Pac-12 Championship (Oregon State)
Kastl Places Second at 174 Pounds, Qualifies for Nationals
3/1/2015 12:00:00 AM | Wrestling
CORVALLIS, Oregon – Cal Poly senior Dominic Kastl finished second at 174 pounds in the Pac-12 Championship held Sunday in Oregon State's Gill Coliseum.
Kastl (pictured at right), the Pac-12 champion at 165 pounds in 2012, will be the lone Mustang in the NCAA Division I National Championship, scheduled for March 19-21 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO.
After a first-round bye, Kastl pinned Holden Packard of Boise State in 4 minutes, 56 seconds, before he dropped a 9-4 decision to Joe Latham of Oregon State in the finals. He will take a 16-6 record to the nationals.
Mustang 157-pounder Colt Shorts placed fourth, dropping a 2-1 sudden victory decision to Oliver Pierce of Arizona State in the consolation finals. Top three wrestlers at 157 pounds qualified for the nationals.
Nicolas Johnson placed fourth at 285 pounds.
Travis Berridge (165), J.T. Goodwin (197), Nick Fiegener (184), Yoshito Funakoshi (125) and Blake Kastl (149) all earned fifth-place finishes for Cal Poly. Jason DelaCruz (133) and Colton Schilling (141) took sixth.
Oregon State claimed its fourth straight Pac-12 team title, claiming five individual titles, three seconds and two thirds. Cal Poly placed sixth.
Results for Cal Poly wrestlers:
125 – Yoshito Funakoshi was maj. dec. by Evan Silver (Stanford) 12-3, was dec. by Ares Carpio (Arizona State) 5-3, won by medical forfeit over Carson Kuhn (Boise State) (fifth place)
133 – Jason DelaCruz pinned Michael Cook (Boise State) 2:27, was pinned by Jack Hathaway (Oregon State) 1:39, was maj. dec. by Judson Preskitt (Arizona State) 17-7, was dec. by Michael Cook (Boise State) 5-2 (sixth place)
141 – Colton Schilling (CP) bye, was dec. by Matt Kraus (Arizona State) 9-2, was dec. by Timmy Box (CSU Bakersfield) 6-4, lost by medical forfeit to Mason Pengilly (Stanford) (sixth place)
149 – Blake Kastl was dec. by Christian Padgilao (Arizona State) 2-0, was dec. by Coleman Hammond (CSU Bakersfield) 4-3, dec. Jake Velarde (Boise State) 3-1 (fifth place)
157 – Colt Shorts was tech. fall by Alex Elder (Oregon State) 17-0 (5:52), won by medical forfeit over Max Hvolbek (Stanford), was dec. by Oliver Pierce (Arizona State) 2-1 SV-1 (fourth place)
165 – Travis Berridge was dec. by Jacen Petersen (Arizona State) 3-2, was maj. dec. by Chris Castillo (Boise State) 12-4, dec. Jacen Petersen (Arizona State) 5-4 (fifth place)
174 – Dominic Kastl bye, pinned Holden Packard (Boise State) 4:56, was dec. by Joe Latham (Oregon State) 9-4 (second place)
184 – Nick Fiegener maj. dec. Austin Dewey (Boise State) 10-2, was tech. fall by Taylor Meeks (Oregon State) 15-0 (7:00), was maj. dec. by Sean Pollock (CSU Bakersfield) 8-0, dec. Austin Dewey (Boise State) 7-0 (fifth place)
197 – J.T. Goodwin was dec. by Cody Dixon (Boise State) 9-2, was ddec. by Josh DaSilveria (Arizona State) 6-3, dec. Garet Krohn (Stanford) 6-4 (fifth place)
285 – Nicolas Johnson dec. Gaylen Edmo (Boise State) 8-6, was maj. dec. by Nathan Butler (Stanford) 10-2, was dec. by Nate Keeve (Oregon State) 5-4 TB-1 (fourth place)
Team scores:
1. Oregon State 139.5, 2. Arizona State 107, 3. Stanford 100, 4. Boise State 85.5, 5. CSU Bakersfield 81, 6. Cal Poly 77.
