Oshkosh, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse wrestling team, ranked third on the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Top-25 Poll, opened its Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) schedule with a 57-0 victory at UW-Oshkosh Thursday night in Kolf Sports Center. The Eagles improve to 4-0 overall.

UW-Oshkosh drops to 0-4 overall and 0-2 in the conference.

With the win, UWL improves to 84-9 all-time in WIAC duals under head coach Dave Malecek. The Eagles have won their last 13 league duals. 

The Eagles won seven matches by fall on Thursday night and three by technical fall. Ino Garcia opened the dual with a win by fall (:53) over JP Culver at 125-pounds. Teague Holzer followed with a technical fall (21-5, 6:36) at 133-pounds over the Titans' Andrew Schad. 

Talan Schutte and Kaiden Schrandt earned back-to-back victories by fall at 141 and 149. Schutte defeated Logan Harel at 141 (:52) and Schrandt defeated Logan Andrews at 149 (2:49). 

At 157-pounds, UWL's Cole Hansen won by technical fall (20-3, 5:00) over Jacob Hibbard. Tyler Goebel, ranked second in the NWCA, followed with a win by fall (1:05) over Ryan Bergman at 165.

UWL's Eddie Simes earned the victory by technical fall (21-6, 2:31) at 174-pounds followed by Tyler Dormanen winning by fall (2:38) over Vincent Bird at 184. 

Ben Kawczynski and Michael Douglas completed the shutout with wins by fall. Kawczynski defeated Desmond Walker at 197-pounds (2:15) while Douglas, ranked first in the country, won by fall (2:07) over Garth Martell at 285-pounds.

UWL returns to action Saturday, November 23 at the Concordia University Wisconsin Invitational at 9 a.m. and in a WIAC dual versus UW-Platteville at 5 p.m. at Mukwonago High School.