Top Recruits Bo Bassett, Jax Forrest Visiting Oklahoma State This Weekend

It will be a big weekend for the now and future of David Taylor’s program at Oklahoma State.

Top 2026 recruit Bo Bassett confirmed to PFB that he and Jax Forrest will both visit Stillwater this weekend as the David Taylor era begins at OSU. Friday night will be the Cowboys’ first home dual since Taylor replaced John Smith as head coach this past offseason. OSU will host Wyoming at 7 p.m. Friday with Bassett and Forrest in attendance. Both will also attend the OSU football game against Texas Tech on Saturday and the dual against Arizona State on Sunday.

Bassett and Forrest have swapped as the No. 1 and No. 2 recruits in the 2026 class throughout their careers. And as teammates at Bishop McCort Catholic Academy in Pennsylvania, they have taken some official visits together this year, including Iowa and Michigan. Last weekend, Bassett was at Virginia Tech while Forrest was at Iowa State.

Bassett has recently visited Oklahoma before. He was in the state in August to run a wrestling camp. He met with Taylor and associate head coach Jimmy Kennedy for dinner while in state. Bassett also talked to PFB after the trip.

“If you think about wrestling, I feel like, ultimately, you think about a couple of schools that have dominated for a long time. And Oklahoma State’s right up there, for sure,” Bassett told PFB then. “I would say, right now, I’m thinking of probably four or five like dynasties, and Oklahoma State is definitely there. They’ve dominated for a while. They’re always a top team, and I think that Dave can try to keep that tradition going and he can see what he can do with it.”

Bassett is 74-0 entering his junior season and is considered a generational recruit. As a top prospect, Bassett took an unconventional approach to the recruitment process, starting with a top schools list of 80, compared to three to 10 like most recruits. Narrowing it down each week, he’s now slimmed the group down to 12, still including the Cowboys.

In September, Forrest included OSU in his top 10 school choices. Originally from North Carolina, Forrest transferred to powerhouse Bishop McCort High School to join Bassett before last season. He immediately won a state title in Pennsylvania at 127 pounds as a sophomore in 2024. This past summer, Forrest competed at the United State Olympic Team Trials, where he finished fourth at 57 kilograms as a 17-year-old wrestling grown men. His first loss was only a 5-4 deficit in the quarterfinals to second-seeded and future OSU assistant Thomas Gilman, who won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

Taylor and Gilman visited Forrest at his home in August.

So far, OSU has two reported commitments from the 2026 class in Rocklin Zinkin and Kaden Purler.