Cal Poly Earns Two Thirds, One Fifth in Matmen Open

Thursday, December 30

Hoffman Estates, IL

8 a.m.

Matmen Open

Cal Poly 125-pound wrestler Antonio Lorenzo controls Justin Cardani of Illinois in semifinals of 2021 Matmen Open on Thursday.

Cal Poly Earns Two Thirds, One Fifth in Matmen Open

12/30/2021 8:05:00 PM | Wrestling

Bernie Truax sizes up his opponent. — **Bernie Truax (left) wrestles Mark Hall of Penn RTC.**

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. -- Cal Poly wrestlers Antonio Lorenzo and Bernie Truax earned third-place finishes while Brawley Lamer placed fifth in the inaugural 2021 Matmen Open, which concluded a two-day run Thursday at NOW Arena.

Lorenzo placed third at 125 pounds with a 4-1 record while Truax was third at 184 pounds, also winning four of five matches. Lamer was fifth at 157 pounds with a 5-2 mark.

In the semifinals Thursday morning, Lorenzo dropped a 3-1 overtime decision to Justin Cardani of Illinois, then bounced back with a 7-4 decision over Blair Orr of Penn and a 13-5 major decision against Sheldon Seymour of Lehigh.

Lorenzo, a fifth-place finisher at the Las Vegas Invitational earlier this mionth, now sports a 10-5 record for the season.

Brawley Lamer tries a move against AJ Jaffe of Harvard.

Truax, an NCAA All-American a year ago, rebounded from a 7-3 loss in the semifinals by earning a 3-1 decision over Trey Munoz of Oregon State and a fall in just 46 seconds over Zach Braunagel of Illinois.

Truax is now 6-1 on the year.

Lamer earned three decisions and a fall to reach the consolation match for fifth and sixth place and has his hand raised when Kendall Coleman of Purdue couldn't wrestle due to injury. Lamer's fall was against Grant Zamin of Wisconsin-La Crosse in the third round of wrestlebacks.

Lamer evened his record for the season to 7-7.

At 197, Trent Tracy won three of five matches, earning a fall in 1 minute, 4 seconds, over Aiden Conner of Princeton and a pair of 16-0 technical falls.

Samuel Aguilar split two matches at 285 pounds while Abe Hinrichsen was 1-2 at 133 pounds.

Cal Poly finished seventh among 21 teams in the field, scoring 57 points. Pittsburgh was first with 121.5 points, followed by Penn and Wisconsin.

The tournament was hastily organized after the 58th Ken Kraft Midlands Championships, to be held on the same dates in the same arena, was canceled for the second straight year due to COVID-19 protocols.

Cal Poly returns home to host Northern Colorado on Friday, Jan. 7, at 7 p.m. inside Mott Athletics Center.

Results for Cal Poly wrestlers:

125
Antonio Lorenzo bye, dec. Hunter Adrian (Brown) 5-3, dec. Gage Curry (Pittsburgh) 7-5 SV-1, was dec. by Justin Cardani (Illinois) 3-1 SV-1, dec. Blair Orr (Penn) 7-4, maj. dec. Sheldon Seymour (Lehigh) 13-5 (third place)

133
Abe Hinrichsen dec. Dustin Norris (Purdue) 9-5, was tech. fall by Michael Colaiocco (Penn) 18-2, was pinned by Gabe Hixenbaugh (Campbell) 4:37.

157
Brawley Lamer dec. Kaleb Olenjiniczak (Northern Iowa) 5-0, dec. Robert Kanniard (Rutgers) 6-2, was dec. by Elijah Cleary (Pittsburgh) 5-4, dec. AJ Jaffe (Harvard) 3-0, pinned Grant Zamin (Wisconsin-La Crosse) 7:56, was dec. by Alex Carida (Bloomsburg) 11-5, won by medical forfeit over Kendall Coleman (Purdue) (fifth place)

184
Bernie Truax bye, tech. fall Jack Wilt (Lehigh) 16-0, dec. Zach Braunagel (Illinois) 6-1, was dec. by Mark Hall (Penn RTC) 7-3, dec. Trey Munoz (Oregon State) 3-1, pinned Zach Braunagel (Illinois) 0:46 (third place)

197
Trent Tracy pinned Aiden Conner (Princeton) 1:04, was dec. by Cole Urbas (Penn) 6-2, tech. fall Conor Maslanak (Campbell) 16-0, tech. fall Cade Wilson (Brown) 16-0, was dec. by Levi Hopkins (Campbell) 3-2.

285
Samuel Aguilar bye, dec. Christian Carroll (Penn) 10-3, was maj. dec. by Ethan Laird (Rider) 12-4, lost my medical forfeit to Nathan Taylor (Lehigh).

Photos courtesy of Ricky Bassman / rickybassmanphotography.com