#2 Braxton Amos Releases Top Five School List
#2 Braxton Amos Releases Top Five School List
Ironman and Super 32 champ Braxton Amos has announced the list of five colleges he will be taking official visits to.
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The most highly touted recruit out of West Virginia in over a decade has narrowed his school list down to five. Braxton Amos announced the colleges he will be taking official visits to and where he could be heading after he graduates.
Amos is finishing up his junior year at Parkersburg South high school, one of the top public school teams in the nation. He is currently #5 on the 2020 Big Board, which should be updated in the coming weeks.
He has a laundry list of accomplishments in high school, having doubled up in Fargo in both 2016 and 2017, as well as having two undefeated regular seasons that include Ironman, Powerade, and state titles. The junior also won a pair of Super 32 titles before his past two high school seasons.
Right now, he is ranked second at 220 but will likely be spending much of next season down at 195 to prepare himself to wrestle 197 in college. That could include some college opens.
Looking at the schools he will be visiting, he has strong ties to each.
Braxton Amos School List
- Oklahoma State
- Ohio State
- Penn State
- Virginia Tech
- Wisconsin
Oklahoma State has already put together one of, if not the best 2020 recruiting class. Amos grew up wrestling with Trevor Mastrogiovanni, Dustin Plott, and Konner Doucet on dual teams in middle school and still holds relationships with those guys to this day. Amos could slot in at 197 after a redshirt year when Dakota Geer graduates.
Amos spent a great deal of time training at the wrestling club run by Miron Kharchla, the father of future Buckeye Carson Kharchla. The Amos family is also very close with the family of incoming recruit Greg Kerkvliet. If Amos were to go to Columbus, he may end up starting right away after Kollin Moore graduates, which would also mean Gavin Hoffman is staying down at 184.
Among the relationships he developed in the Miron room was the Lee family, and Joe and Nick Lee will both be at Penn State next year. The Nittany Lions are a little more crowded at 197 going forward, with one of Aaron Brooks, Carter Starocci, and Michael Beard likely ending up at that weight.
Parkersburg native Jared Haught was a three-time All-American at Virginia Tech and Amos has trained many times at the Southeast RTC. Tom Sleigh graduates this year and they have Dakota Howard on redshirt, so Amos may have to unseat a guy who is a redshirt junior to get his spot in the lineup.
The Badgers are the only team without any direct surface level ties, but Amos has developed a strong relationship with that coaching staff throughout the recruiting process. They have Pete Christensen coming in around that weight, but Christensen is very tall and may wind up growing into a heavyweight. Amos split with Christensen in Akron, losing in Greco and then winning in freestyle.
At this time, it seems like the plan is for Amos to wrestle freestyle and Greco this spring. He is out of Cadet eligibility, so he'll be looking to make Junior world teams, starting by competing at the Open later this month.
He'll probably be taking his official visits in the fall, potentially taking breaks for events like Who's #1 and/or Super 32.