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Oklahoma State wrestling rolls past OU in Bedlam, remains undefeated ahead of Iowa clash
John Smith talks about Oklahoma State wrestling win vs. Iowa State
Oklahoma State wrestling coach John Smith talks about win vs. Iowa State
STILLWATER — Call it the Three Falls of Bedlam.
The Oklahoma State wrestling team opened Sunday’s Bedlam dual with three straight falls — one of the technical variety, and two of the flat-on-your-back kind — to ignite a dominant 34-9 victory over OU.
“The first three matches… it’s been awhile since I’ve seen that, just wham, bam, bam,” OSU coach John Smith said. “That’s the way to start. We’re 10 minutes into the dual and three matches are down.”
And just like that, it became crystal clear that the second-ranked Cowboys (14-0) were on their way to a 19th straight win over their Sooner rivals in a nearly full Gallagher-Iba Arena, only supplying a little extra juice to next week’s showdown with Iowa.
“It does a lot for a team, for sure,” said OSU redshirt freshman 141-pounder Tagen Jamison. “The energy the rest of the week for a dual like that, it’s gonna be great. It’s gonna be really helpful in practice, training-wise. I don’t think there’s a better week for us to end this week and go into next week wrestling Iowa.”
OSU needed less than a minute to score its first points, when 125-pound redshirt freshman Troy Spratley pinned OU freshman Conrad Hendriksen 1:03 into the match.
OSU super-senior Daton Fix, ranked third at 133 pounds, followed with a 21-5 technical fall early in the third period, and Jamison found himself taking the mat much earlier than he expected.
“Usually I have like 15 minutes to go through my routine,” the eighth-ranked 141-pounder said. “When Troy came running in the locker room, I was like, ‘Oh crap.’ So I had to hurry up and throw my singlet on and run out there, because I knew Daton was gonna run the score up pretty quick, too.”
The rushed preparation didn’t slow Jamison, who turned an early takedown into a pin just 54 seconds into the match.
The Cowboys added a major decision at 157 pounds, then two more technical falls in the upper weights.
OSU’s Teague Travis, ranked No. 11 at 157, used a second-period takedown and nearfall to build his lead on the way to an 11-1 win over Jared Hill. Travis wrestled his final high school season at Stillwater, and is quite familiar with Hill, a Broken Arrow product.
“I wrestled him multiple times my senior year of high school — wrestled him in the state finals, actually,” Travis said. “So I knew kind of what to expect. I knew that I was gonna have to be aggressive and score a lot of points. And I knew toward the end of the match that the points would be there, my shots would be there.”
At 184, OSU’s second-ranked senior Dustin Plott picked up a 19-4 technical fall.
A battle of former Tuttle Tigers at 197 went the way of OSU’s Luke Surber, who scored early and often in a 17-2 technical fall over Carson Berryhill — who weighed in at 184 but moved up to wrestle in place of sixth-ranked Stephen Buchanan.
Overall, the Cowboys recorded 21 takedowns to just two for OU.
Bright moments were rare for the Sooners, but they won a trio of tightly contested matches. At 149 pounds, OU’s Willie McDougald used a first-period takedown for a 5-2 win, and at 174, Tate Picklo scored a takedown with :09 on the overtime clock for a 5-2 sudden-victory win.
And the Sooners added a thrilling 2-1 decision at heavyweight when Josh Heindselman scored a late reversal and barely managed to ride out OSU’s Konner Doucet over the final 30 seconds for the win.
That wrapped up the regular season for the Sooners until the Big 12 Championships at the BOK Center in Tulsa on March 9-10.
The Cowboys close with the looming visit from No. 4 Iowa at 2 p.m. next Sunday at GIA.
“I think it just shows that we’re starting to get to the end of the season and into postseason, that we’re getting better every single dual and every single week,” Travis said. “We’re doing the right things and we just need to keep doing what we’re doing, and not make things bigger than they need to be.
“Keep sticking to the process.”
Bedlam wrestling results
Sunday at Gallagher-Iba Arena, Stillwater
OSU 34, OU 9
- 125: Troy Spratley, OSU, pinned Conrad Hendrksen, 1:03
- 133: Daton Fix, OSU, tech. fall, Gave Vidlak, 21-5 (5:33)
- 141: Tagen Jamison, OSU, pinned Carter Schmidt, 0:54
- 149: Willie McDougald, OU, dec. Jordan Williams, 5-2
- 157: Teague Travis, OSU, major dec. Jared Hill, 11-1
- 165: Izzak Olejnik, OSU, dec. Cael Carlson, 7-2
- 174: Tate Picklo, OU, dec. Brayden Thompson, 5-2 SV
- 184: Dustin Plott, OSU, tech. fall Giuseppe Hoose, 19-4 (5:50)
- 197: Luke Surber, OSU, tech. Fall Carson Berryhill, 17-2 (4:19)
- HWT: Josh Heinselman, OU, dec. Konner Doucet, 2-1
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Oklahoma’s Jahsiear Rogers ‘Knew It Was Time to Showcase’ His Talents In Spring Game
NORMAN — The Oklahoma Sooners liked their wide receiver room a year ago. They want 2026 to be even better.
Isaiah Sategna’s return helps that desire. Earning experienced pass catchers Trell Harris and Parker Livingstone via the transfer portal gives you added play makers. But after the Sooners Spring Game on Saturday, an unlikely hero emerged.
When Jahsiear Rogers flipped from Penn State to Oklahoma last December, he drew the usual excitement that comes with a new commitment. But few expected him to climb the depth chart this quickly, even with the injuries that hit Emmett Jones’ room.
Rogers did just that and more on Saturday. He led all pass catchers with five receptions for 70 yards in Oklahoma’s annual Red/White game.
“I knew it was time to showcase,” Rogers said after the game. “It was amazing to see the fans and get used to the OU way. I’m a playmaker. They really want to put the ball in playmakers hands. I pretty much knew I had to lead the white team.”
Rogers got the ball rolling early. On the second offensive play for the white team, backup quarterback Whitt Newbauer rolled to his right wide, then stopped and looked towards the middle of the field where he saw Rogers running open. Newbauer connected with Rogers for a 39-yard gain.
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With Rogers on the white team, he is running against (most of) Oklahoma’s starting defense. As fate would have it, on that 39-yard reception, Rogers beat his favorite teammate to compete against — Reggie Powers.
“He is just a leader, good guy,” Rogers said of Powers. “Me and him go after it every day in practice. Reggie is strong. When I come at him, I have to really come at him.”
Rogers’ big play over Powers was the second-longest catch of the spring game — Sategna’s 50-yard reception that appeared to be a touchdown before coaches pulled it back to set up a red-zone rep. The other four catches weren’t flashy, but they were important in their own way, and Rogers looked like he belonged on the field.
“I love it. As long as I can get the ball, I can be me. I love it,” Rogers said. “When I am on the field, I am ready to go. I am ready to be a playmaker.”
The season is still months away, and Rogers hasn’t earned a spot high on the depth chart yet. A strong spring and an encouraging Red/White Game can only lead to early playing time if he carries that momentum into summer and fall camp.
More experienced players will return from injury and receivers who’ve been in the program for a few years will have an extra leg-up.
But Rogers is taking everything in stride and leaving no stone unturned in his development.
“Just learning from the older guys,” Rogers said. “Manny Choice, Isaiah Sategna, Trell Harris, Mackenzie Alleyne. Really all of them. We lean on each other, learn from each other. That is kind of how our room is.”
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Oklahoma knocks off Missouri in series opener
The Oklahoma baseball team is back in the mix and trending upward.
After a rough few weeks in Southeastern Conference play, the 14th-ranked Sooners have won three of their last four games to get to .500 at just beyond the halfway point of the league slate. Friday’s 9-6 win over Missouri allowed Oklahoma to move to 8-8, tied with three other teams for eighth in the standings.
Friday’s win wasn’t truly that close, even. OU took a 9-3 lead into the ninth before Mizzou made it somewhat interesting with three runs in the frame. Two of them came with two outs, though, and Mason Bixby induced a groundout with the bases empty to hold on.
The large edge came via a home run-happy night. The Sooners popped four over the wall at Kimrey Family Stadium, including three in a four-run seventh inning that gave OU a four-run lead.
Jason Walk, who hit one of the four homers, had the best day at the plate. He went 2 for 5 with the shot, three RBIs and a run. Camden Johnson, who also homered, went 2 for 3 with a walk, a double and two runs, and Dasan Harris went 2 for 4 with a home run, two RBIs, and three runs. Trey Gambill hit the Sooners’ other jack.
Oklahoma jumped out to a four-run lead in the second behind four hits and a walk. Missouri helped the Sooners out with an error that resulted in a bases-loaded situation and three unearned runs registered to Tigers starter Josh McDevitt.
The runs were more than enough for Oklahoma’s LJ Mercurius, who pitched six strong innings, giving up three runs on six hits with no walks and nine strikeouts.
Game 2 in the series is set for 4 p.m. Saturday and the finale will be played Sunday at 2 p.m., weather permitting.
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The man behind Route 66’s Totem Pole Park: The history of a 90-foot Oklahoma landmark
Just miles off Route 66 in Rogers County stands one of Oklahoma’s most unusual roadside attractions: a 90-foot concrete totem pole built largely by one man over more than a decade.
Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park is home to what is widely described as the world’s largest concrete totem pole, created by Oklahoma folk artist Nathan Edward Galloway during his retirement years.
The park sits near Chelsea and continues to draw visitors traveling Oklahoma’s stretch of Route 66.
A project decades in the making
Credit: Rogers County Historical Society
According to the National Park Service, Nathan Edward Galloway was born in 1880 in Springfield, Missouri. He later worked as a manual arts teacher at Sand Springs Home before retiring in 1937 to property near present-day Chelsea in Rogers County.
After retiring, Galloway began building what would become Totem Pole Park. Using concrete, steel rebar, wood, and red sandstone, he created a series of colorful, highly decorated totems and structures across the property.
Atlas Obscura reports that Galloway began construction in 1938 with the goal of building durable totem poles from sturdy materials, and he surrounded his land with tapered concrete monuments and decorative features.
Between 1937 and 1948, Galloway constructed the park’s centerpiece: a 90-foot-tall totem pole carved with bas-relief designs. Travel Oklahoma describes it as a Route 66 icon and a state landmark.
Eleven years and 90 feet of concrete
Credit: Rogers County Historical Society
The main totem took roughly 11 years to complete, according to Atlas Obscura. The structure is made of red sandstone framed with steel and wood, then covered with a thick concrete exterior.
The tower features more than 200 carved images, including representations of birds and Native American figures facing the four cardinal directions. Near the top are four nine-foot figures representing different tribes.
Galloway’s version differs from traditional totem poles of the Pacific Northwest, which are generally carved from red cedar.
The structure rises from the back of a large, three-dimensional turtle. The turtle base was carved from a broad sandstone outcrop on the site and painted in bright colors.
The totem is hollow and rises about nine stories, with the ground level measuring about nine feet in diameter. Inside, plastered walls feature painted murals of mountain-and-lake scenes and bird totems, along with Native American shields and arrow points. At the top, the cone is open to the sky.
Picnic tables supported by small concrete totems, a totem barbecue fireplace, and gate structures designed to resemble fish fill the park grounds.
The Fiddle House
Credit: Rogers County Historical Society
Beyond the towering pole, Galloway’s artistic interests extended into music and woodworking.
An 11-sided structure known as the “Fiddle House” sits on the property and resembles a Navajo hogan, according to the National Park Service. The building houses many of Galloway’s hand-carved fiddles and other creations.
The Rogers County Historical Society says the Fiddle House Museum retains many of Galloway’s handcrafted violins and artifacts.
From neglect to restoration
Credit: Rogers County Historical Society
Galloway continued working on the park until his death in 1961. After he died, the site gradually fell into disrepair.
In 1989, the Rogers County Historical Society acquired the property. A major restoration effort took place from 1988 to 1998, with art conservators and engineers studying the structures and repairing damaged materials.
Additional repainting and preservation projects began in 2015.
Today, Totem Pole Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It remains open year-round with free admission and is managed by the Rogers County Historical Society.
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