2025 Transfer Portal

[Hillbilly Jim]

Chris Earnest to Kent State.  

Campbell is….  

[Hilton Head Joe]

1 hour ago, Hillbilly Jim said:

Chris Earnest to Kent State.  

Campbell is….  

Bleeding will not stop for Campbell. How late can guys transfer? Was Aug 1st the Deadline. Or are there no rules anymore really  

[nhs67]

55 minutes ago, Hilton Head Joe said:

Bleeding will not stop for Campbell. How late can guys transfer? Was Aug 1st the Deadline. Or are there no rules anymore really  

When a new head coach is named they have 30 days to enter the portal.

[flyingcement]

*Reverse transfer alert*

Wrestlestat is reporting that Hogan Swenski is back on the Ohio State roster, and no longer transferred to Rider.  

We saw this last year with Sam Ewing committing to Nebraska and Max Elton committing to Lock Haven, before Donny Vinson got the Buffalo job, and both wrestlers went back to Buffalo.  

Blake Schaeffer was also reported to transfer from Kent State to Cleveland State, but with the latter school closing its program, he went back to Kent State.

[flyingcement]

Douglas Terry from Cleveland State to Life University

[flyingcement]

Gavin Ricketts from Cleveland State to Bellarmine

[flyingcement]

Shane Cook from Cleveland State to Grand View

[flyingcement]

Kaleb Wright from Campbell to Long Island

[NoTweats]

On 8/3/2025 at 4:36 PM, HokieDave87 said:

Last I heard he was waiting on a class but that was a while ago and first session summer classes would be over... and I think second session would be ending right about now. Going to assume NCSU fell through

Yes your assumption is correct.  The parties have moved on.   

[flyingcement]

Reese Courtney from Campbell to Grand View

[ScottishSteel]

Man it feels like Campbell lost more guys than Cleveland St . . . that ain't good

[flyingcement]

3 hours ago, ScottishSteel said:

Man it feels like Campbell lost more guys than Cleveland St . . . that ain't good

Campbell has had 18 enter the portal and 13 of them have found new homes.  Cleveland State has had 29 enter the portal with 18 of them finding new homes.  But yes both are quite extreme.  Sad to see.
 

[flyingcement]

these teams have the largest numbers of incoming transfers:

Kent State	8
Bloomsburg	7
Oklahoma	6
Clarion	6
Oklahoma State	5
Chattanooga	5
Sacred Heart	4
Rutgers	4
Ohio State	4
Iowa State	4
Glenville State	4
Buffalo	4

[flyingcement]

Ethan Ducca who came to Wyoming via Edinboro, was previously committed to Campbell but has shifted his commitment to Bloomsburg.  Stutzman has been one of the most active coaches in the transfer portal and brought in the following haul who are all projected as starters:

125: Jace Schafer (West Virginia)
141: Michael Giugliano (Buffalo)
149: Cael Raines (Buffalo)
165: Eric Alderfer (Lock Haven)
174: Braidon Woodward (Buffalo)
184: Ethan Ducca (Wyoming, Edinboro)
197: Coy Raines (Buffalo)

Edited 7 hours ago by flyingcement

[flyingcement]

But the star of the portal is Josh Moore.  Went from the coach of cancelled program to the coach of another MAC Ohio program.  He hired Devin Schroeder and brought in the most new transfers in all of college wrestling this year, while also retaining several of their own portal entries.  
 

Athlete	NCAA Accolades	2025-26 Year	Weight	WS Rank	Transferring From		Entered Portal	Transferring To
Ruben Lorenzana		SO	125	183	Cleveland State	0	January 27	Kent State
Parker Pikor		FR	125	215	Cleveland State	0	January 28	Kent State
Nicholas Molchak		SR	133	136	Cleveland State	0	April 22	Kent State
Jordan Decatur		SR	141	88	Kent State	1	April 9	Kent State
Landen Duncan		SO	141	162	Cleveland State	0	January 27	Kent State
Jahan Isaacs		FR	149	217	Kent State	1	April 11	Kent State
Stone Pomeroy		FR	149	317	Kent State	1	April 11	Kent State
James Chance		SO	157	43	George Mason	0	April 23	Kent State
Chris Earnest		JR	157	52	Campbell	0	August 4	Kent State
Reese Stephen		FR	157	108	Cleveland State	0	January 28	Kent State
Steven Duffy		FR	184	205	Cleveland State	0	February 18	Kent State
Javon Lewis		FR	184	215	Kent State	1	April 2	Kent State
Ryan Dimmick		FR	285	150	Kent State	1	March 21	Kent State

Edited 7 hours ago by flyingcement

[ScottishSteel]

2 hours ago, flyingcement said:

Campbell has had 18 enter the portal and 13 of them have found new homes.  Cleveland State has had 29 enter the portal with 18 of them finding new homes.  But yes both are quite extreme.  Sad to see.
 

and from what we've heard about the situation at Campbell I get it and why they are all relocating but they were a really feisty and scrappy SoCon team for a bit there; genuine tough outs top to bottom - I made a point to always have an eye on the Campbell kids at NCAAs cause they wouldn't go down easy and could pull an upset.

 

really a bummer they'll be a shell of that to no fault of the wrestling program itself