NCAA champions don't hit the transfer portal every day, so when New Jersey standout and Rutgers grad Nick Suriano's name surfaced as a portal entrant earlier this week, it sent reverberations across the sport. The two-time national finalist and 2019 NCAA Champion is one of the most talented lightweights of his generation, and will be a huge injection of star power for whatever school lands him.
Sources close to Ohio State's wrestling program told Eleven Warriors there is mutual interest in bringing the four-time New Jersey high school champion to Columbus.
Suriano, who graduated from Rutgers in the spring and is the school's only NCAA wrestling champion, has spent the summer in the Southwest training with the Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club at Arizona State.