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#20 Purdue To Try Luck at Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite

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by Brook Weber

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — No. 20 Purdue Wrestling will compete in the 43rd annual Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational this weekend.

Long considered the premier regular-season tournament in college wrestling, the two-day event will take place Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5-6, in the Westgate Hotel Paradise Event Center. It will be Purdue’s 19th appearance in the prestigious double-elimination tournament.

The live broadcast, linked above, will be available to those with a FloWrestling subscription. As always, match-by-match coverage will be provided on the @PurdueWrestling X/Twitter page.

SCHEDULE

Friday, Dec. 5
12 p.m. ET – Session 1
9 p.m. ET – Session 2

Saturday, Dec. 6
1 p.m. ET – Session 3
6 p.m. ET – Session 4 (Finals)

PURDUE LINEUP

125 | Ashton Jackson
133 | #26 Blake Boarman
141 | #19 Greyson Clark
149 | Gavin Brown
157 | #19 Stoney Buell
165 | #4 Joey Blaze
174 | #21 Brody Baumann
184 | #26 James Rowley
197 | #23 Ben Vanadia
285 | #32 Hayden Filipovich

PREVIEW

The field consists of 32 of the nation’s top programs, and 13 top-30 teams (including No. 20 Purdue): No. 4 Iowa State, No. 6 Oklahoma State, No. 8 Michigan, No. 10 Stanford, No. 11 Cornell, No. 16 West Virginia, No. 17 Virginia Tech, No. 18 Arizona State, No. 21 South Dakota State, No. 24 Oklahoma, T-No. 26 Cal Poly, T-No. 26 Wyoming and No. 30 Navy.

Purdue’s newest assistant coach, Matt Ramos, won the 125-pound tournament crown last year as a redshirt senior. He was the first Boilermaker to win a CKLV title since Dylan Lydy in 2019, and just the fifth in school history.

Joey Blaze (165), currently ranked No. 4 in the country, was Purdue’s other placewinner last season, finishing sixth after suffering an injury in the winners’ bracket that forced him to forfeit his remaining matches. The 2025 NCAA runner-up is poised to break through and aims for the top of the podium this time around.

No. 21 Brody Baumann (174) and No. 19 Stoney Buell (157) are also key wrestlers to watch after winning titles at the Tiger Style Invite last month. Purdue is sending all eight of its ranked wrestlers to compete this weekend.

The double-elimination tournament features 10 different brackets, one for each weight class, with 10 titles up for grabs. Per FloWrestling, the field could consist of over 120 ranked wrestlers in total. Click here to view all the potential ranked stars competing in Las Vegas.

In 18 appearances, Purdue as a team has placed in the top 10 nine different times, including four of the past six trips. A total of 51 Boilermakers have climbed the podium as placewinners since Purdue’s first CKLV appearance in 2002.

LAST TIME OUT

After a dominant 38-4 dual performance at Davidson on Sunday, Nov. 23, the Boilermakers are 6-0 for the first time since 2021. Purdue has outscored opponents 193-45, which is the fewest dual points allowed through six duals since 2012 and the third-fewest allowed in the past 83 years.