Wrestling
What Daton Fix Did To Get The No. 1 Seed
A look at the path Daton Fix took to get the 1 seed at the NCAA tournament.
As a Junior World Champion and multiple time World medalist Daton Fix was the No. 1 ranked recruit in his class and came to Stillwater with some of the highest expectations of any wrestler ever.
He was then dropped into one of the toughest weight classes in the entire country in his first season as a Cowboy. Everyone that follows college wrestling agrees that 133 is absolutely stacked. John Smith has said it’s the deepest weight he’s ever seen as a coach.
"The deepest I've ever seen any weight…ever…in my coaching career."
The ? knows how tough 133 is. pic.twitter.com/lgUuWihrDA
— FloWrestling (@FloWrestling) February 26, 2019
Daton Fix has navigated that incredibly tough weight this season to become the No. 1 seed at the NCAA tournament.
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2019 NCAA DI No. 1 SEED
Daton Fix – @cowboywrestling#NCAAWrestling pic.twitter.com/HUDH6kQOSw— NCAA Wrestling (@ncaawrestling) March 13, 2019
I thought I’d compile a list of all the NCAA qualifiers he beat to acquire that seed.
| Name | NCAA Seed | NCAA Finalist | All-American |
| Ethan Lizak | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Montorie Bridges | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| Gary Wayne Harding | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Devan Turner | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| Sean Nickell | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| Austin Gomez | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Nick Suriano | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Schmitt | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Austin Gomez | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Brandon Paetzell | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| John Erneste | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Austin Desanto | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Gary Joint | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| Matthew Schmitt | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Montorie Bridges | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 15 | 2 | 4 |
Fix wrestled Bridges and Gomez each twice.
That’s 15 NCAA qualifiers, four top 10 seeds, fourteen top 20 seeds, two NCAA finalists and four All-Americans! All as a freshman.
He’ll have to navigate through all them and many more to win a title next weekend. Regardless of how that plays out his body of work to get that No. 1 seed is certainly impressive.
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