Daily Bullets (May 15): Wrestling Adds Potential Starter, Cowgirls Open Stillwater Regional Today

Thanks for stopping by – here’s your daily dose of Oklahoma State sports news. 

OSU Bullets

• The Cowgirls open their hosted-Regional tournament today against Eastern Illinois at 3:30pm CST – Kenny Gajewski talked about his looming pitching decisions (PFB)

• Wrestling update: the Pokes landed a potential starter at 174 pounds from the ACC yesterday, Jax Forrest is headed to the World Team final at 133 pounds (PFB)

• It’s wild to think about how, by going to OSU, Eric Morris got the opportunity to keep coaching Drew Mestemaker – something surely impossible at North Texas.

The Mean Green were one win away from reaching the College Football Playoff last season with a roster that cost just under $1 million… At Oklahoma State, he started with a fully funded revenue-sharing budget for football of around $15 million with support to fundraise that total up to $20 million or more. Now that Morris had the funds, could he pay for his North Texas stars — especially Mestemaker — to stick with him? [ESPN]

• The Pokes dropped the first game of the series to Arizona last night, 7-4 (OKState.com)

• A couple of Cowgirls made the squad:

All-Region Cowgirls 🤠

📝 https://t.co/YqF72Y2LKR#GoPokes | @rubymeylan | @_RoseDavis2023 pic.twitter.com/csydQTrPWI — OSU Cowgirl Softball (@cowgirlsb) May 14, 2026

Non-OSU Bullets

• 7 days inside the Thunder’s basketball utopia

• Formation happens when we don’t get what we want (faith-based)

Love that OKC is a reference point for rebuilding:

NEW: Manny Diaz to @AndyStaples on handling QB Darian Mensah transferring to Miami: “My overriding emotion is gratitude, and I really mean that. I am thankful Darian Mensah came to Duke.” Diaz later added: “It’s happened before and the best franchises respond. We talked to our… pic.twitter.com/oUhFwgdxUH

— On3 (@On3) May 13, 2026