Clay Carlson
NCAA championship record, 2021–2024. Regular-season results are not included.
Clay Carlson wrestled for South Dakota State at four NCAA championships, 2021–2024, and went 13–9. Carlson placed eighth at 141 lb in 2021 and fifth at 141 lb in 2023.
NCAA career
| Year | School | Weight | Seed | Finish | W–L | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | South Dakota State | 141 | 29 | Lost consolation round 1 | 0–2 | 2 bouts |
| 2023 | South Dakota State | 141 | 11 | 5th | 6–2 | 8 bouts |
| 2022 | South Dakota State | 141 | 7 | Lost consolation round 4 | 3–2 | 5 bouts |
| 2021 | South Dakota State | 141 | 15 | 8th | 4–3 | 7 bouts |
Every NCAA bout · 22
| Round | W/L | Opponent | Seed | Opp. seed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 · 141 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | L | Ryan Jack · North Carolina State | 29 | 4 | Dec 3–8 |
| Consolation round 1 | L | Jordan Titus · West Virginia | 29 | 13 | Dec 3–5 |
| 2023 · 141 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Malyke Hines · Lehigh (PA) | 11 | 22 | Dec 6–1 |
| Round of 16 | L | Beau Bartlett · Penn State | 11 | 6 | Dec 2–3 |
| Consolation round 2 | W | Saul Ervin · Southern Illinois Edwardsville | 11 | 28 | Dec 3–2 |
| Consolation round 3 | W | Cael Happel · Northern Iowa | 11 | 14 | Dec 7–3 |
| Consolation round 4 | W | Allan Hart · Missouri | 11 | 8 | Dec 7–6 |
| Consolation round 5 | W | Parker Filius · Purdue (IN) | 11 | 12 | Dec 3–1 |
| Consolation semifinal | L | Beau Bartlett · Penn State | 11 | 6 | MD 3–12 |
| 5th-place bout | W | Brock Hardy · Nebraska | 11 | 4 | Default |
| 2022 · 141 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | L | Frankie Tal-Shahar · Northwestern (IL) | 7 | 26 | Dec 3–4 |
| Consolation round 1 | W | Gabe Willochell · Edinboro (PA) | 7 | 23 | Dec 10–5 |
| Consolation round 2 | W | Allan Hart · Missouri | 7 | 9 | Dec 7–5 |
| Consolation round 3 | W | Ryan Jack · North Carolina State | 7 | 18 | Dec 2–1 |
| Consolation round 4 | L | Sebastian Rivera · Rutgers (NJ) | 7 | 3 | Dec 2–6 |
| 2021 · 141 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Parker Filius · Purdue (IN) | 15 | 18 | Dec 7–6 |
| Round of 16 | L | Nick Lee · Penn State | 15 | 2 | MD 3–14 |
| Consolation round 2 | W | Cayden Rooks · Indiana (IN) | 15 | 32 | Fall 2:59 |
| Consolation round 3 | W | Colin Valdiviez · Northwestern (IL) | 15 | 26 | MD 9–0 |
| Consolation round 4 | W | Real Woods · Stanford (CA) | 15 | 21 | Dec 11–4 |
| Consolation round 5 | L | Dylan Duncan · Illinois | 15 | 14 | Dec 2–3 |
| 7th-place bout | L | Zach Sherman · North Carolina | 15 | 10 | Dec 4–11 |
Scoring · 2021 to 2024
The sums over the bouts in scope.
| Opponent | Round | Result | Score | Mat time | TD | E | R | NF | Stall | RT | Pts | Sheet | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | A | F | A | F | A | F | A | D | C | F | A | F | A | ||||||
| 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ryan Jack · North Carolina State | Round of 32 | L Decision | 3–8 | 7:00 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | Sheet |
| Jordan Titus · West Virginia | Consolation round 1 | L Decision | 3–5 | 7:00 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | Sheet |
| 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Malyke Hines · Lehigh (PA) | Round of 32 | W Decision | 6–1 | 7:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | Sheet |
| Beau Bartlett · Penn State | Round of 16 | L Decision | 2–3 | 7:00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | Sheet |
| Saul Ervin · Southern Illinois Edwardsville | Consolation round 2 | W Decision | 3–2 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | Sheet |
| Cael Happel · Northern Iowa | Consolation round 3 | W Decision | 7–3 | 7:00 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | Sheet |
| Allan Hart · Missouri | Consolation round 4 | W Decision | 7–6 | 7:00 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | Sheet |
| Parker Filius · Purdue (IN) | Consolation round 5 | W Decision | 3–1 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | Sheet |
| Beau Bartlett · Penn State | Consolation semifinal | L Major decision | 3–12 | 7:00 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 12 | Sheet |
| Brock Hardy · Nebraska | 5th-place bout | W Default | – | 2:24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Sheet |
| 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Frankie Tal-Shahar · Northwestern (IL) | Round of 32 | L Decision | 3–4 | 7:00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | Sheet |
| Gabe Willochell · Edinboro (PA) | Consolation round 1 | W Decision | 10–5 | 7:00 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | Sheet |
| Allan Hart · Missouri | Consolation round 2 | W Decision | 7–5 | 8:04 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | Sheet |
| Ryan Jack · North Carolina State | Consolation round 3 | W Decision | 2–1 | 8:12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Sheet |
| Sebastian Rivera · Rutgers (NJ) | Consolation round 4 | L Decision | 2–6 | 7:00 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | Sheet |
| 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parker Filius · Purdue (IN) | Round of 32 | W Decision | 7–6 | 7:00 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | Sheet |
| Nick Lee · Penn State | Round of 16 | L Major decision | 3–14 | 7:00 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 14 | Sheet |
| Cayden Rooks · Indiana (IN) | Consolation round 2 | W Fall | – | 2:59 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | Sheet |
| Colin Valdiviez · Northwestern (IL) | Consolation round 3 | W Major decision | 9–0 | 7:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | Sheet |
| Real Woods · Stanford (CA) | Consolation round 4 | W Decision | 11–4 | 7:00 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | Sheet |
| Dylan Duncan · Illinois | Consolation round 5 | L Decision | 2–3 | 7:00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | Sheet |
| Zach Sherman · North Carolina | 7th-place bout | L Decision | 4–11 | 7:00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 11 | Sheet |
TD takedowns · E escapes · R reversals · NF near-fall points · Stall stalling drawn / called · RT riding-time points · Pts points; F for, A against.
How these are counted
Every figure here is counted from the scoring record, bout by bout, from the counts on each scoring sheet.
A bout counts once for each side: a wrestler's for columns are their own counts and the against columns are the opponent's; a team's are the sums over its qualifiers' bouts that year.
- Takedowns
- For: takedowns scored. Against: takedowns allowed.
- Escapes
- For: escapes. Against: escapes allowed.
- Reversals
- For: reversals. Against: reversals allowed.
- Near-fall points
- For: near-fall points. Against: near-fall points allowed.
- Stalling calls
- For: drawn, the stalling calls against the opponent. Against: called, the stalling calls against this side.
- Riding-time points
- For: riding-time points. Against: riding-time points allowed.
- Points
- For: points scored. Against: points allowed.
Points is the sum of every scoring row credited to that side, penalties and riding time included; points allowed is the opponent's sum. Cautions, penalty points and the tiebreak riding-time rows are carried in the data and shown on the bout page, not in these tables.
Statistics include only bouts whose scoring sheet is reconciled: the sheet's rows add up to every printed period total and to the scoreboard. A sheet that does not reconcile, and a bout with no wrestling, are left out, and the scoring record's hub says how many and why.
The scoring record begins in 2012, the first championship with full bout-level data: every bout's scoring sheet, not only its result. Earlier championships have their brackets and results in the record, but not their scoring sheets.
Totals are the sums over the bouts in scope. Per qualifier divides the totals by the record's qualifier count for that program and year, the same count the program page prints (team rows only). Per bout divides the totals by the bouts in scope. Per 7 min is the totals times 420 divided by the sum of the mat time, in seconds, over the bouts in scope: one pooled rate, never a mean of per-bout rates. A bout with no mat time is left out of both the numerator and the denominator of that unit, and the page says how many are left out.
Rates list wrestlers with three or more bouts; a wrestler with fewer is left out of the per-bout and per-7-minute lists.
Cite this page: “Clay Carlson”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/wrestlers/wr_yqdols4mwyj4qm5a/clay-carlson