Wrestling Wraps Up Season at NCAAs

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Cleveland, Ohio | Rocket Arena

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University of Oklahoma

NCAA Wrestling Championships

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March 20, 2026 | Wrestling

By: OU Athletics Communications

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Oklahoma wrestling team concluded its run at the 2026 NCAA Wrestling Championships on Friday at Rocket Arena, with Carter Schubert (174), Brian Soldano (184) and Juan Mora (285) advancing to Session 4 before falling in the blood round.

Schubert introduced himself to the backside of the bracket with a pair of marathon matches in Session 3 that reached sudden victory. He first erased a 7-3 third-period deficit by converting three takedowns down the stretch to defeat Purdue's No. 22 Brody Baumann (SV-1 12-9). In the following round, the redshirt sophomore wrestled four rounds of overtime against South Dakota State's 14th-ranked Moses Espinoza-Owens, successfully fending off a single-leg attempt that turned into a three-point sequence to seal a 4-1 win.

In the blood round, Schubert matched up with Navy's 2025 NCAA qualifier and 10th-seeded Danny Wask in a rematch of the 174-pound title match at the Cliff Keen Invitational in December. Neither wrestler converted a takedown, and the match went to tiebreakers, where Wask secured a 2-1 decision with the final escape point.

Schubert closed his breakout redshirt sophomore season – his first competing at 174 pounds after moving up from 157 – with a 22-8 record. He led the team in wins and climbed as high as No. 7 in the InterMat rankings.

Soldano and Mora, who entered Friday as two of just six wrestlers seeded No. 20 or lower to reach the quarterfinals after knocking off consecutive top-15 opponents, both suffered losses in the early session and dropped to the backside of the bracket with a chance to earn All-America honors.

In tightly contested bouts, Soldano fell to American's 10th-seeded Caleb Campos (SV-1, 9-6), while Mora dropped a 4-2 decision to Arizona State's No. 10 David Szuba.

Elsewhere in the tournament, Conrad Hendriksen (125) and Tyler Wells (141) saw their postseason runs come to an end Friday. Hendriksen fell in the second round of consolations, while Wells earned a 6-5 win over Virginia's 27th-seeded Gable Porter before being eliminated in the third round of wrestlebacks by Lock Haven's Wyatt Henson.

The Sooners finished the tournament with 10.0 team points.

Oklahoma now shifts its focus to the offseason as head coach Roger Kish welcomes a 2026 recruiting class currently ranked No. 17 nationally by FloWrestling, marking consecutive top-20 classes for the third-year coach.

DAY 2 RESULTS

125: Cons. Round 2 – No. 11 Tyler Klinsky (RID) def. No. 21 Conrad Hendriksen (OU), MD 14-5

141: Cons. R2 – No. 21 Tyler Wells (OU) def. No. 27 Gable Porter (UVA), Dec. 6-5
141: Cons. R3 – No. 13 Wyatt Henson (LH) def. No. 21 Tyler Wells (OU), Dec. 6-4

174: Cons. R2 – No. 12 Carter Schubert (OU) def. No. 22 Brody Baumann (PUR), SV-1 12-9
174: Cons. R3 – No. 12 Carter Schubert (OU) def. No. 14 Moses Espinoza-Owens (SDSU), SV-2 4-1
174: Cons. R4 – No. 15 Danny Wask (NAVY) def. No. 12 Carter Schubert (OU), TB-1 2-1

184: QF – No. 5 Brock Mantanona (MICH) def. No. 20 Brian Soldano (OU), Fall (2:40)
184 Cons. R4 – No. 10 Caleb Campos (AMER) def. No. 20 Brian Soldano (OU), SV-1 9-6

285: QF – No. 4 AJ Ferrari (NEB) def. No. 21 Juan Mora (OU), Dec. 4-3
285: Cons. R4 – No. 10 David Szuba (ASU) def. No. 21 Juan Mora (OU), Dec. 4-2