Skip to main content

Purdue University Athletics

Schroder B1G Session 2-2

Schroder Reaches Finals, Boilers Fifth at B1G Championships

3/6/2021 11:31:00 PM | Wrestling

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Senior Devin Schroder advanced to the Big Ten Championship match at 125 pounds for the second straight season Saturday, scoring a 10-0 major decision in the semifinals to reach the finals. The Purdue wrestling team sits in fifth place with 67 team points after two sessions with six individuals earning automatic bids to the NCAA Championships.
 
Schroder is the first Boilermaker to reach consecutive conference finals since Ryan Lange advanced to the championship match at 174 pounds in 2003 and 2004. He left no doubt against the No. 3 seed at 125, Malik Heinselman of Ohio State, taking him down in the second period and turning him for four back points. He added an escape, another takedown and a riding time point to finish things up with the bonus-point win and eight team points. Schroder will face top-seeded and top-ranked Spencer Lee of Iowa in a rematch of the 2020 Big Ten finals.
 
Sophomore Kendall Coleman was unsuccessful in his bid for a second Big Ten final appearance, falling 14-1 to top-seeded and top-ranked Ryan Deakin of Northwestern. He'll face seventh-seeded Chase Saldate of Michigan State tomorrow in the consolation semifinals.
 
Freshman Jacob Rundell wasn't satisfied with qualifying for NCAA's, accepting a forfeit from Ohio State's Jordan Decatur and following it up with a 6-1 decision over Michigan State's Jordan Hamden to advance to the consolation semifinals. He got up early on the Spartan freshman and held his lead the whole way in the win.
 
Junior Parker Filius followed suit at 141 pounds, securing his bid to nationals with wins over Maryland's Danny Bertoni and fifth-seeded Dylan Duncan of Illinois. Filius snared two first-period takedowns on his way to a 6-2 decision over Bertoni and revved it up against Duncan with five takedowns in an 11-7 win. He moves on to face No. 3 seed Sebastian Rivera of Rutgers in the consolation semifinals.
 
Another true freshman locked up a spot in the national field for the Boilermakers Saturday as Gerrit Nijenhuis posted a pair of wins to advance to the consolation semifinals. He opened the session with a 6-3 decision over Indiana's Nick South, scoring a takedown in the first and a reversal in the third in the win, and backed it up with a fall over Penn State's sixth-seeded Joe Lee. Lee got the early takedown, but Nijenhuis countered in the second, locking up a cradle and scoring his team-best third fall of the year. He'll meet seventh-seeded Peyton Robb of Nebraska in Session III on Sunday.
 
Seniors Max Lyon and Griffin Parriott and sophomore Thomas Penola all secured spots on the podium Sunday and will wrestle for seventh tomorrow. Lyon grabbed an automatic bid to NCAA's with a 7-5 overtime win over Illinois' Zach Braunagel, but fell is his second match of the session to Michigan State's Layne Malczewski. After trailing 7-2 early, Lyon came all the way back to tie the score at 8-8 in the final minute. Lyon nearly secured a takedown at the buzzer, but ran out of time and the riding-time point gave the Spartan the win.
 
Parriott topped Wisconsin's Drew Scharenbrock 7-5 to lock up a placing spot for the second straight year, but lost a heartbreaker in overtime to Rutgers' Michael Van Brill, 7-2 in the tiebreakers. He'll battle fourth-seeded Yahya Thomas of Northwestern on Sunday with an automatic bid to NCAA's on the line. Penola missed out on an automatic qualifier as only six were awarded to the Big Ten at 197 pounds, defeating Maryland's Jaron Smith 7-2, but being edged out by Penn State's Michael Beard 6-5. Penola will wrestle Billy Janzer of Rutgers in the seventh-place match.
 
Freshman Emil Soehnlen fell in his first bout of the second session, suffering a 4-0 defeat at the hands of No. 6 seed Kaleb Romero of Ohio State. He continued to compete in a ninth-place bracket, looking to earn qualifying criteria for an at-large bid at 174 pounds, facing Northwestern's Troy Fisher for the second time of the tournament. He topped Fisher again, scoring a 3-2 decision and advances to face Jackson Turley of Rutgers.
 
Tomorrow's first session begins at noon, consisting of the consolation semifinals, the seventh-place bouts and the remainder of the ninth-place brackets. The finals will start at 4 p.m. and all the action will air live on the Big Ten Network.
 
2021 Big Ten Championships
Bryce Jordan Center – Penn State University
 
Team Standings
1: Iowa – 126.6
2: Penn State – 111.5
3: Nebraska – 88.0
4: Michigan – 76.0
5: Purdue – 67.0
6: Northwestern – 63.5
7: Ohio State – 63.0
8: Minnesota – 62.5
9: Michigan State – 61.0
10: Rutgers – 35.0
11: Illinois – 25.5
12: Wisconsin – 23.5
13: Indiana – 22.0
14: Maryland – 2.0
 
125 - #7 Devin Schroder (R-Senior)
First Round: #10 Justin Cardani (Illinois) - W, D 2-0
Quarterfinals: #2 Liam Cronin (Nebraska) - W, SV 3-1
Semifinals: #3 Malik Heinselman (Ohio State) - W, MD 10-0
Finals: #1 Spencer Lee (Iowa)
 
133: #8 Jacob Rundell (Freshman)
First Round: #9 Kyle Burwick (Wisconsin) - W, 3-2
Quarterfinals: #1 Roman Bravo-Young (Penn State) - L, D 9-3
Conso. Second Round: #7 Jordan Decatur (Ohio State) - W, Forfeit
Conso. Quarterfinals: #11 Jordan Hamden (Michigan State) - W, D 6-2
Conso. Semifinals: #3 Lucas Byrd (Illinois)
 
141: #9 Parker Filius (R-Junior)
First Round: #8 Drew Mattin (Michigan) - W, D 4-3
Quarterfinals: #1 Jaydin Eierman (Iowa) - L, Fall 3:58
Conso. Second Round: #10 Danny Bertoni (Maryland) - W, D 6-2
Conso. Quarterfinals: #5 Dylan Duncan (Illinois) - W, D 11-7
Conso. Semifinals: #3 Sebastian Rivera (Rutgers)
 
149: #3 Griffin Parriott (R-Senior)
First Round: #14 Michael North (Maryland) - W, D 4-0
Quarterfinals: #6 Michael Blockhaus (Minnesota) - L, D 4-1
Conso. Second Round: #12 Drew Scharenbrock (Wisconsin) - W, D 7-5
Conso. Quarterfinals: #8 Mike Van Brill (Rutgers) - L, TB1 7-2
Seventh-Place Match: #4 Yahya Thomas (Northwestern)
 
157: #4 Kendall Coleman (R-Sophomore)
First Round: #13 Luke Baughman (Indiana) - W, MD 12-3
Quarterfinals: #5 Brady Berge (Penn State) - W, D 3-2
Semifinals: #1 Ryan Deakin (Northwestern) - L, MD 14-1
Conso. Semifinals: #7 Chase Saldate (Michigan State)
 
165: #9 Gerrit Nijenhuis (Freshman)
First Round: #8 Jake Tucker (Michigan State) - W, D 3-2
Quarterfinals: #1 Alex Marinelli (Iowa) - L, D 8-2
Conso. Second Round: #10 Nick South (Indiana) - W, D 6-3
Conso. Quarterfinals: #6 Joe Lee (Penn State) - W, Fall 4:29
Conso. Semifinals: #7 Peyton Robb (Nebraska)
 
174: #12 Emil Soehnlen (R-Freshman)
First Round: #5 Donnell Washington (Indiana) - L, Fall 1:53
Conso. First Round: #13 Troy Fisher (Northwestern) - W, D 4-3
Conso. Second Round: #6 Kaleb Romero (Ohio State) - L, D 4-0
9th-Place Bracket First Round: #13 Troy Fisher (Northwestern) - W, D 3-2*
9th-Place Bracket Semifinals: #7 Jackson Turley (Rutgers)*
 
184: #7 Max Lyon (Senior)
First Round: #10 Rocky Jordan (Ohio State) - W, D 3-2
Quarterfinals: #2 Chris Weiler (Wisconsin) - L, D 9-4
Conso. Second Round: #8 Zach Braunagel (Illinois) - W, SV 7-5
Conso. Quarterfinals: #3 Layne Malczewski (Michigan State) - L, D 9-8
Seventh-Place Match: #4 Owen Webster (Minnesota)
 
197: #6 Thomas Penola (R-Sophomore)
First Round: #11 Garrett Joles (Minnesota) - W, D 8-3
Quarterfinals: #3 Jacob Warner (Iowa) - L, D 4-0
Conso. Second Round: #12 Jaron Smith (Maryland) - W, D 7-3
Conso. Quarterfinals: #7 Michael Beard (Penn State) - L, D 6-5
Seventh-Place Match: #10 Billy Janzer (Rutgers)
 
285: #12 Dorian Keys (Freshman)
First Round: #5 Christian Lance (Nebraska) - L, 4-0
Conso. First Round: #13 Rudy Streck (Indiana) - L, Fall 4:11
 
Numbers represent Big Ten Tournament seedings
* - Matches for ninth place do not count towards team scoring