With all six of its seniors, and each of the four nationally ranked wrestlers in the lineup winning on Senior Night, ninth-ranked UW-Whitewater defeated UW-Platteville 42-6 Thursday night in Kachel Gym of Williams Center in Whitewater.  Whitewater improves to 21-7 in dual meets, UW-Platteville 7-12.

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UW-Whitewater , UW-Platteville (match began with 125 pound bout)
125: Grant Sutter (Dodgeville/Dodgeville), WW, won by forfeit
133: Jake Fredrickson, WW, won by forfeit
141: Brian Lewis (Verona/Verona), WW, def. Emeric Williams, UWP, 10-2
149: Zach Fisher, UWP, won by forfeit
157: Corey Schmidt (Homewood, IL/Homewood Flossmoor), WW, def. Peter Crocco, UWP, 8-3
165: Cedric Gibson (Plainfield, IL/Plainfield), WW def. Shawn Flom, UWP 13-6
174: Reid Dickerson (Indianapolis, IN/North Central), WW,  pinned Quinn Sedlak, UWP at 1:26
184: David Dwyer (Rockton, IL/Hononegah), WW def. Abe Graziano, UWP, 19-9
197: Adam Latella (Rockton, IL/Hononegah),WW, def. Nick Martin, UWP, 22-7
HWT: Corey Anderson (Rockton, IL/Hononegah), WW def. Bryant Etherton, UWP, 25-9

Fans that took their time parking or getting into the gym might have been surprised to see Whitewater already ahead  12-0 five minutes after the meet was supposed to start.  Platteville forfeited at 125, where Whitewater's Grant Sutter (Dodgeville/Dodgeville) picked up the win to move to 8-0 on the season, and 133, where Whitewater's Jake Fredrickson is ranked sixth with a 25-2 record.

Brian Lewis (Verona/Verona), the first senior in action for Whitewater, raised his record to 15-13 with a 10-2 win over Emeric Williams at 141.  Lewis led 4-2 after one period and 5-2 after two. 

The only points Platteville earned came when Whitewater forfeited at 149, with Platteville's Zach Fisher picking up the win to improve to 5-13.  Whitewater led 16-6.

Corey Schmidt (Homewood, IL/Homewood Flossmoor) defeated Peter Crocco 8-3 at 157 to up Whitewater's lead to 18-6.  Schmidt led 2-1 after one and 4-1 after the second period.  At 165 pounds Whitewater's Cedric Gibson (Plainfield, IL/Plainfield), ranked tenth in Division III, and Platteville's Shaun Flom battled for every point through two periods.  Flom held a 2-0 lead after the first, Gibson cut it to 2-1 at 1:52 in the second, tied it 2-2 at 1:28, and took his first lead 4-2 with 0:48 left in the second.  Gibson was up 4-3 at the end of the period.  The nip-and-tuck (no capitals, not the TV show) nature of the first two periods went out the window in the third, as Gibson scored as many points in the final period as the two wrestlers did combined in the first two.   The two decisions at 157 and 165 gave Whitewater a 22-6 lead.

Reid Dickerson (Indianapolis, IN/North Central)'s pin of Quinn Sedlak at 174, his fourth of the season, increased Whitewater's lead to 28-6.  Dickerson started slowly, leading 2-1 after the first period, but didn't need a third period.

UW-W's David Dwyer (Rockton, IL/Hononegah), ranked seventh, moved his season mark to 21-6 with a 19-9 major decision over Abe Graziano at 184.  Dwyer took control with a 10-5 lead in the first period and upped that to 14-6 after two.   Whitewater's lead was 32-6.  At 197 Adam Latella (Rockton, IL/Hononegah) took an 8-3 lead after one, increased that to 13-4, and ended the match with a technical fall, 22-7 at 7:00 for a 37-6 Whitewater lead.  Corey Anderson (Rockton, IL/Hononegah) at 285 pounds, number three in Division III, ended the evening with a 25-9 technical fall at 5:47. 

Whitewater will host the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association Division III Championship Sunday, February 26 beginning at 10:00.

For additional information, Tim Fader, UW-W coach

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