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Nate Arquinego took fourth place in the 157-pound weight class with a 3-2 record.
Nate Arquinego took fourth place in the 157-pound weight class with a 3-2 record.

Titans Have Eight Place Winners At Pointer Open

Results

UW-Oshkosh opened its 2017-18 season with six wrestlers, including 165-pound champion Husam Alabed, earning top-three finishes at UW-Stevens Point's Pointer Open on Saturday (Nov. 4).

The non-scoring event featured participants from 16 collegiate programs, including NCAA Division I University of Wisconsin, NCAA Division II UW-Parkside and UW-Oshkosh's NCAA Division III rivals Augsburg College (Minn.), Elmhurst College (Ill.), UW-Stevens Point, UW-Whitewater and Wheaton College (Ill.).

Alabed won his 165-pound weight class with the help of injury defaults to UW-Stevens Point's Jaden Boivin in the semifinal and Jordan Weinzetl in the final. Alabed won the first of his three decisions with a pin over UW-Stevens Point's Tanner Goddard in 2:08.

Also appearing in the championship match of their weight class were AJ Stengel at 174 pounds and Colten Cashmore at 184. Both wrestlers compiled 2-1 record, including a pin.

Stengel defeated UW-Stevens Point's James Borgen, 8-5, in his first match before sticking UW-Parkside's Job Ayala to the mat in 3:50. Stengel then lost his title bout after being pinned in 1:55 by UW-Stevens Point's Dan Squires.

Cashmore opened with a 9-5 win over Concordia University Wisconsin's Merrick O'Donnell before gluing UW-Stevens Point's Cody Nielsen to the surface in 4:02. In the title bout, UW-Parkside's Connor Price edged Cashmore by a 3-2 score.

Taking third place for the Titans were Wesam Alabed at 141 pounds, Jordan Lemcke at 197 and Michael Dunlap at 285.

Alabed won three of his four matches, including a 5-4 victory over UW-Stevens Point's Logan Newton in the third-place contest. The win evened the score after Alabed was pinned by Newton in 2:59 during the first round. Alabed then advanced to the third-place match with victories of 15-6 over UW-Stevens Point's Anthony Kanable and 6-4 over unattached Chad Bartschenfeld. 

Lemcke split his four round-robin decisions, including a 16-0 win over UW-Oshkosh teammate John DePersia and a 2-0 sudden victory over unattached Patrick Reilly. Lemcke lost results of 7-3 to Concordia University Wisconsin's Mitchell Slatton and 10-2 to UW-Stevens Point's Dylan Diebitz.

Dunlap pinned UW-Stevens Point's Ross Agg in 1:03 to complete a 3-1 tournament record. Dunlap began his activity with a 3-1 sudden victory over Concordia University Wisconsin's Samuel Olsen. Following a 10-7 loss to UW-Parkside's Matt Stopka, Dunlap won by an injury default over unattached Ben Kitslaar.

Registering fourth-place finishes for UW-Oshkosh were Nate Arquinego at 157 pounds and DePersia at 197. Arquinego marked a 3-2 record with two pins while DePersia tallied a 1-3 record.

Other UW-Oshkosh results had Corey Knudsen go 0-2 at 149 pounds; Shane Dziadosz 1-2 at 149 pounds; Tony Kontney 1-2 and Christian Quiles 0-2 at 165; Brandon Rothe 0-2 at 184; and Tory Jandrin 0-2 at 285.

UW-Oshkosh wrestles UW-Whitewater in a dual meet on Tuesday (Nov. 7) in Whitewater.