Storylines
• Augustana (12-5, 5-2 NSIC) finishes their regular season at No. 6 Upper Iowa (14-1-1, 6-0 NSIC) on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 2 p.m.
• The Vikings are coming off a 26-15 win at MSU Moorhead on Wednesday night.
• Upper Iowa boasts five wrestlers ranked in the top eight of the weight class in the newest NCAA rankings.
• The Peacocks take on No. 3 St. Cloud State one day before hosting the Vikings in both teams' season finale
• Augustana will shift their focus to the Super Region 3 Championships in Edmond, Okla. on Feb. 28 and March 1 after they conclude the regular season.
Up next
• The Vikings will travel to the NCAA Super Region 3 championships in Edmond, Okla., hosted by Central Oklahoma, on Feb. 28 and March 1
• The top five in each weight class will advance to the NCAA Championships in Cleveland, Ohio on March 14-15.
Scouting the Peacocks
• Upper Iowa enters the weekend with a 14-1-1 and the No. 6 ranking in the NCAA Division II Wrestling rankings.
• In NSIC duals, the Peacocks are 6-0 and tied for the lead with St. Cloud State.
• On Saturday, Feb. 15, Upper Iowa and No. 3 SCSU will face off for the NSIC championship.
• Five Peacocks are individually ranked in the latest NCAA Division II Wrestling rankings.
• A pair of UIU wrestlers own the No. 2 ranking in their weight class with just one Division-II loss between the two.
• 149-pounder Edwin Cooper owns a 34-2 mark and Carl Broghammer sports a 33-2 mark.
• Blake Sorensen is ranked No. 5 at 184 pounds with a 13-5 record, but with just five bouts against Division II wrestlers.
• Heaveyweight Logan Hopp is ranked sixth with a 26-11 record.
• The fifth wrestler ranked for Upper Iowa is 165-pound Dalton Westerlund at No. 8 with a 18-13 overall record.
• Series: Augustana trails 1-6 in the all-time series with Upper Iowa, with the first meeting in 2008.
• Augustana's lone win came in 2011 by way of a 29-8 victory in Sioux Falls.
• On the road, the Vikings are 0-3 against the Peacocks losing a pair of bouts by one point.
• In conference duals, the Vikings are 1-4 since the Vikings joined the NSIC for the 2008-09 season.
• Upper Iowa has won the last two meetings, including last years 21-15 win in the Elmen Center.
Vikings defeat MSU Moorhead for 10th straight time on Wednesday
• Augustana improved to 12-5 on the season with a 25-16 win at MSU Moorhead on Wednesday night.
• The Viking victory secured their 10th consecutive win over the Dragons and a 14-1 all-time mark.
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TJ North and
Morgan Engbrecht secured decision wins to start the Vikings off on the right foot.
• Responding quickly after MSUM tied the match on a pin,
Shawn Hatlestad recorded his fastest pin of the season, taking down his opponent in 56 seconds.
• Hatlestad's pin sparked two more big wins for the Viking, beginning with
Bradyn Neises' decision win at 157 pounds
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Parker Swanson then notched his third major decision win of the season, shutting out his opponent 10-0.
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Sean Derry and
Jayd Docken then closed the door on MSUM with convincing decision wins.
Book of Jeremiah
• Making his debut for the 2013-14 season,
Jeremiah Peterson certainly wasted no time getting back to work.
• Peterson, who wrestled at 133 pounds last season, jumped up to 141 pounds and took down the No. 4 ranked wrestler.
• With an 8-7 win, Peterson made his return known nationwide, toppling the fourth-ranked 141-pounder, Matt Nelson.
• Peterson was held out of competition at the start of the season due to injury before making his debut on Friday.
• Peterson opened the season as the third-ranked 133-pound wrestler in the NSIC.
• A junior from Canton, S.D., Peterson posted a 15-12 overall record in 2013, 8-7 against Division II opponents.
• As a redshirt freshman, Peterson finished the season with a 10-4 record with two NSIC dual wins.
Docken doing work
• In the 2013-14, junior
Jayd Docken has put up a 13-1 record after starting the season injured.
• Making his debut against Northwestern (Iowa), Docken opened the season with seven straight wins.
• Docken opened the season ranked No. 5 at 197 pounds then moved up to No. 4 for a week before suffering his first loss of the year at the Ranger Duals on Jan. 18.
• Against then-No. 15 McKendree, Docken lost a 3-2 decision to current No. 4 Julian Smith.
• Since his lone defeat, Docken has reeled off five consecutive wins, but faces tough task in the season finale.
• Docken will be pitted against Upper Iowa's Carl Broghammer who is ranked second in the nation at 197 pounds.
• In their only matchup, Broghammer defeated Docken with a 9-1 major decision last season.
Youth group growing up
• Augustana's lineup features three sophomores and four freshmen that are vital to the Vikings' success this year.
• Soph.
TJ North has put together a stellar season with a record of 25-3 and has risen to the No. 4 ranking at 125 pounds.
• Redshirt freshmen
Morgan Engbrecht has filled in admirably at 133 pounds with a 16-10 record and despite a revolving door at 174 pounds,
Drake Fanslau owns a 14-14 record showing well against ranked opponents.
• Redshirt freshman
Michael Lowman has become a tall task, literally and figuratively, in the NSIC at 285 pounds.
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Jacob Anderson (RFr) owns a 20-8 record and broke the Augustana record for reversals scored with 17 on the season.
• In arguably the toughest weight class in the NSIC, sophomore
Shawn Hatlestad owns a 16-8 record at 149 pounds.
North moves up to No. 3 while Vikings fall out of top 20
• Led by a 14-0 Division II record
TJ North jumped up one more spot to No. 3 in the 125-pound NCAA Division II Wrestling rankings released on Wednesday.
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Jayd Docken has his No. 5 spot at 197 pounds on lockdown, owning a 13-1 overall mark with his lone loss to the No. 4 wrestler in his weight class.
• After two weeks at No. 17 in the top 20 team rankings, Augustana fell out of the team rankings and back into the receiving votes section of the poll.
Vikings hit double-digit wins for fifth straight year
• Augustana's 30-10 win over Minnesota State on Jan. 25 the Vikings reached 10 wins for the fifth straight season.
• Under head coach
Jason Reitmeier, the Vikings have reached double-digit wins seven times now.
• Augustana has twice reached 14 wins under Reitemeier, posting 14-2 records in both 2004-05 and 2010-11.
The coach
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Jason Reitmeier is in his 11th season as the head coach of the Augustana wrestling program.
• Reitmeier owns a career record of 117-57 in dual meets (41-22 in conference duals) which ranks second at Augustana
• Reitimeier's winning percentage of .671 is the second-highest in Augustana history and his conference percentage is first.
• Reitmeier has coached two conference championship teams, two region championship teams and led seven teams to top-10 finishes at the NCAA Tournament while coaching 43 All-Americans at Augustana
• Assisting Reitmeier is two-time Augustana national champion
Tom Meester and Nate Buys.
• Both in their second year, former Augustana standouts Chism Fink and Gavin Nelson are graduate assistants.
• Mike Long, Al Meger, Brent Henriksen, and Cody Henriksen all volunteer on the Viking staff.
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