OSU Wrestlers Take Down Cal Poly-SLO, 27-10
Oregon State University - December 15, 1996

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State extended its dual meet win streak to three Sunday with a 27-10 win over Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo in Pacific-10 wrestling at Gill Coliseum. It was the third win in two days for 19th-ranked OSU (4-1 overall, 2-0 Pac-10), which beat Portland State and Southern Oregon State on Saturday.
The Beavers now take almost two weeks off before hosting the Oregon Wrestling Classic on Dec. 28-29.
Against Cal Poly (0-1, 0-1), OSU had two wrestlers improve to 9-0 as 118-pounder Jason Buce won by match termination over Tyson Rondeau and Oscar Wood took a 15-4 decision over Jason Wheeler.
Isaac Wood, the Beavers' 150-pounder, stayed tied for the team lead in victories when he beat Craig Welk 6-1 to run his record to to 9-1.
At 126 pounds, OSU's Jake Whisenhunt moved to 8-1 this season with a pin of James Gross. Beaver 167-pounder Jason Gutches is 7-2 after beating Jeremiah Miller 5-2.
Buce kept up his habit of rarely letting his matches go the distance. In his nine wins, the junior from Dallas has four pins and two match terminations, tied for the team lead in both categories.
Against Rondeau, who had beaten third-ranked Lindsay Durlacher of Illinois last week, Buce figured to be in for a battle. But Buce scored seven points in each of the first two periods, then finished Rondeau off at 16-0 with a takedown 49 seconds into the third period.
"I had tough matches with him last year - like 2-0, 7-5," Buce said of Rondeau, now 6-5. "Then after the first takedown, I looked at Les, and he said he heard a loud snap."
That's figuratively, not literally. Les Gutches, the two-time national champion who is an OSU assistant coach this year, claims he can hear it when an opponent has been broken.
"It was our type of training," said Buce, who had three takedowns and four near-falls against Rondeau. "I was just real aggressive and stayed with the stuff that works."
The result left OSU head coach Joe Wells pleased with where his young Beavers are going into their holiday break.
"They're wrestling with confidence, being aggressive and trying for pins," Wells said. "That's even more important than scoring right now, because if they keep doing that, they're going to score points.
"They'll turn those opportunities into points, and those points into wins. We're looking a lot at improvement, and if we don't improve each time, we've lost an opportunity. I think we used most of our opportunities today."

OREGON STATE 27, SOUTHERN OREGON STATE 10
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HWT		 Jason Buce, OSU, by match termination over Tyson Rondeau, CPSLO, 5:49
Jake Whisenhunt, OSU, pinned James Gross, CPSLO, 4:41
Oscar Wood, OSU, dec. Jason Wheeler, CPSLO, 15-4
Josh Whisenhunt, OSU, dec. Ty Smith, CPSLO, 12- 6
Isaac Wood, OSU, dec. Craig Welk, CPSLO, 6-1
David Wells, CPSLO, dec. Jim Kutz, OSU, 10-8
Jason Gutches, OSU, dec. Jeremiah Miller, CPSLO, 5-2
Mike French, CPSLO, dec. Clint Wilson, OSU, 13-6
Sanders Freed, OSU, dec. Nayif Abdullah, CPSLO, 3-0
Gan McGee, CPSLO, dec. Arleigh Hix, OSU, 13-4
ATTENDANCE - 323, Official Jim Phillips


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