STEVENS POINT, Wis.- Caidan Ronning (Plano, Ill./Plano) posted four wins on his way to the first-place match of the 157-pound gold bracket during the UW-Stevens Point Pointer Open on Saturday (Nov. 7).
 
UW-Oshkosh added four podium finishers to Ronning's eventual second-place finish with Nash Burke (Munster, Ind./Munster) in third place of the 125-pound silver bracket, Ryan Hanson (McHenry, Ill./McHenry Community) in fourth place of the 133-pound gold bracket, Garrett Fuller (Vincennes, Ind./North Knox Junior-Senior) in fifth place of the 184-pound silver bracket and Garth Martell (Oshkosh/Oshkosh West) in sixth place in the 285-pound gold bracket.
 
Ronning opened his day with a 15-0 technical fall win over Ben Messier from Milwaukee School of Engineering and pinned Carthage College's Joey Barnett at 2:27 to reach the quarterfinal round. He reached the semifinal by defeating Brady Schiffli from Manchester University (Ind.) with a 9-3 decision and advanced to the championship match with a default win at 2:45 against Stevens Point's Deakin Trotzer. Myles Leggett, wrestling unattached, won over Ronning by 14-5 major decision for the bracket's title.
 
Burke won a 17-7 major decision over Keaton Wittrock from Stevens Point before falling to the consolation bracket after dropping a tight 2-1 decision to Concordia College's (Minn.) Hunter Mars. He then won a 7:00 fall over Pointer Pedro Estrada, a 7-6 decision over Reece Moore from UW-Whitewater and an 8-4 decision over Warhawk Chase Heimerman to reach the third-place match where he defeated Maryville University's (Mo.) Kyntrell Ellis in another 1-point decision.
 
Hanson defeated Aurora's Kevin Bustillos by fall in 4:52 after receiving a first-round bye but dropped a 6-5 loss to Nasir Christion from Manchester. He then posted a 9-8 victory over Donovin Fields from Elmhurst and earned a spot in the third-place match where he lost, 4-2, to Kaleb Salazaar from Manchester.
 
Fuller was pinned by Concordia's Grady Weinbrenner in the opening round and won by 18-2 technical fall over Nathan Lenz-Messman (Menasha/Menasha) following a bye before earning another technical fall win (20-2) over Dallas Godby from Manchester. Fuller was pinned in two minutes by Weinbrenner in the pair's second meeting of the day to send him to the fifth-place match where he won over Carter Bighley from Stevens Point by fall at 5:35.
 
Rounding out the Titans' place winners, Martell lost by 9-2 decision to Tanner Gormanson from UW-Parkside in his first match. He then had a bye and won, 2-0, against Sam Costello from Elmhurst and pinned another Bluejay at 2:20 before Gormanson beat him for a second time and he dropped a 7-2 decision to Luke Chrisse from North Central College (Ill.) in the fifth-place match.
 
JP Culver (Vicksburg, Mich./Vicksburg Community) opened the 125-pound gold bracket with an 11-2 major decision over Maryville University's (Mo.) Diego Barajas before losing the next two by technical fall to Joey Sikorsky from North Central and major decision to MSOE's Lane Anderson.
 
Nick Jenkins (Kaukauna/Kaukauna) posted a pair of wins by decision in his second and third matches of the 141-pound gold bracket, defeating Kayden Serrano from Carthage by an 8-5 score and unattached wrestler Jake Buss by a 4-1 tally.
 
After dropping his first match of the day, Leonardo Ruggiero (Rome, Italy/Madison West) defeated Joe Beavers (Hustisford/Hustisford) by 4-2 decision and Sebastian Clark from Southeastern Community College (Iowa) by 8-2 decision to reach the fourth round of the 149-pound silver consolation bracket, where he fell to North Central's Caden Chiarelli by 14-3 major decision.
 
At 165 pounds in the silver bracket, Jamond Thompson (Oshkosh/Oshkosh North) picked up a win by pinning Noah DeMarco from Augustana College (Ill.) in 4:06. He did not wrestle in his two losses.
 
Jack Gillis (New Berlin/New Berlin) won his first match in the 174-pound gold bracket, defeating Aurora's Clayton McKee by 22-4 technical fall before dropping a 5-4 decision to Pointer Caden Young and medically forfeiting to Parkside's Nolan Skebba.
 
In the 184-pound silver bracket, Lenz-Messman earned an 8-2 victory over Jack Helsdon from Elmhurst in his first match. He then lost by fall and technical fall in his next two matches.
 
Teague Smith (Fort Madison, Iowa/Fort Madison) joined Lenz-Messman in the 184-pound silver bracket and bounced back from a first-round loss to Concordia's Cameren Champagne by pinning Justice Goree from Manchester at 4:07 and outscoring Melvin Hunter from Whitewater by 22-13 major decision.
 
The Titans head south for their next meet, competing in the Millikin University (Ill.) Invitational next Saturday (Nov. 14). The first matches are set to begin at 9 a.m.