Purdue is coming off a rare West Coast trip in which it won 19-13 at Cal Poly and 39-3 at Cal State Bakersfield. The squad is 2-0 for a second straight season. This weekend’s trip is Purdue’s last before returning home to host the Boilermaker Duals on Saturday, Nov. 15, a quad against Buffalo (10 a.m.), Northern Illinois (~noon) and American (~2 p.m.) inside the historic Lambert Fieldhouse.
COMPETITION FOR RANKED BOILERS
All nine of Missouri’s ranked starters have been announced as competitors in the field. The competing wrestlers from Little Rock, Oklahoma and South Dakota State have not yet been publicized. The following breakdowns are under the assumption that each team will compete all their ranked starters, though that likely won’t be the case.
133 | No. 17 Blake Boarman (PUR), No. 15 Derrick Cardinal (SDSU) and No. 25 Kade Moore (MIZ)
141 | No. 17 Greyson Clark (PUR), No. 12 Julian Tragg (SDSU), No. 23 Alex Braun (OU)
157 | No. 28 Stoney Buell (PUR), No. 7 Rafael Hipolito (OU), No. 14 Cael Swensen (SDSU), No. 22 J Conway (MIZ), No. 29 Javion Jones (LR)
174 | No. 21 Brody Baumann (PUR), No. 8 Cam Steed (MIZ), No. 31 Moses Espinoza-Owens (SDSU)
197 | No. 26 Ben Vanadia (PUR), No. 3 Stephen Little (LR), No. 7 Bennett Berge (SDSU), No. 8 DJ Parker (OU), No. 12 Evan Bates (MIZ)
SIX TO MSU OPEN
Additionally, six underclassmen will be making the trip to East Lansing, Mich., to wrestle in the Michigan State Open on Saturday. It falls on the same weekend as Tiger Style again this year — last season, five young Boilers traveled separately to the MSU Open including Dominic Burgett, Ashton Jackson, Cole Solomey, Cooper Rider and Delaney Ruhlman. Jackson placed fourth and Solomey took sixth.
Accompanied by assistant coach Matt Ramos, Purdue's travel party this year features freshmen Aidan Costello, Ty Henderson, Vincent Paino, Adrian Pellot and Brody Saccoccia as well as redshirt freshman RJ Powers.
