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2025-26 Wrestling Roster

Drew Blackburn-Forst

  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 285
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Lockport, Ill.
  • High School Lockport Township HS

Biography

Big 12 Championships Eighth Place ('25)

2024-25 SEASON (SOPHOMORE): Competed at 285 pounds and recorded an eighth-place finish at the Big 12 Championships at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., finishing with a 2-3 record … Compiled an overall record of 15-19 … Finished with a record of 3-9 against ranked opposition … Compiled a 7-8 record in dual matches, including a 6-3 record in Big 12 duals … Scored 27 team points in dual competition ... Recorded six bonus-point victories on the season … Recorded five victories with falls, including a season best pin of 0:24 … Picked up one major decision victory ... Scored 130 total match points on the season … Secured 29 takedowns … Turned two four-point nearfalls … Recorded three reversals … Scored 26 escapes … Finished with four riding-time points …

NORTHERN COLORADO: Wrestled two seasons at Northern Colorado, including a 7-5 campaign last year in his redshirt freshman campaign … Six of his seven wins came by fall, with his lone other win by tech fall … Finished 2-1 in duals … As a redshirt in 2022-23, posted a 4-0 record with three pins and one tech fall …
 
HIGH SCHOOL: No. 135 overall recruit in the class of 2022 and No. 11 nationally in weight class … U15 World Team Member in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman … Lettered in wrestling and football … Two-time Illinois wrestling state champion … Earned all-conference honors twice … Was a two-time all-state and all-area football player … Illinois Defensive Player of the Year … Helped his teams to place third at state wrestling championships and an 8A Football State Championship …
 
PERSONAL: Son of Shawn and Kelly … Has one sibling; Paul … Shawn wrestled collegiately at Millikin … Majoring in Marketing …

CAREER STATISTICS:
Year Overall vs.
Rank
Duals Big 12
Duals
Dual
Pts
Falls Fast
Pin
TF MD TD N2 N3 N4 RV E RT Pts Big 12
Champ
NCAA
Champ
2023-24 (N. Colorado) 7-5 0-1 2-1 1-1 12 6-1 0:10 1-0 0-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 67 -- --
2024-25 15-19 3-9 7-8 6-3 27 5-4 0:24 0-3 1-7 29 0 0 2 3 26 4 131 2-3 (8th) --
Career 22-24 3-10 9-9 7-4 39 11-5 0:10 1-3 1-8 29 0 0 2 3 26 4 198 2-3 --

Historical Player Information

  • 2024-25Sophomore

    6'3" 285 lbs
  • 2025-26Junior

    6'3" 285 lbs