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Purdue All-Quarter Century Wrestling Team: 149 lbsPurdue All-Quarter Century Wrestling Team: 149 lbs

Purdue All-Quarter Century Wrestling Team: 149 lbs

by Brook Weber

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — To commemorate the past 25 years, head coach Tony Ersland and his staff are unveiling Purdue’s All-Quarter Century Team featuring some of the greatest Boilermaker wrestlers since the turn of the 21st century.

Recognizing wrestlers who competed for Purdue between 2000-2025, the list is being revealed with 10 separate releases leading up to the 2025-26 season, one for each weight class, continuing on Monday with 149 pounds.

The selection criteria for any All-Quarter Century Team is unavoidably subjective, but wrestlers who earned All-America honors, NCAA qualifiers, multiple-time Big Ten placewinners and others with outstanding career accomplishments were among the key points of consideration.

Some of the wrestlers on the All-Quarter Century Team excelled at multiple weights while donning the Old Gold & Black. Most of the honorees will be presented among the weight classes in which they finished their careers, though some liberties were taken for the sake of keeping the number of wrestlers relatively even at each weight.

Below is a look at the release schedule leading into the first week of the season.

Monday, Aug. 18 ... 125 lbs
Monday, Aug. 25 ... 133 lbs
Monday, Sept. 1 ... 141 lbs
Monday, Sept. 8 ... 149 lbs
Monday, Sept. 15 ... 157 lbs
Monday, Sept. 22 ... 165 lbs
Monday, Sept. 29 ... 174 lbs
Monday, Oct. 6 ... 184 lbs
Monday, Oct. 13 ... 197 lbs
Monday, Oct. 20 ... Heavyweight

Without further ado...

JAKE PATACSIL (2005-09)

A member of one of the all-time great Boilermaker wrestling families, Jake Patacsil is the son of Frank Patacsil, nephew of Ted Patacsil, and grandson of Joe Patacsil, all of whom wrestled at Purdue.

His grandfather, Joe, was the 1950 national champion at 128 lbs, one of Purdue’s three NCAA wrestling champions.

Jake was a three-year starter, captain and NCAA Championships qualifier in the late 2000s. As a senior in 2009, he capped his career with a fifth-place All-American finish at 149 lbs. He is tied for the sixth-most NCAA tournament wins in school history (10).

Patacsil was a three-time Most Valuable Wrestler award winner at Purdue and recorded a 120-41 career record. He is Purdue’s all-time leader in back points with 803, which is head and shoulders above the rest; the next closest is Devin Schroder (2018-22) with 522.

Patacsil also ranks third on Purdue’s all-time win list (120), second in reversals (51) and 10th in falls (25). After graduating, he went on to coach at Central College, Notre Dame College, Duke, Hofstra, Mount Olive and St. Thomas.

IVAN LOPOUCHANSKI (2011-13)

Wrestling just two years as a Boiler after transferring from UNC-Greensboro, Ivan Lopouchanski put together an impressive resume in a relatively short amount of time.

Hailing from Hollywood, Florida, he broke a three-year Purdue All-American drought when he placed seventh at the 2013 NCAA Championships. Lopouchanski won five matches in the national tournament that year, putting an exclamation point on his 32-4 senior season.

With a 48-12 (.800) career record, he still holds the seventh-best win percentage in Boilermaker wrestling history.

Lopouchanski, now a soldier in the U.S. Army, holds a second-degree black belt in judo and a first-degree in jiu-jitsu. In judo, he captured the Junior National Championship in 2006. He’s also prolific in sambo, another form of wrestling, and competed and won the 65 kg title in the All-Armed Forces Freestyle Championship in 2020 while representing the U.S. Army.

Lopouchanski went on to coach at UIndy and The Citadel before joining the Army in 2018.

GRIFFIN PARRIOTT (2016-21)

A dual-weight standout between 149 and 157 pounds, Griffin Parriott made three trips to the national tournament, twice at 149 pounds.

The 2020 NWCA Honorable Mention All-American improved his national seeding each year, entering the 2019 NCAA Championships at No. 19, 2020 at No. 16 (canceled due to COVID-19) and 2021 at No. 15.

Parriott is one of 35 Boilermakers to win five-plus matches in the NCAA tournament.

He was one of the unfortunate few who missed out on a chance to make waves in the 2020 NCAA Championships since it was cancelled for the pandemic. The 2019-20 Boilermakers were arguably the most talented team yet of the Ersland era.

DAN JANKOWSKI (2001-04)

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Dan Jankowski was a two-time NCAA qualifier in the early 2000s, qualifying at 149 in 2003 and 2004.

He placed eighth in the conference as a redshirt sophomore, sixth as a redshirt junior and sixth as a redshirt senior.

Jankowski still holds the No. 11 spot in school history for takedowns (272) and is tied for 17th with 31 reversals.

DOUG WITHSTANDLEY (2002-06)

Doug Withstandley shined his brightest at tournaments throughout his Purdue tenure. He was Purdue’s first 149-pound placewinner at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, taking eighth place as a redshirt junior in 2004.

He twice qualified for the NCAA Championships, first at 141 in 2004 before jumping to 149 in 2005.

Withstandley most notably won the Big Ten silver medal in 2004, helping Purdue to a sixth-place conference finish which was the highest since 1992.

The Jackson, New Jersey native remains tied for 11th on the Purdue charts for back points (203).