Sophomore Shane Webster (top) is the top-ranked Duck in his weight class, ranked as high as No. 11 at 174.
A perfect 4-0 record in the Pacific-10 Conference puts Oregon as one of two teams to go undefeated in Pac-10 play this season.
The Ducks have wins against Oregon State, Portland State, Stanford and California-Davis for their undefeated conference record.
Leading Oregon along its way are four Ducks — two sophomores and two seniors — who, between three national polls, appear in the top 20 rankings for their respective weight classes.
The top-ranked Duck, sophomore Shane Webster, is ranked in all three polls. The Wrestling Mall puts Webster at No. 13, while both W.I.N. Magazine and Amateur Wrestling News have Webster sitting at No. 11.
Sophomore Martin Mitchell is ranked No. 20, by W.I.N. Magazine, in the 125 weight class.
At 141, senior Casey Hunt is ranked No. 19 by The Wrestling Mall.
Fellow senior Tony Overstake, at 149, is ranked No. 17 by W.I.N. Magazine and Amateur Wrestling News.
Weekend warriors ranked
Boise State, Oregon’s Pac-10 opponent Friday night, comes to McArthur Court ranked No. 17 by W.I.N. Magazine and No. 22 by The Wrestling Mall.
Five Broncos are ranked by The Wrestling Mall in the top 20 at their weight class. Four seniors — Ben VomBaur at 125, Gabe Vigil at 141, Collin Robertson at 149 and Boe Rushton at heavyweight — are in the top 10. VomBaur is No. 3 and Robertson is No. 5, while both Vigil and Rushton sit at No. 7. Junior Tony D’Amico, at 184, is ranked No. 18.
Arizona State visits Eugene on Sunday as the highest-ranked Pac-10 team. Ranked No. 7 by W.I.N. Magazine and No. 10 by The Wrestling Mall, the Sun Devils are 9-5 in dual meet competition, with two wins coming against conference opponents.
Redshirt senior Erik Larkin leads the way for the Sun Devils, ranked No. 1 by The Wrestling Mall at the 149 weight class. Two more redshirt seniors join Larkin in the top five, with heavyweight Kellan Fluckiger at No. 4 and Dana Holland at No. 5.
Two Sun Devils sit at No. 8 in their weight class, redshirt junior Nick Frost at 165 and redshirt senior Curtis Owen at 174. Another redshirt senior, Mike Simpson, is ranked No. 9 at the 133 weight class.
What’s the score?
For an idea of how to score a wrestling match, it must first be understood that there are two different aspects to score.
The different weight class matches have a score, and from those scores, a meet score — and winning team — can be translated.
Each of the 10 weight classes has a match between two wrestlers. The wrestlers score points by earning takedowns on their opponents and escaping when they suffer a takedown, among other things.
At the end of each weight class, a score is added to the team total. If a wrestler earns a victory by defeating his opponent in points, it is a three-point decision. If the wrestler outscores his opponent by 8-14 points, he earns a four-point major decision for his team.
If a wrestler pins his opponent, he earns six points for his team. If the opposing team forfeits a match, the wrestler also earns six points.
Mindi Rice is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.