Big boost announced for OU today as the Sooners will have Mosha Schwartz back next season. ??’? ????! 3x NCAA qualifier Mosha Schwartz will return for a fifth season in 2024-25.#BoomerSoonerpic.twitter.com/EVUPeKWIFb — Oklahoma Wrestling (@OU_Wrestling) May 9, 2024 Schwartz is a three-time NCAA qualifier with a combined career at OU and Northern Colorado. His last year competing for the Sooners was the 2022-23 season at 141. He missed this past season due to injury ..read more

Release from Oklahoma State Sports Media STILLWATER – Oklahoma State head wrestling coach David Taylor has announced the addition of Jimmy Kennedy as associate head coach and Thomas Gilman as assistant coach for the Cowboy program. Kennedy joins the staff after serving as an assistant at Penn State for the past three seasons, where he played an important role in the program’s immense success. The Nittany Lions captured the NCAA team title in all three of Kennedy’s seasons and never suffered a defeat in the regular season with a perfect 45-0 dual record. Kennedy also helped guide Penn Stat ..read more

Persistence, determination, tenacity, grit, resolve, perseverance…maybe even stubborn.  Those would be just a few of the words that come to mind when speaking of Edmond North’s Hudson Hackbarth and his high school wrestling career.   Laboring behind a star-studded line-up for three years, Hackbarth finally broke through with a stellar senior season that ended with a 3rd place State Tournament finish.  To make the story even better, his clutch senior year performance earned him a full-ride scholarship to continue his education and wrestling career at Maryville University in ..read more

Full release from Oklahoma State Media Relations STILLWATER – Oklahoma State Director of Athletics Chad Weiberg has announced wrestling great David Taylor as the eighth head coach in Oklahoma State history. “With 34 national championships, the Oklahoma State wrestling program is the most successful in the country by any metric, regardless of sport. We began this search knowing there is no goal that is unattainable for Cowboy Wrestling. No expectations are too high,” Weiberg said. “The ambitions we have for ourselves led us to the hiring of David Taylor, someone of equally high g ..read more

Here we will keep links to all our content regarding Oklahoma State and their new head coach David Taylor. Check back throughout the day/week for updates. Oklahoma State Officially Announces David Taylor Hire – Owrestle David Taylor Named New Oklahoma State Wrestling Coach – Owrestle David Taylor Emerges as Oklahoma State Coaching Candidate | Rokfin Five Thoughts on Oklahoma State Hiring David Taylor | Rokfin The Oklahoma Wrestling Podcast Ep. 27: David Taylor Announced as Oklahoma State Head Coach | Rokfin Paycom CEO Chad Richison to Support Oklahoma State in New Coaching Hire | Rokfin ..read more

Oklahoma State has found their head coach. The university announced tonight that David Taylor will be the new head coach at Oklahoma State. Taylor is a two-time NCAA champion and 4 time Olympic/World Champion. Taylor won an Olympic Gold in 2020, World titles in 2018, 2022, and 2023, and a Silver in 2021. Welcome to Stillwater, Head Coach David Taylor. Let’s make some magic!#GoPokes pic.twitter.com/PEFPkuRzRL — OSU Cowboy Wrestling (@CowboyWrestling) May 7, 2024 Taylor just missed another Olympic bid last month, but has found a new home at Oklahoma State. This will be met with some controver ..read more

Last month legendary Oklahoma State head wrestling coach John Smith announced his retirement after 33 years at the helm of the wrestling program. Many believe the next step in the process was a bit of a foregone conclusion. Coleman Scott had come over as the associate head coach after exiting the head coaching position at North Carolina. All signs pointed to that move as a bit of a “head coach in waiting” role until Smith’s inevitable retirement. Ultimately, it looks like now that may not be the case as nearly one month later nothing official has been announced on who will replace Smith ..read more

The Greco portion of the US Open finished out yesterday in Vegas with Oklahoma crowning seven All-Americans and getting one world team member. In the U17 71 kg bracket, Edmond North’s ..read more

Bixby’s Gage Walker has been named the 2024 Oklahoma winner of the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. The DSHSEA was established in 1996 to honor Olympic and World champion Dave Schultz, whose career was cut short when he was murdered in January 1996. He was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member in 1997 and as a member of the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2016. The DSHSEA recognizes and celebrates the nation’s most outstanding high school senior male wrestlers for their excellence in wrestling, schola ..read more

High school wrestling is set to see significant rule changes beginning with the 2024-25 season, as outlined by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Wrestling Rules Committee. These adjustments, aimed at enhancing the clarity and fairness of the sport, include a pivotal change to the inbounds rule—requiring only one point of contact within the boundary line for a wrestler to be considered inbounds, thereby simplifying the previously more complex requirement. Additionally, the revision of near-fall points aims to encourage wrestlers to work towards a pin by ..read more