Wrestling: Ohio Northern (6-4 Overall) hosts 39th annual ONU Invitational
Saturday, December 7, 2019, 9 a.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Saturday's Tournament: Ohio Northern will return home on Saturday to host the 39th annual ONU Invitational at the ONU Sports Center Fieldhouse ... 13 teams, made up of 12 NCAA Division III schools and NCAA II Tiffin will participate in the 10-weight class, double-elimination individual tournament ... The Polar Bears are coming off a 30-15 loss at Otterbein on Tuesday ... Freshman Camden Spears, freshman Chase Sumner and sophomore Connor Kwiat all posted victories ... Four Polar Bears are ranked at their respective weight classes in the Nov. 27 NWCA rankings ... Senior Seth Transue is 19th at 133, senior Jeff Andrews is 21st at 141, Kwiat is 26th at 174 and junior Cash Thompson is 15th at 197 ... Thus far this season, Transue and Thompson lead the team with 11-1 records ... Sumner (10-2), junior Schuyler Caprella (10-2) and Andrews (10-5) are third with 10 wins each ... Thompson leads the team with 5 pins ... Andrews leads the team with 4 tech falls and Transue leads the team with 4 major decisions ... Andrews leads all active ONU wrestlers with a 72-44 career record, which ranks him 34th all-time in ONU history ... Transue is 37th all-time at ONU with a 71-40 mark and Thompson is 46th all-time with a 66-30 career record ... ONU finished 3rd of 13 teams at the 2018 ONU Invitational.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Wins | Pins | Tech Falls | Maj. Dec. | |||||||||||
| 1. | Thompson | 11-1 | 1. | Thompson | 5 | 1. | Andrews | 4 | 1. | Transue | 4 | |||
| Transue | 11-1 | 2. | Sumner | 4 | 2. | Caprella | 3 | 2. | Thompson | 3 | ||||
| 3. | Sumner | 10-2 | 3. | Medlen | 3 | Sumner | 3 | 3. | Caprella | 2 | ||||
| Caprella | 10-3 | |||||||||||||
| Andrews | 10-5 |
Head Coach Ron Beaschler: Beaschler is in his 32nd season at the helm of the Ohio Northern wrestling program and currently stands as the longest-tenured head wrestling coach at the institution ... He sports a 330-237-4 career coaching record in dual action, a winning percentage of .582, making him the all-time winningest coach in program history ... Beaschler was inducted into the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Hall of Fame in 2008 and has been named OAC Coach of the Year three times in 1993, 2012, and 2013.
