MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Saint John's wrestling surrendered six bonus-point decisions in a 34-12 loss at sixth-ranked Augsburg on Sunday, Jan. 25, in Minneapolis.

Junior Ben Henle (Spicer, Minn./New London-Spicer) put SJU (4-16 dual record) on the board with a 5-3 win at 141 pounds to move to 22-5 on the season. He has now won 16 of his last 17 matches and is ranked as high as seventh nationally by D3wrestle.com.

Three straight wins for the Auggies (9-3 dual record) gave them a 24-3 lead before freshman Nick Hoff (Rushford, Minn./Rushford-Peterson) tallied the upset of the day. Hoff gave up a takedown to Augsburg's Eric Hensel (14-6 record) 23 seconds into the match and found himself on his back with the referee making the count for back points. That is, until Hoff rolled into a headlock of Hensel and pinned him in 1:49 to improve to 7-5 on the year.

Senior Ryan Michaelis (Monticello, Minn.) won the showdown of ranked wrestlers at 197 pounds, 7-2. Ranked seventh nationally by D3wrestle.com, Michaelis tallied three takedowns of the Auggies' Matt Hechsel, who is ranked as high as seventh by the NWCA, to earn the win and deny Hechsel (19-7) his 20th victory of the season. Michaelis is now 9-1 on the year.

Sophomore Colin Fisher (Eagan, Minn.) trailed Augsburg's Donny Longendyke, a transfer from Division I Nebraska who is ranked seventh nationally, 4-0 with riding time until Longendyke scored a takedown and three back points with under 10 seconds remaining for the 9-0 major decision at heavyweight.

The Johnnies return home to host Ridgewater for a 7 p.m. dual on Wednesday, Jan. 28, in Sexton Arena.

No. 6 Augsburg (AUG) 34, Saint John's (SJU) 12
125: Mike Fuenffinger (No. 1, AUG) pinned Ben Kollaja, 2:37 [0-6]
133: Chad Bartschenfeld (No. 9, AUG) major dec. Chris Ortman, 9-1 [0-10]
141: Ben Henle (No. 7/9, SJU) dec. Marcus Hamer, 5-3 [3-10]
149: Will Keeter (No. 9/10, AUG) tech. fall Branden Schorr, 16-0/4:18 [3-15]
157: Gable Frandsen (AUG) pinned Ochirbat Bayanjargal, 1:11 [3-21]
165: Austin Boniface (AUG) dec. Teddy Erickson, 13-9 [3-24]
174: Nick Hoff (SJU) pinned Eric Hensel, 1:49 [9-24]
184: Tommy Teigen (AUG) pinned Nick Pegelow, 2:12 [9-30]
197: Ryan Michaelis (No. 7, SJU) dec. Matt Hechsel (No. 7/10), 7-2 [12-30]
285: Donny Longendyke (No. 7, AUG) major dec. Colin Fisher, 9-0 [12-34]
Exhibition
184: Aaron Baker (SJU) dec. Sebastian Larson, 5-4 
285: Jordan Reisinger (AUG) dec. Bryan Scepaniak, 6-1