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Reno Tournament of Champions
Parker Wins Reno Tournament Of Champions
December 19, 2002 | Wrestling
Dec. 20, 2002
Senior Greg Parker returned to his winning ways Thursday at the Reno Tournament of Champions. Parker, a defending NCAA finalist and the top-seed in his weight class, won all four of his matches to claim the title. In all, 11 Princeton wrestler competed at the event with the team finishing 15th of the 22 teams entered.
Parker, who returned to the mat last weekend at Missouri and entered this weekend 1-1 on the season, received a first-round bye and then faced Bryan Webster of Cal.-Fullerton in the second-round and shut him out 15-0. Parker followed up that win with two more shutouts, first over Duke's Tom Cass 16-0 and then over Boise's Tony D'Amico 10-0. That win set up a final match against Oklahoma State's Jake Rosholt, which Parker claimed by a score of 10-2.
At 125 pounds, Princeton's Seth Dunipace went 1-2 and Kenneth Chu was 0-2. At 133 Brian Kirschbaum went 2-2 and John Knorring and Joe Clarke went 0-2 and 2-2 respectively, at 141. Matthew Piselli was 0-2 at 149 while Milo Adams was 1-2 at 157. Princeton had two wrestlers at 174, with Jack Fleming posting an 0-2 record and Andrew Avsec going 1-2. Matt Fisher and Matt Hawrilenko each went 1-2 at 197 and Heavyweight, respectively.
Team Scores:
1) Oklahoma State 139.00
2) Edinboro 89.50
2) Arizona State 87.50
4) Boise State 82.00
5) Kent State 76.00
6) Oregon 75.00
7) Clarion 71.00
8) North Carolina 60.50
9) UC-Davis 59.00
10) Fresno State 55.00
11) Cal-Poly 46.50
12) Pittsburgh 44.50
13) Appalachian State 41.50
14) Cal-Fullerton 36.00
15) Princeton 35.50
16) Cal-Bakersfield 30.00
17) Southern Oregon 25.50
18) Portland State 18.50
19) Central Missouri 14.50
20) Lassen CC 12.50
21) Duke 12.00
22) Embry-Riddle 11.00
Seeds indicated in parenthesis
125:
1st Round:
Jeremy Mendoza (Ariz. St.) fall Kenny Chu (Princeton), 2:23
(2) Skyler Holman (Okla. St.) fall Seth Dunipace (Princeton), 1:18
Consolation 1st Round:
Dunipace fall Marc Harris (So. Oreg.), 2:55
Tommy Hoang (Duke) dec. Chu, 11-7
Consolation 2nd Round:
Cody Sites (Okla. St.) dec. Dunipace 8-2
133:
1st Round:
Brian Kirschbaum (Princeton) dec. Joey Guiler (Fresno), 4-0
2nd Round:
Evan Sola (UNC) fall Kirschbaum, 1:50
Consolation 2nd Round:
Kirschbaum bye
Consolation 3rd Round:
Kirschbaum dec. Nolan Harris (So. Oreg.) 5-2
Consolation 4th Round:
Evan Sola (UNC) m.d. Kirschbaum 11-1
141:
1st Round:
John Knorring (Princeton) bye
Joe Clarke (Princeton) bye
Second Round:
Jaun Mora (Cal. Ful.) fall Knorring, 2:48
Clarke dec. Antony Baza (Cal.-Bak.), 9-7
Quarterfinals:
Cory Ace (Edin.) m.d. Clarke 10-2
Consolation 2nd Round:
Ron Tarquino (Pitt.) dec. Knorring 4-1
Consolation 4th Round:
Mike Anderson (UCD) dec. Clarke 5-3
149:
1st Round:
Jim Perry (Clarion) t.f. Matt Piseli (Princeton), 15-0, 5:55
Consolation 1st Round:
Eric Pizzi (Cent. Mo.) fall Piselli, 2:57
157:
1st Round:
(7) Nick Hopping (Cal Poly) dec. Milo Adams (Princeton), 5-2
Consolation 1st Round:
Adams bye
Consolation 2nd Round:
Adams fall Ben Balmages (Duke), 6:05
Consolation 3rd Round:
Dominic Buckman (App. St.) dec. Adams 12-6
174:
1st Round:
Jack Fleming (Princeton) bye
Andrew Avsec (Princeton) dec. Mark DeToro (Lassen), 10-4
2nd Round:
Dave Gardner (Clarion) m.d. Fleming, 11-2
Shane Webster (Oreg.) t.f. Avsec, 21-4
Consolation 2nd Round:
Len Craig (Duke) dec. Fleming 4-2
Patrick Owens (Boise) fall Avsec 2:14
184:
1st Round:
(1) Greg Parker (Princeton) bye
2nd Round:
Parker t.f. Bryan Webster (Cal.-Ful.), 15-0
Quarterfinals:
Parker t.f. Tom Cass (Duke) 16-0
Semifinals:
Parker m.d. Tony D'Amico (Boise) 10-0
Finals:
1st-Parker m.d. Jake Rosholt (Okla. St.) 10-2
197:
1st Round:
(8) Ryan Bader (Ariz. St.) m.d. Matt Fisher (Princeton), 8-0
Consolation 1st Round:
Fisher bye
Consolation 2nd Round:
Fisher dec. Rusty Blackmon (Okla. St.) 10-7
Consolation 3rd Round:
Seth Shippy (Cent. St.) dec. Fisher 8-3
HWT:
1st Round:
Matt Hawrilenko (Princeton) bye
2nd Round:
Kellen Fluckiger (Ariz. St.) fall Hawrilenko, 2:20
Consolation Second Round:
Hawrilenko bye
Consolation 3rd Round:
Neil Phillips (Oreg.) dec. Hawrilenko 4-1