WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – After closing out the non-conference slate at the Southern Scuffle, the Boilermakers return to West Lafayette to begin Big Ten competition against Iowa in Holloway Gymnasium on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET.
PURDUE POINTS • An Iowa graduate and a member of three-straight NCAA championship winning teams for the Hawkeyes, Purdue head coach Tony Ersland looks for his first dual win against his alma mater as a head coach.
• 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 share the team lead in seven statistical categories and individually lead in 22 more combined.
• The pair give Purdue five straight years of having at least two wrestlers ranked inside the top-10 by Intermat at the same time.
HAMMER DOWN CANCER
The Purdue wrestling team hosts its annual "Hammer Down Cancer" dual Sunday against Iowa. The Boilermakers will wear special edition singlets, which will be auctioned off with all proceeds going to support the Tyler Trent Cancer Research Endowment.
The Boilermakers last held their "Hammer Down Cancer" event in 2021 in a dual against Illinois, raising $4,000 toward campus cancer research. This year's uniforms were donated once again by our friends at Rudis, a wrestling apparel company based out of Ohio.
The auctions for Sunday's singlets will be held online, with bids starting at $60 for 14 total singlets. Bids online will be accepted through the end of Sunday's dual meet, and singlets will be distributed to winners after being thoroughly cleaned. Fans who would like donate without biding can also do so on the auction website.
LAST TIME OUT Purdue wrestling last took the mat at the 2023 Southern Scuffle, where Matt Ramos claimed the title in the 125-pound division in front of a raucous crowd in McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Teammate Kendall Coleman took second at 157 after losing in the tiebreaker rounds of his finals match.
The Boilermakers made their first ever trip to the 18th edition of the tournament and came away with a champion and a runner-up on the first try. The duo of Ramos and Coleman went a combined 9-1 with three bonus point wins over the two days. Both have reached the finals in all three tournaments Purdue has participated in this season. The team finished in 9th with 37.5 team points.
Always the leading man, the redshirt sophomore Ramos did not wait to take control of his bout with No. 14 Noah Surtin of Missouri. Just over a minute into the match, the Purdue wrestler executed a slick duck to get Surtin on his back in a move that nearly resulted in a pin. It was ruled a takedown and a two-point nearfall that gave Ramos an early four-point lead that he would never relinquish to win a 4-3 decision and take the title.
NUMBERS TO KNOW • 1 - Matt Ramos and Kendall Coleman (both 21) have wrestled the most matches of anyone ranked inside the top-20 at their weights. Parker Filius (16) has the third most.
• 282 - Kendall Coleman is now 9th in program history for career takedowns with 282. He has 68 this season alone.
• 48% - Matt Ramos and Kendall Coleman each have 10 bonus point wins this season, accounting for 48% of their match results.
• 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.
YEAR OF THE TITLE 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 • An Iowa graduate and a member of three-straight NCAA championship winning teams for the Hawkeyes, Purdue head coach Tony Ersland looks for his first dual win against his alma mater as a head coach.
• 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 share the team lead in seven statistical categories and individually lead in 22 more combined.
• The pair give Purdue five straight years of having at least two wrestlers ranked inside the top-10 by Intermat at the same time.
| PROJECTED LINEUPS | |||
| 125 | #8 Matt Ramos (14-2) | #1 Spencer Lee (7-0) | |
| 133 | Dustin Norris (8-8) | Brody Teske (1-0) or #17 Cullan Schriever (7-4) |
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| 141 | #15 Parker Filius (12-4) | #2 Real Woods (6-0) | |
| 149 | Trey Kruse (6-10) or Jaden Reynolds (3-8) | #5 Max Murin (11-1) | |
| 157 | #3 Kendall Coleman (19-2) | #17 Cobe Siebrecht (6-1) | |
| 165 | Stoney Buell (7-8) or Cooper Noehre (8-5) |
#13 Patrick Kennedy (10-1) | |
| 174 | Brody Baumann (6-4) or Macartney Parkinson (5-10) |
#16 Nelson Brands (2-2) | |
| 184 | Ben Vanadia (9-8) | #8 Abe Assad (11-1) | |
| 197 | Hayden Filipovich (5-12) | #6 Jacob Warner (9-2) | |
| 285 | Tristan Ruhlman (11-7) or Hayden Copass (3-3) | #3 Tony Cassioppi (11-0) | |
The Boilermakers last held their "Hammer Down Cancer" event in 2021 in a dual against Illinois, raising $4,000 toward campus cancer research. This year's uniforms were donated once again by our friends at Rudis, a wrestling apparel company based out of Ohio.
The auctions for Sunday's singlets will be held online, with bids starting at $60 for 14 total singlets. Bids online will be accepted through the end of Sunday's dual meet, and singlets will be distributed to winners after being thoroughly cleaned. Fans who would like donate without biding can also do so on the auction website.
LAST TIME OUT Purdue wrestling last took the mat at the 2023 Southern Scuffle, where Matt Ramos claimed the title in the 125-pound division in front of a raucous crowd in McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Teammate Kendall Coleman took second at 157 after losing in the tiebreaker rounds of his finals match.
The Boilermakers made their first ever trip to the 18th edition of the tournament and came away with a champion and a runner-up on the first try. The duo of Ramos and Coleman went a combined 9-1 with three bonus point wins over the two days. Both have reached the finals in all three tournaments Purdue has participated in this season. The team finished in 9th with 37.5 team points.
Always the leading man, the redshirt sophomore Ramos did not wait to take control of his bout with No. 14 Noah Surtin of Missouri. Just over a minute into the match, the Purdue wrestler executed a slick duck to get Surtin on his back in a move that nearly resulted in a pin. It was ruled a takedown and a two-point nearfall that gave Ramos an early four-point lead that he would never relinquish to win a 4-3 decision and take the title.
NUMBERS TO KNOW • 1 - Matt Ramos and Kendall Coleman (both 21) have wrestled the most matches of anyone ranked inside the top-20 at their weights. Parker Filius (16) has the third most.
• 282 - Kendall Coleman is now 9th in program history for career takedowns with 282. He has 68 this season alone.
• 48% - Matt Ramos and Kendall Coleman each have 10 bonus point wins this season, accounting for 48% of their match results.
• 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.
YEAR OF THE TITLE 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.