No. 19 Purdue (5-5, 2-2 B1G) vs. No. 1 Penn State (7-0, 3-0 B1G)
Friday, Jan. 25 / 7 p.m. ET / BTN Plus on BTN2Go
Holloway Gymnasium / West Lafayette, Indiana
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The 19th-ranked Purdue wrestling team returns to Holloway Gymnasium on Friday to take on top-ranked Penn State at 7 p.m. ET. At the midway point of the Big Ten Conference dual season, the first man on the mat, 125-pounder Devin Schroder, looks to extend his current four-match winning streak while remaining undefeated against league foes at 4-0. He, along with Max Lyon (184) and Christian Brunner (197), each enter Friday's dual on a four-match winning streak.
On Wednesday's Purdue Wrestling Show, head coach Tony Ersland and host Hunter Massingill recapped the Indiana and Michigan duals and looked ahead to Friday's matchup with the Nittany Lions.
| PURDUE LINEUP | ||||
| WEIGHT | NAME | YEAR | RECORD | HOMETOWN |
| 125 | Devin Schroder | RS So. | 16-6 | Grand Rapids, Mich. |
| 133 | No. 19 Ben Thornton | RS Sr. | 14-4 | Stoddard, Wis. |
| Bjorn Schroeder | RS Fr. | 8-7 | Bozeman, Mont. | |
| 141 | Nate Limmex | RS Jr. | 14-8 | Ada, Mich. |
| Alec White | RS Fr. | 7-7 | New Palestine, Ind. | |
| 149 | Parker Filius | RS Fr. | 9-11 | Havre, Mont. |
| Austin Nash | RS Jr. | 4-12 | Florham Park, N.J. | |
| 157 | No. 12 Griffin Parriott | RS So. | 6-5 | New Prauge, Minn. |
| 165 | Cole Wysocki | RS Jr. | 7-14 | Edwardsville, Ill. |
| Tanner Webster | RS Fr. | 5-7 | Crawfordsville, Ind. | |
| 174 | No. 14 Dylan Lydy | RS Jr. | 17-5 | Indianapolis, Ind. |
| 184 | Max Lyon | So. | 16-7 | Dyersville, Iowa |
| Jared Florell | RS Fr. | 6-3 | Ham Lake, Minn. | |
| 197 | No. 12 Christian Brunner | Jr. | 14-5 | East Dundee, Ill. |
| 285 | Jacob Aven | RS Sr. | 8-13 | Zionsville, Ind. |
Team rankings via NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Poll (1/22); individual rankings via InterMat (1/22)
The NCAA released the season's first of four coaches' panel rankings on Thursday. The final rankings will be one of the tools used as part of the selection process to determine qualifiers and seeding for the 2019 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships March 21 to 23 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Wrestlers in each weight class are measured by winning percentage, rating percentage index and coaches' rankings to earn allocation spots for their qualifying tournaments for the championships. The coaches' rankings are compiled by a vote of coaches representing each qualifying tournament. For ranking purposes, coaches may only consider a wrestler that has been designated as a starter at a respective weight class. To be eligible for the rankings, wrestlers must have participated in at least five matches against Division I opponents in the weight class and have wrestled within the last 30 days.
| BOILERMAKERS IN THE COACHES' PANEL RANKINGS | ||
| Weight | Rank | Name |
| 125 | 18 | Devin Schroder |
| 133 | 21 | Ben Thornton |
| 141 | 25 | Nate Limmex |
| 157 | 11 | Griffin Parriott |
| 174 | 14 | Dylan Lydy |
| 184 | 30 | Max Lyon |
| 197 | 12 | Christian Brunner |
Click here for the full rankings.
#BOILERNOTES
• Purdue checked in at No. 19 on this week's NWCA Division I Coaches Poll ... the Boilermakers have been ranked in all 12 polls issued this season and have appeared in 26 consecutive polls dating to Nov. 14, 2017.
• At least four Purdue wrestlers have been listed in all 12 editions of this season's national rankings ... six different wrestlers have been ranked at least once ... three have been in the top 10 at least once: Griffin Parriott (157) spent four weeks at No. 9; Dylan Lydy (174) had two weeks at No. 10; and Christian Brunner (197) spent one week at No. 10 and moved to No. 9 the following week ... Lydy has been ranked since Dec. 5, 2017, a span of 25 polls.
• Purdue has used six different lineups in its 10 duals ... 125-pounder Devin Schroder has been the first Boilermaker up nine times ... the outlier was the Iowa dual starting at 197.
• Ben Thornton has started 48 of 59 possible duals during his career, owning a dual record of 33-15 ... Nate Limmex has started 39 of 42 possible duals in his 2.5 seasons with combined dual record of 23-16 ... the NC State dual (12/29) was the first time in Lydy's career he was not in the starting lineup ... prior to that he had started 36 consecutive duals ... Lydy is 25-15 while wrestling in 40 of a possible 42 duals since 2016-17.
• Thornton is averaging a team and career high 8.4 points per match ... the redshirt senior also sports career highs in shutouts with eight and bonus point wins with nine (4 MD, 5 TF) ... Thornton is the team leader in point differential at +119 (152-33) ... he has owned the riding time in 13 of his 18 matches and has only surrendered the riding time point once this season.