Missouri Valley Invite | January 17-18, 2020 | Marshall, Missouri
285 Tanner Farmer (11-0) placed 1st and scored 29.0 team points.
- Champ. Round 1 - Tanner Farmer (Concordia (Neb.)) 11-0 won by fall over Noah Wilson (Lyon College) 6-8 (Fall 0:56)
- Champ. Round 2 - Tanner Farmer (Concordia (Neb.)) 11-0 won by fall over Rylan Moldenhauer (Montana State-Northern) 8-13 (Fall 5:26)
- Champ. Round 3 - Tanner Farmer (Concordia (Neb.)) 11-0 won by fall over Dalton Sikes (Ottawa University) 18-6 (Fall 0:34)
- Quarterfinal - Tanner Farmer (Concordia (Neb.)) 11-0 won by decision over
Gage Johnson (Oklahoma City) 4-2 (Dec 8-1)
- Semifinal - Tanner Farmer (Concordia (Neb.)) 11-0 won by decision over Justin Harbison (Providence (Mont.)) 6-4 (Dec 4-3)
- 1st Place Match - Tanner Farmer (Concordia (Neb.)) 11-0 won by medical forfeit over
Shawn Beeson (Graceland University) 10-3 (M. For.)
Back-to-back tournament titles have led to back-to-back GPAC awards for standout heavyweight Tanner Farmer. The native of Highland, Ill., won the 285-pound title at last week's Missouri Valley Invite.
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"In his short career with the Bulldogs, Farmer has already notched tournament titles at the Hastings Cusatis Open and the Missouri Valley Invite. In the latest tournament, the native of Highland, Ill., went 6-0, recorded three pins and was credited with
four victories over NAIA nationally-ranked opponents:
No. 2 Shawn Beeson of Graceland University (Iowa),
No. 3 Gage Johnson of Oklahoma City University, No. 6 Justin Harbison of University of Providence (Mont.) and No. 18 Dalton Sikes of Ottawa University (Kan.).
Ranked 13th in the NAIA at 285 pounds, Farmer is now 11-0 since joining Concordia for the second semester. He is a former Nebraska Cornhusker starting offensive lineman and spent this past fall as a volunteer assistant for head coach Patrick Daberkow’s Bulldog football staff."
With at least a share of the GPAC regular-season title already in hand, the 20th-ranked Bulldogs will host Dakota Wesleyan and York on Thursday in a triangular. Concordia hopes to wrap up the outright
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Tanner Farmer bumped his season record to 12-0 by earning a major decision over Briar Cliff’s Matthew Wilke.