WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Purdue wrestling team heads into its final matches of 2021 this week, set to compete in inaugural Matmen Open, hosted Wednesday and Thursday by Illinois Matmen at NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The loaded tournament field features several Big Ten Conference and top-25, tournament-ranked squads.
The event will stream live via Illinois Matmen's Rokfin page, requiring a site subscription and pay per view charge.
PURDUE LINEUP & RANKINGS
The Boilermakers continue to hold a variety of national team and individual rankings, including a No. 15 mark in the NWCA Coaches Poll, and top-10 individual rankings for Devin Schroder, Kendall Coleman and Thomas Penola. While Schroder and Penola are not scheduled to compete at Midlands, Coleman, Parker Filius and Gerrit Nijenhuis will be among the ranked entries at their respective weights. In addition to its nine varsity entries, Purdue will field a trio of unattached wrestlers, the Boilermakers' first since 2018.
* - competing unattached
LAST TIME OUT
Purdue took its first dual lost before the holiday break, suffering a 23-13 defeat at the hands of No. 13 Iowa State. The dual was held at Humboldt High School in Iowa, the hometown of Purdue head coach Tony Ersland and Iowa State head coach Kevin Dresser. The Boilermakers earned wins at four weights, including 125, 133 and 141 for the seventh straight time this season, and sophomore Hayden Lohrey earned a win at 165 in his first career varsity start.
PURDUE NOTES
• Head coach Tony Ersland is in his eighth season at Purdue and is 63-51 in dual competition with the Boilermakers.
• Ersland wrestled for the University of Iowa from 1992-97, qualifying for the NCAA Tournament at 177, and competing on the highest scoring team at the NCAA Championships in history (170).
• Purdue's season-opening win at Drexel marks eight straight seasons that the Boilermakers have won their first dual of the year under Ersland.
• Purdue opened 6-0 in dual competition for the first time since 2008-09
• Devin Schroder and Max Lyon capitalized on the NCAA's COVID extension waiver, returning for an extra year of eligibility in 2021-22.
• Schroder ranks second in program history in back points, surpassing the 500-point mark at CKLV, and is tied for 15th all-time at Purdue with a .733 win percentage (88-32).
• 47 of Schroder's 88 career wins have come via bonus points (.534), including 26 technical falls, while 37 of his career victories are shutouts (.420).
• Matt Ramos won the 2018 Cadet Freestyle World Championship for the U.S., capturing the 51 kg title in Zagreb, Croatia.
• Ramos's two wins to open the season were his first official folkstyle matches since his senior year of high school at Lockport HS (Illinois) in 2019, winning by technical fall and fall in the two bouts.
• The Boilermakers' lower weights are undefeated at 21-0 in duals so far this season, including 10 wins via bonus points.
• Kendall Coleman surpassed the 60-career match at CKLV, and earned a spot on Purdue's career win- percentage record list, coming in at No. 11 (.762, 48-15).
• Thomas Penola is off to a 13-2 start on the season, leading the team in wins, matches, takedowns (52) and total points (151).
• Nearly half of Penola's scoring this season has come in the third-period, where he's outscoring opponents 73-26.
• Michael Woulfe is wrestling his first collegiate season since 2016 after serving in the United States Navy for the last five years and has picked up right where he left off, adding a team-high four falls to his career total (28) after posting 17 falls in his final year at Navy.
• Sophomore Hayden Lohrey made his first career dual start last time out, earning a 5-3 decision over Iowa State's Austin Kraisser.
• The Boilermakers will have three unattached entries at Midlands (Stoney Buell, Dustin Norris, Tristan Ruhlman), marking the first true freshman to enter the tournament for the Boilermakers since Kendall Coleman, Thomas Penola and Emil Soehnlen competed unattached in 2018.
TOURNAMENT FIELD
Army
Bloomsburg*
Brown
Bucknell
Cal Poly
Campbell
Franklin & Marshall
Harvard
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan*
N. Carolina*
N. Illinois
Northern Iowa
Oregon St.*
Penn
Pitt
Princeton
Purdue*
Rider*
SIUE*
Rutgers
Virginia*
Wisconsin
* - sending a partial roster to tournament
The event will stream live via Illinois Matmen's Rokfin page, requiring a site subscription and pay per view charge.
PURDUE LINEUP & RANKINGS
The Boilermakers continue to hold a variety of national team and individual rankings, including a No. 15 mark in the NWCA Coaches Poll, and top-10 individual rankings for Devin Schroder, Kendall Coleman and Thomas Penola. While Schroder and Penola are not scheduled to compete at Midlands, Coleman, Parker Filius and Gerrit Nijenhuis will be among the ranked entries at their respective weights. In addition to its nine varsity entries, Purdue will field a trio of unattached wrestlers, the Boilermakers' first since 2018.
| Wt. | Wrestler | Record | FloWrestling | InterMat | TheOpenMat | WIN |
| 125 | Nate Cummings (R-Jr.) | 5-3 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 133 | Matt Ramos (R-Fr.) | 10-3 | HM | 33 | -- | -- |
| Dustin Norris (Fr.)* | 7-1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 141 | Parker Filius (R-Sr.) | 9-3 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 16 |
| Michael Leveille (R-So.) | 3-5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 149 | Trey Kruse (So.) | 2-6 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 157 | Kendall Coleman (R-Jr.) | 7-3 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 11 |
| Cooper Noehre (So.) | 7-1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 165 | Stoney Buell (Fr.)* | 9-3 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 174 | Gerrit Nijenhuis (So.) | 7-6 | 20 | 25 | 20 | -- |
| 285 | Michael Woulfe (R-Sr.) | 7-4 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Tristan Ruhlman (Fr.)* | 9-1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
LAST TIME OUT
Purdue took its first dual lost before the holiday break, suffering a 23-13 defeat at the hands of No. 13 Iowa State. The dual was held at Humboldt High School in Iowa, the hometown of Purdue head coach Tony Ersland and Iowa State head coach Kevin Dresser. The Boilermakers earned wins at four weights, including 125, 133 and 141 for the seventh straight time this season, and sophomore Hayden Lohrey earned a win at 165 in his first career varsity start.
PURDUE NOTES
• Head coach Tony Ersland is in his eighth season at Purdue and is 63-51 in dual competition with the Boilermakers.
• Ersland wrestled for the University of Iowa from 1992-97, qualifying for the NCAA Tournament at 177, and competing on the highest scoring team at the NCAA Championships in history (170).
• Purdue's season-opening win at Drexel marks eight straight seasons that the Boilermakers have won their first dual of the year under Ersland.
• Purdue opened 6-0 in dual competition for the first time since 2008-09
• Devin Schroder and Max Lyon capitalized on the NCAA's COVID extension waiver, returning for an extra year of eligibility in 2021-22.
• Schroder ranks second in program history in back points, surpassing the 500-point mark at CKLV, and is tied for 15th all-time at Purdue with a .733 win percentage (88-32).
• 47 of Schroder's 88 career wins have come via bonus points (.534), including 26 technical falls, while 37 of his career victories are shutouts (.420).
• Matt Ramos won the 2018 Cadet Freestyle World Championship for the U.S., capturing the 51 kg title in Zagreb, Croatia.
• Ramos's two wins to open the season were his first official folkstyle matches since his senior year of high school at Lockport HS (Illinois) in 2019, winning by technical fall and fall in the two bouts.
• The Boilermakers' lower weights are undefeated at 21-0 in duals so far this season, including 10 wins via bonus points.
• Kendall Coleman surpassed the 60-career match at CKLV, and earned a spot on Purdue's career win- percentage record list, coming in at No. 11 (.762, 48-15).
• Thomas Penola is off to a 13-2 start on the season, leading the team in wins, matches, takedowns (52) and total points (151).
• Nearly half of Penola's scoring this season has come in the third-period, where he's outscoring opponents 73-26.
• Michael Woulfe is wrestling his first collegiate season since 2016 after serving in the United States Navy for the last five years and has picked up right where he left off, adding a team-high four falls to his career total (28) after posting 17 falls in his final year at Navy.
• Sophomore Hayden Lohrey made his first career dual start last time out, earning a 5-3 decision over Iowa State's Austin Kraisser.
• The Boilermakers will have three unattached entries at Midlands (Stoney Buell, Dustin Norris, Tristan Ruhlman), marking the first true freshman to enter the tournament for the Boilermakers since Kendall Coleman, Thomas Penola and Emil Soehnlen competed unattached in 2018.
TOURNAMENT FIELD
Army
Bloomsburg*
Brown
Bucknell
Cal Poly
Campbell
Franklin & Marshall
Harvard
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan*
N. Carolina*
N. Illinois
Northern Iowa
Oregon St.*
Penn
Pitt
Princeton
Purdue*
Rider*
SIUE*
Rutgers
Virginia*
Wisconsin
* - sending a partial roster to tournament