Shane Seifert, second in the National Wrestling Coaches Association Division III rankings, won the 197 pound title Saturday at the Wisconsin Open hosted by UW-Parkside.

Complete Results

Seifert opened the tournament with a 15-0 technical fall over Javier Marquez of North Central College.  Siefert followed with another tech fall, this time 16-1 over Nick Countryman of Elmhurst College.  In the weight class championship match Siefert pinned Kenneth Hayden of the University of Michigan in 3:17 to win the 197 pound crown.

UW-W's Matt Adcock (Bloomingdale, IL/Lake Park) also advanced to the title match in his class at 141.  Adcock defeated Blake Tisza of Harper Community College 4-3 in round one.  He earned a place in the final with an 8-1 win over Adam Yde of UW-Parkside.  Adcock was pinned in 1:43 by Jameson Oster of Northwestern in their weight class championship.

Ryan Aprahamian (Mukwonago/Mukwonago) earned fourth place in the 184 class in the meet.  Aprahamian's first match was a 6-0 win over Daniel Threlkeld of Elmhurst.  In the second round he was edged by Mitch Silga of Northwestern 6-4.  Aprahamian came back with a pin in 4:27 of Vincent Pizzo of North Central, then followed up with a 1-0 win over Ayoola Olapo of Michigan and a 6-0 decision over Josh Anthony of UW-Parkside.  In the third place match Jacob Berkowitz of Northwestern topped Aprahamian 4-3.

Conrad Bugay (Palatine, IL/Hersey) was one of two Warhawks that had six matches Saturday.  Bugay went to the 125 pound lower bracket after a 7-5 loss to Jake Bellis of Harper in his opener.  Bugay followed up with a 3-2 win over Thomas Angsten of Triton Community College, a 13-6 win over Trayvon Zabala, unattached, and then pinned Elmhurst's Tyler Price in 5:18.  Bugay then lost a 5-0 decision to Bellis, and was pinned in 3:23 by Nicholas Santos of North Central in the fifth place match. 

The other Warhawk with the especially busy day was Jimmy Nehls (Downers Grove, IL/North) who, like Bugay, earned sixth place at 133 pounds with six matches.  Nehls was edged 5-4 by Layten Binion of North Central in round one.  Nehls followed that with three consecutive wins, pinning Jameel Carter of Triton Community College in 5:39, then topping George Fisher, unattached, 2-1, and concluding the streak with a pin in 2:23 of Dominic Boggia of North Central.  The victory string ended with a 7-2 loss to Javier Gasca of Michigan State.  Nehls had to medically forfeit his final match of the day.

There were no team scores kept in the tournament. 

UW-Whitewater, ranked ninth in the NWCA poll, will take to the mat Wednesday, December 11 at 7:00 at UW-Eau Claire.  The next home competition for UW-W will be Friday the 13th with UW-Oshkosh visiting for a 7:00 start in Williams Center.


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