| Orndorff has won 16 of his last 20 matches. He took second place
in the Pac-10 Championships. He won both his matches on the
last weekend of the regular season, beating Oregon's Rich
Polkinghorn 10-6 and Boise State's Jeremy Clayton 4-0. Orndorff
showed he'd recovered from a minor knee injury at the ASICS
Oregon Wrestling Classic Dec. 28-29 at OSU, placing third at
the Classic, going 3-1 with one match termination. That was his
first competition in three weeks. Orndorff placed fourth in
the Sheridan Tournament at Lehigh on Dec. 7 with a 2-2 record,
but that's misleading. Orndorff was leading in the final round
of the third-place match when a knee injury forced him to default.
Orndorff won the championship of the non-scoring Southern Oregon
Open earlier this year. He was a state champion at Kent-Meridian
High School, also an all-state and two-time all-league football
offensive and defensive lineman, lettered in track and field
and served as student body president. His brother Dave was an
OSU All-American.
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