FHSU Sports Information Department<\/p>\n
The 18th-ranked Fort Hays State wrestling team looks to pick up its first dual win of the season on Thursday (Jan. 12) when they welcome Colorado Mines to Gross Memorial Coliseum at 7 pm. The Tigers are currently 0-2 to kick off the 2016-17 dual season, while the Orediggers enter at 2-1 overall.<\/p>\n
Leading the way for FHSU is the combination of redshirt-freshmen Brandon Ball and Christian Lance. Ball, who is the No. 7 wrestler at 141 pounds, currently sits second on the team in wins after putting together a 19-3 start to the season. Lance, the No. 9 heavyweight wrestler in the nation, leads the team in wins with a record of 26-3.<\/p>\n
Another redshirt-freshman who has seen success in the FHSU lineup this season is 157-pounder Greg Tooley. Tooley has put together a solid showing his first varsity season with an overall record of 9-1.<\/p>\n
The Orediggers have one ranked wrestler on their squad this season in the likes of 149-pounder Jacob Gerkin, who is slotted ninth-best in the nation with a 7-4 record.<\/p>\n
Below are projected lineups for both teams.<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State<\/strong> Colorado Mines<\/strong> FHSU Sports Information Department The 18th-ranked Fort Hays State wrestling team looks to pick up its first dual win of the season on Thursday (Jan.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7349,784],"tags":[10567,4714,1987,106,103],"class_list":["post-30465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-wrestling","tag-tigerpride","tag-colorado-school-of-mines","tag-fhsu-wrestling","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30467,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465\/revisions\/30467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n125 \u2013 Conrad Cole, Fr. (9-10)
\n133 \u2013 Matt Mejia, Fr. (2-1)
\n141 \u2013 #7 Brandon Ball, R-Fr. (19-3)
\n149 \u2013 Jacob Kay, Jr. (13-8)
\n157 \u2013 Greg Tooley, R-Fr. (9-1)
\n165 \u2013 Kyler Mick, Fr. (0-1)
\n174 \u2013 Micquille Robinson, R-So. (17-10)
\n184 \u2013 Rakim Dean, Jr. (16-9)
\n197 \u2013 Austin Brandt, Fr. (10-7)
\n285 \u2013 #9 Christian Lance, R-Fr. (26-3)<\/p>\n
\n125- Matt Lavengood
\n133- Noah Au-Yeung
\n141- Lukas Erickson
\n149- #9 Jacob Gerken
\n157- Ethan Ruby
\n165- Keenan Willits
\n174- Robert Gambrell
\n184- Ben Krantz or Anthony Spallino
\n197- Brandon Saunders
\n285- Jake Feldman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"