Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion College Kansas Kids at the next level

Matt Murray is wrestling varsity at 141 for the University of Nebraska.

Jack Dennis is wrestling varsity for the University of Northern Illinois at 197 pounds.

Zach Roberson is still at Iowa State.

Shawn Bunch is still in the line up at Edinboro.

Have any other Kansas HS grads found their way into the varsity line-up at NCAA DI schools?

I'm sure I'm missing some, but here are a few additions to your list:

Bo Maynes (Oklahoma)
Jacob Klein (Nebraska)
Dusty Spaulding (Nebraska)
Scott Polley (Stanford)
Ian Bork (Stanford)
Josh Lawrenz (Northern Iowa)

Austin DeVoe (Missouri)
Chris McCormick (Missouri)
Matt Turner (Missouri)
Clint Freeman (Missouri)
Joe Johnston (Iowa)

Mike - Dusty Spaulding's not wrestling varsity for Nebraska this year. That is the spot that Matt Murray took. (141 lbs) Congratulations to Matt. Not sure however, but it sounded to me like Dusty was capable of making varsity at 149 if he was allowed to.

Thanks for the information. I saw that Matt was wrestling at the 141 spot, but didn't know if it was a permanent varsity position. I agree, congratulations to Matt! I hope Dusty will be able to claim the 149 lb spot.

Sherlock, are you sure that those are varsity spots?

Joe is the backup to Matt Anderson at Iowa. He lost both of his wrestle-offs with Matt by 2-0 and 3-1 scores.

Mike,
Matt Turner will start at 174 for Missouri.
Chris McCormick started last year at 133 as a true freshman.(Will likely redshirt this year)
Austin DeVoe will see time at 125 this year.
Clint Freeman did have some varsity time a couple of years ago.

Dusty Spaulding just had knee surgery 3 weeks ago. I just saw him at the UNO Open and he is recovering right now. Maybe look for him in the line-up later in the season like after Christmas Break.

Coach Fergola

Just a few more KS kids wrestling at the D-I level are:

Justin Dyer- Oklahoma
Luke Metzler- Oklahoma
Doug Hoover- Nebraska
Gabe Conaghan- Missouri
Blake Seiler- Oklahoma State
Scott Polley- Stanford

Thanks for the info. Knew that Bork and Polley were both at Stanford, but did not see them in recent dual match scores. And had a brain cramp in forgetting about Bo at OU. Looks like Dyer had a great outing at the Missouri Open as Lambrecht beat him in the finals by a 4-0 count. Lawrenz wrestled at Omaha, but I didn't think he had cracked the varsity line-up yet.

Murray beat Spaulding last year at the Worthington Open. I am uncertain as to whether they had ranked this year before Dusty's surgery. Either of them will have to wrestle well to displace Shufelt at 149, as he is nationally ranked and back after qualifying for the big dance as a freshman.

Good luck to all KS HS grads as they compete at the next level.

Other Kansans in D-1
Jeremiah Beltran won 20 matches for Ohio U. last year as a redshirt fr. and was on the AWN all freshman team.

Also, Josh Carroll is at Appalachian St, Daniel Peterson is at Tennessee Chattanooga and Justin Stevens is at Edinboro.

Just found out that Joe will get his first start at 157# for Iowa this Friday (Matt Anderson is moving up to 165#)

Congrats and good luck! Is Anderson staying at 165 the rest of the way?

Thanks Les,

Joe beat Jarvis 14-8 (Jarvis was ranked as high as 12th). Anderson has until the middle of February to return to 157. Joe told me it was up to the coaches and his job is to make the coach's decision easy.

Joel Tapler is 197 at OU but has been getting varsity time at HWT.

I saw over on the KWCA forum that Scott Coleman from Manhattan is now wrestling for Iowa State as a Heavyweight. Go Kansas!

How are Doug Hoover and Jacob Klein doing this year on the College level?

Talked to Jacob in December and I asked him about Hoover. Apparently Doug wasn't enrolled at Nebraska until January.

Jacob has won his last 3 matches and is currently ranked 20th nationally.

Chet McBee (Dodge City) has been wrestling varsity for the University of Oregon.

Dusty Spaulding medical-redshirted this year do to the knee surgery. He'll be back next year.