Looking Back at the 2025-26 Men's Wrestling Season

CARLINVILLE, IL – Blackburn College continues its look back at the 2025-26 athletic season with the 2025-26 men's wrestling season.

In his first year leading the program, Tim McGuire quickly built out a roster that saw immediate gains and improvement in roster size and competition. The roster featured 16 wrestlers and saw many capture victories throughout the season.

Remington Hiser led the team with nine total wins. Tyler Tarallo picked up four while Jaidyn Lee, Gaven Vollintine, and Keaton Wilhelm all collected three wins.

Kaden Long and Dionysus Alston notched two wins while Jonas Casillas Daishaun Wilbourne, Jaylen Crowder, Spencer Walker, Devin Hansel and Robert Tucker posted a win throughout the season.

The year began with the first home wrestling match in modern team history with a bout against Eureka College that saw Long, Hiser and Casillas pick up victories.

The team then took part in the Millikin Open hosted by Millikin University that saw Tarallo led the way with two wins while Wilbourne and Lee also got wins.

At the Coe Invitational, seven wrestlers got their hand raised, led by Hiser's three wins that earned him fifth place among the heavyweights. Alston got two pins for two wins while Wilhelm added two wins, including one pin, to take 7^th at 184 lbs.

Blackburn wrestling then returned home to host Westminster College. Vollintine, Wilhelm and Hansel earned forfeit victories before Hiser captured a win at heavyweight with a pin in 1:42.

The Beavers finished the first semester at the Art Kraft Memorial Tournament hosted by Triton College. Long took a victory at 165 pounds while Robert Lee Tucker picked up his first career Blackburn win with a win at 174 pounds.

After the break, Blackburn returned to compete in the Missouri Baptist University's Dr. Tom Smith Open that featured wrestlers from NCAA Division I, II,III and NAIA programs. Hiser led the way with two wins at the 285 pound heavyweight division.

Blackburn came back for the Al Hanke Invitational at Elmhurst University and took on some of the top programs from Illinois and Wisconsin. Hiser and Lee both collected wins in the heavyweight division before facing each other late in the day to guarantee a placement, that Hiser came out on top to take seventh place.

They then took part in the Wabash College Open and faced wrestlers from top Division I and Division II teams. At 149 pounds, freshman Vollintine delivered the highlight performance of the day, finishing 2–2 and earning a dominant 19–2 technical fall victory over a Division I opponent from Indiana University.

The season came to a close at the SLIAC Championships with Hiser leading the way by taking fifth place, winning his fifth-place match with a fall in 43 seconds. Lee, Wilhelm, Tucker and Tarallo all placed sixth while Moore captured eighth. Moore was also named to the SLIAC All-Sportsmanship Team.