WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – No. 19 Purdue wrestling heads to Ann Arbor, Mich., this weekend for the 2023 Big Ten Wrestling Championships, hosted by Michigan at the Crisler Center. The first of four sessions will begin Saturday, March 4 at 10 a.m. ET.
SCHEDULE AND INFO
Stats and live scoring for all sessions will be available on TrackWrestling.
PURDUE POINTS
• The Boilermakers bring the youngest squad to the tournament with six freshman in the lineup, double the amount of the next team.
• Experience for head coach Tony Ersland's squad will come from Matt Ramos, Kendall Coleman and Parker Filius who are all previous B1G placewinners. Coleman and Filius are going for their fourth trip up the podium while Ramos looks for his second in as many attempts.
• This will be the ninth conference tournament in charge for Ersland, who has coached 45 B1G medal winners and three finalists in his tenure.
• Coleman has 295 career takedowns, which gives him he ninth most in program history and only two behind Eric Douglas (1994-98) in eighth. He has racked up 81 this year and is just outside the top-20 for the most in a single season in program history (T-19: 97).
• The Boilermakers finished their dual season tied with Ohio State for the most freshman wrestled by any Big Ten program with 10.
NUMBERS TO KNOW
• 26 - Matt Ramos has more wins this season (26) than anyone who will be in the field at the 2023 Big Ten Championships. Kendall Coleman (25) is in a tie for second most.
• 28 - Purdue wrestlers have outperformed their seed 28 times under Ersland, 35% of all entrants.
• 4 - Coleman and Parker Filius are both going for their fourth B1G podium finish. Only 14 Boilermakers have accomplished the feat in program history.
• 5.6 - The Boilermakers are averaging 5.63 placewinners per Big Ten tournament in Ersland's tenure at the helm. LAST TIME OUT
Purdue wrestling wrapped up a 10th place performance at the 2022 Big Ten Championships in Lincoln, Neb., with five men on the podium. The team amassed 36.5 points and earned four automatic bids, four more Boilermakers were chosen at-large following the tournament.
Thomas Penola (5th), Devin Schroder (6th), Kendall Coleman (6th), Mat Ramos (7th) and Parker Filius (8th) all climbed the podium in 2022. It was the third time earning medals for Coleman and Filius. Ramos took his medal in his first postseason.
TOURNAMENT TONY
In nine seasons under Ersland, the Boilermakers have brought their best stuff out at tournament time. seen 182 wrestlers climb up a podium in 42 different tournaments for an average of 4.33 per competition.
At the annual Big Ten Wrestling Championships, Ersland has coach 45 medal winners for an average of 5.63 per year. In the eight previous trips, 28 of Ersland's wrestlers have outperformed their given seed, overachieving at a 35% clip.
GOOD TIMES IN THE CRISLER CENTER
It was a pretty good trip north the last time the Boilermakers made the trip to Ann Arbor for the Big Ten Wrestling Championships. Purdue matched its then-best team finish of the 21st century with a 6th place showing thanks to 76 team points. At the time, it was the third highest team total in 20 years. Ersland and company bested that mark by taking 5th in Piscataway, N.J., in 2020 with 83 points.
Junior Colton Salazar led the charge in the Crisler Center with a runner-up finish at 157 pounds. Six more Boilermakers earned spots on the podium and all seven took automatic qualifying spots. Cashé Quiroga wrestled to a fourth place finish at 125 pounds in Ann Arbor, but would go on to become just the fifth freshman and third true freshman in program history to earn All-America honors two weeks later in Omaha, Neb.
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. He beat four ranked opponents along the way.
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED
Head coach Tony Ersland 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.
Cruz (No. 130), Jackson (No. 196 ), Ruhlman (No. 174) and Solomey are all Indiana kids who will stay home for their collegiate wrestling careers. Three of the top eight Indiana prospects are in this class.
More on the class.
SCHEDULE AND INFO
| Session 1 | 10 AM | BTN | First Round, Quarters, Wrestlebacks |
| Session 2 | 5:30 PM | B1G+ | Consolation Matches, Wrestlebacks |
| Session 2 | 7:30 PM | BTN | Semifinals |
| Session 3 | 1 PM | B1G+ | Cons. Semifinals, 7th-Place Matches |
| Session 4 | 4:30 PM | BTN | 1st-, 3rd- and 5th- Place Matches |
PURDUE POINTS
• The Boilermakers bring the youngest squad to the tournament with six freshman in the lineup, double the amount of the next team.
• Experience for head coach Tony Ersland's squad will come from Matt Ramos, Kendall Coleman and Parker Filius who are all previous B1G placewinners. Coleman and Filius are going for their fourth trip up the podium while Ramos looks for his second in as many attempts.
• This will be the ninth conference tournament in charge for Ersland, who has coached 45 B1G medal winners and three finalists in his tenure.
• Coleman has 295 career takedowns, which gives him he ninth most in program history and only two behind Eric Douglas (1994-98) in eighth. He has racked up 81 this year and is just outside the top-20 for the most in a single season in program history (T-19: 97).
• The Boilermakers finished their dual season tied with Ohio State for the most freshman wrestled by any Big Ten program with 10.
| PROJECTED LINEUPS | |||
| Wt. | Seed | Purdue | |
| 125 | 3 | Matt Ramos (26-3) | |
| 133 | 13 | Dustin Norris (11-13) | |
| 141 | 8 | Parker Filius (17-7) | |
| 149 | 14 | Jaden Reynolds (4-13) | |
| 157 | 3 | Kendall Coleman (25-3) | |
| 165 | 13 | Stoney Buell (11-13) | |
| 174 | 14 | Cooper Noehre (8-12) | |
| 184 | 12 | Ben Vanadia (11-14) | |
| 197 | 14 | Hayden Filipovich (5-19) | |
| 285 | 10 | Hayden Copass (6-7) | |
NUMBERS TO KNOW
• 26 - Matt Ramos has more wins this season (26) than anyone who will be in the field at the 2023 Big Ten Championships. Kendall Coleman (25) is in a tie for second most.
• 28 - Purdue wrestlers have outperformed their seed 28 times under Ersland, 35% of all entrants.
• 4 - Coleman and Parker Filius are both going for their fourth B1G podium finish. Only 14 Boilermakers have accomplished the feat in program history.
• 5.6 - The Boilermakers are averaging 5.63 placewinners per Big Ten tournament in Ersland's tenure at the helm. LAST TIME OUT
Purdue wrestling wrapped up a 10th place performance at the 2022 Big Ten Championships in Lincoln, Neb., with five men on the podium. The team amassed 36.5 points and earned four automatic bids, four more Boilermakers were chosen at-large following the tournament.
Thomas Penola (5th), Devin Schroder (6th), Kendall Coleman (6th), Mat Ramos (7th) and Parker Filius (8th) all climbed the podium in 2022. It was the third time earning medals for Coleman and Filius. Ramos took his medal in his first postseason.
TOURNAMENT TONY
In nine seasons under Ersland, the Boilermakers have brought their best stuff out at tournament time. seen 182 wrestlers climb up a podium in 42 different tournaments for an average of 4.33 per competition.
At the annual Big Ten Wrestling Championships, Ersland has coach 45 medal winners for an average of 5.63 per year. In the eight previous trips, 28 of Ersland's wrestlers have outperformed their given seed, overachieving at a 35% clip.
| Place | In-Season | Post-Season | Total |
| Champion | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| Runner-Up | 21 | 3 | 24 |
| Third | 23 | 1 | 24 |
| Fourth | 17 | 2 | 19 |
| Fifth | 20 | 10 | 30 |
| Sixth | 16 | 9 | 25 |
| Seventh | 12 | 11 | 23 |
| Eighth | 6 | 9 | 15 |
| Totals | 137 | 45 | 182 |
GOOD TIMES IN THE CRISLER CENTER
It was a pretty good trip north the last time the Boilermakers made the trip to Ann Arbor for the Big Ten Wrestling Championships. Purdue matched its then-best team finish of the 21st century with a 6th place showing thanks to 76 team points. At the time, it was the third highest team total in 20 years. Ersland and company bested that mark by taking 5th in Piscataway, N.J., in 2020 with 83 points.
Junior Colton Salazar led the charge in the Crisler Center with a runner-up finish at 157 pounds. Six more Boilermakers earned spots on the podium and all seven took automatic qualifying spots. Cashé Quiroga wrestled to a fourth place finish at 125 pounds in Ann Arbor, but would go on to become just the fifth freshman and third true freshman in program history to earn All-America honors two weeks later in Omaha, Neb.
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. He beat four ranked opponents along the way.
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED
Head coach Tony Ersland 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.
Cruz (No. 130), Jackson (No. 196 ), Ruhlman (No. 174) and Solomey are all Indiana kids who will stay home for their collegiate wrestling careers. Three of the top eight Indiana prospects are in this class.
More on the class.