Wrestling Heads to Southern Scuffle

NORMAN — The No. 21 Oklahoma wrestling team will open the new year at the Southern Scuffle on Jan. 4-5, presented by Compound Sportswear. The Sooners make their second trip to the Scuffle, with the two-day event taking place inside McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Twenty-two teams are competing in the annual tournament, which began in 2003. Army leads the field with eight wrestlers in the top-six spots of their brackets. It's followed by Oklahoma with seven, Virginia Tech with five as well as Little Rock, North Dakota State, Northern Colorado and Virginia with four each. The Sooners have two No. 1 seeds along with Army, Northern Colorado and Virginia Tech.

Seventeen wrestlers will represent Oklahoma at the Southern Scuffle, in what is widely considered one of the toughest regular season tournaments in collegiate wrestling. It will mark the second consecutive season OU will start the year at the event, and the Sooners will look to improve on two individual titles and a runner-up team finish from the 2024 tournament.

FloWrestling subscribers can watch the action live, and live scoring will be available through FloArena.

Oklahoma Entries (Rankings by InterMat)
	No. 21 Oklahoma
Weight	Wrestler	Record
125	No. 23 Anotnio Lorenzo Koufax Christensen Beric Jordan	6-3 1-1 6-1
133	No. 19 Cleveland Belton Carter Schmidt	3-1 2-4
141	No. 9 Mosha Schwartz Alex Braun Hunter Hollingsworth	5-1 3-1 4-3
149	No. 13 Willie McDougald Layton Schneider	8-1 0-0
157	KJ Evans	4-2
165	No. 32 Tate Picklo Mannix Morgan	7-2 2-2
174	No. 8 Gaven Sax	3-1
184	No. 22 DJ Parker	7-2
197	Bradley Hill	3-6
HWT	Ricky Thomas	3-3

SCUFFLE PRE-SEEDS

125
1. Stevo Poulin, Northern Colorado
2. Spencer Moore, North Carolina
3. Charlie Farmer, Army
4. Antonio Lorenzo, Oklahoma
5. Robert Sagaris, Long Island
6. Keyveon Roller, Virginia

133
1. Nasir Bailey, Little Rock
2. Dom Serrano, Northern Colorado
3. Ethan Oakley, North Carolina
4. Blake Boarman, Chattanooga
5. Cleveland Belton, Oklahoma
6. Ethan Berginc, Army

141
1. Mosha Schwartz, Oklahoma
2. Todd Carter, Gardner-Webb
3. Braden Basile, Army
4. Shannon Hanna, Campbell
5. Kyren Butler, Virginia
6. Ian Oswalt, Brown

149
1. Willie McDougald, Oklahoma
2. Jordan Williams, Little Rock
3. Gavin Drexler, North Dakota State
4. Trae McDaniel, Army

157
1. Vinny Zerban, Northern Colorado
2. Noah Castillo, Chattanooga
3. Tanner Peake, Davidson
4. Blake Saito, Brown
5. Max Petersen, North Dakota State
6. Michael Gioffre, Virginia

165
1. Gunner Filipowicz, Army
2. Tate Picklo, Oklahoma
3. Domonic Baker, Campbell
4. Brendon Abdon, Little Rock
5. Clayton Ulrey, Northern Colorado

174
1. Lennox Wolak, Virginia Tech
2. Gaven Sax, Oklahoma
3. Dalton Harkins, Army
4. Sergio Desiante, Chattanooga
5. John Worthing, Clarion

184
1. Gavin Kane, North Carolina
2. DJ Parker, Oklahoma
3. TJ Stewart, Virginia Tech
4. Triston Wills, Little Rock
5. Sam Fisher, Virginia Tech
6. Aiden Brenot, North Dakota State

197
1. Andy Smith, Virginia Tech
2. Levi Hopkins, Campbell
3. Patrick Brophy, Citadel
4. Tayshaun Glover, North Dakota State

285
1. Lucas Stoddard, Army
2. Connor Barket, Duke
3. Hunter Catka, Virginia Tech
4. Will Jarrell, American
5. Gabe Christenson, Virginia
6. Brady Colbert, Army

PARTICIPATING TEAMS (NWCA COACHES POLL RANKINGS)

American
Appalachian State
Army (No. 24)
Bellarmine
Bloomsburg
Brown
Campbell
Chattanooga
The Citadel
Clarion
Davidson
Duke
Gardner-Webb
Little Rock (No. 17)
Long Island
North Carolina (No. 23)
North Dakota State
Northern Colorado
Oklahoma (No. 21)
Penn State (No. 1)
Virginia
Virginia Tech (No. 8)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Saturday, January 4

8:00 am CT

Round 1 (Championship Round of 64; Pigtail Matches)
Round 2 (Championship Round of 32)
Round 3 (Consolation Round of 32; Pigtail Matches)
Round 4 (Championship Round of 16)
Round 5 (1st and 2nd Consolations of the Round of 16)

5:00 pm CT

Round 6 (Quarterfinals; 1st Consolation of the Round of 8)
Round 7 (2nd Consolation of the Round of 8)

Sunday, January 5

9:00 am CT

Round 8 (Semifinals; Consolation Quarterfinals)
Round 9 (Consolation Semifinals)

2:00 pm CT

Medal Matches

UP NEXT

The Sooners return to Norman for a Big 12 clash against No. 22 West Virginia on Jan. 17. First bout from McCasland Field House is scheduled for 7 PM CT.

SCUFFLE PRE-SEEDS

PARTICIPATING TEAMS (NWCA COACHES POLL RANKINGS)