2024-25 Wrestling Roster
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Keckeisen, Parker
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Parker Keckeisen
- Position:
- 184
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Glendale, Wisc.
- High School:
- Nicolet HS
Bio
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HONORS
2025: NCAA Runner-Up (184) | NCAA All-American | Big 12 Champion | NWCA Scholar All-American | Academic All-Big 12 Team | CSC Third Team Academic All-American | CSC Academic All-District | Big 12 Wrestler of the Week (Dec. 4).
2024: NCAA Champion (184) | NCAA All-American | Dan Hodge Trophy Finalist | Big 12 Wrestler of the Year | Big 12 Championships Most Outstanding Wrestler | Big 12 Champion | Big 12 Wrestler of the Week (Jan. 30) | NWCA Scholar All-American |Â First Team Academic All-Big 12
2023: NCAA Runner-Up (184) | NCAA All-American | Big 12 Champion | Big 12 Wrestler of the Week (Feb. 14) |Â First Team Academic All-Big 12 | NWCA Scholar All-American
2022: 3rd Place at NCAA Championships (184) | NCAA All-American | Big 12 Champion | First Team Academic All-Big 12 | NWCA Scholar All-American
2021: 3rd at NCAA Championships (184) | Big 12 Champion | Big 12 Wrestler of the Week (Feb. 2)
REDSHIRT SENIOR (2024-25): Posted a 28-1 record at 184 pounds with a team-high 14 technical falls, seven major decisions and two pins and a perfect 15-0 dual record (8-0 in Big 12 duals) ... NCAA runner-up as the 2-seed, earning his fifth All-American honor, the first UNI wrestler to earn five Division I All-American honors in program history ... Big 12 champion, becoming the first Panther to capture five straight Big 12 titles and only the second wrestler to do so in conference history ... Extended UNI's streak of Big 12 championships at 184 pounds to eight straight seasons ... Carried a 59-match winning streak into the NCAA finals, including 28 straight wins throughout the season ... Notched 17 wins over ranked opponent, including ten against top ten ranked challengers ... Notable ranked wins include No. 3 Max McEnelly (Minnesota) in the NCAA semifinals, No. 3 Dustin Plott (Oklahoma State) three times, No. 4 Bennett Berge (South Dakota State) twice, No. 5 Silas Allred (Nebraska) and No. 9 Evan Bockman (Iowa State) ... Recorded 20 wins by bonus points, including in 16 straight matches during the season ... Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational champion ... Fell to top-ranked Carter Starocci (Penn State) in the NWCA All-Star Classic in an exhbition match to open the season, and again in the NCAA finals ... Finished his career with 133 wins (third-most in UNI history), with the highest career winning percentage in program history with a minimum of 50 wins (.956) and with five of the ten best single-season win percentages in team history, including a .965 mark in 2024-25 ... 47 career duals wins are tied for seventh-most in school history ... Finishes career a perfect 37-0 in Big 12 duals ... NWCA Scholar All-American ... Academic All-Big 12 Team ... CSC Third Team Academic All-American ... CSC Academic All-District ... Big 12 Wrestler of the Week (Dec. 4).
REDSHIRT JUNIOR (2023-24): Posted a perfect 31-0 record with 14 major decision, 12 technical falls and two pins en route to an NCAA championship as the tournament's top seed at 184 pounds, defeating No. 3 Dustin Plott (Oklahoma State) for his fourth All-American honor ... UNI's first undefeated Division I national champion since Bill Dotson in 1963, the program's first four-time Division I All-American and sixth Panther to earn four All-American honors ... Finalist for the Dan Hodge Trophy, awarded to the nation's top wrestler ... Big 12 Wrestler of the Year ... Big 12 Championships Most Outstanding Wrestler ... Named Big 12 Wrestler of the Week on Jan. 30 ... NWCA Scholar All-American ... First Team Academic All-Big 12 ... Posted a 14-0 record in duals (8-0 in Big 12 duals) ... Recorded bonus-point wins in 28 matches, including his final nine bouts of the season at the Big 12 and NCAA Championships ... Picked up his 100th career victory with a 14-5 major decision against No. 2 Dustin Plott (Oklahoma State) in the Big 12 Championship finals ... Extended his regular season winning streak to 35 matches dating back to the 2022-23 season ... Set UNI's single-season winning percentage record ... Defeated No. 2 Bernie Truax (Penn State) at the NWCA All-Star Classic in an exhibition match ... Won early season tournament titles at the Grand View Open and Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.
REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE (2022-23): Finished in second place and earned third All-American honor at NCAA Championships at 184 pounds, where he was the top seed in the tournament ... Became UNI's first-ever three-time Big 12 champion, earning the top seed at the conference tournament ...12-0 in dual competition, including 8-0 against Big 12 dual opponents ... Notched three pins on the year with 10 major decision and 3 technical fall wins ... Recorded 8 wins over top-25 ranked opponents, and 6 against top-10 challengers, including No. 4 Marcus Coleman (Iowa State) twice, No. 8 Isaiah Salazar (Minnesota), No. 6 Trey Munoz (Oregon State), No. 4 Kaleb Romero (Ohio State) and No. 2 Trent Hidlay (NC State) ... 26-2 season marks the 8th best single-season win percentage (.928) in program history ... Rattled off a career-best 20 match winning streak during the season ... Won open title at the Cyclone Open ... Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite runner-up ... NWCA Scholar All-American.
REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2021-22): Earned second All-American honors with third-place finish at NCAA championships ... Knocked off 2021 runner up Trent Hidlay (NC State) ... Defeated 5-seed Bernie Truax (Cal Poly) in the medal round 6-4 after losing to him to be sent to consolations earlier in the tournament ... Became the 35th Panther to earn two or more Division I All-America honors at a contested NCAA championship ... Became third Panther in UNI history to earn two Big 12 titles, winning his second with a string of four major decisions ... Was just second Panther to earn back-to-back Big 12 titles ... Earned second trip to NCAA Championships ... Entered Big 12 Championships as the top seed and ranked No. 4 in the nation ... Notched top-25 wins over No. 7 Marcus Coleman (Iowa State), two wins over No. 9 Dakota Geer (Oklahoma State), No. 19 Jeremiah Kent (Missouri) and No. 25 Charles Small (Hofstra) ... Won the Daktronics, Harold Nichols Cyclone and UNI opens ... Wrestled up a weight at South Dakota State dual, pinning Nick Casperson in 4:12 ... Finished the season with a 30-2 record and the fifth best single-season win percentage in program history (..938) ... First Team Academic All-Big 12 ... NWCA Scholar All-America.
REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2020-21 COVID-19): Finished third at the NCAA Championships at 184 pounds ... UNI’s first redshirt freshman to earn All-American honors since 2017 ... Highest-placing freshman at the NCAA Championships since 1952 ... Big 12 champion at 184 pounds ... Rolled through the regular season undefeated, winning his first 16 matches of the year ... wrestled one dual at 197 pounds ... won five matches against top-10 opponents, including No. 5 Hunter Bolen (Virginia Tech), No. 6 and 7 Brit Wilson (Northern Illinois) twice, No. 6 John Poznanski (Rutgers) and No. 9 Dakota Greer (Oklahoma State) ... Finished the season with an 18-1 record.
FRESHMAN (2019-20): Redshirted at 184 pounds ... Went 16-1 with 15 bonus point wins ... Only loss was a one-point set back to national qualifier Abe Assad ... Won the Harold Nichols Open, Buena Vista Open and the Loras College Open titles ... Third place at the Grand View Open ... Recorded seven major decision wins ... Notched six tech falls ... Had one pin.
HIGH SCHOOL: Two-time Wisconsin high school state champion … Four-time state placer ... Finished third at Fargo to earn All-American honors ... Was a three-year captain for the Nicolet High School Knights ... Earned Academic All-State Second Team honors in 2018 and 2019 ... Earned All-Conference honors in football ... Was a football team captain in 2018.
PERSONAL: Parents are Lynne and James ... Has two older sisters Emma and Hannah ... Volunteered with the Junior Knights Kids Club and Jr. Knights football ... Chose UNI because of the coaches’ belief in his abilities ... Majoring in construction management.
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HONORS
2025: NCAA Runner-Up (184) | NCAA All-American | Big 12 Champion | NWCA Scholar All-American | Academic All-Big 12 Team | CSC Third Team Academic All-American | CSC Academic All-District | Big 12 Wrestler of the Week (Dec. 4).
2024: NCAA Champion (184) | NCAA All-American | Dan Hodge Trophy Finalist | Big 12 Wrestler of the Year | Big 12 Championships Most Outstanding Wrestler | Big 12 Champion | Big 12 Wrestler of the Week (Jan. 30) | NWCA Scholar All-American |Â First Team Academic All-Big 12
2023: NCAA Runner-Up (184) | NCAA All-American | Big 12 Champion | Big 12 Wrestler of the Week (Feb. 14) |Â First Team Academic All-Big 12 | NWCA Scholar All-American
2022: 3rd Place at NCAA Championships (184) | NCAA All-American | Big 12 Champion | First Team Academic All-Big 12 | NWCA Scholar All-American
2021: 3rd at NCAA Championships (184) | Big 12 Champion | Big 12 Wrestler of the Week (Feb. 2)
REDSHIRT SENIOR (2024-25): Posted a 28-1 record at 184 pounds with a team-high 14 technical falls, seven major decisions and two pins and a perfect 15-0 dual record (8-0 in Big 12 duals) ... NCAA runner-up as the 2-seed, earning his fifth All-American honor, the first UNI wrestler to earn five Division I All-American honors in program history ... Big 12 champion, becoming the first Panther to capture five straight Big 12 titles and only the second wrestler to do so in conference history ... Extended UNI's streak of Big 12 championships at 184 pounds to eight straight seasons ... Carried a 59-match winning streak into the NCAA finals, including 28 straight wins throughout the season ... Notched 17 wins over ranked opponent, including ten against top ten ranked challengers ... Notable ranked wins include No. 3 Max McEnelly (Minnesota) in the NCAA semifinals, No. 3 Dustin Plott (Oklahoma State) three times, No. 4 Bennett Berge (South Dakota State) twice, No. 5 Silas Allred (Nebraska) and No. 9 Evan Bockman (Iowa State) ... Recorded 20 wins by bonus points, including in 16 straight matches during the season ... Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational champion ... Fell to top-ranked Carter Starocci (Penn State) in the NWCA All-Star Classic in an exhbition match to open the season, and again in the NCAA finals ... Finished his career with 133 wins (third-most in UNI history), with the highest career winning percentage in program history with a minimum of 50 wins (.956) and with five of the ten best single-season win percentages in team history, including a .965 mark in 2024-25 ... 47 career duals wins are tied for seventh-most in school history ... Finishes career a perfect 37-0 in Big 12 duals ... NWCA Scholar All-American ... Academic All-Big 12 Team ... CSC Third Team Academic All-American ... CSC Academic All-District ... Big 12 Wrestler of the Week (Dec. 4).
REDSHIRT JUNIOR (2023-24): Posted a perfect 31-0 record with 14 major decision, 12 technical falls and two pins en route to an NCAA championship as the tournament's top seed at 184 pounds, defeating No. 3 Dustin Plott (Oklahoma State) for his fourth All-American honor ... UNI's first undefeated Division I national champion since Bill Dotson in 1963, the program's first four-time Division I All-American and sixth Panther to earn four All-American honors ... Finalist for the Dan Hodge Trophy, awarded to the nation's top wrestler ... Big 12 Wrestler of the Year ... Big 12 Championships Most Outstanding Wrestler ... Named Big 12 Wrestler of the Week on Jan. 30 ... NWCA Scholar All-American ... First Team Academic All-Big 12 ... Posted a 14-0 record in duals (8-0 in Big 12 duals) ... Recorded bonus-point wins in 28 matches, including his final nine bouts of the season at the Big 12 and NCAA Championships ... Picked up his 100th career victory with a 14-5 major decision against No. 2 Dustin Plott (Oklahoma State) in the Big 12 Championship finals ... Extended his regular season winning streak to 35 matches dating back to the 2022-23 season ... Set UNI's single-season winning percentage record ... Defeated No. 2 Bernie Truax (Penn State) at the NWCA All-Star Classic in an exhibition match ... Won early season tournament titles at the Grand View Open and Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.
REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE (2022-23): Finished in second place and earned third All-American honor at NCAA Championships at 184 pounds, where he was the top seed in the tournament ... Became UNI's first-ever three-time Big 12 champion, earning the top seed at the conference tournament ...12-0 in dual competition, including 8-0 against Big 12 dual opponents ... Notched three pins on the year with 10 major decision and 3 technical fall wins ... Recorded 8 wins over top-25 ranked opponents, and 6 against top-10 challengers, including No. 4 Marcus Coleman (Iowa State) twice, No. 8 Isaiah Salazar (Minnesota), No. 6 Trey Munoz (Oregon State), No. 4 Kaleb Romero (Ohio State) and No. 2 Trent Hidlay (NC State) ... 26-2 season marks the 8th best single-season win percentage (.928) in program history ... Rattled off a career-best 20 match winning streak during the season ... Won open title at the Cyclone Open ... Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite runner-up ... NWCA Scholar All-American.
REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2021-22): Earned second All-American honors with third-place finish at NCAA championships ... Knocked off 2021 runner up Trent Hidlay (NC State) ... Defeated 5-seed Bernie Truax (Cal Poly) in the medal round 6-4 after losing to him to be sent to consolations earlier in the tournament ... Became the 35th Panther to earn two or more Division I All-America honors at a contested NCAA championship ... Became third Panther in UNI history to earn two Big 12 titles, winning his second with a string of four major decisions ... Was just second Panther to earn back-to-back Big 12 titles ... Earned second trip to NCAA Championships ... Entered Big 12 Championships as the top seed and ranked No. 4 in the nation ... Notched top-25 wins over No. 7 Marcus Coleman (Iowa State), two wins over No. 9 Dakota Geer (Oklahoma State), No. 19 Jeremiah Kent (Missouri) and No. 25 Charles Small (Hofstra) ... Won the Daktronics, Harold Nichols Cyclone and UNI opens ... Wrestled up a weight at South Dakota State dual, pinning Nick Casperson in 4:12 ... Finished the season with a 30-2 record and the fifth best single-season win percentage in program history (..938) ... First Team Academic All-Big 12 ... NWCA Scholar All-America.
REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2020-21 COVID-19): Finished third at the NCAA Championships at 184 pounds ... UNI’s first redshirt freshman to earn All-American honors since 2017 ... Highest-placing freshman at the NCAA Championships since 1952 ... Big 12 champion at 184 pounds ... Rolled through the regular season undefeated, winning his first 16 matches of the year ... wrestled one dual at 197 pounds ... won five matches against top-10 opponents, including No. 5 Hunter Bolen (Virginia Tech), No. 6 and 7 Brit Wilson (Northern Illinois) twice, No. 6 John Poznanski (Rutgers) and No. 9 Dakota Greer (Oklahoma State) ... Finished the season with an 18-1 record.
FRESHMAN (2019-20): Redshirted at 184 pounds ... Went 16-1 with 15 bonus point wins ... Only loss was a one-point set back to national qualifier Abe Assad ... Won the Harold Nichols Open, Buena Vista Open and the Loras College Open titles ... Third place at the Grand View Open ... Recorded seven major decision wins ... Notched six tech falls ... Had one pin.
HIGH SCHOOL: Two-time Wisconsin high school state champion … Four-time state placer ... Finished third at Fargo to earn All-American honors ... Was a three-year captain for the Nicolet High School Knights ... Earned Academic All-State Second Team honors in 2018 and 2019 ... Earned All-Conference honors in football ... Was a football team captain in 2018.
PERSONAL: Parents are Lynne and James ... Has two older sisters Emma and Hannah ... Volunteered with the Junior Knights Kids Club and Jr. Knights football ... Chose UNI because of the coaches’ belief in his abilities ... Majoring in construction management.
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| YEAR | OVERALL | DUALS | BIG 12 DUALS | MD | TF | PINS | QUICK FALL |
| 2019-20* | 16-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 7-0 | 6-0 | 1-0 | 3:21 |
| 2020-21^ | 18-1 | 5-0 | 3-0 | 4-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | |
| 2021-22 | 30-2 | 11-1 | 8-0 | 12-0 | 4-0 | 2-0 | 0:59 |
| 2022-23 | 26-2 | 12-0 | 8-0 | 10-0 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 3:15 |
| 2023-24 | 31-0 | 14-0 | 8-0 | 14-0 | 12-0 | 2-0 | 3:19 |
| 2024-25 | 28-1 | 15-0 | 8-0 | 7-0 | 14-0 | 2-0 | 3:38 |
| CAREER | 133-6 | 47-1 | 37-0 | 47-0 | 34-0 | 9-0 | 0:59 |
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