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OHIO STATE WRESTLING 1 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP • 23 INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL CHAMPIONS • 5 BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS 56 INDIVIDUAL BIG TEN CHAMPIONS • 115 ALL-AMERICANS • 5 OLYMPIANS • 19 OHIO STATE HALL OF FAMERS 20212021 SCHEDULE SCHEDULE AND AND RESULTSRESULTS OHIO STATE AT BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS Thur-Sat, March 18-20 • St. Louis, Mo. • Enterprise Center • ESPN 5-4 Big Ten Conference OHIO STATE NCAA PARTICIPANTS Jan. 17 at #24 Illinois L, 15-18 Jan. 17 vs. #21 Wisconsin W, 25-9 WT. WRESTLER SEED RECORD YEAR HOMETOWN Jan. 24 #17 Rutgers W, 19-14 125 lbs Malik Heinselman 10 10-3 Jr. Castle Rock, Colo. Jan. 29 Michigan St. W, 24-9 Jan. 31 at Maryland W, 41-0 141 lbs Dylan D’Emilio 30 7-6 R-Fr. Curtice, Ohio Feb. 7 vs. #1 Iowa L, 14-33 149 lbs Sammy Sasso 1 12-0 R-So. Nazareth, Pa. Feb. 7 at Purdue W, 23-12 165 lbs Ethan Smith 7 11-2 R-Jr. Latrobe, Pa. Feb. 12 at #2 Michigan L, 16-18 Feb. 19 #3 Penn State L, 12-28 174 lbs Kaleb Romero 7 9-4 R-Jr. Mechanicsburg, Ohio Mar. 6-7 Big Ten Championships 9th, 69.5 184 lbs Rocky Jordan 24 5-8 R-So. St. Paris, Ohio Mar. 18-20 NCAA Championships HWT Tate Orndorff 21 7-8 R-Jr. Spokane, Wash. All Times Eastern. Home matches in BOLD • Ohio State enters the fi nal competition with seven wrestlers set to compete. Four Buckeyes are Top 10 seeds in their respective weight classes including top-seeded Sammy Sasso at 149-pounds. • The Buckeyes have had 23 individual national champions and at least one Buckeye has won a national title in seven of the last eight NCAA Championships • As a team, the Buckeyes have won the 2015 NCAA Team Championship • Under head coach Tom Ryan (since 2007), the Buckeyes have fi nished in the Top 10 at the NCAA Championships in all but one season • Last year, there obviously wasn’t a championship but in 2019, Ohio State fi nished runner- up on the strength of three runner-up fi nishes as well as a third and a fourth-place fi nish. • Sammy Sasso led the Buckeye charge at the Big Ten Championship, winning the title at 149. The Nazareth, Pa., native is 12-0 on the season with three pin falls and is 6-0 vs. Top 25 ranked opponents. He enters the championship at the top overall seed at 149. • Ethan Smith is coming off a good run at the Big Ten Championship, fi nishing runner-up to No. 1 Alex Marinelli in a tremendous 3-2 match. Smith is the No. 7 seed at 165 and enters with an 11-2 record. Smith lost his fi rst match of the season, won his next 11 and then lost his most recent match. • Kaleb Romero missed a couple of weeks during the regular season but he is still one of the best wrestlers at 174 and he enters this weekend at the No. 7 seed. • Malik Heinselman fi nished fourth at 125 at the Big Ten Championships. He has a 10-3 OHIO STATE overall record and was the only member of the team this year to receiver his “Black WRESTLING ON Shirt”. That signifi es a student-athlete is conducting themselves in the right way on and SOCIAL MEDIA off the mat and he can now wear black inside the Jennings Wrestling Facility. Heinselman joins Sasso, Smith and Romero as current Black Shirts. Twitter: @WrestlingBucks • The abbreviated regular season was an up-and-down one for the Buckeyes. A season- Instagram: @WrestlingBucks opening loss at Illinois was followed by four consecutive victories, including a 41-0 sweep Facebook: /OhioStateUniversityWrestling of Maryland. That was the fi rst sweep for the Buckeyes of a Big Ten opponent since 1979 OhioStateBuckeyes.com and just the fourth time overall. The season then ended with losses in three of the last four matches. OHIO STATE AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP 202021 ROSTER UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Name Wt. Yr. Hometown/High School (Previous College) Location ..............................Columbus, Ohio Gavin Bell 184 Fr. Beavercreek, Ohio Beavercreek Population ..................................... 1.7 million Nicholas Boykin HWT r-Fr. Murfreesboro, Tenn. Riverdale Founded .................................................. 1870 Elijah Cleary 157 r-Sr. Winter Park, Fla. Lake Highland Prep Joined Big Ten ........................................ 1912 Dylan D’Emilio 141 r-Fr. Curtice, Ohio Genoa First Season of Big Ten Play .............. 1913 Jacob Decatur 125 r-Fr. Akron, Ohio Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy Enrollment ............................................ 61,170 Jordan Decatur 133 So. Akron, Ohio Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy Nickname .......................................Buckeyes Anthony Echemendia 141 Fr. Cabaiguan, Cuba Sunnyside (Ariz.) Colors .................................Scarlet and Gray President ..................... Kristina M. Johnson Alex Flerlage 125 Fr. St. Louis, Mo. Christian Brothers College Director of Athletics ...............Gene Smith Kevon Freeman 165 r-So. Mentor, Ohio Lake Catholic SWA ..........................................Janine Oman Trey Grenier 149 Jr. Powell, Ohio Olentangy Liberty Faculty Rep. ................... John E. Davidson Malik Heinselman 125 Jr. Castle Rock, Colo. Castle View Website ...............OhioStateBuckeyes.com Cade Hepner 165 r-Jr. Avon, Ohio St. Edward Bryce Hepner 157/165 Fr. Avon, Ohio St. Edward Gavin Hoff man 197 r-So. Montoursville, Pa. Montoursville PROGRAMPROGRAM HISTORY Jashon Hubbard 165 r-So. Steubenville, Ohio Steubenville First Season: 1921 Rocky Jordan 184 r-So. St. Paris, Ohio St. Paris Graham All-Time Record: 808-532-28 Carson Kharchla 165 r-Fr. Powell, Ohio Olentangy Liberty All-Time Big Ten Record: 318-361-20 Dylan Koontz 125 r-Jr. Plover, Wis. Stevens Point Area Sr. Big Ten Championships (Last): 5 (2018) Brady Koontz 125 r-So. Plover, Wis. Stevens Point Area Sr. Individual Big Ten Titles: 56 Phillip Kue 141 r-Fr. Gresham, Ore. Centennial National Championships: 1 Tate Orndorff HWT r-Jr. Spokane, Wash. University Individual NCAA Titles: 23 Klay Reeves 149 r-Fr. Alexandria, Ohio Northridge All-Americans: 115 Kaleb Romero 174 r-Jr. Mechanicsburg, Ohio Mechanicsburg Olympians: 5 Sammy Sasso 149 r-So. Nazareth, Pa. Nazareth Fritz Schierl 174 r-Sr. Stevens Point, Wis. Stevens Point Area Sr. Chase Singletary 197 r-Jr. Naples, Fla. Blair Academy (N.J.) Ethan Smith 165 r-Jr. Latrobe, Pa. Sparrows Point (Md.) Tyler Stein 197 r-Fr. Canfi eld, Ohio Canfi eld Zach Steiner 184 r-Jr. Creston, Ohio Norwayne JD Stickley 149 r-So. Urbana, Ohio St. Paris Graham Gary Traub HWT r-Sr. Cincinnati, Ohio Sycamore Isaac Wilcox 157 Fr. Holladay, Utah Olympus COACHING AND SUPPORT STAFF Head Coach - Tom Ryan Associate Head Coach - J Jaggers Assistant Coach - Tervel Dlagnev COVELLI CENTER Director of Recruiting & Operations - Anthony Ralph Seating Capacity ..............................4,177 Volunteer Assistant Coach - Bo Jordan Square Feet ..................................100,00+ Director of Wrestling Sports Science & Development - Riley Ross Ohio State Record ...............................9-2 Athletic Trainer - Wil Turner Address ............ 2640 Fred Taylor Drive .................................Columbus, OH 43210 HEAD COACH TOM RYAN Hometown: Wantagh, New York Alma Mater: Iowa, 1993 (Education) Record at Ohio State: 176-60 (14+ years) Career Record: 285-143-1 (25+ years) NCAA Champions Coached: 12 NCAA Coach of the Year Awards: 2 Big Ten Coach of the Year Awards: 3 JENNINGS WRESTLING FACILITY Full-size wrestling mats ....................... 5 Square Feet .......................................600+ SOCIAL MEDIA: @BUCKEYE158 COMPLETE BIO GO.OSU.EDU/TOMRYAN Olympic Training Center ........................1 Weight Room .............................................1 Take a behind-the- scenes look inside the Ohio State wrestling program with ‘Beyond the Block O’ - Season 3 video series. ↓↓↓ go.osu.edu/btbo-wrestling OHIO STATE AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS & RESULTS Name Weight Record Dual Dual+/- MD TF Pins Top-25* Jacob Decatur 125 0-1 - - - - - - Malik Heinselman 125 10-3 7-1 +22 1 - 2 5-3 Brady Koontz 125 2-5 0-1 -6 - - - 0-1 Jordan Decatur 133 6-4 4-4 -3 - - - 0-2 Dylan Koontz 133 1-1 0-1 -5 - - - 0-1 Phillip Kue 133 0-1 - - - - - - Dylan D’Emilio 141 7-6 2-3 -4 1 1 - 0-3 Anthony Echemendia 141 4-1 3-1 +3 - - - 0-1 Trey Grenier 149 0-1 - - - - - - Sammy Sasso 149 12-0 9-0 +38 1 1 3 6-0 JD Stickley 149 2-2 - - 2 - - - Elijah Cleary 157 7-8 3-6 -3 - - - 2-4 Kevon Freeman 157/165 1-1 - - - - - - Bryce Hepner 157 3-1 - - - - 2 - Isaac Wilcox 157 2-2 - - - - - - Ethan Smith 165 11-2 8-1 +29 4 1 1 4-2 Kaleb Romero 174 9-4 5-2 +12 3 - - 3-4 Fritz Schierl 174 1-4 0-2 -7 - - - 0-1 Gavin Bell 184 0-1 - - - - - - Rocky Jordan 184 5-8 4-5 -2 1 1 - 2-7 Zach Steiner 184 1-2 - - 1 - - - Nick Boykin 197 0-1 - - - - - - Gavin Hoff man 197 5-7 2-5 -6 1 - - 1-5 Chase Singletary 197 4-1 1-1 -1 2 - 1 0-1 Tate Orndorff HWT 7-8 4-5 -6 2 - 1 1-8 Gary Traub HWT 1-2 - - - - - - *Track Wrestling rankings DUAL MATCH RESULTS #24 ILLINOIS 18, #7 OHIO STATE 15 State Farm Center | Champaign, Ill. | Jan. 17, 2021 165 — No. 8 Danny Braunagel (ILL) def. Ethan Smith — D, 6-5; Team Score 0-3 174 — No. 4 Kaleb Romero def. DJ Shannon (ILL) — D, 8-1; TS 3-3 184 — No. 10 Zac Braunagel (ILL) def. No. 9 Rocky Jordan — D, 2-0; TS 3-6 197 — Matt Wroblewski (ILL) def. Gavin Hoff man — D, 4-2; TS 3-9 HWT — No. 25 Luke Luff man (ILL) def. No. 6 Tate Orndorff — D, 3-2; TS 3-12 125 — No. 21 Mailk Heinselman def. No. 13 Justin Cardani (ILL) — D, 5-2; TS 6-12 133 — Lucas Byrd (ILL) def.