Keith Witt
Position: 184/197
Year: Sr./Jr.
Hometown: Oak Harbor, Ohio
High School: Oak Harbor

2011-12

• Won MAC Championship, going 3-0 with a pin and earned an automatic bid to NCAA Championships

• Placed fourth at Mat Town Invitational, going 3-2 with a pin

• Earned co-championship at Cleveland State Open, going 3-0 with two pins

• Went 3-2 at Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, coming up one win shy of placing

• Placed third at Body Bar

• Went 5-0 in MAC Duals

• Went 9-6 in Dual Meets

 

2010-11

• Tallied two pins in fourth place finish at Body Bar

• Went 5-2 with three pins at Cleveland State Open

• Finished 15-9 with seven pins, second most on the team

• Went 2-1 in duals and 1-0 in MAC duals with third period pin of MAC champion Brad Dieckhaus (Northern Illinois)

 

2009-10

• Earned automatic bid to NCAA Championships

• Finished second at MAC Championships where he pinned NCAA qualifier Jacob Ison (Ohio)

• Totaled 10 pins on the year, the second most among KSU starters

• Started the season 8-6, before winning 13 of his next 16 matches

• Finished fourth at Hokie Open with a victory over Bagna Tovuujav (George Mason), who was the No. 12 seed at the NCAA Championships

• Earned a fifth place at Body Bar Invitational, going 4-1 with three pins

• Captured a sixth place at Oklahoma Gold Classic

• All but one of his losses came against NCAA qualifiers

• Went 4-1 with a pair of pins at Virginia Duals

• Went 11-5 in dual meets and 3-2 in MAC duals.

 

2008-09

• Was redshirted

• Finished 7-3 at open tournaments at 197 pounds

• Finished second at both the Michigan State Open (11/9) and the Kent State Open (1/18)

• Recorded four pins in just 10 NCAA matches

• Finished third at Edinboro Open with 5-1 mark.

 

Prior to Kent State

• Finished with a 151-32 record while at Oak Harbor

• Won Sandusky Bay Conference championships and qualified for state all four years in his weight class

• Helped the Rockets take second at the 2008 Ohio High School State Wrestling Tournament and win back-to-back SBC Championships in 2007 and 2008

• Won an individual state championship in 2008

• Recorded a pin in five seconds his senior year, which is an Oak Harbor record

• Was coached by George Bergman in high school

• Also wrestled for Lake Erie and Samsons

• Helped Lake Erie to a first place finish in the Junior Olympics

• Also contributed to Samsons first place finish in the Disney Duals

• Wrestled to a 14-0 record for Lake Erie and 12-1 for Samsons.

Personal

• Born May 15, 1989

• Parents are David and LuAnn Witt

• Has three siblings: Kory, Konner and Karanne

• Was a member of the Varsity Club, BPA Club and the Foreign Language Club while at Oak Harbor

• Majoring in education.