2024 NCAA All-American (Seventh, 133)
2024 133-Pound Big Ten Champion
Two-time NCAA Qualifier (2022, 2024)
Two-time Big Ten Championships Placewinner (2022, 2024)
Three-Time Big Ten Champions (2021-22, 2024)
2023 Midlands Runner-Up Finish
2023 U23 World Team Trials Participant
2023-24 (Redshirt Junior): 2024 NCAA All-American ... 2024 Big Ten Champion ... finished season with a team-high 27 victories ... 2023-24 team dual meet scoring champion with 53 team points ... wrestled to a seventh-place finish and All-America status at the 2024 NCAA Wrestling Championships in Kansas City, Missouri (3/21-23) ... earned No. 4 seed at 133 pounds for the national tournament ... went 4-0, including a 23-8 tech fall over Dylan Ragusin (Michigan) to earn the program's first individual Big Ten title since 2019 at the 2024 Big Ten Wrestling Championships in College Park, Maryland (3/9-10) ... closed the season with three consecutive wins over top-20 opponents, including victories over No. 6 Aaron Nagao (Penn State), No. 12 Nic Bouzakis (Ohio State) and No. 16 Braxton Brown (Maryland) ... earned runner-up finish at 2023 Midlands Championships in Hoffman Estates, Illinois (12/29-30) ... moved up from 125 to 133 pounds to begin the season.
2022-23 (Redshirt Sophomore): Wrestled to a 12-5 record at 125 pounds before missing the rest of the season due to injury.
2021-22 (Freshman): 2022 NCAA Qualifier ... 2022 Big Ten Championships placewinner ... 2021 Matmen Open placewinner ... finished season with 23 victories, a 15-5 record in dual action and four Big Ten dual wins as full-time starter at 125 pounds ... registered 54 dual points ... went 2-2 as first NCAA Championships (3/17-19) ... placed seventh with a 3-2 record at 2022 Big Ten Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska (3/5-6) ... finished sixth at the 2021 Matmen Open (12/29-30) ... opened season with an 11-0 record.
2020-21 (Freshman)
- Finished true freshman season with four wins
- Earned postseason spot at 125 pounds and went 2-3 at Big Ten Championships, which included a 6-5 decision over No. 13 Patrick McKee in the first round
- Pinned Purdue Kooper Loehr in extra match against the Boilermakers (Jan. 31)
- Recorded first varsity win of career in extra match at No. 11 Ohio State (Jan. 24)
Prior to Rutgers: Competed at Elyria High School in Ohio … went 46-3 and captured section and regional titles as a senior … Ohio state tournament was cancelled due to COVID-19 … three-time Ohio state placewinner, finishing second (sophomore), third (junior) and fourth (freshman) … four-time Beast of the East placewinner, finishing second as a junior and third as a senior … two-time Walsh Ironman placewinner, finishing third as a senior and fifth as a junior … won two Maumee Bay individual titles in 2018 and 2020 … 2017-18 Wrestler of the Year as a sophomore by the
Morning Journal … No. 8 ranked wrestler at 126 pounds by
FloWrestling … No. 11 126-pounder in the country by
Intermat.
| YEAR |
OVERALL |
DUALS (B1G) |
TRN (B1G/NCAA) |
MD (DUALS) |
TF (DUALS) |
F (DUALS) |
FASTEST |
DUAL PTS. |
| 2020-21 |
4-3 |
--- |
2-3/--- |
--- |
--- |
1 (0) |
4:30 |
0 |
| 2021-22 |
23-11 |
15-5 (4-4) |
3-2/2-2 |
4 (2) |
2 (2) |
--- |
--- |
54 |
| 2022-23 |
12-5 |
2-1 (0-0) |
--- |
4 (0) |
--- |
2 (1) |
4:22 |
9 |
| 2023-24 |
27-7 |
13-3 (6-2) |
4-0/4-2 |
5 (2) |
5 (4) |
2 (1) |
4:29 |
53 |
| CAREER |
66-26 |
30-9 (10-6) |
9-5/6-4 |
13 (4) |
7 (6) |
5 (2) |
4:22 |
116 |
