Whitewater, Wis. -- The UW-Whitewater wrestling team opened their Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference slate with a big team win over UW-Oshkosh. The Warhawks topped the Titans 38-9 in their first home dual of the 2025-26 campaign. 

UWW registered extra point victories in five of the first six matches of the dual. Brady Phelps (Schaumburg, Ill./Schaumburg) set the tone right off the bat in his first collegiate dual bout. The freshman needed just 2:41 to pin Oshkosh's JP Culver and give UWW a 6-0 lead. 

Jordan Rasof (Deerfield, Ill./Deerfield) and Justin Fortugno (Armonk, N.Y./Byram Hills) followed with back-to-back technical falls. Rasof added five points to the team total after topping Ryan Hanson 19-4 in 4:05. Fortugno, ranked tenth nationally, defeated Logan Harel at 141 pounds by a score of 22-5 in 5:15 to make it 16-0 in favor of UW-Whitewater. 

The Titans got on the board with a fall at 149 pounds. Jacob Ward took that bout over Lucio Morgan (Deerfield, Ill./Deerfield) in 4:12. 

Luke Swan (Woodridge, Ill./Downers Grove South) and Brayden Peet (Sycamore, Ill./Sycamore) responded for UWW at 157 and 165 pounds respectively. Swan defeated Oshkosh's Jacob Hibbard 16-1 while third-ranked Peet racked up the points to win by technical fall, 18-3, over Ryan Bergman. Oddly, both matches took exactly the same time, 4:51. Six bouts in, the Warhawks held a 26-6 advantage

At 174 pounds, Jermaine Butler (Homewood, Ill./Homewood-Flossmoor), ranked twelfth, sealed the team victory with a 13-6 decision over Nathan Lenz-Messman. 

Gavin Kohel (River Falls, Wis./River Falls) posted one of the most thrilling bouts of the evening. The junior, ranked 13th nationally, had a move that words do not do justice. The lightning fast takedown led to a pin of Garrett Fuller and a 36-6 Warhawk lead. 

UWO took the 197 pound weight class as Richie Amakiri topped Tyler Haydon (River Falls, Wis./River Falls) by 9-5 decision. Isaak Smith (Rockton, Ill./Hononegah) put the finishing touches on the dual with a 10-5 decision over Roman Martell for the 38-9 final. 

In addition to the conference dual, a second mat featured a number of extra matches. 
141: Grant Braskamp (Waupun, Wis./Waupun) (UWW) won by major decision over Wyatte Nicholson (UWO) 13-5
141: Cale Stonitsch (Shorewood, Ill./Minooka) (UWW) won by major decision Wyatte Nicholson (UWO) 17-5
157: Jack O'Connor (Chicago, Ill./Brother Rice) (UWW) won by decision over Dominick Girardin (UWO) 8-7
165: Logan DeFilippo (Burlington, Wis./Wilmot) (UWW) won by technical fall over Joseph Spizzirri (UWO) 17-2, 4:33
197: Hunter Coons (Minooka, Ill./Minooka Community) (UWW) won by fall over Desmond Walker (UWO) 3:58
285: Garth Martell (UWO) won by major decision over Hunter Szyskiewicz (Mukwonago, Wis./Mukwonago) 16-3
285: Camden Harms (UWO) won by fall over Owen Kooima (Waupun, Wis./Waupun) (UWW) 2:03
285: Anthony Soto (Gurnee, Ill./Warren Township) (UWW) won by fall over Brodie Driessen (WUO) 1:33