By Bob Hersom
Staff Writer

STILLWATER -- For pre- Bedlam introductions, Oklahoma State's wrestlers wore white T- shirts covered with three phrases Sunday.

Beat OU. Pack the House. Bring Back the Noise.

The Cowboys got two out of three, beating OU, bring back the noise and almost packing the place.

OSU beat Oklahoma 24-12 and brought back the Bedlam noise of old, thanks to 10,802 fans in 13,611- seat Gallagher-Iba Arena -- the largest crowd in Bedlam wrestling history. Former OSU wrestling coach Tommy Chesbro said 9,000 was the unofficial school attendance record, in old Gallagher Hall.

Sunday's meet started a half- hour late in the renovated arena, at 2:30 p.m., to allow the crowd to be seated.

"It was a fantastic crowd. It was something we really enjoyed seeing and wrestling on front of," said OSU coach John Smith. "This is the kind of preparation that really helps us for nationals, to wrestle in front of this kind of numbers."

The Bedlam wrestling attend- ance record had been 10,000, at OU's Lloyd Noble Center, on Feb. 7, 1979. The largest college wrestling crowds in the state's history have been at NCAA Championship meets in Oklahoma City.

"Kudos go to Oklahoma State for all their work in marketing and promoting the meet," said OU coach Jack Spates. "I applaud their efforts, I applaud the crowd, I applaud the environment. It was really neat."

Second-ranked OSU finished 17-1 in dual meets. Sixth-ranked OU (17-5-1) ends its dual season Friday at 12th- ranked Michigan State.

OSU clinched the dual win in the second-to-last bout, when 184-pound Daniel Cormier pinned Josh Lambrecht in 2:44. The second-ranked Cormier rose to 22-3.

"You always want the pin. I always try to pin," said Cormier, after his 10th pin in 25 bouts. "You get off the mat faster, plus it just looks a lot better."

OU won three of the first four matches. OSU did not lead until 157- pound Shane Roller pinned Tony Moore in 4:56, giving the Cowboys a 12-9 lead in the dual meet. Roller led 7-3 at the time.

After OU tied the score at 12, OSU regained the lead, 15-12, at 174 pounds. Sixth-ranked Tyrone Lewis edged ninth-ranked Michael Barger 3-1 on a takedown with 11 seconds left.

OU 125-pounder Matt Ridings stretched his winning streak to 16 matches with an 8-1 win over ninth- ranked Matt Brown. The underrated Ridings (he's No. 12 in Amateur Wrestling News, not ranked by InterMat) has won four of five matches with Brown.

OU's Michael Lightner raised his record to 29-0 at 141 pounds with a 5-3 win over Charles Walker. The crowd booed when Walker got a stalling penalty with :43 left, and when Lightner was not called for stalling the rest of the match.

"The environment, the excitement that was there, it doesn't get any better than this," Lightner said. "I've wrestled in national tournaments, and I'll tell you what, out there today with 10,000 people there and most of them Oklahomans, it was just a real good feeling, a real good environment even though we lost the match."

OSU's only unbeaten wrestler, 149- pound Reggie Wright, also won. The No. 1-ranked Wright (26-0) used two takedowns in the final 35 seconds to beat ninth-ranked Jared Frayer 7-2. Frayer (32-5) leads the Big 12 with 19 pins, but he's winless in nine duels with Wright.

OU's fifth-ranked 165-pounder, Robbie Waller, barely avoided being taken down at 1:06, then held on to beat true freshman Chris Pendleton 4-2.

The dual started with a tiebreaker heavyweight match in which OU's 11th-ranked Leonce Crump beat 15th- ranked James Huml 2-1. The match ended with two seconds left in the second extra period, when the Cowboy was called for locked hands.

OSU ended the dual with third- ranked Mark Munoz edging 11th- ranked Waymon May 4-3 at 197. OSU's first win came at 133, when second- ranked Johnny Thompson beat Witt Durden 8-3.