Oregon State Wrestlers Eager To 'Make A Name' At CKLV - FloWrestling
Oregon State has already been battle-tested against Iowa and Oklahoma State. Now the Beavers are taking on more top competition in Las Vegas.
Oregon State Wrestlers Eager To 'Make A Name' At CKLV
Oregon State has already been battle-tested against Iowa and Oklahoma State. Now the Beavers are taking on more top competition in Las Vegas.
Chris Pendleton always wanted to compete at two tournaments during his time as a college wrestler at Oklahoma State:
One was the Midlands, where the two-time national champion even offered to pay his own way as a senior in hopes of wrestling against the likes of post-graduate Joe Williams, a three-time NCAA champ at Iowa.
The other was the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational — perhaps better known as CKLV.
The fifth-year boss of the Beavers program spoke with FloWrestling about CKLV and various other topics while en route to the Portland airport on Wednesday morning.
As for Pendleton’s message to his team before they left Corvallis for Las Vegas?
“This is an opportunity to come and make a name for yourself.”
Vegas, Here We Come
As previously mentioned, Oregon State joins a who’s who of programs headed to ‘Sin City’ for this weekend’s Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.Asked if there are any of his wrestlers or weight classes he’s most looking forward to, Pendleton instead focuses on the opportunity in front of whomever takes the mat for the Beavers.
“This is a great chance to go make a name for yourself. Go get yourself in the high-end rankings. Go get yourself the media love and the highlights and the Instagram fame and all that.
“I think that CKLV definitely is the most NCAA-caliber tournament in the country,” said the man who never got the chance to experience it for himself as an athlete all those years ago.
Now leading his own team into the fray in Vegas, the message is simple:
“Be excited about the opportunity.”
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