WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – For the third time this season, Purdue Wrestling travels for tournament action as they prepare to take on the field at the 2023 Southern Scuffle. Hosted annually in Chattanooga, Tenn., every year since 2003, the competition features 22 division one programs, eight of which are ranked inside the top-25.
SCHEDULE AND INFO
Sunday - Jan. 1, 2023
Pigtail Round - 10:00 a.m. ET
Champ Round of 32 – 10:45 a.m. ET
Pigtail Consolation - 1:30 p.m. ET
Champ Round of 16 - 2:15 p.m. ET
Consolation 2nd-3rd Round - 4:00 p.m. ET
Champ Quarters - 7:30 p.m. ET Monday - Jan. 2, 2023 Consolation 5th Round - 11:00 a.m. ET
Champ Semifinals - 1:00 p.m. ET
Consolation Semifinals - 3:00 p.m. ET
Champ Finals & Medal Matches - 7:00 p.m.
PURDUE PREVIEW Head coach Tony Ersland will bring 15 Boilermakers to Chattanooga, with multiple athletes slated to wrestle in the 125, 149, 165, 174 and 184 divisions. Redshirt senior 157-pounder Kendall Coleman comes into the new year as one of the hottest names in the sport. He has a 15-1 record (his only loss to No. 2 Peyton Robb) and has climbed up No. 3 in the country. 125 pound redshirt sophomore Matt Ramos has been just as good, posting a 14-2 mark to put himself at No. 10 going into the new year.
NEWS & NOTES
• Head coach Tony Ersland enters his ninth season at Purdue and is 74-58 in dual competition.
• His 74 dual wins is good for the third most in program history, tying Scott Hinkel (2008-14). Claude Reeck (1938-69) sits in second with 100.
• Kendall Coleman etched his name in program history by breaking into the top-10 of the career takedowns list at Purdue. He now has 274 across his four years of competition which puts him at 10th all-time, just two shy of Luke Manuel (2008-11) in 9th. Ryan Lange (2001-04) holds the record with 523.
• Coleman also claims a spot in the top-20 of the career win-percentage list at Purdue (min. 50 matches). Coleman's career .755 percentage would be good for 12th all-time if he were to stop now.
• Matt Ramos won the 2022 U.S. Open 57 kg division, going 4-0 in Las Vegas to become the first member of the Boilermaker Regional Training Center to win an Open title since former assistant coach Kendrick Maple won the 61 kg title in 2017.
SCOUTING THE FIELD It's another tournament with a stacked group of opponents for the Boilermakers after getting three on the podium at another high-quality competition in Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. 22 division one programs will be represented in Chattanooga and of those nine are ranked in the top-25 by the National Wrestling Coaches Association. Purdue is joined by No. 9 Minnesota and No. 22 Maryland as the other representatives from the Big Ten.
LAST TIME OUT Purdue Wrestling hosted its second quad of the season on Dec. 20 in what would be the team's last action of 2022. The Boilermakers (4-3, 0-0 B1G) went 1-2 on the day, taking a 20-18 win over Utah Valley and dropping their matches to Drexel (20-17) and Campbell (29-9).
In the win over Utah Valley, Purdue splits the matches five-a-piece but emerged victorious thanks to three bonus point wins from No. 3 Kendall Coleman, Stoney Buell and No. 32 Ben Vanadia. The swing match turned out to be Buell's first period pin (1:56) of Danny Snediker, the first win via fall of the young 165-pounder's career. Majors from Coleman and Vanadia along with earlier wins from No. 8 Matt Ramos and Dustin Norris gave Purdue the edge.
The redshirt senior Coleman would shine the brightest for the Boilermakers throughout the day with a trio of bonus point victories. His two major decisions and one tech fall put him into a tie for the most such victories on the team in both categories. His 46 points was the most scored by any wrestler on the day with the he next highest coming up with 31.
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED Head coach Tony Ersland has announced the 2023 Purdue wrestling signing class, inking six new Boilermakers to national letters of intent. He welcomes Joey Blaze, Greyson Clark, Orlando Cruz, Ashton Jackson, Delaney Ruhlman and Cole Solomey to the Boilermaker family to make up what will surely be Ersland's sixth top-25 recruiting class.
Blaze and Clark highlight the class as the No. 17 and No. 33 ranked prospects respectively with five state titles between the two of them. Purdue is one of just nine schools to have at least two top-35 ranked signees.
More on the class.
Champ Round of 32 – 10:45 a.m. ET
Pigtail Consolation - 1:30 p.m. ET
Champ Round of 16 - 2:15 p.m. ET
Consolation 2nd-3rd Round - 4:00 p.m. ET
Champ Quarters - 7:30 p.m. ET Monday - Jan. 2, 2023 Consolation 5th Round - 11:00 a.m. ET
Champ Semifinals - 1:00 p.m. ET
Consolation Semifinals - 3:00 p.m. ET
Champ Finals & Medal Matches - 7:00 p.m.
PURDUE PREVIEW Head coach Tony Ersland will bring 15 Boilermakers to Chattanooga, with multiple athletes slated to wrestle in the 125, 149, 165, 174 and 184 divisions. Redshirt senior 157-pounder Kendall Coleman comes into the new year as one of the hottest names in the sport. He has a 15-1 record (his only loss to No. 2 Peyton Robb) and has climbed up No. 3 in the country. 125 pound redshirt sophomore Matt Ramos has been just as good, posting a 14-2 mark to put himself at No. 10 going into the new year.
| PROJECTED LINEUP | ||
| 125 | #10 Matt Ramos (14-2) | |
| 125 | Kooper Loehr (4-2) | |
| 133 | Dustin Norris (7-6) | |
| 141 | #16 Parker Filius (12-4) | |
| 149 | Trey Kruse (4-8) | |
| 149 | Jaden Reynolds (3-6) | |
| 157 | #3 Kendall Coleman (15-1) | |
| 165 | Stoney Buell (5-6) | |
| 165 | Cooper Noehre (6-3) | |
| 174 | Macartney Parkinson (4-8) | |
| 174 | Brody Baumann (5-2) | |
| 184 | Ben Vanadia (8-6) | |
| 184 | Mitch Hutmacher (4-5) | |
| 197 | Hayden Filipovich (5-10) | |
| 285 | Tristan Ruhlman (10-5) | |
• His 74 dual wins is good for the third most in program history, tying Scott Hinkel (2008-14). Claude Reeck (1938-69) sits in second with 100.
• Kendall Coleman etched his name in program history by breaking into the top-10 of the career takedowns list at Purdue. He now has 274 across his four years of competition which puts him at 10th all-time, just two shy of Luke Manuel (2008-11) in 9th. Ryan Lange (2001-04) holds the record with 523.
• Coleman also claims a spot in the top-20 of the career win-percentage list at Purdue (min. 50 matches). Coleman's career .755 percentage would be good for 12th all-time if he were to stop now.
• Matt Ramos won the 2022 U.S. Open 57 kg division, going 4-0 in Las Vegas to become the first member of the Boilermaker Regional Training Center to win an Open title since former assistant coach Kendrick Maple won the 61 kg title in 2017.
SCOUTING THE FIELD It's another tournament with a stacked group of opponents for the Boilermakers after getting three on the podium at another high-quality competition in Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. 22 division one programs will be represented in Chattanooga and of those nine are ranked in the top-25 by the National Wrestling Coaches Association. Purdue is joined by No. 9 Minnesota and No. 22 Maryland as the other representatives from the Big Ten.
LAST TIME OUT Purdue Wrestling hosted its second quad of the season on Dec. 20 in what would be the team's last action of 2022. The Boilermakers (4-3, 0-0 B1G) went 1-2 on the day, taking a 20-18 win over Utah Valley and dropping their matches to Drexel (20-17) and Campbell (29-9).
In the win over Utah Valley, Purdue splits the matches five-a-piece but emerged victorious thanks to three bonus point wins from No. 3 Kendall Coleman, Stoney Buell and No. 32 Ben Vanadia. The swing match turned out to be Buell's first period pin (1:56) of Danny Snediker, the first win via fall of the young 165-pounder's career. Majors from Coleman and Vanadia along with earlier wins from No. 8 Matt Ramos and Dustin Norris gave Purdue the edge.
The redshirt senior Coleman would shine the brightest for the Boilermakers throughout the day with a trio of bonus point victories. His two major decisions and one tech fall put him into a tie for the most such victories on the team in both categories. His 46 points was the most scored by any wrestler on the day with the he next highest coming up with 31.
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED Head coach Tony Ersland has announced the 2023 Purdue wrestling signing class, inking six new Boilermakers to national letters of intent. He welcomes Joey Blaze, Greyson Clark, Orlando Cruz, Ashton Jackson, Delaney Ruhlman and Cole Solomey to the Boilermaker family to make up what will surely be Ersland's sixth top-25 recruiting class.
Blaze and Clark highlight the class as the No. 17 and No. 33 ranked prospects respectively with five state titles between the two of them. Purdue is one of just nine schools to have at least two top-35 ranked signees.
More on the class.