No. 5 Buckeyes Open 2025 vs. Oregon State Sunday

No. 5 Ohio State vs. Oregon State
Time: 1 p.m.
Date: Sunday, Jan. 5
Venue: Covelli Center (4,185)
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Rosters: Ohio State | Oregon State
Match Notes: Ohio State | Oregon State

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- No. 5 Ohio State (7-0) opens the 2025 portion of the dual schedule at home Sunday against Oregon State (1-3) at the Covelli Center. Match time is set for 1 p.m. with B1G+ providing the live stream.

Ohio State and Oregon State have met eight times in the series history with each team earning four victories. The Beavers own 22-16 wins in the two most recent meetings, the last at Nebraska Dec. 9, 2000. The Buckeyes won the last meeting in Columbus Dec. 10, 1994 by the score of 24-11.
Freshmen Ben Davino (133) and e'Than Birden (165) each finished with a trip to the podium at the 2024 Midlands Championships before the calendar switched to 2025. Davino claimed third with a 5-1 record while Birden took seventh at 5-2 at the event.
Ohio State's list of Black Shirts grew by two after Nic Bouzakis and Brendan McCrone earned the distinction Dec. 19, 2024. The duo became the 19th and 20th Black Shirts in program history. There are nine current Buckeyes who have earned Black Shirt status. For more on the honor see the final two pages of these notes.
The Buckeyes went 3-0 at the 2024 Collegiate Duals in Nashville Dec. 21 with wins over No. 21 North Carolina, Lock Haven and No. 14 Iowa State.
Graduate Carson Kharchla returned to action after a year away with injury. He won all three of his bouts at 174 at the 2024 Collegiate Duals.
After trailing 14-0 at Pittsburgh, the Buckeyes won five of the final six bouts to win 20-17. Brendan McCrone started the rally with an 8-0 major decision victory before wins by Nic Bouzakis (133), Jesse Mendez (141), Dylan D'Emilio (149) and Paddy Gallagher (157) brought Ohio State from down 0-14 to up 20-14.
Jesse Mendez claimed the title at 141 Dec. 7 at the 2024 Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite. Mendez went 3-0 with wins over No. 8 Joshua Koderhandt of Navy and No. 17 Latona Alabaster of Virgina Tech for the title.

Lineup vs. the Beavers

Wt.	No. 5 Ohio State vs. Oregon State	OSU	Oregon St.
125	No. 6 Brendan McCrone (R-So.) vs. Maximo Renteria (R-Jr.)
133	No. 9 Nic Bouzakis (R-So.) vs. Damion Elliott (R-So.)
141	No. 2 Jesse Mendez (Jr.) vs. Krayle Stormer (R-Jr.)
149	No. 12 Dylan D'Emilio (Gr.) vs. Ayden Garver (R-So.)
157	No. 9 Paddy Gallagher (R-Jr.) vs. Christopher Hamblin (R-So.)/Ethan Stiles (R-Fr.)
165	No. 11 Sammy Sasso (Gr.)/Bryce Hepner (R-Sr.)vs. Murphy Menke (R-So.)
174	No. 11 Carson Kharchla (Gr.) vs. Sean Harman (Gr.)
184	No. 14 Ryder Rogotzke (So.) vs. TJ McDonnell (R-Fr.)
197	Seth Shumate (R-So.) vs. Vaun Halstead (R-Fr.)
HWT	No. 7 Nick Feldman (R-So.) vs. Brett Mower (R-Sr.)
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