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Drew Blackburn-Forst
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 285
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Lockport, Ill.
- High School:
- Lockport Township HS
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:
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 | -- |
North Dakota State vs. Air Force
Sunday, February 01
North Dakota State vs. Northern Colorado
Friday, January 30
North Dakota State vs. California Baptist
Sunday, January 25
North Dakota State vs. Iowa State
Sunday, January 11
