LAS VEGAS – Sun Devil Wrestling is set to compete alongside 32 of the nation’s premier programs in the two-day Las Vegas Cliff Keen Invitational at the Westgate Hotel Paradise Event Center in Las Vegas, running on Friday, Dec. 5 and Saturday, Dec. 6.
Matches will begin at 9 a.m. PST on Friday and run all day. Saturday’s action will start at 10 a.m. PST. The whole weekend’s worth of wrestling will be available to stream on Flo.tv.
Widely regarded as one of the biggest tournaments the sport has to offer, Arizona State will send 10 wrestlers – headlined by the brother duo of redshirt sophomore Kaleb Larkin and freshman Kyler Larkin, who are both coming off individual titles in the 133- and 149-pound divisions at the Michigan State Open - to compete in Nevada. The duo, likely projected in the upper echelon of their respective weight classes once seeds are made official, are a combined 14-0 on the season with each brother standing at a perfect 7-0.
Projected Sun Devils at the Cliff Keen Invitational
125 | Damian Moreno
133 | Kyler Larkin
141 | Pierson Manville
149 | Kaleb Larkin
157 | Chance McLane
165 | Nicco Ruiz
174 | Leo Tukhlynovych
184 | Shay Addison
197 | Max Acciardi
HWT | David Szuba
Sun Devils in the rankings
133 | No. 26/19 Kyler Larkin
141 | No. 30/28 Pierson Manville
149 | No. 2/2 Kaleb Larkin
157 | No. 23/27 Chance McLane
165 | No. 16/19 Nicco Ruiz
197 | No. 19 Colton Hawks
HWT | No. 31/23 David Szuba
Rankings via FloWrestling / Intermat
Stayin’ hot
Manville, Ruiz, Tukhlynovych and McLane will all look to build on successes after each wrestler won an individual title in their respective weight divisions at the MSU Open on Saturday, Nov. 8. The quartet were part of a tournament-best six individual winners for ASU at the MSU Open.
The field
The 32-team field will consist of: Air Force, Appalachian State, Arizona State, California Baptist, Cal Poly, CSU Bakersfield, Columbia, Cornell, Edinboro, Franklin & Marshall, Harvard, Iowa State, Michigan, Navy, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Ohio University, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Presbyterian, Princeton, Purdue, Rider, Sacred Heart, South Dakota State, Stanford, Utah Valley, VMI, Virginia Tech, West Virginia and Wyoming.
The Sun Devils will feature wrestlers ranked in six of 10 weight classes. Hawks, a graduate transfer, marks the seventh different-ranked wrestler for ASU this season, as he works his way back from a knee injury suffered during his time at Missouri.
By the numbers
2: Kaleb Larkin, currently at a career best No. 2 in Flo Wrestling’s 149-pound ranking, is the highest-ranked Sun Devil wrestler since Richard Figueroa held the No. 1 spot at 125 pounds during the 2024-25 season.
2: After Zahid Valencia took home gold at the Senior World Wrestling Championships, he now joins current head coach Zeke Jones as the only Sun Devils to win a world championship.
3: The Sun Devils have three separate duos of brothers on the active roster: Larkins (Kaleb and Kyler), Szubas (Ben and David) and Ysaguirres (Aidan and Emilio).
5.000: Kaleb Larkin is currently in third place nationwide with a 5.000 Match Power per WrestleStat.
6: Under Coach Jones’ leadership since April 2014, the Sun Devils have won six conference titles. Jones sits behind just Bobby Douglas and men’s golf’s Randy Lein for the most conference titles (8) among any coach in Sun Devil history.
14: The Larkin brothers have combined for 14 individual wins and zero losses through the first two weeks of the season.
18: ASU has climbed back into the Intermats team tournament rankings at No. 18 after starting the season at No. 37.
29: David Szuba, a transfer from Rider University, recorded the fastest fall of the young season after pinning Davidson’s DJ Spring in just 29 seconds. The 29-second takedown was the third-fastest of Szuba’s career between Rider and ASU
30: Nicco Ruiz recorded the 30th win of his career on Sunday, Nov. 23, when he recorded a last-second takedown of Oklahoma State’s Kody Routledge to secure the 10-9 win via decision.
110: Kaleb Larkin holds a team-best 110 individual points on the season, outscoring opponents 110-17 across his seven wins, with all seven coming via bonus points (3TF, 2F, 2MD).
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