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A bad break for Panther wrestling lineup : Sports : Oswego Ledger-Sentinel : Hometown Newspaper for Oswego and Montgomery, IllinoisA bad break for Panther wrestling lineup
| Schultz' season ends with injury, Oswego finishes with eight medals at OP-RF Invite
| by Kristin Sharp
| 1/24/2013
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With only nine wrestlers available for the Oak Park-River Forest Invite last Saturday, Oswego hoped to make the best of the situation to close out the regular season.
Although eight of those grapplers finished among the top eight, the Panthers suffered a huge blow with the loss of 126-pounder Nick Schultz. The 2012 state qualifier ended his junior season last Saturday with two broken bones suffered in his wrestleback match against Rockford Boylan.
Schultz was 1-1 in the bracket after a loss to eventual champion Isaiah White of OP-RF, but with 10 seconds remaining in his consolation semifinal, Schultz sustained a broken leg.
"It probably happened with about 10 seconds left to go in the match," Oswego head coach Andrew Cook said. "It was pretty hard for our guys to stomach after it happened. He's going to be done for the season, and he's going to have to have surgery. Despite that, we came back and won a couple matches and the kids were pretty down and out about it."
Oswego had a pair of third-place finishers in sophomores Andrew McFall and Jack Pradel. Seniors Adrian Herrera and Max Hively were fifth in their respective weight classes while freshman Blake Huffmon was sixth in addition to Schultz despite his injury default in the finals. Junior Nick Aguirre and freshman Victor Aguirre also placed seventh.
"We were banged up going into there. Bo (Pradel) and Max (Larsen) were out and didn't wrestle, so we were shorthanded," Cook said.
"We had nine kids wrestle. We had some good matches, and there was a Buchanan team from California, Arrowhead from Wisconsin and Fort Zumalt West was out of Missouri. It was a pretty tough day for being a smaller tournament. We had some good performances."
At 106, McFall opened with a pin against OP-RF in 2:57, and won by default over Rockford Boylan. He lost to eventual champion DJ Lioren of Buchanan by major decision, but rebounded in the wrestlebacks with a 10-2 major decision over Fort Zumalt. In the finals, he pinned Rockford Boylan's Sean Barelli in 5:00.
At 120, Jack Pradel won a 6-2 decision over Arrowhead to start the bracket, but lost by major decision to Buchanan in the semifinals. He pinned Morton in 5:20 to meet OP-RF's SaVonne Bennett in the finals where Pradel won a 4-0 decision.
Herrera won by pin in 1:00 to clinch fifth place at 170 over Arrowhead and went 3-2 on the day. Hively pinned Argo in just 14 seconds to place fifth at 195, and went 2-2 on the day.
Huffmon placed sixth at 113 after winning a close 5-4 decision over Argo, but dropping a major decision in the semifinals and a 3-2 decision in the consolation semifinals.
Nick Aguirre was seventh at 138, going 2-0 after a tough 5-4 loss to start the bracket. Victor Aguirre was seventh at 145, also dropping his first bout, but winning his next two including a pin in the finals.
"McFall wrestled well. Things didn't go his way in the semifinal match, but he fought back and took third and did a real nice job," Cook said.
"Blake Huffmon won a couple matched and wrestled real well. Jack had a tough loss in the semis as well to another Buchanan kid, but he came back and won a couple matches to take third. They finished the day well."
Oswego will now travel to Minooka on Saturday for the Southwest Prairie Conference meet before shifting its attention to the Class 3A Bolingbrook Regional on Feb. 2.
"Now our focus is turning to the conference tournament, finishing strong and moving into the regional tournament," Cook said. "I think we'll have some pretty high seeds and hopefully that equates to high places for a lot of the guys. We did not get to wrestle Minooka this year to see how we compare against them. We'll see them move at the conference tournament. All of the conference teams are either in our regional our sectional."
•Notes: Oswego defeated Plainfield North 60-9 on Jan. 16 to move to 4-1 in SPC dual meets.
Huffmon won by tech fall (15-0), Jack Pradel won by fall (3:10), Schultz won by major decision (10-2), Nick Aguirre won by tech fall (16-1), Victor Aguirre won by tech fall (17-2), Larsen won by tech fall (19-4), Herrera won by pin (1:58) and Hively won by pin (32 seconds).
Last Thursday, Oswego defeated Romeoville 39-27 to end its dual meet record at 9-9 overall and 5-1 in SPC action. Huffmon won 15-0, Schultz won by pin (3:59), Brandon Mickelberg won by fall (2:57), Branden Davis won a 7-1 decision, Larsen won a 13-7 decision and Hively won by pin (1:36).
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