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New Prairie wrestling, class of 2023
Christian Carroll is the New Prairie wrestler whose record outgrew the state. As a Cougar he won the 2022 Indiana state championship at 220 pounds with a 22–0 season — carried on his Iowa State roster biography as "2022 Indiana Class 2A state champion and Wrestler of the Year," and on InterMat's record as the Indiana state champion at 220 in his Penn-commitment period. The path was interrupted twice: he missed his freshman year to injury and his sophomore postseason to transfer rules, which makes the unbeaten title run the whole of his visible high-school peak.
The national record around the title is what makes him a defining name rather than a one-season one: ranked No. 2 pound-for-pound in the class of 2023 by MatScouts; a two-time Super 32 champion (2020, 2021); the 2021 junior freestyle national champion at Fargo; a 2022 U20 Greco-Roman World Team member (Bulgaria); and in 2023 a U20 World Team member again, a U.S. Open champion as the No. 6 seed with five technical falls in six matches, and the U20 freestyle national champion. His commitments moved Illinois to Penn to Oklahoma State (November 2022); he wrestled at Oklahoma State in 2023–24 and appears thereafter on Iowa State's roster.
Sources:
- Iowa State wrestling roster biography for Christian Carroll (read 2026-11-11) — the 2022 state title, the 22–0 season, Wrestler of the Year.
- InterMat wrestler profile (read 2026-11-11) — state champion at 220, national results, rankings and commitment sequence.