Sooners Head to Missouri for Top 25 Showdown

Thursday, February 12

Columbia, Mo. | Hearnes Center

6:30 PM

University of Oklahoma

Missouri

Photo by: Channing Holloway/University of Oklahoma

Sooners Head to Missouri for Top 25 Showdown

February 11, 2026 | Wrestling

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By: OU Athletics Communications

¹⁶ Oklahoma

¹⁷ Missouri

Thursday, Feb. 12 / 6:30 p.m. CT / Hearnes Center / Columbia, Mo.

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Projected Starters (Rankings by InterMat)
No. 16 Oklahoma
Wt.	Name	Record
125	No. 32 Conrad Hendriksen or Sebastian Degennaro	12-10 / 8-2
133	Carter Schmidt	5-10
141	No. 27 Tyler Wells or Alex Braun	12-7 / 5-5
149	Hunter Hollingsworth	9-9
157	Layton Schneider	9-10
165	No. 31 Peyten Kellar or Bryce Burkett or Owen Eck	8-8 / 3-7 / 5-5
174	No. 8 Carter Schubert or Clay Giddens or Trae Rios	16-4 / 2-7 / 0-0
184	No. 10 Brian Soldano or Anders Thompson or Eli Cordy	12-5 / 4-6 / 3-0
197	No. 11 DJ Parker	15-5
285	No. 21 Juan Mora or Bradley Hill	14-4 / 5-4

NORMAN – The No. 16 Oklahoma wrestling team (10-4, 3-2 Big 12) hits the road for the first leg of its final regular-season road trip Thursday, Feb. 12, as it takes on No. 17 Missouri (11-7, 4-2 Big 12) in a top-25 conference dual. The first bout is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. CT inside the Hearnes Center and will stream on ESPN+.

SOONER QUICK HITTERS

Oklahoma enters Thursday's contest with momentum after earning its second straight victory last Sunday, cruising past Arizona State, 31-9, on Senior Day inside McCasland Field House. The win marked Oklahoma's ninth dual victory of the season against a Division I opponent – the most under third-year head coach Roger Kish.

The Sooners boast a pair of signature top-15 wins this season, most recently topping No. 13 Northern Iowa at home, 23-18, on Jan. 31. Oklahoma's first signature win came Dec. 13, when the Sooners rallied from a 14-6 deficit to defeat No. 12 Rutgers, 19-14, at Jersey Mike's Arena in Piscataway, N.J. The victory marked the program's highest-ranked dual win since 2015.

Redshirt sophomore Carter Schubert enters Thursday riding a five-dual win streak. The eighth-ranked 174-pounder is in the midst of a breakout season, highlighted by a title at the Cliff Keen Invitational (Dec. 6). He owns seven ranked wins and has won 13 of his last 14 bouts dating back to Nov. 23 against Indiana.

SERIES HISTORY

One of OU's longest running series by years will be renewed this weekend in Norman as the Sooners battle the Tigers. Only OU's series' with Oklahoma State (1920), Texas A&M (1921), Iowa State (1922), Northern Iowa (1922) and Kansas (1922) are longer in program history in terms of years since it began.

In a series that dates back to 1923, Oklahoma is 44-16-0 all-time against Missouri. Thursday's dual will be the 61st meeting between the only two Southeastern Conference institutions that sponsor wrestling, though both programs compete in the Big 12 as affiliate members.

SOONERS IN THE RANKINGS

Oklahoma enters the weekend ranked No. 16 nationally by the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA). Ranked in the NWCA preseason top 25 for the third consecutive year, the Sooners earned their highest starting position since 2021 and have climbed as high as No. 15 this season.

Seven Sooners appeared in the latest individual rankings (Feb. 10) from InterMat, FloWrestling and Open Mat: Conrad Hendriksen (125), Tyler Wells (141), Peyten Kellar (165), Carter Schubert (174), Brian Soldano (184), DJ Parker (197) and Juan Mora (285).

RUNNING THE GAUNTLET

Oklahoma has positioned itself to face one of the nation's toughest schedules in 2025-26. Beyond its seasonopening road contest at No. 1 and four-time defending national champion Penn State, the Sooners have nine duals scheduled against teams currently ranked in the NWCA Coaches' Top 25 — six of which will take place on the road. In total, OU will face three top-five opponents, five ranked inside the top 15 and nine in the top 25. The Sooners also competed at the prestigious Cliff Keen Invitational, widely regarded as the premier regular-season tournament in college wrestling.

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