WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – After a ninth place finish with four placewinners and four automatic qualifiers at the 2023 Big Ten Championships, Purdue Wrestling takes their squad to Tulsa for the 2023 NCAA Wrestling Championships in the BOK Center.
SCHEDULE AND INFO
Stats and live scoring for all sessions will be available on TrackWrestling.
All matches will be streamed on ESPN+.
*All times central
PURDUE POINTS
• The lineup for the Boilermakers features sophomore Matt Ramos, graduate-student Parker Filius, senior Kendall Coleman and freshman Hayden Copass who are wrestling in the 125, 141, 157 and 285 pound brackets respectively.
• It is the fourth trip to the national tournament for both Filius and Coleman, the second for Ramos and the first for Copass.
• The team's four entrants are a combined 31-22 against the field this season.
• Ramos comes in as the No. 4 seed at 125. The fourth seed has finished on the podium in each of the last eight seasons and last won the title in 2017.
• Filius and Coleman both checked in as the No. 12 seed in their weights. A double digit seed has wrestled to All-American status in each of the last three and eight of the last nine season at 141 and six of the last seven at 157.
• Filius is the only qualifier from Montana. Purdue has three of the 33 qualifiers from Illinois.
• An extremely young program, 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
• 31 - Matt Ramos has the most wins of anyone in his weight class at 125 pounds with 31.
• 299 - Kendall Coleman is just one takedown away from the triple-cenutry mark for his career with 299. The number is good for ninth all-time.
• 21 - Parker Filius has 21 wins on the year and is just two more victories away from setting a new single-season career high.
• 4 - Coleman and Filius are the 15th and 16th Boilermakers in program history to be four-time NCAA qualifiers.
• 36 - Hayden Copass is the 36th freshman in program history to qualify for the national tournament, the eighth under Ersland. LAST TIME OUT
Purdue Wrestling finished in ninth place at the 2023 Big Ten Wrestling Championships with 47 team points after earning four individual placements that all came with automatic qualification to Tulsa.
Ramos led the charge for the Boilermakers with a third-place finish at 125 pounds. Filius took fifth in dramatic fashion after pulling off his highest ranked win in the final match, Coleman finished in sixth and Copass earned seventh on a hectic day in the Crisler Center.
THIS TIME LAST YEAR
At last season's NCAA Championships, hosted in Detroit, Mich., at Little Caesars Arena, the Boilermakers had seven wrestlers and finished in 30th with 10.5 team points.
Freshman Matt Ramos and senior Max Lyon had their Cinderella runs fall short of the podium, suffering losses in the Round of 12 to conclude the Boilermakers' efforts at the national tournament.
LIVIN ON TULSA TIME
While Tulsa has never played hosted to the NCAA tournament, the great state of Oklahoma has held it on 11 occasions. Most recently in 2014 in Ersland's first season in charge.
The sooner state has facilitated success for the Boilermakers, with eight Purdue wrestlers earning All-American status in Oklahoma tournaments. Purdue's most recent national champion Charles Jones earned his title in Oklahoma City in 1992.
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 | 11 AM | ESPNU | First Round |
| Session 2 | 6 PM | ESPN | Second Round, Cons. First Round |
| Session 3 | 11 AM | ESPNU | Quarters, Cons. Second + Third |
| Session 4 | 7 PM | ESPN | Semifinals, Cons. Fourth + Fifth |
| Session 5 | 10 AM | ESPNU | 3rd, 5th and 7th Place Matches |
| Session 6 | 6 PM | ESPN | Finals |
All matches will be streamed on ESPN+.
*All times central
PURDUE POINTS
• The lineup for the Boilermakers features sophomore Matt Ramos, graduate-student Parker Filius, senior Kendall Coleman and freshman Hayden Copass who are wrestling in the 125, 141, 157 and 285 pound brackets respectively.
• It is the fourth trip to the national tournament for both Filius and Coleman, the second for Ramos and the first for Copass.
• The team's four entrants are a combined 31-22 against the field this season.
• Ramos comes in as the No. 4 seed at 125. The fourth seed has finished on the podium in each of the last eight seasons and last won the title in 2017.
• Filius and Coleman both checked in as the No. 12 seed in their weights. A double digit seed has wrestled to All-American status in each of the last three and eight of the last nine season at 141 and six of the last seven at 157.
• Filius is the only qualifier from Montana. Purdue has three of the 33 qualifiers from Illinois.
• An extremely young program, the Boilermakers finished their dual season tied with Ohio State for the most freshman wrestled by any Big Ten program with 10.
| PURDUE QUALIFIERS | |||
| Wt. | Seed | Purdue | |
| 125 | 4 | Matt Ramos (31-4) | |
| 141 | 12 | Parker Filius (21-9) | |
| 157 | 12 | Kendall Coleman (27-6) | |
| 285 | 30 | Hayden Copass (8-9) | |
NUMBERS TO KNOW
• 31 - Matt Ramos has the most wins of anyone in his weight class at 125 pounds with 31.
• 299 - Kendall Coleman is just one takedown away from the triple-cenutry mark for his career with 299. The number is good for ninth all-time.
• 21 - Parker Filius has 21 wins on the year and is just two more victories away from setting a new single-season career high.
• 4 - Coleman and Filius are the 15th and 16th Boilermakers in program history to be four-time NCAA qualifiers.
• 36 - Hayden Copass is the 36th freshman in program history to qualify for the national tournament, the eighth under Ersland. LAST TIME OUT
Purdue Wrestling finished in ninth place at the 2023 Big Ten Wrestling Championships with 47 team points after earning four individual placements that all came with automatic qualification to Tulsa.
Ramos led the charge for the Boilermakers with a third-place finish at 125 pounds. Filius took fifth in dramatic fashion after pulling off his highest ranked win in the final match, Coleman finished in sixth and Copass earned seventh on a hectic day in the Crisler Center.
THIS TIME LAST YEAR
At last season's NCAA Championships, hosted in Detroit, Mich., at Little Caesars Arena, the Boilermakers had seven wrestlers and finished in 30th with 10.5 team points.
Freshman Matt Ramos and senior Max Lyon had their Cinderella runs fall short of the podium, suffering losses in the Round of 12 to conclude the Boilermakers' efforts at the national tournament.
LIVIN ON TULSA TIME
While Tulsa has never played hosted to the NCAA tournament, the great state of Oklahoma has held it on 11 occasions. Most recently in 2014 in Ersland's first season in charge.
The sooner state has facilitated success for the Boilermakers, with eight Purdue wrestlers earning All-American status in Oklahoma tournaments. Purdue's most recent national champion Charles Jones earned his title in Oklahoma City in 1992.
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.