Daton Fix

Daton Fix (born March 11, 1998) is an American wrestler born in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Fix is currently a redshirting freshman at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Fix competes internationally in Freestyle, Folkstyle, and Greco-Roman wrestling.^[1]

Fix is the son of Oklahoma State University wrestler Derek Fix, and the grandson of former Charles Page High School Head Coach Alan Karstetter.

Junior high

Fix first began his rise to prominence at age thirteen when he won the Junior High All-State Championship in sixth grade. That summer he won the Southern Plains Greco-Roman and Freestyle Championships and went nearly undefeated on the USA Wrestling Schoolboy Freestyle Dual Squad with a 20-0 record for Team Oklahoma. He secured two national titles that summer at the ASICS/USAW Kids Nationals in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman.

In 2012 he won his second Junior High All-State Championship in the six/seventh grade division. He came in Runner-Up at the ASICS/USAW Folkstyle Nationals, with his only loss coming to future Nebraska Cornhusker Chad Red. He defended his Greco and Freestyle titles at the Southern Plains Regionals. He went undefeated on the Oklahoma Schoolboy Dual team, attaining All-American status in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman. He also won the Northern Plains Regional in Freestyle, then won three more National Championships. He took first place in the ASICS/USAW Freestyle and Greco-Roman tournaments, as well as the Cliff Keen USAW Preseason Folkstyle tournament.

In 2013 he won his third Junior High All-State Championship, this time in the eighth/ninth grade division. He followed it up with a second-place finish at the FILA Cadet Freestyle Nationals then won the Southern Plains Regionals in both styles for the third time. He won a sixth National Title at the USAW Cadet Greco Nationals, then won his seventh at the USAW Cadet Freestyle Nationals.

High school^[2]

Fix laid claim to two State titles during his Freshman year, as the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association allows freshmen to compete in both the Junior High All-State Tournament and the High School State Tournament. He took first place at the Perry Tournament of Champions, the Kansas City Stampede, the Jay Hancock Memorial Invitational, the 6A East-Regional Championship, and the OSSAA 6A State Championship, completing his first year undefeated at 34-0.

During the 2014 summer session he won his eighth National title at the USAW Cadet Folkstyle Championship, then brought home Gold medals for Freestyle and Greco-Roman from the Cadet Pan American Championships in Brazil. He returned to Oklahoma long enough to win the USAOK Freestyle and Greco State Championships, then headed to the ASICS/FILA Cadet Freestyle Nationals for an ninth National title. He added a pair of Southern Plains Regional titles, then went undefeated on the Oklahoma Cadet Dual teams in both styles. He also wrestled with the Junior Freestyle team and suffered only one loss, to future Minnesota Gopher Skyler Petry, helping his team to the Dual National Title. He competed in his first World Freestyle Championship in Slovakia and took tenth place, and followed it up with a Silver Medal at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China.

In October 2014 Fix was invited to the FloWrestling "Who's #1?" event to take on the No. 2 ranked wrestler in the nation, Nick Suriano. The two had previously met that May in the Cadet National finals when Fix prevailed in an ultimate tie-breaker decision. The Who's #1 event suspended traditional overtime rules and instated an unlimited sudden-victory overtime period. This time Fix and the future Penn State and Rutgers wrestler ended regulation once again tied at 1-1, and went on to set the world record for longest recorded high school match at 32:12 before Suriano came out on top of a 3-1 decision. Two weeks later he came in Runner-Up at the Super 32 tournament, then won the Oklahoma Open.

As a sophomore he repeated his freshman season, winning at Perry, Kansas City, and the Jay Hancock Invitational. The Sandites also added the Jerry Billings Invitational to their schedule, and Fix added the gold to his collection. He defended his Regional title, then concluded his second undefeated season at 41-0 with an 11-3 major decision over future Oklahoma Sooner Dalton Duffield.

He won his tenth National Title at the Folkstyle FloNationals, then won his eleventh at the UWW Junior Freestyle Nationals. He won a twelfth at the UWW Cadet Freestyle Nationals, helped Team Oklahoma defend their Junior Dual Nationals title, then made it thirteen at the USAW Junior Freestyle Nationals. That August he brought home Bronze from the Cadet World Championships in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then defeated Rudy Yates in the Who's #1 event.

As a Junior, Fix won the Perry Tournament, the KC Stampede, the Geary Invitational, the Sand Springs Bobby Lyons Invitational, the Jay Hancock Invitational, the Regional Championship, and the State Championship with a 28-8 technical fall in a rematch with Duffield. He finished his year with a 45-0 record as only the second three-time State Champion in Sand Springs history.

In the 2016 summer session he won a fourteenth National title at the UWW Junior Freestyle Nationals. He competed with Team USA in a dual with Team Iran at the Beat The Streets "United in the Square" event in Times Square, New York, and won a 14-3 tech fall over Kheyrollah Gharamani. He then went undefeated with the Oklahoma Junior Freestyle Dual team. He competed in his first Senior level event at the Gran Premio De Espana in Madrid, but fell 2-1 in a rematch of his Junior Olympic loss to Mukhambet Kuatbek, and failed to make repechage. At the Junior World Championships in Macon, France he took Bronze home once again after a 9-6 loss to Russia's Khasankhusein Badrudinov, then won the Who's #1 dual with an 8-2 decision over future Iowa State Cyclone Austin Gomez.

During Fix's Senior Year he announced his commitment to his father's Alma Mater and signed with Oklahoma State University. He won the Perry Tournament, the KC Stampede, the Geary Invitational, the Jerry Billings Tournament, and the Regional and State Championships. The Sandites held the No. 1 ranking in Oklahoma 6A throughout the season, reached fifteenth in the FloWrestling National rankings, and won the Owasso Ram Duals, the 6A Dual State Championship (for the first time in school history) and the 6A State Tournament for the first time since 1971. Fix concluded the season with a 48-0 record and a 168-0 career record as only the third undefeated four-time State Champion in Oklahoma history.^[3]

In 2017, Fix won gold at the 2017 Junior World Championships in Tampere, Finland, where he only allowed 1 point the entire tournament.

Later in October, he qualified for the first U23 World Wrestling Championships. He beat NCAA champion and 3x All-American Nathan Tomasello of Ohio State two times in a row in a best of 3 finals in the team trials to qualify.

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