Sanders, a junior from Wabasha, Minn., defeated Derek Bomstad of MSU Moorhead 9-8 in the championship match at 133 pounds. Sanders went 4-0 on the day which included a pin over Smokey McBride of Concordia College in the second round.
Bryce, a sophomore from Glenwood, Minn., won three matches on the day and defeated unattached wrestler Brent Eidenschink in the 197-pound final 5-2.
Nine other NDSU wrestlers placed fifth or better at the tournament. Gabe Mooney, Matt Hermann and Matt Wetterling also took runner-up honors. Mooney recorded a pin, technical fall and major decision en route to the finals before losing to Manuel Rivera of Minnesota in the championship match 5-1.
Hermann, the lone senior on the Bison squad, loss to three-time Bison Open winner Gabe Dretsch of Minnesota 6-0 at 174 pounds. Roger Kish of Minnesota, the 2005 Division I national runner-up at 184 pounds, pinned Wetterling in 5:10 to win his third Bison Open crown.
In his first tournament as a Bison, Eric Hoffman defeated teammate Mike Meger in the third-place match 5-2 at 125 pounds. Along with Meger, Adam Aho also placed fourth. The sophomore went 3-2 for the tournament at 157 pounds.
Placing fifth for the Bison were Mike Quamme, Ben Imdieke and Justin LaGosh. Quamme and Imdieke both won by forfeit in the fifth-place match at 157 and 165 pounds respectively and LaGosh beat Jason Finley of St. John's 6-3 at 197 pounds.
All-American Tanner Gardner from Stanford won the 125-pound crown, 2005 national champion Dustin Schlatter of Minnesota won his second consecutive Bison Open crown at 149 pounds as did teammate and brother C.P. Schlatter at 157 pounds. Unattached wrestler Scott Glasser won the 165-pound championship and unattached wrestlers Ben Berhow and Joe Nord were co-champions at heavyweight.
187 wrestlers from 10 different schools competed at the event.
The Bison will next wrestle at the Kaufman-Brand Open in Omaha, Neb., on Saturday, November 18. Matches are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.
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