2023-24 Wrestling Roster
Roster
Layne Malczewski
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Wt.:
- 184
- Hometown:
- Macomb, Mich.
- High School:
- Dakota
2023-24 (Graduate) 15-10 Overall, 6-7 Open Tournaments, 9-3 Dual: Academic All-Big Ten and NWCA Scholar All-American honoree … Finished his career with 104 wins, tied for 19th in program history … His 29 career falls ranks eighth in program history … Tied fourth on the team with four major decision victories … Earned his first victory of the season in the dual against Clarion, defeating national qualifier Cameron Pine in a 14-5 major decision … Went 2-2 at the Midlands Championships, both victories were by fall over Air Force’s Andrew Wenzel and Cal Poly’s Kendall LaRosa … Picked up back-to-back major decision dual victories against American’s Connor Bourne, 12-2, and blanked Ohio’s Zayne Lehman, 8-0 … Recorded a career-high 19 points in a match to defeat Rutgers two-time national qualifier Brian Soldano … Defeated Wisconsin’s No. 16-ranked Shane Liegel, 8-2 … Finished the season going 4-1 with a pair of decision victories, recorded his first tech. fall of the season at Maryland dominating Chase Mielnik in a 15-0 shutout performance … Earned his 100th career victory in the final dual of the season against Central Michigan’s Adrien Cramer in a 12-5 decision victory … Competed in his fifth B1G Championships as the No. 6-seed. Placed seventh to claim an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships, went 3-2 with victories over national qualifiers Illinois' Dylan Connell and Wisconsin’s Liegel … Entered his fifth NCAA Championships as the No. 23-seed, had an upset victory in the first-round defeating North Carolina State’s No. 10-seed Dylan Fishback.
2022-23 (Redshirt Senior) 23-6 Overall, 10-4 Open Tournaments, 13-2 Dual: Academic All-Big Ten and NWCA Scholar All-American honoree … Won 11 matches by fall and two by major decision … Went 14-1 to begin the season. During that span he registered seven pins, two were against eventual NCAA Qualifiers, and one major decision … Took first place at the Navy Classic going 4-0 with a pair of first period falls over Nebraska’s national qualifier Lenny Pinto and Kent State’s Mike Caniglia … Began the dual season going 7-0 with three fall victories … Pulled off a nail-biting 1-0 victory over Binghamton’s national qualifier Jacob Nolan … Placed third at the Reno Tournament of Champions with a 4-1 record, three wins were registered by fall including a season fastest 1:14 pin over Simpson (Calif.) Malachi Dowdell … Went 5-2 in Big Ten duals, including defeating two national qualifiers in Rutgers Brian Soldano (16-6 major decision) and Illinois Dylan Connell by a narrow 2-0 decision … Finished the regular season winning his last six matches … Entered the Big Ten Championships as the No. 6-seed where he would take eighth place with a 2-3 record, medically forfeiting the last two matches … Made his fourth-straight NCAA Championships appearance as the No. 15-seed … recorded his first career NCAA Championship victory in the consolation first round, defeated No. 31-seeded Zayne Lehman out of Ohio, 3-0.
2021-22 (Redshirt Junior) 23-12 Overall, 10-3 Duals: Placed fourth at MSU Open, going 3-2 and recording a tech. fall and major decision ... Had major decisions in two of his three winning bouts before losing to Navy’s David Key in the Navy Classic finals with a 10-4 decision ... Placed fifth at the Southern Scuffle, going 5-2 with two major decisions and a pin ... Exited with injury at Southern Scuffle in his bout with No. 8 Hunter Bolen of Virginia Tech ... Won first six dual matches to start the season, including three pins and a technical fall ... Knocked off No. 5 John Poznanski with a first-period pin vs. Rutgers, earning B1G Mat Return of the Week ... Placed 10th in B1G Championships after being the No. 6 seed, medically forfeiting the 9th-place match due to illness ... Went 0-2 at the NCAA Championships as the No. 22 seed.
2020-21 (Redshirt Sophomore) 9-5 Overall, 6-1 Duals: Named NWCA Scholar All-American for second time in career ... Garnered Academic All-Big Ten honors for second time ... Earned MSU Athletics Honor Roll accolades ... Became a two-time NCAA qualifier, finishing season with a 9-5 record at 184 pounds, opening with five-straight wins, including back-to-back falls ... Finished ranked third on the team in wins, second in dual wins with a 5-2 mark, third in dual points with 16, while sharing the team lead in both falls (2) and major decisions (2), as well as second on the team for quick pin (1:12) ... Commenced five-match win streak to open season with a 7-1 decision over Kyle Cochran of Maryland and a 9-6 triumph over Owen Webster of Minnesota in the season-opener in Maryland/Minnesota tri-meet on Jan. 16 in East Lansing ... Continued win streak with a 4-2 decision over No. 16 Ricky Jordan of Ohio State in the OSU dual on Jan. 29 at Columbus, Ohio ... Posted pair of falls in the same day at the Indiana/Nebraska tri-meet in Bloomington, Ind., on Feb. 6, first pinning Drayton Harris of Indiana in 1:12, then pinned Nathan Haas of Nebraska in 1:38 later in the day ... Suffered first loss of season on Feb. 12 with a 6-1 loss to No. 14 Max Lyon of Purdue in home dual against Purdue ... Got back in win column with a 6-2 decision over Jaden Bullock of Michigan in home dual to close out regular-season action on Feb. 19 ... Was the No. 3 seed at the B1G Championships, posting a 5-4 win over 14th-seeded Santos Cantu III of Indiana, before getting upset by sixth-seeded and No. 15 ranked Taylor Venz of Nebraska, 13-6, but bounced back with a 6-5 decision over 12th-seeded Bullock of Michigan, and avenged the regular-season loss to Lyon, the No. 7 seed and 11th-ranked ... Ended next match in the consolation semifinals vs. fifth-seed and No. 9 ranked John Poznanski of Rutgers with an injury at 3:06, and had to medically forfeit next match vs. second-seed and No. 10 ranked Christopher Weiler of Wisconsin, finishing sixth at B1G Championships ... Was limited by injury during NCAA Championships action, losing to No. 18 Alan Clothier of North Carolina, 8-3, and No. 31 Ryan Reyes of Oregon State, 9-5.
2019-20 (Redshirt Freshman) 25-13 Overall, 11-7 Duals, 11-4 Open Tournaments: 2020 NCAA Qualifier ... Recipient of Outstanding Freshman Wrestler of the Year at team’s banquet ... Finished seventh at Big Ten Championships at 174 pounds ... Winter Academic All-Big Ten selection ... NWCA Scholar All-American ... Third on the team with 25 wins ... Ranked as high as No. 23 for NCAA Coaches’ Rankings and No. 19 in RPI Rankings ... Finished with five wins by fall, one win by technical fall and one win by major decision ... Competed in three open tournaments with top six finishes in all three ... Tallied a 4-2 record at the MSU Open on Nov. 2 on his way to a sixth place finish ... Collected third place finishes at both the Navy Classic on Nov. 23 and Cougar Clash on Dec. 7 ... Tallied three wins over top 25 wrestlers ... Went 5-4 in Big Ten action with wins over Michigan, Rutgers, Maryland, Northwestern and Wisconsin ... Ranked as high as No. 20 by FloWrestling ... Registered six of seven wins from Dec. 30 to Jan. 24 ... Defeated No. 19 Joe Grello of Rutgers by decision (11-10) on Jan. 12 in East Lansing ... Ended the regular dual slate with four-straight wins over Tyler Morland of Northwestern, Jared Krattiger of Wisconsin, Ryan Ford of Cleveland State and Jake Lowell of Central Michigan ... Earned the eight seed at the Big Ten Championships in Piscataway, N.J. ... Opened the Big Ten Championships with a 6-4 decision over Philip Spadafora of Maryland ... After falling to No. 1-seed Michael Kemerer of Iowa by fall, he battled back to knock of Wisconsin’s Jared Krattiger by decision 9-3 to clinch a spot at the NCAA Championships ... Defeated Joey Gunther of Illinois (5-2) to secure seventh place at the Big Ten Championships.
2018-19 (Redshirt) 11-3 Overall, 0-0 Duals, 11-3 Open Tournaments: Won three bouts by fall and three by tech fall ... Took second at the MSU Open ... Placed first at the Cleveland State Open and the Alma Open ... Ended season on seven match winning-streak.
Prior to MSU: Wrestled at Dakota High School under MSU alum Ed Skowneski ... Three year captain of the wrestling team ... Ranked No. 20 in the nation by InterMat high school rankings ... compiled a 169-23 record in three seasons ... three-time All-State, All-Mac and All-County selection ... member of the County Dream team ... finished fourth at State in his junior year ... came third at State in his freshman and sophomore year ... competed in the Virginia Beach National Duals, the Grappler Fall Classic, Super 32 Challenge, Cadet Freestyle and Greco National Duals.
Personal: Layne Malczewski ... Born August 21, 2000 ... Majoring in supply chain management ... Son of Matt and Jill Malczewski ... Cousin, Austen, is also on the Michigan State wrestling team ... father played baseball at Ferris State ... cousin, Connor, played football at Colorado ... cousin, Frank, wrestled at Central Michigan ... uncle ran track at Ferris State ... lists his idol as Anthony Robles because was able to overcome obstacles to win a National Championship.
