CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2025)
• Three-time Academic All-Big Ten (2024, 2025, 2026)
• Two-time NWCA Scholar All-American (2024, 2026)
• 2026 CSC Academic All-District
• Team award winner: Joe Patacsil Leadership (2025)
| Season | W-L (pct.) | Duals | Big Ten | MD | TF | Pins |
| 2022-23 (Fr. at Wisconsin) | 2-5 (.286) | 1-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023-24 (R-Fr.) | 10-19 (.345) | 6-10 | 3-9 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024-25 (R-So.) | 10-3 (.769) | 5-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 2-0 |
| 2025-26 (R-Jr.) | 12-13 (.480) | 8-8 | 4-8 | 4-1 | 1-0 | 1-0 |
| Career | 34-40 (.459) | 20-21 | 9-19 | 8-3 | 3-2 | 3-0 |
2025-26 / AS A REDSHIRT JUNIOR
• Stats
• Returned from a season-ending injury and appeared in every dual, one of four Boilermakers to start all 16 duals
• Earned a career-high 12 wins (and eight dual wins) as Purdue’s starting 184-pounder
• Represented Purdue at the Big Ten Championships as the No. 10 seed, his second appearance at the conference tournament
• Posted a stellar 6-1 record in bonus point matches, securing four major decisions, one tech fall and one pin
• Totaled the team’s second-most reversals (7) and third-period points (68), only trailing All-American Joey Blaze
• Picked up three wins at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, coming up one win short of a podium finish
• Earned a signature win over No. 30 TJ McDonnell (Oregon State) in Vegas, a 12-5 decision for the sixth ranked victory of his career
• His only bonus-point loss was an eight-point major decision early in the year to No. 30 Caleb Campos. Hung tight in every match throughout a highly competitive Big Ten slate, facing eight foes ranked in the Top 25
• Became a two-time NWCA Scholar All-American
• Became a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection, part of the new program record total of 17 Boilermakers to take home the honor
• Recognized as an Academic All-District honoree by College Sports Communicators, one of three Boilermakers to earn the distinction
• Represented Boilermaker RTC in the senior freestyle 79 kg division at the 2026 U.S. Open in Las Vegas, finishing 2-2
2024-25 / AS A REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE
• Stats
• Took a big leap forward, going 10-3 as Purdue’s starting 184-pounder before suffering a season-ending leg injury at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite
• Opened the season unranked before climbing to a career-high mark of No. 26 in the InterMat rankings
• Compiled a perfect 5-0 record in duals
• Took third place at the Tiger Style Invite, going 3-1
• Stuck the first two pins of his career, first beating Brixan Burgess at the 4:40 mark in the season-opener at Gardner-Webb
• Earned two ranked wins over Princeton’s then-No. 27 Mikey Squires (9-3 decision) and Binghamton’s then-No. 19 Will Ebert (5-2 decision)
• Named Academic All-Big Ten for the second time as part of a program record tally of 15 Boilermakers to receive the honor in 2025
• Recognized as one of Purdue's two Big Ten Distinguished Scholars, awarded to student-athletes with a grade-point average of 3.7 or higher
• Won Purdue Wrestling's Joe Patacsil Leadership award at the team awards banquet
2023-24 / AS A REDSHIRT FRESHMAN
• Stats
• Posted a 10-19 record in his first full season of collegiate action
• Competed at the 2024 Big Ten Wrestling Championships
• Picked up six dual wins and five bonus point wins
• Beat No. 24 Caleb Hopkins of Campbell in a 12-3 major decision at the Cliff Keen Invite
• Secured an impressive 5-1 decision over Iowa’s Aiden Riggins in Carver-Hawkeye Arena
• Took fourth at the Clarion Open in his first tournament as a Boilermaker, beating NCAA qualifier Ryder Rogotzke of Ohio State in his opening match
• Led the team in reversals with six on the season
• Named a NWCA Scholar All-American
• Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors
2022-23 / AS A FRESHMAN / AT WISCONSIN
• Compiled an 8-8 record in unattached competition, earning two pins and a tech fall
• Earned his first career victory with a 4-3 decision over Iowa State’s MJ Gaitan in a dual match at the Battle in the River City
• Took third at the Don Parker Open, going 4-1 on the weekend
HIGH SCHOOL
• Four-time individual Oregon state champion
• Chosen as the Outstanding Wrestler at his final high school state tournament in 2022
• Three-time team Oregon 5A State Champion (2019, 21, 22)
• Two-time World Team member (2018 and 2021)
• Won a silver medal at the Cadet Freestyle World Championships
• Took the bronze medal at the U15 Freestyle World Championships
• Named Oregon’s representative for the 2022 Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award
• Earned a runner-up finish at the 2020 Super 32 tournament
• Placed third at the 2019 Reno Tournament of Champions
• Varsity Record: 154-10
PERSONAL
• Major: Law & Society
• Hometown: Corvallis, Oregon
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