The third annual "Beuaty and the Beast" event, including the No. 9 wrestling squad and the No. 1 women's gymnastics team, will be held at 7 tonight in the Lloyd Noble Center.
The wrestling squad (14-2-1, 2-1-1) will compete against Chattanooga (10-6), and the gymnasts will face No. 16 Iowa State. The two will be competing side-by-side.
Last week, the wrestling team recorded two conference wins—the first since the 2002-03 season. OU rallied 22-15 at Nebraska on Thursday, and then dominated 25-10 at No. 17 Missouri on Saturday.
OU wrestling is 2-0 all-time versus Chattanooga, including a 23-14 win last season in Tennessee.
Head coach Jack Spates will fire out three true freshmen -- Jarrod Patterson (125), Kendric Maple (133) and Tyler Caldwell (165); true freshman Erich Schmidtke (184) will also start for OU.
A total of eight wrestlers are ranked this week for OU, including No. 3 ranked Zack Bailey (141) and Kyle Terry (149). Also ranked: No. 18 Jarrod Patterson, No. 12 Shane Vernon (157), No. 15 Tyler Caldwell (165), No. 15 Jeff James (174), No. 6 Eric Lapotsky (197), and No. 15 Nathan Hernandez (HWT).
Spates, in his 17th year at OU, has a career home record of 88-27-3 (.785).
The OU grapplers will also host Oregon State at 2 p.m. Sunday inside the McCasland Field House.
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