KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Purdue Wrestling heads to Kansas City for the 2024 NCAA Championships on the back of a ninth place finish with five placewinners and five auto qualifiers at the 2024 Big Ten Championships.
SCHEDULE AND INFO
Stats and live scoring for all sessions will be available on TrackWrestling.
All matches will also be streamed on ESPN+.
All times Eastern.
PURDUE POINTS
• Matt Ramos is the No. 4 seed for the second straight season and will look to take the final next step this year after finishing as Purdue's ninth runner-up in 2023.
• Ramos is the first Boiler to earn a top-five seed in back-to-back NCAA tournaments since Chris Fleeger in 2002-03.
• Greyson Clark, Joey Blaze, Stoney Buell and Brody Baumann all earned auto-bids for their first trip to the NCAA tournament this season.
• Greyson Clark and Joey Blaze made the NCAA tournament following fantastic collegiate debut seasons. It is only the third time in program history that two true-freshmen qualified in the same season, happening only in 2021 and 1947.
• Blaze's No. 23 seed is the fourth highest ever for a Purdue true-freshman.
• Clark, Blaze and Baumann's qualifications give Purdue 39 freshmen that have wrestled in the national tournament, 11 under Ersland.
• Buell brings momentum to the tournament, most recently taking a 15-7 major over fellow qualifier Blaine Brenner to take 7th at Big Tens. He has won six of his last nine matches.
• Brody Baumann is the lone Boiler from Indiana to qualify for this year's and is one of 10 wrestlers from the state as a whole.
PURDUE QUALIFIERS
NUMBERS TO KNOW
2 - Last season, Purdue put two on the national podium when Matt Ramos and Parker Filius became the program's 60th and 61st All-Americans.
3 - Clark, Blaze and Baumann make it the first time since 2008 that Purdue has sent three freshmen to the NCAA tournament.
25 - Ramos is tied for the second most D1 wins amongst the top-10 seeds.
61 - Tony Ersland has sent 61 wrestlers to the NCAA Championships in his 10 years with the Boilermakers.
12 - Ramos has the most top-10 wins of the Ersland era with 12, passing Dylan Lydy with 11. He is a combined 6-3 against this year's top-10 seeds in his career.
LIVIN LARGE ON TULSA TIME
2023 was a banner year for the Ersland era of Purdue Wrestling. After coming close on numerous occasions, the Boilermakers finally broke through the All-American barrier and put two on the podium at the NCAA Championships in Tulsa.
Matt Ramos and Parker Filius became the 60th and 61st All-Americans in program history after wrestling to second and seventh place finishes on the national stage. Their efforts helped the Boilermakers to a t-20 finish, tied for the best team finish since 2003.
The sophomore Ramos upset No. 1 seeded and three-time reigning champion Spencer Lee of Iowa in the semifinals to earn his spot in the final. The win is being proclaimed as one of the biggest upsets in NCAA wrestling history, and he made plenty of Purdue history along the way as well. He was the first NCAA finalist for the program since 2006 and only the 13th in total. He was also the youngest Boilermaker to make a final, the other 12 were all upperclassmen.
CHASING HISTORY
This postseason, Matt Ramos has the opportunity to reset the clock in multiple categories for the Boilermakers.
In this NCAA tournament, the Lockport, Ill., native could be the first Boiler to:
- Win a national title since Charles Jones in 1992
- Go back-to-back on the podium since Ben Wissell took 8th and 7th in 2005-06.
- Be a finalist in straight seasons since Arnold Plaza went to three in a row from 1948-1950
- Go from finalist to champion
- Earn back-to-back top-four finishes since Chris Fleeger went 3rd and 2nd in 2002-03
He would be the program's 5th champion, 14th finalist (became the 10th individual last year), and 62nd All-American (became 47th individual last year).
KANSAS CITY CRUISIN
It has been 21 years since the NCAA Wrestling Championships were last in the BBQ Capital of the World and that tournament in 2003 was good to the Boilermakers.
The team took eight qualifiers with two wrestling their way into All-American status to lead the team to a 14th place finish, the team's best this century. Chris Fleeger earned his second straight medal in a second place finish at 125 while Ryan Lange picked up the first of his career by taking eighth at 174.
SCHEDULE AND INFO
| Session 1 | 12 PM | ESPNU | First Round |
| Session 2 | 7 PM | ESPN | Second Round, Cons. 1st Round |
| Session 3 | 12 PM | ESPNU | Quarters, Cons. 2nd + 3rd Round |
| Session 4 | 8 PM | ESPN | Semifinals, Cons. 4th + 5th Round |
| Session 5 | 11 AM | ESPNU | 3rd, 5th, and 7th Place |
| Session 6 | 7 PM | ESPN | Finals |
All matches will also be streamed on ESPN+.
All times Eastern.
PURDUE POINTS
• Matt Ramos is the No. 4 seed for the second straight season and will look to take the final next step this year after finishing as Purdue's ninth runner-up in 2023.
• Ramos is the first Boiler to earn a top-five seed in back-to-back NCAA tournaments since Chris Fleeger in 2002-03.
• Greyson Clark, Joey Blaze, Stoney Buell and Brody Baumann all earned auto-bids for their first trip to the NCAA tournament this season.
• Greyson Clark and Joey Blaze made the NCAA tournament following fantastic collegiate debut seasons. It is only the third time in program history that two true-freshmen qualified in the same season, happening only in 2021 and 1947.
• Blaze's No. 23 seed is the fourth highest ever for a Purdue true-freshman.
• Clark, Blaze and Baumann's qualifications give Purdue 39 freshmen that have wrestled in the national tournament, 11 under Ersland.
• Buell brings momentum to the tournament, most recently taking a 15-7 major over fellow qualifier Blaine Brenner to take 7th at Big Tens. He has won six of his last nine matches.
• Brody Baumann is the lone Boiler from Indiana to qualify for this year's and is one of 10 wrestlers from the state as a whole.
PURDUE QUALIFIERS
| Wt. | Wrestler | Seed |
| 125 | Matt Ramos (R-Jr.) | 4 |
| 141 | Greyson Clark (Fr.) | 29 |
| 157 | Joey Blaze (Fr.) | 23 |
| 165 | Stoney Buell (R-So.) | 24 |
| 174 | Brody Baumann (R-Fr.) | 32 |
NUMBERS TO KNOW
2 - Last season, Purdue put two on the national podium when Matt Ramos and Parker Filius became the program's 60th and 61st All-Americans.
3 - Clark, Blaze and Baumann make it the first time since 2008 that Purdue has sent three freshmen to the NCAA tournament.
25 - Ramos is tied for the second most D1 wins amongst the top-10 seeds.
61 - Tony Ersland has sent 61 wrestlers to the NCAA Championships in his 10 years with the Boilermakers.
12 - Ramos has the most top-10 wins of the Ersland era with 12, passing Dylan Lydy with 11. He is a combined 6-3 against this year's top-10 seeds in his career.
LIVIN LARGE ON TULSA TIME
2023 was a banner year for the Ersland era of Purdue Wrestling. After coming close on numerous occasions, the Boilermakers finally broke through the All-American barrier and put two on the podium at the NCAA Championships in Tulsa.
Matt Ramos and Parker Filius became the 60th and 61st All-Americans in program history after wrestling to second and seventh place finishes on the national stage. Their efforts helped the Boilermakers to a t-20 finish, tied for the best team finish since 2003.
The sophomore Ramos upset No. 1 seeded and three-time reigning champion Spencer Lee of Iowa in the semifinals to earn his spot in the final. The win is being proclaimed as one of the biggest upsets in NCAA wrestling history, and he made plenty of Purdue history along the way as well. He was the first NCAA finalist for the program since 2006 and only the 13th in total. He was also the youngest Boilermaker to make a final, the other 12 were all upperclassmen.
CHASING HISTORY
This postseason, Matt Ramos has the opportunity to reset the clock in multiple categories for the Boilermakers.
In this NCAA tournament, the Lockport, Ill., native could be the first Boiler to:
- Win a national title since Charles Jones in 1992
- Go back-to-back on the podium since Ben Wissell took 8th and 7th in 2005-06.
- Be a finalist in straight seasons since Arnold Plaza went to three in a row from 1948-1950
- Go from finalist to champion
- Earn back-to-back top-four finishes since Chris Fleeger went 3rd and 2nd in 2002-03
He would be the program's 5th champion, 14th finalist (became the 10th individual last year), and 62nd All-American (became 47th individual last year).
KANSAS CITY CRUISIN
It has been 21 years since the NCAA Wrestling Championships were last in the BBQ Capital of the World and that tournament in 2003 was good to the Boilermakers.
The team took eight qualifiers with two wrestling their way into All-American status to lead the team to a 14th place finish, the team's best this century. Chris Fleeger earned his second straight medal in a second place finish at 125 while Ryan Lange picked up the first of his career by taking eighth at 174.