WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Purdue wrestling team heads into the postseason this weekend, traveling to Lincoln, Nebraska for the 2022 Big Ten Championships, hosted by Nebraska at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The first of four sessions will begin Saturday, March 5, at 11 a.m. ET, with full event coverage on the Big Ten Network and B1G+.
B1G CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES
• Purdue is set to compete at the Big Ten Championships for the 102nd time in program history.
• The Boilermakers have six conference titles in program history, winning them all from 1942-to-1954.
• Purdue has had 40 individual Big Ten Champions, last climbing the top of the podium in 2004, when Ryan Lange won the conference title at 174 pounds.
• The Boilermakers have had 333 Big Ten placewinners all-time, including a program-record eight in each of the last two years and 40 under head coach Tony Ersland.
• Purdue has had three Big Ten finalists over the last two years as Devin Schroder has advanced to back-to-back finals at 125 pounds and Kendall Coleman reached the championship match at 157 pounds in 2020.
• Purdue has placed in the top-six in each of the last two seasons, marking the first back-to-back, top-six showings since consecutive top-five efforts in 1991 and 1992.
• Of Purdue's 16 placewinners over the last two seasons, 12 have wrestled at or above their seed in the final standings.
PURDUE LINEUP & RANKINGS
Purdue finished at No. 16 in the final NWCA Coaches Poll, marking their third straight top-20 regular season finish (15 in 2020, 18 in 2021); a first for the Boilermakers since 1991-93. It is also the seventh time in eight seasons under Ersland that the Boilermakers have finished the season ranked in the top-25. Seven Boilermakers earned individual rankings from the NCAA Coaches Panel, including Schroder at No.8 at 125 and Coleman at No. 11 at 157, while eight Purdue wrestlers secured a top-33 Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) ranking.
PURDUE NOTES
• Head coach Tony Ersland is in his eighth season at Purdue and is 70-55 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 dual competition 6-0 for the first time since 2008-09.
• The Boilermakers' win at No. 9 Nebraska marked the program's first top-10 ranked victory since 2004 (a 21-20 win on criteria over Arizona State), and the first top-10 career dual victory for Ersland as a head coach.
• Purdue held its annual "Hammer Down Cancer" event on January 21 vs. Illinois, and auctioned off its special edition singlets, donated by Rudis, to raise over $4,600 for the Purdue Center for Cancer Research.
• The Boilermakers' win over then 14th-ranked Minnesota on February 6 snapped a streak of 12 straight losses to the Golden Gophers, dating to 2004. Purdue won 6-of-10 weights, including wins over higher-ranked opponents at 125, 133, 165 and 184.
• Devin Schroder and Max Lyon capitalized on the NCAA's COVID extension waiver, returning for an extra year of eligibility in 2021-22.
• Schroder is tied for third in the nation in Division I with six technical falls on the season
• Schroder ranks second in program history in back points, with 522 in 128 career matches, is 15th all-time at Purdue with a .734 win percentage (94-34), and is tied for 20th in program history for career wins.
• 49 of Schroder's 94 career wins have come via bonus points (.521), including 27 technical falls, while 42 of his career victories are shutouts (.447).
• 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.
• Parker Filius leads the team with 27 matches and 19 victories on the season, including an 12-3 dual record and seven bonus-point wins.
• 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. 12 (.757, 53-17).
• Coleman is three takedowns shy of 200 for his career, including 55 so far this season.
• Hayden Lohrey now owns a pair of ranked wins this season at 165 pounds, scoring a 7-5 decision over No. 26 Danny Braunagel of Illinois, and topping No. 26 Cael Carlson of Minnesota 3-2.
• Gerrit Nijenhuis has the highest-ranked win of any Boilermaker this season, topping No. 3 Mikey Labriola at Nebraska on Jan. 7. Thirteen of his 26 matches this season have come against ranked opponents, earning wins against six of them.
• Max Lyon has cracked the top-20 for career takedowns at Purdue, scoring 225 to date in his career.
• Lyon has wrestled 36 of his last 49 matches against ranked opponents.
• Thomas Penola leads the team in takedowns (73) and total points (206), and nearly half of his scoring this season has come in the third-period, where he's outscoring opponents 94-39.
• Penola has faced a team-high 15 ranked opponents in 23 matches this season, including a team-most 10 wins against ranked foes.
• 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 six falls to his career total (30) after posting 17 falls in his final year at Navy.
B1G CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES
• Purdue is set to compete at the Big Ten Championships for the 102nd time in program history.
• The Boilermakers have six conference titles in program history, winning them all from 1942-to-1954.
• Purdue has had 40 individual Big Ten Champions, last climbing the top of the podium in 2004, when Ryan Lange won the conference title at 174 pounds.
• The Boilermakers have had 333 Big Ten placewinners all-time, including a program-record eight in each of the last two years and 40 under head coach Tony Ersland.
• Purdue has had three Big Ten finalists over the last two years as Devin Schroder has advanced to back-to-back finals at 125 pounds and Kendall Coleman reached the championship match at 157 pounds in 2020.
• Purdue has placed in the top-six in each of the last two seasons, marking the first back-to-back, top-six showings since consecutive top-five efforts in 1991 and 1992.
• Of Purdue's 16 placewinners over the last two seasons, 12 have wrestled at or above their seed in the final standings.
PURDUE LINEUP & RANKINGS
Purdue finished at No. 16 in the final NWCA Coaches Poll, marking their third straight top-20 regular season finish (15 in 2020, 18 in 2021); a first for the Boilermakers since 1991-93. It is also the seventh time in eight seasons under Ersland that the Boilermakers have finished the season ranked in the top-25. Seven Boilermakers earned individual rankings from the NCAA Coaches Panel, including Schroder at No.8 at 125 and Coleman at No. 11 at 157, while eight Purdue wrestlers secured a top-33 Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) ranking.
| Wt. | B1G Seed | Wrestler | Record | FloWrestling | InterMat | TheOpenMat | WIN | NCAA | RPI |
| 125 | 5 | Devin Schroder (R-Sr.) | 17-3 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| 133 | 9 | Matt Ramos (R-Fr.) | 15-6 | 24 | 23 | -- | -- | 25 | 24 |
| 141 | 11 | Parker Filius (R-Sr.) | 19-8 | 24 | 31 | -- | -- | 24 | 20 |
| 149 | 14 | Alec White (R-Jr.) | 0-7 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 157 | 4 | Kendall Coleman (R-Jr.) | 12-5 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 15 |
| 165 | 7 | Hayden Lohrey (R-So.) | 10-6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 28 |
| 174 | 7 | Gerrit Nijenhuis (So.) | 15-11 | 18 | 21 | 18 | -- | 18 | 21 |
| 184 | 13 | Max Lyon (R-Sr.) | 11-10 | HM | 28 | -- | 20 | 26 | 15 |
| 197 | 6 | Thomas Penola (R-Jr.) | 18-5 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 15 | 10 |
| 285 | 11 | Michael Woulfe (R-Sr.) | 12-13 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
PURDUE NOTES
• Head coach Tony Ersland is in his eighth season at Purdue and is 70-55 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 dual competition 6-0 for the first time since 2008-09.
• The Boilermakers' win at No. 9 Nebraska marked the program's first top-10 ranked victory since 2004 (a 21-20 win on criteria over Arizona State), and the first top-10 career dual victory for Ersland as a head coach.
• Purdue held its annual "Hammer Down Cancer" event on January 21 vs. Illinois, and auctioned off its special edition singlets, donated by Rudis, to raise over $4,600 for the Purdue Center for Cancer Research.
• The Boilermakers' win over then 14th-ranked Minnesota on February 6 snapped a streak of 12 straight losses to the Golden Gophers, dating to 2004. Purdue won 6-of-10 weights, including wins over higher-ranked opponents at 125, 133, 165 and 184.
• Devin Schroder and Max Lyon capitalized on the NCAA's COVID extension waiver, returning for an extra year of eligibility in 2021-22.
• Schroder is tied for third in the nation in Division I with six technical falls on the season
• Schroder ranks second in program history in back points, with 522 in 128 career matches, is 15th all-time at Purdue with a .734 win percentage (94-34), and is tied for 20th in program history for career wins.
• 49 of Schroder's 94 career wins have come via bonus points (.521), including 27 technical falls, while 42 of his career victories are shutouts (.447).
• 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.
• Parker Filius leads the team with 27 matches and 19 victories on the season, including an 12-3 dual record and seven bonus-point wins.
• 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. 12 (.757, 53-17).
• Coleman is three takedowns shy of 200 for his career, including 55 so far this season.
• Hayden Lohrey now owns a pair of ranked wins this season at 165 pounds, scoring a 7-5 decision over No. 26 Danny Braunagel of Illinois, and topping No. 26 Cael Carlson of Minnesota 3-2.
• Gerrit Nijenhuis has the highest-ranked win of any Boilermaker this season, topping No. 3 Mikey Labriola at Nebraska on Jan. 7. Thirteen of his 26 matches this season have come against ranked opponents, earning wins against six of them.
• Max Lyon has cracked the top-20 for career takedowns at Purdue, scoring 225 to date in his career.
• Lyon has wrestled 36 of his last 49 matches against ranked opponents.
• Thomas Penola leads the team in takedowns (73) and total points (206), and nearly half of his scoring this season has come in the third-period, where he's outscoring opponents 94-39.
• Penola has faced a team-high 15 ranked opponents in 23 matches this season, including a team-most 10 wins against ranked foes.
• 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 six falls to his career total (30) after posting 17 falls in his final year at Navy.