Stieber to be inducted into Ohio State athletics HOF

Jun. 22—COLUMBUS — This fall, 15 standouts will be enshrined in the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame.

The Class of 2022 includes one of the greatest athletes in not only Huron County history, but the entire state in 2010 Monroeville graduate Logan Stieber.

One of four wrestlers in NCAA Division I history to win four individual national championships, Stieber was also a four-time Big Ten champion and won the Dan Hodge Trophy during his senior season in 2015.

That same year, he led Ohio State to the Big Ten co-title, and its first wrestling national championship in school history.

Stieber finished his NCAA career with a record of 119-3, boasting the highest winning percentage (.975) in school history. Two of his NCAA titles were at 133 pounds (2012-2013) and two were at 141 pounds (2014-2015).

As a senior, he was 29-0. Over four years as a Buckeye, 96 of his wins were bonus point victories and 50 of those were by fall. He ended his collegiate career on a 50-match win streak.

At Monroeville, Stieber was a four-time state champion with a record of 184-1. His 179 straight wins is still an OHSAA record. He was part of the Eagles' foursome that included Cam Tessari, younger brother Hunter Stieber and Chris Phillips. They each finished as four-time state champions in a five-year span.

The foursome led the Eagles to the Division III state team championship in 2010, along with state runner-up (2009) and third-place (2011) finishes.

Internationally, Stieber was a freestyle world champion in 2016 as well as a World Cup and Pan American Champion in 2018. He made the United States' World Team in 2017 and 2018 as well.

Currently an assistant coach with the Buckeyes, Stieber will be the 20th wrestler in school history to go into the Ohio State Hall of Fame.

Other inductees into the OSU HOF include Billy Ray Anders (football), Greg Bice (men's lacrosse), John Bluem (men's soccer coach), Charles W. Bolen (football/men's basketball), Joel Brown (men's track), Aaron Craft (men's basketball), Adam Crompton (men's fencing), Jenna Harris Griffin (women's track), Alayna Markwordt (women's lacrosse), Russ Nagelson (baseball), Shawn Springs (football), Jonathan Sweet (baseball), Tom Tupa (football) and Dan Whitacre (wrestling).

The group will be officially inducted during a dinner Sept. 9 in the Covelli Center and introduced at Ohio Stadium when the Buckeye football team hosts Arkansas State Sept. 10. Tickets for the dinner and induction ceremony, which begins at 6 p.m., are $100 each and can be purchased online.

The Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame was created in 1977 and has inducted 458 athletes, coaches and administrators through 2021. With the addition of Anders, Bolen, Springs and Tupa, the number of football letterwinners inducted will move to 132, while Bolen and Craft will push the number of men's basketball inductees to 47.

Whitacre will be the 19th wrestler placed in the hall and Nagelson and Sweet will move the baseball number to 32. Bice will be the sixth men's lacrosse inductee and Markwordt is the third women's lacrosse player selected. Brown is the 36th member of the men's track program who will be enshrined and Harris Griffin is the 14th on the women's side. Crompton is the fourth men's fencer who will be inducted, while Bluem will bring the number of head coaches enshrined to 31.