TULSA — For the first time, a college wrestling season will end before the championship match for Daton Fix.
Fix fell 11-3 in his semifinal matchup to Cornell’s Vito Arujau, meaning the best Oklahoma State’s best wrestler can do at the NCAA Championships in the BOK Center is third place. This is the first NCAA Tournament since 2018 where the Cowboys won’t have a wrestler in the finals. It’s just the fourth time since John Smith took over at OSU ahead of the 1992 season that OSU hasn’t had a wrestler in the finals.
Fix fought off a takedown for what seemed like an eternity in the first period before Arujau was finally able to secure it.