O’Toole finishes second at NCAA Championships, Steed also crowned All-American
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (KMIZ)
No. 25 Mizzou Wrestling has ended the 2024-25 season with two All-Americans.
Keegan O'Toole fell just one win short of becoming a three-time NCAA champion, losing to Oklahoma State's Dean Hamiti by a 4-1 decision in sudden victory. Cam Steed claimed seventh place at the championship meet to become a first-time All-American.
O'Toole and Hamiti's showdown was a rematch of this season's 174-pound Big-12 Conference Championship, an overtime duel where the Wisconsin native defeated the Oklahoma State standout by a 7-4 decision in sudden victory.
However, less than two weeks later, the two wrestlers battled again. After O'Toole and Hamiti each scored one point in regulation with a pair of escapes, their national championship bout needed overtime to settle it. The Illinois native was able to get the best of O'Toole in a late scramble, leading to the match-winning takedown in the extra period.
O'Toole ended his collegiate career as just the third wrestler in Mizzou history to win at least two NCAA championships, trailing only Hickman graduate J'den Cox who won three national titles. The Arrowhead alum also finished his time at MU as a five-time All-American and a four-time conference champion with a 108-5 overall record. O'Toole never finished lower than third place nationally in his career.
Steed's All-American season ended with a victory over Oklahoma State's Cameron Amine in the seventh place bout. The redshirt sophomore pinned the four-time All-American in the first period to claim his spot on the podium, marking his third win by fall in the tournament.
The Oklahoma native's three-pin performance at the NCAA Championships earned him the Gorriarran Award, which honors the wrestler with the most wins by fall in the least amount of time at the tournament. MU has won that award in back-to-back seasons, following O'Toole's three pins in last year's national event.
Collectively, Mizzou completed the meet in 14th place with 32 points, extending the program's streak of top-15 finishes to 12 straight seasons.
