#12 Purdue Heads North for B1G Wrestling Championships

By: Brook Weber

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – No. 12 Purdue Wrestling is ready to compete in the 2025 Big Ten Conference Wrestling Championships this weekend, hosted by Northwestern in Evanston, Illinois.

The two-day event begins Saturday with Session I starting at 11 a.m. ET inside Welsh-Ryan Arena.

Sessions I, II and IV will be televised on BTN. All four sessions will be streamed live on B1G+.

The Big Ten received 87 of 287 automatic qualifying bids for the NCAA Championships, the most of any conference.

The allocations are split among the 10 weight classes and represent how many Big Ten placewinners at each weight will automatically qualify for the national tournament, hosted in Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center this year from March 20-22.

Click here for the full breakdown of the automatic qualifying bids. B1G TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE *all times shown in ET
Saturday, March 8
11 a.m. - Session I: First Round, Quarterfinals, Wrestlebacks (BTN and B1G+)
6 p.m. - Session II: Consolation Matches, Wrestlebacks (B1G+)
8 p.m. - Session II: Semifinals (BTN and B1G+)

Sunday, March 9
1 p.m. - Session III: Consolation Semifinals, 7th-Place Matches (B1G+)
5:30 p.m. - Session IV: 1st-, 3rd- and 5th-Place Matches (BTN and B1G+) PURDUE SEEDS & MATCHUPS Purdue Seeds & Match-Ups
125: #1 Matt Ramos (R-Senior)
First Round: Bye
Quarterfinals: Winner of #8 Nicolar Rivera (Wisconsin) and #9 Cooper Flynn (Minnesota)

133: #11 Dustin Norris (R-Junior)
First Round: #6 Evan Bates (Northwestern)

141: #9 Greyson Clark (Sophomore)
First Round: #8 Henry Porter (Indiana)

149: #11 Isaac Ruble (R-Sophomore)
First Round: #6 Andrew Clark (Rutgers)

157: #6 Joey Blaze (Sophomore)
First Round: #11 Jason Kraisser (Illinois)

165: #11 Stoney Buell (R-Junior)
First Round: #6 Braeden Scoles (Illinois)

174: #8 Brody Baumann (R-Sophomore)
First Round: #9 Lucas Condon (Wisconsin)

184: #13 Orlando Cruz (R-Freshman)
First Round: #4 Gabe Arnold (Iowa)

197: #11 Ben Vanadia (R-Junior)
First Round: #6 Evan Bates (Northwestern)

285: #10 Hayden Filipovich (R-Junior)
First Round: #7 Ben Keuter (Iowa)
  BOILER BULLETS

• Purdue wrestlers have won 347 medals in the 105-year history of the event, an average of 3.3 medalists per season. Head coach Tony Ersland is responsible for 58 of them through his first 10 years at Purdue (5.8 per season).
• The Boilermakers lay claim to 40 Big Ten individual titles. The most recent was Ryan Lange (174 lbs) in 2004.
• Purdue heads to Evanston as the sixth-youngest squad in the 14-team tournament. Redshirt senior Matt Ramos is the only Boilermaker not expected to return in 2025-26.
• Ramos enters the postseason 23-0 as the consensus No. 1 wrestler in the nation at 125 lbs.
• He is the first Boiler to finish a regular season undefeated since former 125-pound Big Ten champion Chris Fleeger in 2003.
• Ramos' path to 23-0 included nine ranked wins, seven of which still maintain a spot in the latest coaches' rankings. He beat the current No. 3, No. 4* (MFFL), No. 5, No. 15, No. 17, No. 19 and No. 22-ranked wrestlers in the country.
• Ramos holds the No. 1 pre-seed for a second straight year, the first Boilermaker in program history to be a multiple-time one-seed in the conference tournament.
• Joey Blaze enters as the No. 6 pre-seed in a loaded 157-pound field. He went 5-1 in Big Ten duals as a sophomore, with a full season record of 15-4.
• Blaze has never lost a bonus point match. He has 19 career bonus point victories himself.
• Brody Baumann checks in as the No. 8 pre-seed at 174. He has three ranked victories and earned an automatic bid to NCAAs last year.
• Along with Blaze, Greyson Clark was one of the two true freshman Boilers to make the NCAA tournament last season. He enters as the No. 9 pre-seed this year with five bonus point wins.
• Hayden Filipovich earned a top-10 pre-seed for the first time in his career. The heavyweight earned his first ranked win of the season in the home finale over Nebraska's then-No. 21 Harley Andrews.

Click here for the full breakdown of the Purdue pre-seeds. NUMBERS TO KNOW 0 – Ramos has not surrendered a single takedown or back point all season. He has 66 takedowns and 105 back points himself.

.823 – With a career record of 107-23, Ramos holds the third-best win percentage in program history.

10 – Purdue won 10 duals this season, the team's third time reaching double-digit wins in the last 10 years and the first since winning 10 in 2021-22.

73 – Redshirt junior Ben Vanadia leads Purdue with 73 third-period points, the team's biggest performer in the clutch this season. TOURNAMENT TONY In 11 seasons under Ersland, the Boilermakers have been their best at tournament time. He has seen 233 wrestlers climb the podium in 55 different tournaments for an average of 4.2 per competition.
  Placewinner Totals

Place	In-Season	Post-Season	Total
Champion	25	0	25
Runner-Up	25	4*	29
Third	31	3	34
Fourth	23	3	26
Fifth	28	11	39
Sixth	19	12	31
Seventh	14	14*	28
Eighth	8	13	21
Totals	173	60	233

*denotes an NCAA All-American finish included BOILERS IN THE RPI RANKINGS Seven Purdue wrestlers earned a slot in the final RPI rankings of the regular season.

125 - #2 Matt Ramos (#1 in every other list)
133 - #33 Dustin Norris
141 - #24 Greyson Clark
157 - #7 Joey Blaze
174 - #25 Brody Baumann
197 - #27 Ben Vanadia
285 - #30 Hayden Filipovich