Oregon wrestlers looking ahead to nationals
■ Finishing the conference tournament
with three individual champions, Duck
wrestlers are poised for the NCAA
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
As early as Nov. 12, after dual meet wins
over Pacific-10 Conference opponents Stan
ford and UC Davis. Oregon wrestling head
coach Chuck Kearney was looking ahead to
the postseason tournaments.
“We want to be in the position to win the
Pac-10 Tournament,” he said at the time,
“We can do that. It’s a matter of us making
developments to get better.
“We want to be the team that shows up to
the national tournament as the surprise
team. Every year there is a team that kind of
comes out of nowhere and has a tournament
that everybody talks about, and we want
this team to be that one. We want to show
up and, for a lack of a better word, over
r achieve. And with the attitude that the guys
are competing and training with, we are on
pace to do that.”
With a second-place overall finish at the
Pac-lOs on March 3 and three individual
conference champions (Eugene Harris at
165 pounds, Tony Overstake at 157 and
Shaun Williams at 125), the Ducks are on
track to “overachieve” at the NCAA Tour
nament.
Along with the three titles, Oregon
wrestlers earned second place from Brian
Watson (141), two third-place finishes from
Shane Webster (174) and Eric Webb (Hwt.),
and a fourth-place finish by Casey Hunt
(149). By finishing in the top-four, those
wrestlers earned automatic invitations to
the NCAA Tournament in Albany, N.Y.
The Ducks’ Jason Harless (133) also
earned an invitation to go to Albany by re
ceiving one of the three wildcard bids given
out to'Pac-10 wrestlers.
The individual titles for Harris, Overstake
and Williams were the first for each
wrestler. Kearney, who won a Pac-10 cham
pionship himself while competing for Ore
gon, said that winning the title can be one of
many important steps in a wrestler’s career.
“Winning the Pac-10 title is another
milestone that those three guys had the
opportunity to pass, and it is something
that can never be taken away from them,”
he said. “In one of the premiere wrestling
conferences in the nation, they are guys
that won their weight class. That is some
thing special.”
A second season
With almost three weeks between the Pac
10 Tournament and nationals, the wrestling
team is looking at these final few weeks as its
own individual mini-season.
“It’s a nice time to refocus to get ourselves
ready, physically and mentally, for the tour
nament,” Kearney said.
With only eight wrestlers competing in Al
bany, the coaching staff has kept the rest of
the $quad working hard almost every day.
They participate in the same morning work
outs, afternoon practices and weight sessions
that the top eight do.
“We want them to go through the prepara
tion process so that hopefully next year
when they are qualified or in the starting
lineups, they will have this experience un
der their belts,” Kearney said.
Play hard, study hard
Finals begin next week, but the Ducks
leave for Albany on Monday, and will spend
the entire week there. With the tournament
beginning on Thursday, the team will spend
the first few days acclimating to the Eastern
time zone, practicing and taking their exams.
A representative from academic services will
travel with the team to monitor the test-tak
ing environment.
E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
Oregon’s Brian Watson (left) finished second at 141 pounds in the Pac-10 Tournament, and will be one of eight
Ducks competing in the NCAA tournament in Albany, N.Y., starting March 21.
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