Zalesky announces wrestling recruiting class

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State wrestling team has signed four student-athletes to letters of intent for the 2017-18 season, coach Jim Zalesky announced Thursday.

The newest Beavers are Colt Doyle, a 174-pounder from Lakeside, Calif., who graduated from Poway High School; 141-pounder Kurt Mode, a graduate of Crook County High School in Prineville, and twins Hunter (152) and Grant (126) Willits of Pueblo County High School in Pueblo, Colo.

Doyle and Mode are freshman at Clackamas Community College and will have three years of eligibility remaining when they join the program. The Willits brothers are high school seniors and will have four years of eligibility.

"We are very excited about the talent and potential of our latest signees," Zalesky said. "We expect them to be very solid additions to our program and are looking forward to following their accomplishments this season, and with the Beavers in the future."

Doyle was a two-time state 160-pound champion at Poway and was 46-0 as a senior. He holds the school record with 51 consecutive wins, and is only the third wrestler in Poway high school history to win two state titles. He was also a Reno Tournament of Champions titlist.

Mode was 44-3 in 2016 while winning the state 4A title at 145 pounds for Crook County, the alma mater of current OSU wrestler Collbran Meeker. He was the 120-pound state champion in 2014, took second at 126 pounds for 4A Banks in 2015, and took fourth at 106 pounds in 2013 for 4A Scappoose HS. He grew up in Prineville but then moved to Scappoose and then Banks before returning to Prineville because of his father's job.

Mode also captured the 141-pound weight class at the recent Mike Clock Open at Pacific University for CCC. He was a two-time Reno Tournament of Champions medalist and a Reno World runner-up.

Grant Willits won the Colorado 4A state title at 106 pounds as a freshman, and the 126-pound state title as a junior, when he finished 43-2. He was eliminated from the state tournament his sophomore year when he failed to make weight in the 113-pound division by one-tenth of a pound after advancing to the quarterfinals.

Hunter Willits won the state 4A title at 152 pounds as a junior, at 138 pounds as a sophomore and at 132 pounds as a freshman. He was 42-2 in 2015-16, and can become just the 20^th wrestler in Colorado history to win four state titles in Feb., 2017.

For more information on the Oregon State wrestling team, follow the club's official Twitter account at Twitter.com/Beaverwrestling, or by Facebook at Facebook.com/OregonStateWrestling.

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