PISCATAWAY, N.J. – It is officially the postseason, as No. 11 Rutgers wrestling competes at the 2025 Big Ten Wrestling Championships from March 8-9 in Evanston, Illinois. The program looks to send seven or more Scarlet Knights to the national tournament for the fourth consecutive season when wrestling begins on Saturday at Welsh-Ryan Arena.
For the third consecutive season, Big Ten Network and Big Ten Plus will offer live linear and streaming coverage of all four sessions at the Big Ten Wrestling Championships. Linear coverage on the Big Ten Network is also available on the FOX Sports app.
Saturday, March 8 (All Times Eastern)
Sunday, March 9 (All Times Eastern)
* One of two individuals pre-seeded at No. 5, with final seeds decided on Friday.
- Dean Peterson earned the No. 3 seed at 125 pounds, the highest seed for Rutgers wrestling this weekend. No. 5 seed Dylan Shawver (133), No. 5 seed Yaraslau Slavikouski (HWT), No. 6 seed Joseph Olivieri (141), No. 6 seed Andrew Clark (149), No. 6 seed Jackson Turley (174) and No. 7 seed Shane Cartagena-Walsh (184) all earned top eight seeds ahead of the conference tournament. Slavikouski is one of two wrestlers pre-seeded at No. 5 in his weight class along with Luke Luffman (Illinois) – with the final seeding to be decided on Friday.
- Conner Harer (157) and Anthony White (165) are both pre-seeded No. 10, while PJ Casale (197) is the No. 13 pre-seed.
- This will be the fourth trip to the Big Ten Championships for Shawver and Turley. Clark, Olivieri, Peterson and White will compete for the third time in their respective careers. Slavikouski returns for his second consecutive conference championships, while Cartagena-Walsh, Casale and Harer will make their Big Ten Championships debuts.
- Rutgers wrapped up the regular season No. 11 in the final NWCA Coaches Poll. It marked the Scarlet Knights' highest finish in the rankings since it closed the 2015-16 campaign No. 10 and the program's 13th top 25 final team ranking under head coach Scott Goodale.
- RU finished 14-5 during the dual season, including a 5-3 mark in the Big Ten Conference for its first winning league record since 2018-19. Its 14 victories were the most for Rutgers since it posted 16 in 2021-22. The Scarlet Knights tallied an impressive 5-1 mark at Jersey Mike's Arena in 2024-25, which included a thrilling 16-15 win over No. 10 Illinois for their first win over a top 10 opponent in six years.
- Ten Scarlet Knights closed the regular season ranked in at least one media poll, including nine weights ranked by Intermat. No. 7 Slavikouski, No. 11 Peterson, No. 11 Shawver, No. 13 Olivieri, No. 16 Cartagena-Walsh and No. 18 Clark all own top 20 individual rankings from the publication heading into the postseason.
- Rutgers finished sixth with 87.5 team points at last year's Big Ten Championships in College Park, Maryland – its best result at Big Tens since it placed fifth in 2016 with 106.5 points in Iowa City. RU's seven placewinners were also its most since all 10 starters earned podium positions during the 2016 installment of the championships.
- The performance included a 133-pound Big Ten title from Dylan Shawver, the program's first individual conference championship since Anthony Ashnault and Nick Suriano both won in 2019.
- Shawver was one of seven placewinners for Rutgers at the conference championships, as Shawver, Dean Peterson (125), Mitch Moore (141), Jackson Turley (174), Brian Soldano (184), John Poznanski (197) and Yaraslau Slavikouski (HWT) all qualified for the 2024 NCAA Championships. Michael Cetta (149) also earned an at-large selection to make it eight national qualifiers.
- Rutgers closes the season at the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships, held March 20-22 in Philadelphia.
