WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – After opening their Big Ten Conference slate last weekend, the Boilermakers travel to about an hour and a half west for their first road test of the season against the newly ranked No. 25 Illinois in the State Farm Center on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. ET.
PURDUE POINTS • Purdue head coach Tony Ersland's 74 dual wins is tied for the third most in program history with Scott Hinkel (2008-14). Ersland sits in third in Big Ten wins, home wins and road wins.
• Matt Ramos and Kendall Coleman have been sensational so far on the year. Both made the finals in all three tournaments the team traveled to, with Ramos taking two titles and Coleman taking one.
• The duo along with veteran Parker Filius are responsible for team highs in at least 33 statistical categories.
• Coleman's only two losses this season have come in finals to the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked wrestlers in his class (Intermat).
• Ramos and Coleman's rankings give Purdue five straight years of having at least two wrestlers ranked inside the top-10 by Intermat at the same time.
• The Boilermakers are outscoring their opponents by 87 in the first period and have scored first in 160 of their 289 matches thus far on the season.
NUMBERS TO KNOW
• 1 - Matt Ramos and Kendall Coleman (both 22) have wrestled the most matches of anyone ranked inside the top-15 at their weights. Parker Filius (17) has the third most.
• 283 - Kendall Coleman is now 9th in program history for career takedowns with 282. He has 69 this season alone.
• 4 - Parker Filius is 4-2 in his career against Illinois wrestlers, including a 3-1 record in dual matches.
• 3 - Kendall Coleman's No. 3 ranking at 157 (Intermat) is the highest for a Boilermaker since Devin Schroder was No. 3 on 1/19/21.
SERIES HISTORY: ILLINOIS The Boilermakers trail 31-59-2 in the all-time series against the Fighting Illini. Purdue has one two of the last three under Ersland.
Last season's match resulted in a 25-13 win for Purdue in West Lafayette. The Boilermakers took six of the 10 varsity bouts, including a trio of bonus-point wins highlighted by a 16-0 tech from Filius.
LAST TIME OUT Purdue wrestling lost in its first Big Ten Conference action of the season to the No. 2 Iowa Hawkeyes in Holloway Gymnasium, falling by a score of 37-6. Fifth-year senior Parker Filius and redshirt-senior Kendall Coleman were the lone Boilermakers to come away with wins on the afternoon.
No. 15 Filius (13-4) was the first to get points on the board for the Boilermakers at 141 with a comfortable 6-2 win over No. 17 (133) Cullan Schriever. Pushed to the edge of the mat, rather than go out, Filius broke Schriever's control over his leg and wrestled for a takedown of his own to score first. He would add another two in the first period and ride well in the third to take the decision in his return from injury.
Coming off his finals appearance at Southern Scuffle last weekend, Coleman (20-2) put another one in the win column at 157 pounds with a 3-2 decision over Caleb Rathjen. A straight power double-leg gave him a takedown in the first 20 seconds of the match, but it was a cagey affair the rest of the way with escapes accounting for the remainder of the points.
TITLE TYPE OF YEAR It's been quite the run for Matt Ramos over the last few months. He has claimed titles at the Southern Scuffle, Clarion Open and a freestyle title at the U.S. Open in addition to a runner-up finish at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.
In those four tournaments, he is 17-1 with eight bonus point wins including four tech falls and three pins. In those runs, he has beaten four ranked opponents.
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.
PURDUE POINTS • Purdue head coach Tony Ersland's 74 dual wins is tied for the third most in program history with Scott Hinkel (2008-14). Ersland sits in third in Big Ten wins, home wins and road wins.
• Matt Ramos and Kendall Coleman have been sensational so far on the year. Both made the finals in all three tournaments the team traveled to, with Ramos taking two titles and Coleman taking one.
• The duo along with veteran Parker Filius are responsible for team highs in at least 33 statistical categories.
• Coleman's only two losses this season have come in finals to the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked wrestlers in his class (Intermat).
• Ramos and Coleman's rankings give Purdue five straight years of having at least two wrestlers ranked inside the top-10 by Intermat at the same time.
• The Boilermakers are outscoring their opponents by 87 in the first period and have scored first in 160 of their 289 matches thus far on the season.
| PROJECTED LINEUPS | |||
| 125 | #8 Matt Ramos (19-3) or Kooper Loehr (4-4) | Max Renteria (3-5) | |
| 133 | Dustin Norris (8-9) | #10 Lucas Byrd (16-3) | |
| 141 | #12 Parker Filius (13-4) | #32 Danny Pucino (10-5) | |
| 149 | Jaden Reynolds (3-8) | Jake Harrier (3-9) | |
| 157 | #3 Kendall Coleman (20-2) | Anthony Federico (5-8) or #16 Mike Carr (1-0) |
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| 165 | Stoney Buell (7-9) | #11 Danny Braunagel (15-5) | |
| 174 | Cooper Noehre (8-6) | #10 Edmond Ruth (20-1) | |
| 184 | Ben Vanadia (9-9) | #29 Dylan Connell (13-10) | |
| 197 | Hayden Filipovich (5-13) | #12 Zac Braunagel (15-3) | |
| 285 | Tristan Ruhlman (11-7) or Hayden Copass (3-3) | Matt Wroblewski (10-9) | |
• 283 - Kendall Coleman is now 9th in program history for career takedowns with 282. He has 69 this season alone.
• 4 - Parker Filius is 4-2 in his career against Illinois wrestlers, including a 3-1 record in dual matches.
• 3 - Kendall Coleman's No. 3 ranking at 157 (Intermat) is the highest for a Boilermaker since Devin Schroder was No. 3 on 1/19/21.
SERIES HISTORY: ILLINOIS The Boilermakers trail 31-59-2 in the all-time series against the Fighting Illini. Purdue has one two of the last three under Ersland.
Last season's match resulted in a 25-13 win for Purdue in West Lafayette. The Boilermakers took six of the 10 varsity bouts, including a trio of bonus-point wins highlighted by a 16-0 tech from Filius.
LAST TIME OUT Purdue wrestling lost in its first Big Ten Conference action of the season to the No. 2 Iowa Hawkeyes in Holloway Gymnasium, falling by a score of 37-6. Fifth-year senior Parker Filius and redshirt-senior Kendall Coleman were the lone Boilermakers to come away with wins on the afternoon.
No. 15 Filius (13-4) was the first to get points on the board for the Boilermakers at 141 with a comfortable 6-2 win over No. 17 (133) Cullan Schriever. Pushed to the edge of the mat, rather than go out, Filius broke Schriever's control over his leg and wrestled for a takedown of his own to score first. He would add another two in the first period and ride well in the third to take the decision in his return from injury.
Coming off his finals appearance at Southern Scuffle last weekend, Coleman (20-2) put another one in the win column at 157 pounds with a 3-2 decision over Caleb Rathjen. A straight power double-leg gave him a takedown in the first 20 seconds of the match, but it was a cagey affair the rest of the way with escapes accounting for the remainder of the points.
TITLE TYPE OF YEAR It's been quite the run for Matt Ramos over the last few months. He has claimed titles at the Southern Scuffle, Clarion Open and a freestyle title at the U.S. Open in addition to a runner-up finish at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.
In those four tournaments, he is 17-1 with eight bonus point wins including four tech falls and three pins. In those runs, he has beaten four ranked opponents.
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.