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Daton Fix
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Sand Springs, Okla.
- High School:
- Charles Page
Bio
2023-24: Wrapped up his historic career with a 21-1 record and as the 133-pound runner-up at the NCAA Championships … Went a perfect 13-0 in dual matches, extending his winning streak in such bouts to 54 and finishing sixth in program history in dual match winning percentage … Beat a ranked wrestler in 15 of his 21 wins while recording two pins, five technical falls and five major decisions … Led OSU with 44 takedowns in dual matches and was second with 53 dual points despite missing time with injury … Majored NC State’s fifth-ranked Kai Orine, 13-5, giving him his first top-5 win with bonus points … Won his lone start at 141 pounds against Missouri’s No. 26 Josh Edmond, a major key in the team victory … Held off Iowa’s Brody Teske in the regular season finale to complete his career with a 36-0 record inside Gallagher-Iba Arena … Defeated No. 7 Evan Frost of Iowa State in the Big 12 finals to become the first five-time conference champion in league and program history … Received the No. 1 national seed for the third time in five tries … Made his way to the NCAA finals with wins in tiebreakers against No. 8 Evan Frost and fifth-seeded Dylan Ragusin of Michigan … Also became the first and only five-time All-American ever at OSU, in addition to joining just three other Cowboys as four-time NCAA finalists … Was the first four-time runner-up in NCAA history … Moved to 10th in program history with 123 wins and was one of six Cowboys to break 120 wins with less than seven career losses … Concluded his career with a top-15 winning percentage in program history, the fourth-most technical falls and top 10 in bonus-point victories … Garnered his fifth selection to both the NWCA Scholar All-American and Academic All-Big 12 teams, the first Cowboy to ever reach five selections on either list.
2022-23: Posted a 30-2 record with a 17-0 mark in duals as a senior … Became Oklahoma State’s 15th four-time All-American with a fourth place finish at the NCAA Championships … Reached 100 career wins in the second round of the tournament … Became the 10th wrestler in program history to win four individual conference championships and earned bonus points in each of his four matches at the Big 12 Championships … Recorded 17 bonus-point wins on the season, including six falls, nine major decisions and two technical falls … Had a streak of seven consecutive matches he won with bonus points … Recorded the fastest fall of his career in 55 seconds against Garrett Ricks of Wyoming in his first match of the conference tournament … Pinned No. 12 Dylan Ragusin of Michigan in the first period and earned a 14-3 major decision over No. 26 Connor Brown of Missouri to clinch both duals for the Cowboys … Had a career high 17 wins over ranked opponents.
2021-22: Posted a 25-1 record in his first full season back in the OSU lineup since the 2018-19 campaign … Won his third individual Big 12 title, becoming the 36th three-time conference champion in program history … Entered the NCAA Championships with a 21-0 record and as the second seed at 133 pounds … Collected wins over No. 31 Kyle Burwick (WIS), No. 15 Kai Orine (NCST), No. 10 Chris Cannon (NW) and No. 3 Michael McGee (ASU) to advance to the championship match … Pinned Northwestern’s Chris Cannon in the first period of their quarterfinals match for the second year in-a-row to earn All-America honors for the third time in his career … Dropped a 3-2 decision in the finals to No. 1 Roman Bravo-Young in a rematch of last season’s championship match, marking Fix’s third national runner-up finish in as many NCAA tournaments … Was a bonus-point machine throughout the season, racking up a team-high six falls, six major decisions and five technical falls … Also led the Cowboys in takedowns (90) and near falls (13) … Had two separate runs of five consecutive matches winning with bonus points at points in the season … Collected USA Wrestling Athlete of the Week honors on February 15 following two wins at Bout at the Ballpark where he became the first wrestler to ever represent his country and university in the same day … Wrestled for the United States first as he defeated Ecuador’s Guesseppe Rea with a 10-0 technical fall before taking a 5-3 decision over No. 3 Austin DeSanto for his third career win over the Hawkeye … Earned a silver medal at the World Championships in Oslo, Norway in October, becoming the highest OSU finisher at the World Championships since 1993 … Was named to the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 First Team for the first time to go along with two second team honors in his career ... Also earned his third NWCA Scholar All-America honor after doing so in 2019 and 2021.
2020-21: Went 13-1 in his sophomore season after returning to the Cowboy lineup on Feb. 14 at the Cowboy Challenge Tournament ... Won his second Big 12 Championship with a 6-1 decision over Tony Madrigal (Oklahoma) ... Was the No. 1 seed at the NCAA Championship for the second time in his career ... Took out No. 32 Cole Rhone (Bloomsburg), No. 17 Malyke Hines (Lehigh), No. 8 Chris Cannon (Northwestern), and No. 4 Austin DeSanto (Iowa) at the NCAA tournament ... Earned a national runner-up finish for the second time in his career, after dropping a 4-2 bout in sudden victory to No. 2 Roman Bravo-Young of Penn State ... Collected a team high six falls on the year, including a run of pins in four straight matches during the regular season and two at the NCAA Championship ... Also had two tech falls and two major decisions on the season, making 11 of his wins, bonus-point victories.
2019-20: Did not compete for the Cowboys …Olympic redshirted to train for the 2020 Olympics that were postponed to 2021.
2018-19: Finished the regular season as the top-ranked 133-pound wrestler in the country as a redshirt freshman… Went 34-2 on the season, dropping only one dual bout… Went 14-2 against ranked opponents in what John Smith categorized as the deepest weight class in the country … Began the year ranked No. 10 in the country before knocking off returning NCAA runner-up Ethan Lizak (MINN) … The following week in his Gallagher-Iba debut, took out No. 11 Montorie Bridges of Wyoming … Took home top honors at the OCU Open, Reno Tournament of Champions and the Southern Scuffle, where he notched his first fall of the season over Air Force’s John Twomey before taking out No. 20 Sean Nickell and 10th-ranked Austin Gomez (ISU) … Went 3-4 over a stretch in January where he faced four top-15 wrestlers in a row, defeating eventual NCAA champion Nick Suriano (RUT), No. 15 Matt Schmitt (WVU) and ninth-ranked Gomez … Closed out the regular season with ranked wins over No. 10 John Erneste (MIZZ) and No. 3 Austin DeSanto (Iowa) … Went 4-0 en route to his first conference title with the Pokes … Was the first Cowboy freshman since Pat Smith to earn the No. 1 seed at the NCAA Tournament … Majored Zack Trampe of Binghamton in the first round before taking out WVU’s Schmitt again … Took a major decision over No. 8 Erneste in the quarterfinals before beating Ohio State’s Luke Pletcher, 4-2, in the semis … Lost a controversial rematch with third-seeded Suriano in the NCAA finals, 4-2, in a second sudden victory … Became the 10th freshman in OSU’s star-studded history to reach the national finals match … Notched the best finish for a freshman since Jake Rosholt’s 2003 title run … Became the 38th All-American freshman in the program’s history … In June, became the youngest Cowboy to make a United States Senior World Team since coach John Smith made his first World Team in 1987 … Defeated Thomas Gilman in a best-of-three showdown at Final X: Lincoln.
2017-18 (Redshirt Year): Went 5-0 in his redshirt-freshman season for OSU at 125 pounds … Competed in the Reno Tournament of Champions where he defeated No. 10 Ronnie Bresser (Oregon State) and No. 8 Seaon Fausz (NC State) en route to a first-place finish.
High School: Was outstanding in his high school and junior career, going 168-0 with four state titles at Charles Page High School in Sand Springs under coaches Derek Fix and Kelly Smith … Racked up several other honors at the junior level, most notably winning a Junior World Championship in 2017 and leading Team USA to its first team title in decades … Before winning his title, medaled on the World stage three other times, taking bronze at Junior Worlds in 2016, bronze at Cadet Worlds in 2015 and silver at the 2014 Youth Olympics … Was a six-time Junior Nationals champ … Was the recipient of the national Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award in 2017 … Earned the title of Tulsa World Wrestler of the Year three times … Named the Jim Thorpe Wrestler of the Year … Was a member of National Honor Society, and an honor roll student … Also competed in cross country his freshman and sophomore year … Was a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes … Also volunteered at his school helping special needs students.
Personal: Son of Derek and Stacee Fix … Has four siblings: Dru, Dalten, Dacee and Dian … His father, Derek, and uncle, Dustin, both wrestled at Oklahoma State … His grandpa, David wrestled at Northern Colorado … His other grandpa, Alan Karstetter, wrestled at BYU … Graduated in May of 2022 with a Bachelors of University Studies degree with an emphasis in sports and coaching sciences ... Is now working toward a Masters Degree in Leisure Studies: Applied Health and Recreation.
2022-23: Posted a 30-2 record with a 17-0 mark in duals as a senior … Became Oklahoma State’s 15th four-time All-American with a fourth place finish at the NCAA Championships … Reached 100 career wins in the second round of the tournament … Became the 10th wrestler in program history to win four individual conference championships and earned bonus points in each of his four matches at the Big 12 Championships … Recorded 17 bonus-point wins on the season, including six falls, nine major decisions and two technical falls … Had a streak of seven consecutive matches he won with bonus points … Recorded the fastest fall of his career in 55 seconds against Garrett Ricks of Wyoming in his first match of the conference tournament … Pinned No. 12 Dylan Ragusin of Michigan in the first period and earned a 14-3 major decision over No. 26 Connor Brown of Missouri to clinch both duals for the Cowboys … Had a career high 17 wins over ranked opponents.
2021-22: Posted a 25-1 record in his first full season back in the OSU lineup since the 2018-19 campaign … Won his third individual Big 12 title, becoming the 36th three-time conference champion in program history … Entered the NCAA Championships with a 21-0 record and as the second seed at 133 pounds … Collected wins over No. 31 Kyle Burwick (WIS), No. 15 Kai Orine (NCST), No. 10 Chris Cannon (NW) and No. 3 Michael McGee (ASU) to advance to the championship match … Pinned Northwestern’s Chris Cannon in the first period of their quarterfinals match for the second year in-a-row to earn All-America honors for the third time in his career … Dropped a 3-2 decision in the finals to No. 1 Roman Bravo-Young in a rematch of last season’s championship match, marking Fix’s third national runner-up finish in as many NCAA tournaments … Was a bonus-point machine throughout the season, racking up a team-high six falls, six major decisions and five technical falls … Also led the Cowboys in takedowns (90) and near falls (13) … Had two separate runs of five consecutive matches winning with bonus points at points in the season … Collected USA Wrestling Athlete of the Week honors on February 15 following two wins at Bout at the Ballpark where he became the first wrestler to ever represent his country and university in the same day … Wrestled for the United States first as he defeated Ecuador’s Guesseppe Rea with a 10-0 technical fall before taking a 5-3 decision over No. 3 Austin DeSanto for his third career win over the Hawkeye … Earned a silver medal at the World Championships in Oslo, Norway in October, becoming the highest OSU finisher at the World Championships since 1993 … Was named to the 2022 Academic All-Big 12 First Team for the first time to go along with two second team honors in his career ... Also earned his third NWCA Scholar All-America honor after doing so in 2019 and 2021.
2020-21: Went 13-1 in his sophomore season after returning to the Cowboy lineup on Feb. 14 at the Cowboy Challenge Tournament ... Won his second Big 12 Championship with a 6-1 decision over Tony Madrigal (Oklahoma) ... Was the No. 1 seed at the NCAA Championship for the second time in his career ... Took out No. 32 Cole Rhone (Bloomsburg), No. 17 Malyke Hines (Lehigh), No. 8 Chris Cannon (Northwestern), and No. 4 Austin DeSanto (Iowa) at the NCAA tournament ... Earned a national runner-up finish for the second time in his career, after dropping a 4-2 bout in sudden victory to No. 2 Roman Bravo-Young of Penn State ... Collected a team high six falls on the year, including a run of pins in four straight matches during the regular season and two at the NCAA Championship ... Also had two tech falls and two major decisions on the season, making 11 of his wins, bonus-point victories.
2019-20: Did not compete for the Cowboys …Olympic redshirted to train for the 2020 Olympics that were postponed to 2021.
2018-19: Finished the regular season as the top-ranked 133-pound wrestler in the country as a redshirt freshman… Went 34-2 on the season, dropping only one dual bout… Went 14-2 against ranked opponents in what John Smith categorized as the deepest weight class in the country … Began the year ranked No. 10 in the country before knocking off returning NCAA runner-up Ethan Lizak (MINN) … The following week in his Gallagher-Iba debut, took out No. 11 Montorie Bridges of Wyoming … Took home top honors at the OCU Open, Reno Tournament of Champions and the Southern Scuffle, where he notched his first fall of the season over Air Force’s John Twomey before taking out No. 20 Sean Nickell and 10th-ranked Austin Gomez (ISU) … Went 3-4 over a stretch in January where he faced four top-15 wrestlers in a row, defeating eventual NCAA champion Nick Suriano (RUT), No. 15 Matt Schmitt (WVU) and ninth-ranked Gomez … Closed out the regular season with ranked wins over No. 10 John Erneste (MIZZ) and No. 3 Austin DeSanto (Iowa) … Went 4-0 en route to his first conference title with the Pokes … Was the first Cowboy freshman since Pat Smith to earn the No. 1 seed at the NCAA Tournament … Majored Zack Trampe of Binghamton in the first round before taking out WVU’s Schmitt again … Took a major decision over No. 8 Erneste in the quarterfinals before beating Ohio State’s Luke Pletcher, 4-2, in the semis … Lost a controversial rematch with third-seeded Suriano in the NCAA finals, 4-2, in a second sudden victory … Became the 10th freshman in OSU’s star-studded history to reach the national finals match … Notched the best finish for a freshman since Jake Rosholt’s 2003 title run … Became the 38th All-American freshman in the program’s history … In June, became the youngest Cowboy to make a United States Senior World Team since coach John Smith made his first World Team in 1987 … Defeated Thomas Gilman in a best-of-three showdown at Final X: Lincoln.
2017-18 (Redshirt Year): Went 5-0 in his redshirt-freshman season for OSU at 125 pounds … Competed in the Reno Tournament of Champions where he defeated No. 10 Ronnie Bresser (Oregon State) and No. 8 Seaon Fausz (NC State) en route to a first-place finish.
High School: Was outstanding in his high school and junior career, going 168-0 with four state titles at Charles Page High School in Sand Springs under coaches Derek Fix and Kelly Smith … Racked up several other honors at the junior level, most notably winning a Junior World Championship in 2017 and leading Team USA to its first team title in decades … Before winning his title, medaled on the World stage three other times, taking bronze at Junior Worlds in 2016, bronze at Cadet Worlds in 2015 and silver at the 2014 Youth Olympics … Was a six-time Junior Nationals champ … Was the recipient of the national Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award in 2017 … Earned the title of Tulsa World Wrestler of the Year three times … Named the Jim Thorpe Wrestler of the Year … Was a member of National Honor Society, and an honor roll student … Also competed in cross country his freshman and sophomore year … Was a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes … Also volunteered at his school helping special needs students.
Personal: Son of Derek and Stacee Fix … Has four siblings: Dru, Dalten, Dacee and Dian … His father, Derek, and uncle, Dustin, both wrestled at Oklahoma State … His grandpa, David wrestled at Northern Colorado … His other grandpa, Alan Karstetter, wrestled at BYU … Graduated in May of 2022 with a Bachelors of University Studies degree with an emphasis in sports and coaching sciences ... Is now working toward a Masters Degree in Leisure Studies: Applied Health and Recreation.
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