Youngest Lamer brother adds second Reser’s TOC title to growing trophy case (170 pounds)

“These national tournaments this season have really boosted my confidence.”

By René Ferrán | Photos by Leon Neuschwander  

One of the nation’s top wrestlers put on a dominant display of brilliance this weekend at the Reser’s Tournament of Champions, capping it with a prestigious award and a second TOC eagle trophy. 

Crescent Valley senior Daschle Lamer won the Gorriaran Award for having the most falls in the lowest cumulative time, finishing off a five-round rout with a 60-second pin of Scappoose’s Trey Dieringer in Saturday’s 170-pound final at Liberty High School in Hillsboro.

Lamer is ranked No. 2 in the nation at 170 by FloWrestling and No. 5 at 165 by SBLive/Sports Illustrated.

“The cross-angle pick was there, so had to take that opportunity,” Lamer said. “I got that opportunity and took care of it.”

The only downside to the weekend was that while Lamer won the Gorriaran, he wasn’t named the tournament’s Outstanding Wrestler — that honor went to Roseburg junior Gage Singleton. 

That might be the only honor that eludes Lamer during this fabulous senior campaign. The Cal Poly signee (where he’ll join older brother Legend on the roster, with Brawley set to exhaust his eligibility this winter) has a 31-1 record, with his only loss in the Walsh Ironman semifinals to Lorenzo Norman of Blair (Pa.) Academy. 

He won titles at the Reno TOC and Doc Buchanan before this weekend’s performance (five falls in a combined 4 minutes, 26 seconds), and in three weeks, he’ll vie to become the third Lamer brother (after Legend and Chance) to become a four-time Oregon state champion — a group that stands at 45 members. 

“I’ve wrestled at thousands of national tournaments, and I never get the same type of nerves as I do at state,” Lamer said. “Even last year, sophomore year, freshman year, it’s a different type of tournament, you know — like, what if you get caught? What if you lose? 

“But these national tournaments this season have really boosted my confidence, and it’s just turned out the way I fully believe that I have the potential to do.”

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