OREGON CITY – Casey Coulter (Grants Pass, Ore./Grants Pass) and Travis Patrick (Castle Rock, Wash./Castle Rock) made the finals of their respective weight brackets, highlighting 11 wrestlers who placed for the second-ranked Southern Oregon wrestling team Sunday at the Clackamas Open.

Coulter, a freshman from Grants Pass, won tight 125-pound decisions over Warner Pacific's Josh Johnson in the quarterfinals (4-3) and in the semifinals over Oregon State's Ronnie Stevens (5-2) before dropping an 8-2 championship decision to Arizona State's Mikel Perales.

Patrick advanced to the 157-pound final with two wins – pinning Washington State's Bailey Poitra in 4:50 and defeating North Idaho's Kit Major, 5-2. He lost, 12-3, against North Idaho's Tyler McLean in the finals.

Ryan McWatters (Hesperia, Calif./Sultana) placed third at 184 and Nick Morgan (Hood River, Ore./Hood River Valley) did the same at 197, while James Bowers (Grants Pass, Ore./North Valley) (157), Brock Crocker (Sweet Home, Ore./Sweet Home) (165) and Alejandro Sandoval (Canby, Ore./Canby) (285) were fourth. Four Raiders took sixth: Tanner Canaday (Myrtle Point, Ore./Myrtle Point) (149), Cody Jones (Dallas, Ore./Dallas) (175), Tanner Fischer (Oregon City, Ore./Oregon City) (184) and Bradley Hyatt (Grants Pass, Ore./Hidden Valley) (197).

Twenty-seven different schools were represented at the tournament, though team scores were not yet available at the time of this release.

McWatters went 6-1 on the day, losing only a 3-2 overtime decision against Oregon State's Corey Griego in the first round. He came back with a first-round pin of Douglas College's Ajay Gill; a 19-4 technical fall over Montana Western's Jon Wiley; a 4-2 decision against Clackamah's Haszell West; a 5-0 decision against Fraser Valley's Jasmit Phulka; a 10-4 decision against Southwest Oregon's Ismael Rubio; and a 6-0 decision against Simon Frasier's Josh Kim for third.

Morgan, after dropping his first match, won two straight consolation bouts with first-round pins of Highline's Sean McAlhaney and North Idaho's William Marshall. He won the consolation semifinals against his teammate, Hyatt, 12-8, and recorded a third pin against Simon Frasier's Ben Smith for third.

Bowers won his first bout in the quarterfinals against Southwest Oregon's Adrian Lyons-Lopez, 7-5, and was pinned by McLean in the 157 semis before bouncing back with an 18-11 victory against Oregon State's Joseph Dematteo in the consolation semis.

Crocker had to win four times to place fourth at 165, defeating Washington State's Bryan La Pierre by fall, unattached Kiante Davis by 10-5 decision, Washington State's Brett Johnson by 6-1 decision, and Highline's Tyler Noon by 5-4 decision in the consolation semis before conceding an injury default in the third-place match. 

At heavyweight, Sandoval reeled off five straight wins, including the first three by fall, after a first-round loss put him in the consolation bracket. He pinned Central Washington's Trevonn Russell, South Puget Sound's Austin Carrell and Montana Western's James Eavenson. He won benefited from an injury default to reach the consolation semis, and there he notched an 8-0 major decision against Simon Frasier's Sean Molle. Mick Dougharity of Oregon State got him, 6-2, for third.

Among SOU's sixth-place finishers, Canaday had pins of Pacific's Keith Thomas and South Puget Sound's Tyler Johnston and a 12-9 decision of Warner Pacific's Jawayne Fambrough to reach the quarterfinals before getting pinned in the semis and defaulting the rest of the way. Jones reached the quarterfinals with a decision and a pin, lost in the semis, won two more in the consolation bracket and defaulted to sixth. Fischer advanced to the semis with two decisions and a pin before dropping three straight, and Hyatt had to win once to reach the semis before losing two and defaulting to sixth.