The dual season is almost over and spots at Dual State have been decided. The only thing left is to determine the seedings.

The west side will be determined this week. No. 4 Midwest City wrestles No. 5 Del City and the outcome will determine the top two seeds. Thursday, Norman North will host unranked Westmoore and that will determine the three and four seeds.

The east side seeds have not been finalized, either. The qualifying teams include No. 1 Broken Arrow, No. 2 Ponca City, No. 3 Union and No. 8 Sapulpa.

NHS falls

Norman High wrestled at Yukon Monday and lost 57-13. The dual was originally scheduled for Dec. 13, but was postponed due to weather.

It was a district dual, but the district had already been decided. NHS took the dual lightly, resting several starters and forfeiting six weights. Only Zach Russell at 103, Joe Springfield at 140, Tony Stanfield at 171 and Jack Jewell at heavyweight won matches. The Tigers will wrestle at Carl Albert Thursday and will host Piedmont next Tuesday to end the dual season. Piedmont will also be Senior Night.

Norman North was scheduled to wrestle Tuesday at Edmond Santa Fe, but the dual was canceled because the Wolves were hosting rescheduled basketball games.

Sooners move up

Oklahoma moved up one spot from 18th to 17th in Tuesday’s USA Today/Intermat top 25. Oklahoma is 11-3 (0-2 Big 12) and will host unranked Arizona State (9-5) at 7 p.m. Friday at Howard McCasland Field House.

Iowa remained No. 1. while Nebraska was second and Oklahoma State third. Iowa State is ninth and Missouri 11th.

Ranked OU wrestlers include No. 13 Brian Shelton at 133, No. 15 Zach Bailey at 141, No. 13 Will Rowe at 149, No. 20 Chad Perry at 157, No. 7 Josh Weitzel at 184 and No. 5 Joel Flaggert at 197.

Scott Moore

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