Casey Swiderski

Casey Swiderski - 2024 NCAA Championships

Casey Swiderski - 2024 Big 12 Championship

Casey Swiderski vs. Oklahoma State (2024)

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Photo by: Wesley Winterink

Weight:
141
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Dundee, Mich.
High School:
Dundee

Awards and Accomplishments
NCAA All-American (2024)
2x NCAA Qualifier (2023, ‘24)
2024 Big 12 Championship (Third Place)
2023 Big 12 Championship (Fourth Place)

2024-25
Did not compete … suffered a season-ending injury prior to the season … entered the transfer portal following the season.

2023-24
NCAA All-American at 149 pounds … battled through another injury-plagued season to place seventh at the NCAA Championships, scoring 7.5 team points … advanced to the national quarterfinals where he fell to top-seeded Ridge Lovett before avenging a loss from prior in the year to Ohio State’s No. 14 Dylan D’Emilio, 2-1 TB-1, in the blood round … wrestled to a 24-5 season record, including a 7-0 dual mark, with 13 bonus-point wins (seven tech falls, six major decisions) … four of five losses on the year came against top-five opponents … recorded seven wins against top-15 foes … defeated Iowa’s No. 9 Victor Voinovich III, 6-3, in the Cy-Hawk dual … placed fifth at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational … missed most of December and January due to injury … defeated three consecutive ranked foes in his first three matches back from injury - No. 32 Willie McDougald (OU), No. 17 Sammy Alvarez (OSU), No. 7 Ty Watters (WVU) … only lost three matches the rest of the year after his return in late January: one at the Big 12 Championship and two at the NCAA Championships … after a close defeat in the Big 12 semifinals to Oklahoma State’s Jordan Williams, secured crucial bonus points on the back side with a major decision and a tech fall in the third-place match … won two matches in tiebreakers at the NCAA Championships … fourth on the team with 62 takedowns.

2022-23
2023 NCAA Qualifier at 141 pounds … posted a 14-12 record as a true freshman … reached the blood round, one win shy of All-American status, and scored 3.5 team points at the NCAA Championships … lost his first match at the national tournament before rattling off three-straight wins … upset No. 7 seed Vince Cornella (CORN) to advance on the backside of the bracket … trailing 7-3 late in the match, used a gator roll to pin Cornella with 12 seconds remaining in the match … did not earn an allocation to the NCAA Championships but placed fourth as an unseeded wrestler at the Big 12 Championships to steal an automatic bid to the national tournament … burst onto the college wrestling scene with two top-20 wins on the first weekend of the regular season, defeating both No. 18 Shannon Hanna (CAMP) and No. 11 Joseph Zargo (WIS) … suffered a shoulder injury and missed most of the month of December and struggled upon his return to the lineup … got hot when it mattered and won six of his last nine matches to end the season … four bonus-point wins (one major decision, one tech fall, two pins).

High School
First commit for Iowa State in the class of 2022 … considered the No. 3 overall recruit in the nation, per MatScouts … has four Michigan state titles to his name, winning the state tournament at 103 pounds (2019), 135 pounds (2020), 145 pounds (2021) and 152 (2022) … joined Brent Metcalf (2002-05), Austin Boone (2017-20) and former Dundee teammate Stoney Buell (2018-21) as Michigan's only four-time team and individual state champions … 2022 Michigan Wrestling Association Mr. Wrestler award winner … concluded his high school career with a memorable senior season, going 45-0 and finishing with a 166-3 career mark … runner-up at the 2021 Junior Nationals at 138 pounds … defeated Jesse Mendez of Crown Point, Indiana, then the nation's top-ranked, pound-for-pound high school wrestler, at FloWrestling’s Who's Number One event.