#6 Men's Wrestling 3/5/2016 9:41:00 PM

Three Stars earn all-American nods

McCarty, Derek Sivertsen snag repeat all-American honors

Ricky McCarty finished 40-4 this season.

TOPEKA, Kan. – Oklahoma City University's Ricky McCarty, Derek Sivertsen and Korey Walker took all-American accolades in the NAIA wrestling championships Saturday at the Kansas Expocentre.
McCarty and Sivertsen became two-time NAIA all-Americans. McCarty, a junior from Lawton, Okla., finished fourth place at 165 pounds, while Walker, a freshman from Midwest City, Okla., picked up fourth at 285 pounds. Sivertsen, a junior from Moore, Okla., placed seventh at 174 pounds.
Fifth-ranked Oklahoma City scored 47 points to post a 13th-place finish in the team standings.
McCarty, the 2015 165-pound NAIA champion, fell to fourth-ranked Taylor Hodel of Dickinson State (N.D.) by pin in 6:57 in the third-place match. McCarty, ranked second at 165, whipped seventh-ranked Mike Nord from Jamestown (N.D.) 13-2 in the quarterfinals before losing to No. 3 Dallas Houchins of Grand View (Iowa) 3-2 in the semifinals. McCarty (40-4) routed sixth-ranked Sean Black of Campbellsville (Ky.) 16-0 to advance to the third-place bout.
Walker dropped the third-place match 3-2 to Missouri Valley's Gabi Musallum, ranked No. 1 among NAIA heavyweights. Walker, ranked 11th, prevailed over ninth-ranked Justin Smith of Missouri Valley 9-3 in the quarters. In the semis, third-ranked Taylor Komoely from Montana State-Northern edged Walker 4-2 in the first tiebreaker period. Walker nipped eighth-ranked Chico Adams of Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) to get to the third-place contest.
Sivertsen posted a 6-3 victory over Campbellsville's Chuck Sharon to snare seventh place at 174. Sivertsen (36-12) battled through the consolation rounds with three victories, the last of which was a 7-4 win over sixth-ranked Justin Lozano from Menlo (Calif.). Seventh-ranked Kevin Corbett from Doane (Neb.) pinned Sivertsen in 6:48 to put eighth-ranked Sivertsen in the seventh-place match.
Zach Skates fell short of becoming OCU's first four-time wrestling all-American. Skates, a senior from Broken Arrow, Okla., finished 1-2 in the tournament. Skates went 34-5 this season and 157-35 in his Stars career. Skates set the OCU career record for victories.
Sivertsen, his brother Cody Sivertsen and Jacob King from OCU became NAIA scholar-athlete award winners. In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach or sports information director, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status to qualify for this honor.
Derek Sivertsen maintains a 3.78 cumulative grade-point average majoring in accounting, while Cody Sivertsen, a senior from Moore, Okla., has a 3.65 GPA pursuing an education degree. King, a junior from Rio Rancho, N.M., has turned in a 3.67 GPA studying business administration and environmental studies. Cody Sivertsen finished his OCU career 104-68.
Results

NAIA Championships
At Topeka, Kan.
Kansas Expocentre
Team Standings
1. Grand View (Iowa), 210.0; 2. Montana State-Northern, 104.0; 3. Indiana Tech, 80.5; 4. Missouri Valley, 75.5; 5. Campbellsville (Ky.), 66.5; 6. Baker (Kan.), 57.5; 6. Doane (Neb.), 57.5; 8. Concordia (Neb.), 54.5; 8. Dickinson State, 54.5; 10. Southern Oregon, 52.0.
Also
13. Oklahoma City, 47.

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Players Mentioned

Jacob King: 174; 6' 1"; Junior

Ricky McCarty: 165; 6' 2"; Junior

Cody Sivertsen: 197; 6' 0"; Senior

Derek Sivertsen: 184; 5' 9"; Junior

Zach Skates: 157; 5' 9"; Senior

Korey Walker: 285; 5' 10"; Freshman

Players Mentioned

Jacob King
: 6' 1"; Junior
: 174

Ricky McCarty
: 6' 2"; Junior
: 165

Cody Sivertsen
: 6' 0"; Senior
: 197

Derek Sivertsen
: 5' 9"; Junior
: 184

Zach Skates
: 5' 9"; Senior
: 157

Korey Walker
: 5' 10"; Freshman
: 285