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Joey McKenna Named Big Ten Wrestler of the Week After Upsetting No. 2 Kevin Jack
Joey McKenna earned a big win, conference honors and major momentum heading into the postseason with his biggest victory of the year. Sunday's upset of No. 2 Kevin Jack, a 6-2 decision, not only...
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Joey McKenna Named NCAA Wrestler of the Week After Upset of No. 2 Kevin Jack
The accolades keep coming for Joey McKenna, Ohio State's 141-pound title contender. After the Big Ten named the junior its Wrestler of the Week Tuesday for his win over No. 2 Kevin Jack in Sunday's...
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Ohio Sate Wrestlers Earn Big Ten Tournament Pre-Seeds at Every Weight with...
Pre-seeds for the 2018 Big Ten Wrestling Championships were announced today, with Ohio State earning seeds at all 10 weight classes. 141-pounder Joey McKenna and 197-pounder Kollin Moore earned top...
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Preview: 2018 Big Ten Wrestling Tournament
Penn State owns six of the past seven NCAA Tournament championships, but Ohio State holds two of the past three Big Ten titles. While the former is clearly the class of the sport, the Buckeyes have...
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Ohio State Leads Big Ten Team Race After Two Rounds; Nine Buckeyes Advance to...
Heading into postseason, Ohio State's advantage over Penn State is that it expects to advance more of its 10 wrestlers further into the tournament than Penn State will. Penn State, meanwhile, scores...
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Buckeyes Place Seven Wrestlers in the Big Ten Finals
Led by a pin from Micah Jordan over top-seeded Michael Kemerer of Iowa, the Buckeyes opened up a 13.5-point lead over Penn State. With defending NCAA champion Jason Nolf medically-defaulting the...
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Nathan Tomasello Becomes 15th Wrestler in History to Win Four Big Ten Titles
Tomasello won the title by upending Minnesota standout Ethan "The Backpack" Lizak, the fifth seed in the tournament. It was his second bout of the season versus Lizak; Tomasello defeated Lizak by tech...
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Kyle Snyder Upends Top-Seeded Adam Coon, Wins His Third Big Ten Title
In perhaps the most-anticipated rematch in a day full of Big Ten and NCAA final round rematches, Snyder squared off against the only foe to topple him in recent memory. Michigan's Adam Coon stymied...
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Ohio State Wins Fifth Big Ten Wrestling Championship in School History, Third...
Ohio State won its fifth Big Ten title in school history, and its third in the past four years. Head coach Tom Ryan was named Big Ten Coach of the Year for the third time in four years, and his second...
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Tom Ryan Named Big Ten Coach of the Year For Third Time in Four Seasons
Ohio State's head wrestling coach said at the beginning of the season that his team had two goals: win another Big Ten title, and win the NCAA championship on home soil in Cleveland. With Sunday's win...
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Kyle Snyder and Kollin Moore Earn Top Seeds For the NCAA Division I Wrestling...
All four of Ohio State's Big Ten champions earned top-four seeds to the NCAA Tournament next weekend in Cleveland, with heavyweight Kyle Snyder and 197-pounder Kollin Moore earning the top overall...
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Kyle Snyder, Logan Stieber Named to USA Freestyle World Cup Team
Two of Ohio State's all-time great wrestlers will represent the United States against the best wrestlers in the world as part of the 2018 U.S. Men's Freestyle World Cup Team. Logan Stieber, a 4-time...
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Ohio State Wrestling Team Gets Police Escort to Cleveland After Encountering...
Roughly half-way to Cleveland, where the Buckeyes will challenge Penn State for the national championship starting Thursday, the team bus came to a standstill after encountering what some estimates...
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Preview: 2018 NCAA Wrestling Championship
With seven returning All Americans on the roster, including three previous NCAA champions, one of whom is the best pound-for-pound wrestler on the planet, it wasn't hard to understand that the...
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Ohio State Advances 10 Wrestlers to Second Round of the NCAA Tournament
It was a clean sweep for the Buckeyes in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, as all 10 wrestlers won their first match of the day and advance to Friday night's Round of 16. Senior Nathan...
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Ohio State Leads NCAA Team Race After Day One, Iowa and Penn State Close Behind
Nathan Tomasello led the scoring with a maximum-possible 6.0 team points, pinning his first opponent and then picking up an injury default over Arizona State's Ryan Milhoff. Tomasello was well on his...
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Six Buckeyes Advance to NCAA Wrestling Championship Semifinals, Ohio State...
Fellow Northern Ohio native Kyle Conel earned his bid into the quarters with wins over the No. 9 and No. 8 seeds Thursday, and was the aggressor in his match with Moore from the opening whistle....
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Kyle Snyder, Myles Martin Advance to NCAA Finals As Team Race Slips Away In...
When Iowa's Spencer Lee put four-time All American and four-time Big Ten champion Nathan Tomasello on his back, killing Tomasello's hopes for a second national title, it was a harbinger of things to...
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School Record Eight Buckeyes Earn All-America Honors At NCAA Wrestling...
"It sucks," was how finalist Myles Martin responded when asked how he felt about the outcome of the semifinal matches. He quickly added, however, that the team has to, "keep wrestling. We're here to...
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Ohio State Goes 3-3 In Placement Matches; Retakes Lead in Team Race
The Buckeyes went .500 in placement-round matches, with Nathan Tomasello and Joey McKenna each finishing the tournament in 3rd place. Bo Jordan finished his career as a Buckeye in fifth place, his...
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