Cal Poly 125-pounder Antonio Lorenzo wrestles Minnesota's Patrick McKee in dual meet last month. Lorenzo is 6-3 for the season with a No. 25 national ranking.
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Cal Poly to Host No. 4 Michigan for Dual Meet on Friday Night
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Michigan brings five wrestlers ranked in the top 10 and a No. 4 team ranking by InterMat into a non-conference dual meet at No. 29 Cal Poly on Friday night.
First bout begins at 7 p.m. inside Mott Athletics Center.
The Mustangs and Wolverines have met for a dual meet just once before, battling to a 16-16 draw in February 1971 at Ann Arbor, Mich. Cal Poly, a Division II school back then, received decisions from Larry Morgan, Steve Gardner, John Hall and Gary Maiolfi along with draws by Glenn Anderson and Tim Kopitar.
Dom Demas tries to maintain control of Minnesota's Michael Blockhus
in December dual meet at 149 pounds.
Michigan's resumé on its first trip to San Luis Obispo includes 22 NCAA champions, 205 NCAA All-Americans and 130 Big Ten Conference title winners in 101 seasons of wrestling. The Wolverines captured their first Big Ten team title since 1973 last March and have earned six straight top-10 finishes at the NCAA finals, not counting the 2020 season cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Michigan finished second to Penn State in last year's nationals with six All-Americans, including NCAA champion Nick Suriano at 125 pounds. Suriano has graduated, but this year's Wolverine lineup features eight wrestlers ranked by InterMat this week.
The lineup is headed by Mason Parris, ranked No. 2 at 285 pounds with a spotless 13-0 record. Dylan Raguson (7-2) is No. 5 at 133 pounds while Will Lewan (7-2) sports a No. 8 ranking at 157. Matt Finesilver (10-3) is ranked No. 9 at 184 and Cameron Amine (3-1) is No. 6 at 165 pounds.
Parris is a two-time champion at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. Lewan placed fourth, Raguson fifth and Finesilver seventh in this year's event as well. Also placing was Chance Lamer, a younger brother of Cal Poly's Legend and Brawley Lamer, who was seventh at 149 pounds and is 7-2 this year with a No. 20 national ranking.
At the season-opening Michigan State Open, Parris and 141-pounder Cole Mattin both placed first while Finesilver was second.
Cal Poly is 3-3 on the year, evening its mark with a 23-15 win over Lock Haven in the final round of the Collegiate Wrestling Duals in New Orleans. The Mustangs also own victories over Lindenwood 50-0 and California Baptist 38-9.
Michigan owns a 3-0 mark with wins over Columbia 38-6, Campbell 26-6 and North Carolina 23-12.
Sean Bormet is in his fifth season as head coach at Michigan and has guided the Wolverines to a 40-9 dual meet record and NCAA finishes of second place in 2022 and fifth place in both 2019 and 2021. He was the top assistant coach at Michigan for seven years, including four as associate head coach, before becoming head coach in March 2018.
As a Wolverine student-athlete (1991-94), Bormet was a two-time NCAA All-American at 158 pounds, placing second as a senior (1994) and third as a junior (1993). He posted a 125-21 career record, including a 33-2 mark as a senior, and accumulated 44 career falls.
Cal Poly's quartet of nationally ranked wrestlers is led by two-time NCAA All-American Bernie Truax, who slipped to No. 8 at 197 pounds after suffering his first loss of the season in the Collegiate Wrestling Duals. Truax, who placed fourth in both the 2021 and 2022 NCAA Championships, is 8-1 on the year and 72-26 in his Mustang wrestling career.
Mustang 149-pounder Dom Demas is 6-3 for the season and ranked No. 18 while Antonio Lorenzo (6-3) sports a No. 25 national ranking at 125 pounds. Legend Lamer is ranked No. 30 at 165 pounds with a 6-5 record.
Friday's matchup is the lone dual at home for the Mustangs in January. Cal Poly hosts three Pac-12 duals in February -- Little Rock on Feb. 5, Stanford on Feb. 17 and Oregon State on Feb. 19.
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