Career: 2023 and 2024 NCAA qualifier ... 2024 SoCon champion and 2023 finalist ... Career record of 49-26, including 21-1 in duals ... Competed at the 2023 NCAA Championships and won a match after initially being the first alternate at 133 pounds .... Won two matches at 2024 NCAAs … All-SoCon in 2023 and 2024 ... Pinnacle Award winner (given to the student-athlete with the highest GPA on the championship-winning team) at the 2023 SoCon Championship ... In June 2023, finished as 61 kg runner-up after 5-0 start to reach best-of-three finals at the U23 Freestyle Nationals in Ohio.
2023-24: All-SoCon and SoCon champion ... Went 28-9, including a 12-1 mark in duals (6-1 in SoCon duals) ... Opened NCAAs with 8-7 decision against No. 12 Sam Latona of Virginia Tech before losing 11-5 to Michigan’s Dylan Ragusin … Won 8-2 against Lock Haven’s Gable Strickland before suffering 6-0 loss to Bucknell’s Kurt Phipps … Two ranked wins during 3-0 run in SoCon Championship, with a last-minute takedown and rideout in a 5-4 semifinal win vs. Blake Boarman before winning 5-4 vs. Campbell’s Domenic Zaccone on a takedown with one second left ... Won against Zaccone in their dual matchup, overcoming a 7-1 deficit in a 14-8 decision ... Had 17-0 career record in duals before losing by fall in improbable fashion vs. Chattanooga — Oakley led 6-2 in the second period and was in on another shot when he got caught underneath Boarman ... Eighth at Cliff Keen Invitational with one top-15 win and a pair of wins against previous NCAA qualifiers.
2022-23: All-SoCon at 133 ... Went 21-13 with one win at the NCAA Championships ... Intermat Wresting's SoCon Freshman of the Year ... Won a 5-3 decision against North Dakota State's McGwire Midkiff in a pigtail match in Tulsa before facing top-seeded Roman Bravo-Young and finishing 1-2 in Tulsa ... Top seed reached 2023 SoCon final before dropping a 4-3 decision in the final and a 6-3 decision in the true second place match against a pair of ranked opponents ... Was extremely close to scoring before time ran out in 4-3 finals loss to Brayden Palmer ... Went 9-0 in duals and 7-0 in SoCon duals ... Moved into starting role after a former SoCon champ and NCAA qualifier, Sean Carter, suffered a season-ending knee injury against Virginia Tech on Jan. 13 ... In consecutive matches, beat top-25 opponents from Chattanooga (5-2 decision thanks to a tiebreaking takedown with 18 seconds left) and Campbell (3-1 decision in Sudden Victory thanks to an OT takedown) ... Also won duals against The Citadel (4-3), VMI (major decision), Duke (major decision), Gardner-Webb (8-3), Presbyterian (8-1) and Davidson (6-0) ... Fell behind 5-4 in the third period of SoCon semifinal against Gardner-Webb’s Todd Carter before producing a tying escape with 1:13 left, then turning defense into offense to deliver a tiebreaking takedown with 22 seconds remaining ... Pinnacle Award winner (given to the student-athlete with the highest GPA on the championship-winning team) at the 2023 SoCon Championship.
2021-22: Went 18-9 unattached during a redshirt season … Took eighth at the Southern Scuffle at 133 pounds … Bounced back from an opening-round loss at the Scuffle to post a five-match winning streak that included an overtime win against Little Rock starter Jaylen Carson and a 6-2 decision against 29th-ranked Jackson Disario of Stanford … Runner-up at the Appalachian Open, with two top-40 wins, including a 5-3 decision against No. 34 Erik Roggie from Virginia … Won a title in the open division at the Mountaineer Invitational.
2020-21 (Didn't count against eligibility because of COVID): Competed in four matches at 133 pounds (two at the App State Individual Quad, two at the Wolfpack Round Robin) … Dropped an 11-8 decision to The Citadel’s Jake Rotunda, the No. 1 seed for the SoCon Championship ... Finished 0-4 in a season that didn't count against any NCAA wrestler's eligibility.
High School: Four-time state finalist won three NCHSAA titles (as a freshman, junior and senior) … Went 220-7 in his career … NHSCA Nationals All-American (third place in Virginia Beach in 2019) and Super 32 place winner (eighth in 2019) during his high school career … Capped 60-1 season as a senior with a major decision in the 2-A state final at 132 pounds … Ranked No. 3 at 132 pounds in the Southeast by Southeastwrestling.com … Won 2-A state title while representing Providence Grove as a freshman and wrestled at Wheatmore for his final three seasons, taking second at 120 pounds as a sophomore and winning the 2-A title at 126 pounds as a junior … Born April 22, 2002 … Son of Rodney and Melinda Oakley … Has two siblings: Megan and Nathan, who wrestled at Belmont Abbey.
