OHIO STATE AT PENN STATE OHIO STATE WRESTLING 2019-20 SCHEDULE AND RESULTS 10-3, 6-2 Big Ten Conference #3 Nov. 2 Michigan State Open Ohio State is slotted third Nov. 10 Stanford W, 29-6 nationally across the board in all major media outlets’ Nov. 15 at Pittsburgh W, 23-12 tournament rankings. Nov. 17 Virginia Tech L, 15-21 FloWrestling, Trackwrestling, Dec. 1 Cornell (BTN Plus) W, 23-9 Intermat, TheOpenMat and WIN Dec. 6-7 CKLV Invitational 2nd place Magazine have all placed the Jan. 6 Arizona State (FS1) W, 17-16 Buckeyes No. 3 this week. Jan. 10 Rutgers (BTN Plus) W, 22-13 Jan. 17 at Wisconsin (BTN) W, 24-13 Jan. 19 Illinois (BTN Plus) W, 28-6 BUCKEYES VS. NITTANY LIONS TO CLOSE Jan. 24 at Iowa (BTN) L, 10-24 OUT THE 2019-20 REGULAR SEASON Jan. 26 at Minnesota (BTN) W, 22-13 Dual season comes to an end Saturday night in Happy Valley when the Jan. 31 Maryland (BTN Plus) W, 43-3 Buckeyes face Penn State at 7:30 p.m. ET inside the Bryce Jordan Center. Feb. 2 at Nebraska (BTN Plus) L, 14-19 Big Ten Network is broadcasting not only the dual but also a 30-minute Feb. 9 Northwestern (BTN Plus) W, 28-10 Feb. 15 at Penn State (BTN) 7:30 p.m. pre-match preview show. Both will be streamed by Fox Sports Go and the Mar. 7-8 Big Ten Championships Fox Sports Go app as well. Mar. 19-21 NCAA Championships All Times Eastern. Home matches in BOLD 3 <40 100 Number of Buckeyes Days left until the 2020 Seasons of Ohio State 5 ranked No. 1 nationally NCAA Championships wrestling, starting in 1921 Five Buckeyes have earned ‘black shirt’ #6 OHIO STATE (10-3, 6-2 B1G) AT #2 PENN STATE (10-2, 7-1 B1G) distinction (more info on page 3). FEB. 15 | 7:30 P.M. ET | UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. | BRYCE JORDAN CENTER Kaleb Romero (left) BROADCAST: BIG TEN NETWORK | LIVE SCORING: TRACKWRESTLING is the latest Buckeye to do so. PROBABLE LINEUPS OHIO STATE BUCKEYES ................................................. PENN STATE NITTANY LIONS (FloWrestling individual rankings used) Malik Heinselman (14-13, So.) -OR-..................... 125 lbs ...........................Brandon Meredith (12-11, r-Fr.) OHIO STATE Dylan Koontz (12-9, r-So.) ........................................................................................................................... WRESTLING ON Jordan Decatur (11-7, Fr.) .................................... 133 lbs .................No. 4 Roman Bravo-Young (15-1, So.) SOCIAL MEDIA No. 1 Luke Pletcher (23-0, Sr.) ............................141 lbs ....................................No. 2 Nick Lee (16-0, Jr.) No. 1 Sammy Sasso (21-2, r-Fr.) .......................... 149 lbs ............................ Luke Gardner (6-2, r-Jr.) -OR- .....................................................................................................................Jarod Verkleeren (14-5, r-So.) Twitter: @WrestlingBucks Elijah Cleary (13-10, r-Jr.) -OR- ............................ 157 lbs ............................. Brady Berge (1-0, r-So.) -OR- Instagram: @WrestlingBucks Quinn Kinner (14-5, r-Fr.) ...........................................................................................Bo Pipher (9-11, r-Jr.) Facebook: /OhioStateUniversityWrestling No. 14 Ethan Smith (15-10, r-So.) ......................... 165 lbs ....................... No. 1 Vincenzo Joseph (11-0, Sr.) OhioStateBuckeyes.com No. 7 Kaleb Romero (15-4, r-So.) ........................ 174 lbs ...................................No. 2 Mark Hall (18-1, Sr.) No. 12 Rocky Jordan (25-6, r-Fr.) ........................ 184 lbs .............................No. 7 Aaron Brooks (10-1, Fr.) No. 1 Kollin Moore (23-0, r-Sr.) ........................... 197 lbs .....................No. 18 Shakur Rasheed (4-3, r-Sr.) No. 23 Gary Traub (19-6, r-Jr.) .............................. HWT ............................... No. 13 Seth Nevills (12-2, Fr.) OHIO STATE AT PENN STATE FLOWRESTLING RANKINGS (tournament-based) NEWS, NOTES No. Team Points Prev. 1 Iowa 142 1 2 Penn State 73 2 & NUGGETS 3 Ohio State 70 3 4 Wisconsin 57 4 MOORE AMONG BUCKEYE BEST 5 Arizona State 48.5 6 Kollin Moore’s .905 career winning percentage (106-11) is CENTURIAL SEASON 6 Minnesota 47.5 5 the eighth best in Ohio State wrestling history. Ohio State wrestling began competing 7 Purdue 41 7 back in 1921, making 2019-20 the 100th 8 Northwestern 39.5 8 OHIO STATE = #1 U season in program history. 9 Princeton 38 10 A trio of Buckeyes can be found atop the individual 10 NC State 36.5 13 rankings for their weight class. Kollin Moore (197 lbs) and 11 Nebraska 35.5 11 Luke Pletcher (141 lbs) have been slotted No. 1 for months UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Iowa State 35.5 12 while Sammy Sasso (149 lbs) joined the elite class on Feb. 13 Oklahoma State 34.5 8 3. Iowa and its pair of top-ranked guys is the only other Location ..............................Columbus, Ohio 14 Lehigh 32 14 school to bolster multiple No. 1’s. Sasso is the lone Population ..................................... 1.7 million 15 Northern Iowa 30 16 freshman in the list of 10 weight class leaders and one of Founded .................................................. 1870 16 Virginia Tech 26.5 15 just two underclassmen (Minnesota sophomore Gable Joined Big Ten ........................................ 1912 17 Virginia 25.5 18 Steveson at HWT). First Season of Big Ten Play .............. 1913 18 Michigan 24.5 17 Enrollment ............................................ 61,170 19 Pittsburgh 21.5 19 WASTING NO TIME Nickname .......................................Buckeyes 20 North Carolina 19 19 Freshman success is nothing new for Ohio State. Four Colors .................................Scarlet and Gray 21 Stanford 18 21 Buckeye rookies have advanced to the NCAA President .......................... Michael V. Drake 22 Central Michigan 16.5 22 Championships finals since 2012, including national titles Director of Athletics ...............Gene Smith 23 West Virginia 16 23 for Logan Stieber (2012), Nathan Tomasello (2015) and SWA ..........................................Janine Oman 24 Missouri 15.5 NR Myles Martin (2016). Martin was just the 15th true freshman Faculty Rep. ................... John E. Davidson 25 Campbell 15 23 in NCAA history to win it all. Website ...............OhioStateBuckeyes.com BIG TEN, USA WRESTLING AWARD SASSO Sammy Sasso earned recognition at both the conference and national levels on Tuesday (Jan. 28), named the Big NWCA COACHES POLL Ten Wrestler of the Week and USA Wrestling Athlete of the (dual-based) Week. The incoming honors were a byproduct of Sasso’s No. Team (First) Record Points Prev. tear through the Northern Tier, taking out not one, but two 1 Iowa (14) 10-0 350 1 top-4 opponents inside their own arenas. 2 Penn State 8-2 333 2 3 NC State 12-0 315 4 Scrappin’ Sammy demonstrated next level defensive effort, 4 Nebraska 7-3 303 6 thwarting any and all offensive scoring attempts from No. 1 5 Arizona State 10-1 293 5 Pat Lugo in a 2-1 tiebreaker win before erasing No. 4 6 Ohio State 9-3 290 3 Brayton Lee’s first-period takedown in a 4-2 decision. 7 Virginia Tech 10-1 261 7 Sasso surrendered just three points in both bouts COVELLI CENTER 8 North Carolina 11-1 253 8 combined, a Lugo escape and the aforementioned Lee Seating Capacity .................................. 4,177 9 Wisconsin 10-3 241 9 takedown. Square Feet ...................................... 100,00+ 10 Pittsburgh 7-3 218 10 Home Matches in 2019-20 .......................8 11 Oklahoma State 10-2 214 11 100-WIN CLUB Fiittingly, Kollin Moore and Luke Pletcher both recorded Ohio State Record ...................................0-0 12 Lehigh 9-3 195 12 the 100th win of their careers in the same weekend. Moore Address .................2640 Fred Taylor Drive 13 Minnesota 9-5 175 14 did so first on Friday (Jan. 19) night at Wisconsin before .....................................Columbus, OH 43210 14 Purdue 11-4 164 13 Pletcher cracked the century mark less than 48 hours later 15 Northern Iowa 6-3 156 15 on Jan. 21 at home versus Illinois. 16 Princeton 4-4 134 16 17 Cornell 8-5 126 17 LUKE PLETCHER - LEVELING UP 18 Iowa State 6-4 99 18 When facing top-25 opponents this season Luke Pletcher 19 Army West Point 8-2 98 19 has risen to the occasion in a big way. He’s outscored the 20 Campbell 7-2 95 19 higher-tiered competition by a combined tally of 148-56 21 Stanford 8-2 69 22 (+92), good for a victory margin average of 7.7 points per 22 Michigan 6-3 36 25 top-25 win. That makes him less than a half point per win JENNINGS WRESTLING FACILITY 23 Northwestern 3-5 34 21 shy of averaging a major decision vs. nationally-ranked adversaries. Whoa. Full-size wrestling mats ............................5 24 Missouri 10-6 26 24 Square Feet ........................................... 600+ Rutgers 8-5 26 23 MO(O)RE BUCKEYE BONUS POINTS Olympic Training Center ............................1 Kollin Moore has recorded bonus points in 17 of 23 bouts Weight Room .................................................1 2019-20 Dual opponents in bold with seven major decisions, six tech falls and four pins. He’s averaging 15.2 points per bout (not including the pins) with a +190 point differential (289-99) in the 19 ‘non-pin’ bouts. OHIO STATE AT PENN STATE 2019-20 ROSTER PROGRAM HISTORY Name Wt. Yr. Hometown/High School (Previous College) First Season: 1921 Nicholas Boykin HWT Fr. Murfreesboro, Tenn./Riverdale All-Time Record: 803-527-28 Elijah Cleary 157 r-Jr. Winter Park, Fla./Lake Highland Prep All-Time Big Ten Record: 313-356-20 Dylan D’Emilio 141 Fr. Curtice, Ohio/Genoa Big Ten Championships (Last): 5 (2018) Jacob Decatur 125 Fr. Akron, Ohio/Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy Individual Big Ten Titles: 53 Jordan Decatur 133/141 Fr. Akron, Ohio/Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy National Championships: 1 Kevon Freeman 165 r-Fr. Mentor, Ohio/Lake Catholic Individual NCAA Titles: 23 Trey Grenier 149/157 So. Powell, Ohio/Olentangy Liberty (Ohio) All-Americans: 110 Ke-Shawn Hayes 149 r-Sr. Kansas City, Mo./Park Hill Olympians: 5 Malik Heinselman 125 So. Castle Rock, Colo./Castle View Cade Hepner 165 r-So.