Daily Nebraskan Saturday, December 17,1988 Nebraska’s Jeff Coltuet has control (but just barely) over his Sowa State opponent during last Saturday’s dual. Coltuet defeated ISU’s Bobby Thompsan, 9-7, to help lead Nebraska to a 19-14 victory over Iowa State. Neumann expects tough time against (JSu By Steve Sipple Senior Reporter Lust Saturday, Nebraska’s wres tling team scored a dual victory against fawn Stale for the first time in 37 years. This Saturday, Nebraska will try to end 67 years of dual frustration against Oklahoma Suite. Cornhusker coach Tim Neumann said he was being realistic when asked about his team’s chances of break ing the losing string. ‘ ‘I don’t think so,’ ’ said Neumann, who is 0-3 against the Cowboys in his three years as Huskcr coach. “This is the best team I’ve seen since I’ve been involved college wrestling.” The 16ih-rankcd Huskers, 1-0-1 in dual competition, will get an oppor tunity to defeat top-ranked Okla homa Suite, 5-0, when the teams mcci at 7:30 p.m. in the track area of the Bob Dcvaney Sports Center. Neumann said the Cowboys maj be invisible. “This year, it’s going to take t grenade in the locker room for any thing to go wrong for them,” he said But Neumann said he may havi just the team to bomb the Cowboys who return six All-Americas fron last year’s team that finished 1st it the Big Eight and 4th in the nation. “ I don ’t want to say we don ’ t hav< a chance,” he said. “Seven or eigh matches will be real donnybrooks They’ll be good, hard-fough matches.” Neumann became even more opti mistic w hen he learned of injuries to two ol Oklahoma State’s reluming All-Americans - nS-pound starter Wes While and 177-pound staricr Chris Barnes. White is suffering f rom neck spasms and Barnes is hatllmg a rih injury. Both wrestlers sustained their in juries at the Las Vegas Invita tional Dec. 2 and L “That’s great. Wonderful,” Neu mann said when told of the injuries. Oklahoma State is expected to replace White and Barnes with Jeff McAllister (J58 pounds) and Dan Niebuhr (177 pounds). Neumann said the absence of Barnes and White won t rum me c owooys. “They’re going to lose a little hit, bul those two guys (McAllister and Niebuhr) would make the lineup of 95 percent of the teams in the coun u-y ” . . Nebraska look advantage ol inju ries to two Iowa Stale starters in its 19-14 victory at the sports center. Tim Krieger, a 150-pound former National Collegiate Athletic Asso ciation champion, and Eric Voelkcr, a 190-pound wrestler, missed the dual with riband leg injuries, respec tively. Neumann said defeating the Cow boys will be more difficult than MICK King Oil IIIC C yciOIICS. “ISIJ had a couple of holes where we knew we would win at a weight or two,” he said. “For this meet, I’m not KX) percent sure of victories at any of the weights.” The victory against Iowa State gave Nebraska added confidence going into Saturday’s match, Neu mann said. He said he feels more comfortable going into this week end’s match than he did heading into the Iowa State dual. “Honestly, 1 didn’t sleep much before the ISIJ dual,” he said. “Now See COWBOYS on 9 _ Nebraska (#16) vs. Oklahoma State (#1) SB Tonight, 7:30 p.m. Bob Devaney Sports Center 1 E5 Jim Sanchez (II-6) —118-Cory Baze (13-1-1) m| M Jason Kelber (13*5) -126--Kendall Cross (10-0) Dave Droegemueller (6-4) --134 Chuck Barbee (12 2) HM ; Layne Billings (10-5)--142- Charles Royer (7-3) vM i E£3 Paul Herrera (3-3) 150 -Todd Chesbro (13-2) fSM | i K| Jeff Coitvet (11-4) -158 Jeff McAllister (9-4) Bfl : Kfl Scott Chenoweth (11-3 1) --167 -Mike Farrell i16 0) kfl HmL Cody Olson (9-3) --177 -Dan Niebuhr (9-2) Tommy Robbins (9-5) 190-Randy Couture (14-2) ^ i HHH Sonny Manley (12-5*1) -Hwt-Don Frye (9-5-1) Miami coach says Huskers are ‘challenge’ By Mike KJuck Staff Reporter Miami (Fla.) has already played the current No. 1 team in the nation. In addition, it has defeated a previous top-ranked team, the Southwest con ference champion, the Big Ten con ference champion and the Southeast conference runner up. But in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 2, Miami coach jimmy Johnson said, his team will have the biggest chal lenge of the season when they face Big Eight champion Nebraska. “Outside of one quarter of their year I feel (the Comhuskcrs are) one of the best teams in the nation,” Johnson said in a press conference via telephone from Miami. “Outside of that one quarter, they arc a lop team in the country.” Miami defeated pre-season No. 1 Florida State 31-0, Big Ten cham pion Michigan 31-30, Southeast Conference runner-up Louisiana Stale 44-3, Southwest Conference champion Arkansas 18-16 and lost to top-ranked Notre Dame 31 -30. Now the Hurricanes face another perennial power. And Johnson said Nebraska and Miami both have a claim to be the national champion if Notre Dame falters in the Jan. 2 Sunk isl-Fiesta Bowl against West Vir ginia. II Noire Dame loses, people ihen should vote for ihe learn ihcy feel is ihe hesi in ihe nation,” Johnson said. “Now thal could be Miami. Ne braska or West Virginia. I'm jtisi trying to bring to the attention ol the voters they should vote for the best team in the nation.” Johnson said Miami was ihe underdog entering last season's Or ange Bow because it was 2nd-ranked and Oklahoma was ranked No. 1. He said the Hurricanes should also be considered underdogs this season even though they are ranked higher than Nebraska. “Against Nebraska, we’ll proba bly have our most difficult lime,” Johnson said. “Their strengths match well against our weaknesses. We have a very difficult assignment. “It is a rare occasion for Nebraska to be the underdog. (Nebraska coach) Tom Osborne knows this, but deep down he knows how strong his team matches up against our team.” Johnson said he is worried Miami will become complacent because of its role as favorite. He also said Nebraska’s si/e con cerns him. The Hurricanes’ offensive line averages 265 pounds while the Huskcr interior defensive line aver ages 280 pounds. “I’m just trying to gel something to compact Tom’s talk about home field advantage,” Johnson joked. Osborne said Tuesday in his press conference thal Miami has an advan tage because the Orange Bowl is where the Hurricanes play their regu lar-season games. Johnson said he doesn’t think there is a home-field advantage in a major bowl game. Husker declared ineligible for this season By Mark Derow itsch Senior Reporter Nebraska men's basketball coach Danny Nee announced Friday that Comhusker freshman Carl Hayes was declared academically ineligible for the 1988-89 season. Nee said Haves is now considered a Proposition48 victim, and will have to pay for his education at Nebraska. “The NCAA declared him ineli gible,” Nee said. “I just don’t under stand it.” Nebraska assistant Athletic Direc tor for Administrative Services Al Jftapik said last month that the NCAA transcripts. Apparently, the NCAA had a question with his core courses he took in high school, Papik said He also said the NCAA had Hayc*? file in October. Hayes said he wasn’t looking for ward to hearing the NCAA’s deci sion. 0 “I didn’t want to find out because I knew something bad was going to happen,” Hayes said. “I can’t do anything about it now, I guess.” But unlike most Proposition 48 players, Hayes will be able to gel some financial aid, Nee said. “We’re in the process, of getting financ ial aid for him,” Nee said. ‘‘ He a national student loan." Nee also said Hayes, a 6-foot-8 forward from Chicago, can gel a pari limc job during the school year and during semester break. " He’s not under the jurisdiction of the NCAA," Nee said. "All he has to do is (complete) 24 hours and have a 2.0 (grade point) average to regain his eligibility." Hayes, who hasn’t declared « major, said his school work has gone well. "This semester, I believe my grade point average is between a 2.5 and a 3.0," he said. Hayes said he has no plans of drop m