The Iowa Hawkeyes will host the Purdue Boilermakers in a Big Ten dual meet on Friday, January 19 at 7 PM. A sold out Carver-Hawkeye Arena will be center stage and ready to go.
The best match of the night by far will be at 125 where Drake Ayala and Matt Ramos will do battle. Ayala is ranked #1 in three rankings and Ramos is #1 in one ranking. This will be the biggest match of the weekend in college wrestling.
There will be three additional matches involving ranked wrestlers. At 141 we will have #1 Real Woods vs. #32 Greyson Clark. At 157 #2 Jared Franek will face #16 Joey Blaze and at 165 it will be #6 Michael Caliendo vs. #32 Stoney Buell.
Cullan Schriever is the only Hawkeye listed at 133. We have two Hawks listed at Hwt with Brad Hill and Ben Kueter. Kueter made his Iowa Hawkeye debut with a 5-3 win over #29 Bennett Tabor of Minnesota on Monday night.
After listing 125 as a slight favorite to a toss up Iowa will be favored at the remaining nine weights.
Former Iowa Hawkeye Tony Ersland has been the head coach at Purdue since 2014. Originally from Humboldt, Iowa Ersland was a member of the Iowa Hawkeye NCAA National Championship teams of 1995, 1996, and 1997. Ersland made it to the Blood Round as a member of the record-breaking 1997 Championship team.
The Iowa-Purdue meet will be live on BTN at 7 PM.
You can listen to the Iowa dual on iheart.com, YouTube, and AM 800 KXIC where Steven Grace and Mark Ironside will call the action.
2 IOWA HAWKEYES (7-0) 2023-24 Overall
Wt. Rank^ Name Yr. Hometown/High School Record
125 2/1/1/1 Drake Ayala So. Fort Dodge, Iowa/Fort Dodge 15-1
133 Cullan Schriever Jr. Mason City, Iowa/Mason City 5-1
141 1/1/1/1 Real Woods R-Sr. Albuquerque, New Mexico/Montini Catholic (Ill.) 11-0
149 18/11/14/20 Caleb Rathjen So. Ankeny, Iowa/Ankeny 11-2
157 2/2/2/2 Jared Franek Grad. Harwood, North Dakota/West Fargo 15-1
165 7/6/6/10 Michael Caliendo So. Geneva, Illinois/Batavia 15-1
174 11/9/–/8 Patrick Kennedy Jr. Kasson-Mantorville, Minnesota/Kasson-Mantorville 7-2
184 Aiden Riggins R-Fr. Janesville, Iowa/Waverly-Shell Rock 9-8
197 10/14/13/13 Zach Glazier Sr. Albert Lea, Minnesota/Albert Lea 15-0
285 Bradley Hill R-Fr. Bettendorf, Iowa/Bettendorf 13-4
-or- –/–/29/– Ben Kueter Fr. Iowa City, Iowa/Iowa City 1-0
^ WIN/Intermat/Flo/AWN
PURDUE BOILERMAKERS (5-4) 2023-24 Overall
Wt. Rank^ Name Yr. Hometown/High School Record
125 1/2/8/8 Matt Ramos R-Jr. Lockport, Illinois/Lockport 16-4
-or- Ashton Jackson Fr. LaPorte, Indiana/LaPorte 6-7
133 Dustin Norris R-So. Cincinnati, Ohio/La Salle 7-9
-or- Jacob Macatangay R-Fr. Plainfield, Illinois/Plainfield North 0-1
141 –/32/32/– Greyson Clark Fr. Wrightstown, Wisconsin/Kaukauna 13-3
149 Marcus Polanco R-Sr. West Covina, California/Bishop Amat 7-11
157 –/16/23/19 Joey Blaze Fr. Perrysburg, Ohio/Perrysburg 13-4
-or- Ike Ruble R-Fr. Decatur, Indiana/Bellmont 11-4
165 –/–/32/– Stoney Buell R-So. Dundee, Michigan/Dundee 10-6
174 Brody Baumann R-Fr. Evansville, Indiana/Mater Dei 9-6
184 James Rowley R-Fr. Corvallis, Oregon/Crescent Valley 8-11
-or- Hayden Filipovich R-So. Indianapolis, Indiana/Lutheran High School of Indianapolis 7-6
197 Ben Vanadia R-So. Brecksville, Ohio/Brecksville-Broadview 8-11
-or- Mitch Hutmacher Sr. Chatham, Illinois/Glenwood 0-5
285 Tristan Ruhlman R-So. Bloomington, Indiana/Bloomington South 4-13
^ WIN/Intermat/Flo/AWN
It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.
Go Hawks!
