Heavyweight David Coffey made a strong entrance into the 2009-10 season collecting four falls and leading Campbellsville University wrestling to its first tournament win of the season Saturday at the Ohio Northern University Tournament. Coffey collected the most falls of the tournament and finished fourth in the tournament.

CU collected 118 points, followed by Limestone with 111 and host Ohio Northern was third with 109.5 points.

At weight 174, national qualifier Bryan Wells finished third. However, CU did not gain team points for the finish, as Wells was listed on Campbellsville's second team. Phillip Oudhuis was fifth in the weight class as a member of CU's first team

Spencer Adams placed third at 184 pounds with 3-2 decision in the consolation match .

Nick Waldrop reached the finals at 149 pounds to face Mitch Smith of West Liberty. Smith is ranked No. 3 in NCAA Division II. Waldrop wrestled well but dropped a 8-7 decision and suffered his first loss of the year at 149 pounds.

Pretty also wrestled a ranked NCAA II wrestler in the finals and also could not come away with the victory. He dropped a 5-4 decision in the finals.  

In all, Campbellsville had 12 wrestlers place in the tournament and the team finished ahead of a number of ranked NCAA division II and III schools. MSC teams Cumberland and Lindsey Wilson also competed with Cumberland finishing 7th and Lindsey placing outside the top 10.

"I'm very happy for our team to win this tournament," said James. "This is a very strong finish to the first half of our season and sends us into the Christmas break in a positive way.  

"We will now take some time off to focus on final exams this week and then get back to work over the break to prepare for the Midwest Classic and the National Duels in January."
 
Cambellsville Results from ONU Invite:
 
125 - Dee Leavell 1-2

133 - Tommy Pretty 2nd place

133 - Daphilo Success 4th place

133 - Tyler Powers 7th place

141 - Matt David 7th place

141 - Jacob Murton 2-1

149 - Nick Waldrop 2nd place

149 - Brandon Sellers 0-2

157 - Conor Young 0-2

165 - James Linker 5th place

174 - Bryan Wells 3rd place

174 - Phillip Oudhuis 5th place

184 - Spencer Adams 3rd place

197- Diante Wright 4th place

197 - Allen Scruggs 8th place

285 - David Coffey 4th place, and he won the most falls in the least amount of time award.