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The Northern State wrestling team opened its 2013-14 dual season with a 26-18 victory over Dakota Wesleyan Thursday night inside of Wachs Arena.

The dual began at 125 pounds where Anthony Bruno opened things up in style for the Wolves (1-0) as he pinned DWU's Will Seydel at 5:26 in the match to stake Northern to an early 6-0 lead. After a Cody Voegeli loss at 133, 5-3, Northern picked up a pair of forfeit wins at 133 and 141 to take an 18-3 advantage.

The Tigers closed the gap on NSU as Ryan Roach defeated Sean Havlovic 7-3 at 157 and Trever Devestern pinned Gavin Larsen at 165 to narrow the Wolves' lead to 18-12. Blake Lundgren and Anthony Navarro gave Northern back-to-back huge matches as Lundgren got a 9-1 major decision at 174 pounds and Navarro followed that up with a 13-5 major decision of his own to push the Northern lead back to 26-12 and clinch the team win.

DWU closed the match with a pair of hard-fought decisions over the Wolves. Joe Gomez lost 3-2 at 197, while Anthony Reurink was defeated 6-2 at heavyweight.

The Wolves are off for the rest of November and will return to action December 7 as NSU travels to its final tournament of the season, the MSU Moorhead Open.