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This year’s squad has the best dual match record of any Oregon team since the 1997-98 team and has the highest national ranking (No. 14). Most Oregon teams in the past have had at least two wrestlers in every weight class. The 2001 squad is only two-deep in three classes. Sophomore Jason Harless, junior Kenny Cox and freshman Branson Phillips provide depth at 125, 141 and 149 pounds, respectively. Trouble began this fall when junior David Watson suffered a WRESTLING broken ankle and Derrick Smith left the team. Later during the season, sopho mores Matt Lee and Jake Leair both sustained major injuries. Lee with drew from school after a broken ankle ended his season. Leair, who was 21-17 for the Ducks last sea son at 197 pounds, tore a ligament in his knee. Freshman Dustin Fisher is un able to compete this season due to his redshirt status. Fortunately, the Ducks are near ing the end of their season, where depth is less crucial. Teams can only send one wrestler each to the Pacific-10 Conference Champi onships, the qualifying tourna ment for the NCAA Champi onships. Pac-10 Championships tickets The Oregon Athletic Depart ment is offering ticket packages for the 2001 Pac-10 Championships on Feb. 25-26 at McArthur Court. The tournament will be divided into four sessions across the two days. Preliminaries will be held on Feb. 25 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Quarterfinals and consolation first round matches will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Monday, semifi nals and consolation finals will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., fol lowed by the championship finals at 6 p.m. Tickets for all four sessions are available for $21 and individual sessions for $7. For more informa tion call the Duck ticket office at 346-4461 or visit the Len Casanova Center. All seating is general ad mission with doors opening one hour prior to each session. In the polls Following an 18.-12 setback to visiting Boise State, the Oregon wrestling team dropped two places in the Amateur Wrestling News polls from No. 12 to No. 14. Junior Shaun Williams and sophomore Eric Webb lead the Ducks individually. Williams, a lightweight, and Webb, a heavy weight, are both ranked No. 5. Senior All-Americans Chael Sonnen and Doug Lee are both ranked seventh nationally. Sopho more Brian Watsonrernained in the top-10 despite an overtime loss last week. Junior Eugene Harris remained No. 19 at 157 pounds. Quarterbacks in Super Bowl spotlight By Dave Goldberg The AssociatedPress TAMPA, Fla. — Trent Dilfer is n’t John Elway and Kerry Collins isn’t Joe Montana. Not even close. Their skills aren’t close, and nei adversity to sharpen us as football players,” said Dilfer, who will quarterback the Baltimore Ravens against Collins and the New York Giants in the NFL title game on Sunday. “Most of all, we’ve let adversity make us better persons.” In the case of Collins and Dilfer, adversity is relative. ther has the super star sheen. They do have resilience. “What the two of us have in com mon, I think, is that we’ve allowed Dilfer’s was on the field, where he washed out after six years as quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buc caneers, who took him as the sixth overall pick of the 1994 draft. He was so highly regarded that when Indianapolis bypassed him, at No. 5, it led to an on-air debate be tween ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. and Bill Tobin, who was the Colts’ personnel director then. Dilfer’s play with the Bucs made Tobin look good for passing on him. He was mediocre at best, was replaced as the starter last season by Eric Zeier and then Shaun King, and was finally released. Collins’ troubles were far more serious. The first-ever draft pick of the Carolina Panthers, fifth overall in 1995 after an outstanding career at Penn State, he was a success al most immediately. Collins led the Panthers to the NFC title game in his — and their — second season. But behind the success were huge problems. Collins was an alcoholic who could never stop at one beer. Even in that dream second season, he clearly lacked the confidence of a star NFL quarterback — stammer ing, rarely looking people in the eye, clearly unsure of himself. “I was described as ‘a lost soul.’ I think that was very right,” he said Monday evening during a remark able 45-minute session in which he publicly exposed his deepest scars, describing himself as es tranged from a dysfunctional fam ily which will come together for the first time in years at Sunday’s game. But no one can take away this moment. From either quarter back. Nowhere to run to. Nowhere to hide. The Oregon Daily Emerald on the world wide web. www.dailyemerald.com
