Daton Fix

Daton Fix (born March 11, 1998) is an American wrestler born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Fix competes internationally in Freestyle, Folkstyle, Greco-Roman wrestling,[1] Fix is the son of Oklahoma State University wrestler Derek Fix, and the grandson of former Charles Page High School Head Coach Alan Karstetter.

Daton Fix

Medal record Representing the  United States Men's Freestyle wrestling Pan American Games 2019 Lima 57 kg Youth Olympic Games 2014 Nanjing 54 kg Junior World Championships 2016 Macon 55 kg 2017 Tampere 55 kg 2018 Trnava 55 kg Junior World Championships 2015 Sarajevo 54 kg Collegiate Wrestling Representing the Oklahoma State Cowboys NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships 2019 Pittsburgh 133 lb Big 12 Championships 2019 Tulsa 133 lb

Junior high

At 13, Fix won the Junior High All-State Championship. That summer he won the Southern Plains Greco-Roman and Freestyle Championships and went nearly undefeated on the USA Wrestling Schoolboy Freestyle Dual Squad with a 20-0 record for Team Oklahoma. He secured two national titles that summer at the ASICS/USAW Kids Nationals in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman.

In 2012, he won his second Junior High All-State Championship in the six/seventh grade division. He came in Runner-Up at the ASICS/USAW Folkstyle Nationals, with his only loss to future Nebraska Cornhusker Chad Red. He defended his Greco and Freestyle titles at the Southern Plains Regionals. He went undefeated on the Oklahoma Schoolboy Dual team, attaining All-American status in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman. He won the Northern Plains Regional in Freestyle, then won three more National Championships. He took first place in the ASICS/USAW Freestyle and Greco-Roman tournaments, as well as the Cliff Keen USAW Preseason Folkstyle tournament.

In 2013, he won his third Junior High All-State Championship, this time in the eighth/ninth grade division. He followed it up with a second-place finish at the FILA Cadet Freestyle Nationals and then won the Southern Plains Regionals in both styles for the third time. He won a sixth National Title at the USAW Cadet Greco Nationals, then won his seventh at the USAW Cadet Freestyle Nationals.

High school

Fix laid claim to two OSSAA titles during his freshman season, as the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association allows freshmen to compete in both the Junior High All-State Tournament and the High School State Tournament. He took first place at the Perry Tournament of Champions, the Kansas City Stampede, the Jay Hancock Memorial Invitational, the 6A East-Regional Championship, and the OSS careerAA 6A State Championship, completing the year undefeated at 34-0.[2]

During the 2014 summer session, he won his eighth National title at the USAW Cadet Folkstyle Championship, then brought home Gold medals for Freestyle and Greco-Roman from the Cadet Pan American Championships in Brazil. He returned to Oklahoma to win the USAOK Freestyle and Greco State Championships, then headed to the ASICS/FILA Cadet Freestyle Nationals for his ninth National title. He added a pair of Southern Plains Regional titles, then went undefeated on the Oklahoma Cadet Dual teams in both styles. He wrestled with the Junior Freestyle team and suffered only one loss, to future Minnesota Gopher Skyler Petry, helping his team to the Dual National Title. He competed in his first World Freestyle Championship in Slovakia and took tenth place, and followed it up with a Silver Medal at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China.[3]

In October 2014, Fix was invited to the FloWrestling "Who's #1?" event to take on the second-ranked wrestler in the nation, Nick Suriano. The two had previously met that May in the Cadet National finals when Fix prevailed in a tie-breaker decision. The Who's #1 event suspended traditional overtime rules and instated an unlimited sudden-victory overtime period. This time Fix and the future Penn State and Rutgers wrestler ended regulation once again tied at 1-1, and went on to set the world record for longest recorded high school match at 32:12 before Suriano came out on top of a 3-1 decision. Two weeks later he came in runner-Up at the Super 32 tournament, then won the Oklahoma Open.

As a sophomore, he again won at Perry, Kansas City, and the Jay Hancock Invitational. The Sandites also added the Jerry Billings Invitational to their schedule, and Fix took gold. He defended his Regional title, then concluded his second undefeated season at 41-0 with an 11-3 major decision over future Oklahoma Sooner Dalton Duffield.

He won his tenth National Title at the Folkstyle FloNationals, then won his eleventh at the UWW Junior Freestyle Nationals. He won a twelfth at the UWW Cadet Freestyle Nationals, helped Team Oklahoma defend their Junior Dual Nationals title, then made it thirteen at the USAW Junior Freestyle Nationals. That August he brought home Bronze from the Cadet World Championships in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then defeated Rudy Yates in the Who's #1 event.

As a Junior, Fix won the Perry Tournament, the KC Stampede, the Geary Invitational, the Sand Springs Bobby Lyons Invitational, the Jay Hancock Invitational, the Regional Championship, and the State Championship with a 28-8 technical fall in a rematch with Duffield. He finished his year with a 45-0 record as only the second three-time State Champion in Sand Springs history.

In the 2016 summer session, he won a fourteenth National title at the UWW Junior Freestyle Nationals. He competed with Team USA in a dual with Team Iran at the Beat The Streets "United in the Square" event in Times Square, New York City, and won a 14-3 tech fall over Kheyrollah Gharamani. He then went undefeated with the Oklahoma Junior Freestyle Dual team. He competed in his first Senior level event at the Gran Premio De Espana in Madrid, but fell 2-1 in a rematch of his Junior Olympic loss to Mukhambet Kuatbek, and failed to make repechage. At the Junior World Championships in Macon, France he took Bronze again after a 9-6 loss to Russia's Khasankhusein Badrudinov, then won the Who's #1 dual with an 8-2 decision over future Iowa State Cyclone Austin Gomez.

During Fix's Senior Year, he announced his commitment to his father's Alma Mater and signed with Oklahoma State University. He won the Perry Tournament, the KC Stampede, the Geary Invitational, the Jerry Billings Tournament, and the Regional and State Championships. The Sandites held the No. 1 ranking in Oklahoma 6A throughout the season, reached fifteenth in the FloWrestling National rankings, and won the Owasso Ram Duals, the 6A Dual State Championship (for the first time in school history) and the 6A State Tournament for the first time since 1971. Fix concluded the season with a 48-0 record and a 168-0 career record as only the third undefeated four-time State Champion in Oklahoma history.[4]

College

2017-18 (Redshirt): Fix went 5-0 in his redshirt-freshman season for OSU at 125 pounds. He competed in the Reno Tournament of Champions where he defeated No. 10 Ronnie Bresser (Oregon State) and No. 8 Seaon Fausz (NC State) en route to a first-place finish.

2018-19: Fix finished the regular season as the top-ranked 133-pound wrestler in the country as a redshirt freshman. He went 34-2 on the season, dropping only one dual bout. He went 14-2 against ranked opponents in what John Smith categorized as the deepest weight class in the country. He began the year ranked No. 10 in the country before knocking off returning NCAA runner-up Ethan Lizak (MINN). The following week in his Gallagher-Iba debut, he took out No. 11 Montorie Bridges of Wyoming.He took top honors at the OCU Open, Reno Tournament of Champions and the Southern Scuffle, where he notched his first fall of the season over Air Force's John Twomey before taking out No.. 20 Sean Nickell and 10th-ranked Austin Gomez (ISU). He went 3-4 over a stretch in January where he faced four top-15 wrestlers in a row, defeating eventual NCAA champion Nick Suriano (RUT), No. 15 Matt Schmitt (WVU) and ninth-ranked Gomez. He closed out the regular season with wins over No. 10 John Erneste (MIZZ) and No. 3 Austin DeSanto (Iowa). He went 4-0 en route to his first conference title with the Cowboys. He was the first Cowboy freshman since Pat Smith to earn the No. 1 seed at the NCAA Tournament. He beat Zack Trampe of Binghamton in the first round before taking out WVU's Schmitt again. He took a major decision over No. 8 Erneste in the quarterfinals before beating Ohio State's Luke Pletcher, 4-2, in the semis. He lost a controversial rematch with third-seeded Suriano in the NCAA finals, 4-2, in a second sudden victory. He became the 10th freshman in OSU's history to reach the national finals. He notched the best finish for a freshman since Jake Rosholt's 2003 title run. He became the 38th All-American freshman in the program's history. In June, he became the youngest Cowboy to make a United States Senior World Team since coach John Smith made his first World Team in 1987. He defeated Thomas Gilman in a best-of-three showdown at Final X: Lincoln.

International

In 2017, Fix won gold at the 2017 Junior World Championships in Tampere, Finland, where he only allowed 1 point throughout the tournament.

Later in October, he qualified for the first U23 World Wrestling Championships. He beat NCAA champion and 3x All-American Nathan Tomasello of Ohio State two times in a row in a best of 3 finals in the team trials to qualify.

In 2019, Fix won the gold medal in the 57-kilogram bracket in the men's freestyle portion of the quadrennial 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. In the quarterfinal match, Fix produced a 10-0 technical fall over Brazil's Daniel Alves Do Nascimento in 1:15 seconds. In the semifinals, Fix took a 4-1 decision over Reineri Andreu Ortega of Cuba, who was the 2017 U23 World champion and 2018 Pan Am champion. In the finals, he notched an 11-0 technical fall over the Dominican Republic's Juan Ramirez Beltre, who had won the 2011 Pan American Games.

Match results

Senior/U23 Freestyle Matches
Res.	Record	Opponent	Score	Date	Event	Location
2020 Matteo Pellicone 5th at 57 kg
Loss	27-8	Minghu Liu	2-3	January 16, 2020	2020 Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series	Rome, Italy
Loss	27-7	Thomas Gilman	1-2
Win	27-6	Pedro Mejías	Tech Fall 11-0
Win	26-6	Wanhao Zou	7-1
2019 World Championship 12th at 57kg
Loss	25-6	Yuki Takahashi	4-2	September 19, 2019	2019 World Wrestling Championships	Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Win	25-5	Vladimir Egorov	Tech Fall 12-1
2019 Pan American Games at 57 kg
Win	24-5	Juan Rubelín Ramírez	6-3	August 9, 2019	2019 Pan American Games	Lima, Perú
Win	23-5	Reineri Andreu	4-1
Win	22-5	Pedro Mejías	Tech Fall 10-0
2019 US World Team Trials at 57 kg
Win	21-5	Thomas Gilman	6-3	June 14, 2019	2019 Final X: Lincoln	Lincoln, Nebraska
Loss	20-5	Thomas Gilman	2-3
Win	20-4	Thomas Gilman	9-1
2019 US Open at 57 kg
Win	19-4	Thomas Gilman	8-4	April 26, 2019	2019 US Open Wrestling Championships	Las Vegas, Nevada
Win	18-4	Darian Cruz	2-0
Win	17-4	Vitali Arujau	Tech Fall 18-8
Win	16-4	Graham Shore	8-0
Win	15-4	James Hicks	Tech Fall 10-0
Win	14-4	Ian Timmins	Tech Fall 12-1
2018 US World Team Trials at 57 kg
Loss	13-4	Thomas Gilman	1-2	June 9, 2018	2018 Final X: Lincoln - 2018 US World Team Trials	Lincoln, Nebraska
Loss	13-3	Thomas Gilman	3-6
Win	13-2	Zach Sanders	Tech Fall 10-0		2018 US World Team Trials Challenge Tournament
Win	12-2	Zane Richards	9-2
Win	11-2	Eddie Klimara	Tech Fall 14-2
2018 US Open at 57 kg
Loss	10-2	Tony Ramos	3-6	April 26, 2018	2018 US Open Wrestling Championships	Las Vegas, Nevada
Win	10-1	David Terao	Tech Fall 10-0
Win	9-1	Daniel Deshazer	4-0
Win	8-1	Britain Longmire	Tech Fall 10-0
2017 World U23 Championship 19th at 57kg
Loss	7-1	Parviz Ibrahimov	2-5	November 21, 2017	2017 World U23 Wrestling Championship	Bydgoszcz, Poland
2017 US U23 World Team Trials at 57 kg
Win	7-0	Nathan Tomasello	7-4	October 8, 2017	2017 US U23 World Team Trials	Rochester, Minnesota
Win	6-0	Nathan Tomasello	8-7
Win	5-0	Josh Rodriguez	8-3		2017 US U23 World Team Trials Challenge Tournament
Win	4-0	Liam Cronin	Tech Fall 10-0
Win	3-0	Alexander Mackall	Tech Fall 10-0
2017 Beat The Streets at 57 kg
Win	2-0	Joey Melendez	Tech Fall 14-1	May 17, 2017	2017 Beat The Streets: Times Square	New York City, New York
2016 Beat The Streets at 55 kg
Win	1-0	Kheyrolla Ghahramani	Tech Fall 14-3	May 19, 2016	2016 Beat The Streets: United in the Square	New York City, New York

NCAA Record

NCAA Division I Record
Res.	Record	Opponent	Score	Date	Event
2019 NCAA Championships at 133 lbs
Loss	4-1	Nick Suriano	SV 2-4	March 21, 2019	2019 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
Win	4-0	Luke Pletcher	4-2
Win	3-0	John Erneste	Major 11-3
Win	2-0	Matthew Schmitt	9-3
Win	1-0	Zack Trampe	Major 21-7

Stats

Season	Year	School	Rank	Weigh Class	Record	Win	Bonus
2019	Freshman	Oklahoma State University	#4 (2nd)	133	35-2	94.59%	48.65%
Career					35-2	94.59%	48.65%

References

1. "Daton Fix: Never Been Pinned". Sandite Pride News. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
2. "Wrestling". Sandite Pride News. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
3. "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 June 2020.
4. "Sand Springs Sandite Wrestling wins 6A State Championship with 5 Champions". Sandite Pride News. Retrieved 2017-03-01.