineering, Wis.), lost 6-5 to Nick Dado (Wis.-Platteville), won 3-2 over Conner Homan (Mount Union, Ohio).
• 197: Trevor Piggott – 3-3 record – 8th-place – won 22-6 over Alecznad Moore (MacMurray, Ill.), pinned Mason Morris (Defiance, Ohio) in 2:29, lost 3-2 to Cash Thompson (Ohio Northern), won 3-2 over Luke Hess (Otterbein, Ohio), lost 12-5 to Don Phillips (Buena Vista, Iowa), lost 4-3 to Braden Homsey (Ferrum, Va.).
• 285: Owen Miller – 5-2 record – 7th-place – pinned by Lucius Rinehart (Wis.-Platteville) in 3:58, won 9-2 over Robert Pena (Elmhurst, Ill.), won 10-2 over Daniel Skold (Augustana, Ill.), pinned Blake Jerome (Heidelberg, Ohio) in 6:10, pinned Isiah Ziegler (North Central, Ill.) in 2:03, lost 13-0 to Jordan Lemcke (Wis.-Oshkosh), won 3-1 over Dylan Uzumecki (Wis.-Whitewater).

1. North Central (Ill.), 120.5; 2. Wis.-Whitewater, 111.0; 3. John Carroll (Ohio), 102.0; 4. Wis.-Eau Claire, 97.0; 5. Messiah (Pa.), 88.0; 6. Chicago (Ill.), 75.0; 7. Ohio Northern, 73.0; 8. Otterbein (Ohio), 71.0; 9. Mount Union (Ohio), 63.5; 9. OLIVET, 63.5; 11. Wis.-Stevens Point, 60.0; 12. Wis.-Oshkosh, 57.0; 13. Elmhurst (Ill.), 52.5; 13. Wis.-Platteville, 52.5; 15. Wheaton (Ill.), 52.0.

• The Comets are idle until Saturday, Feb. 15, when they wrestle at the 2020 Mid-States Conference Tournament. Wabash (Ind.) College is the host school, and wrestling gets under way at 9 a.m.