Missouri wrestling added 12 members to its 2015-16 recruiting class, the program announced.
With the eight incoming freshmen who in November signed national letters of intent, the three-time defending MAC Champions will have 20 new wrestlers on the roster next season.
The newest signees include four transfers.
"I'm pleased with the talent and depth my staff was able to bring in," coach Brian Smith said in a statement released by the athletic department. "...The incoming freshmen have been with us all summer and are showing a lot of intensity in the open mats. The team is growing up quickly and does not expect to be in a rebuild mode. The student-athletes have set the bar high for next season."
Among the transfers is Blaise Butler from Virginia, who will be a senior in 2015-16. He recorded a 56-20 record with the Cavaliers and qualified for the NCAA Championships twice. In 2014, he won an individual ACC Championship at 157 pounds and last year he advanced to the NCAA's round of 12 at 174 pounds.
Butler was a two-time all-state and two-time All-American wrestler at Boylan Catholic High School in Illinois. He was an all-conference selection all four years of his high school career.
"With only a handful of juniors and seniors in the room, senior Blaise Butler will be a welcome addition to our team," Smith said. "He has great abilities and he is an outstanding young man and leader."
Half of the additions are from Missouri.
Among them is Nicholas Scherer of MICDS in St. Louis, whose brother, Michael, is a starting linebacker for Missouri's football team.
The younger Scherer earned first team all-conference and all-county honors in 2014. He put up a second-team all-conference campaign as a freshman and a first-team all-conference season as a sophomore.
Kearney native Grant Leeth is transferring from Duke after a redshirt freshman with the Blue Devils.
He went 14-4 last year, defeating three eventual NCAA qualifiers. Leeth placed third at the Appalachian Open at 149 pounds and fifth at the Hokie Open at 141 pounds.
At Kearney High School, he won three straight state titles from 2012-14.
He also won a USAW Junior Folkstyle Championship and a 2013 Kansas City Stampede Championship.
"I'm excited to get a talented Grant Leeth to come home and transfer back from Duke," Smith said. "He had an amazing high school career and I am looking forward to having him be a part of TigerStyle for the next four years."
Quinn Smith is another transfer wrestler returning to his home state.
Smith, a Rock Bridge High School product and the son of Brian Smith, wrestled at South Dakota State his freshman season and went 2-2 as an unattached wrestler.
Quinn Smith went 126-25 at Rock Bridge and finished in the top five of the state tournament three different times, finishing fifth, fourth and third.
In-state recruit Jayden Bears also tallied three top-five state finishes in his high school career, posting a 142-25 overall record at Staley High School.
He was a state champion in 2014 and also wrestled at the 2015 USAW Junior Folkstyle Nationals at 182 pounds where he finished eighth overall.
Chandley Fohey is coming off a 53-2 season at Hannibal High School, where he won three straight state titles after finishing second as a freshman.
One of only three wrestlers in Hannibal history with three state titles, Fohey also earned the 2014 Midwest Army National Championship.
Dalton Voyles comes to Missouri fresh off a state title as well, going 54-2 as a senior at Pacific High School.
Voyles, who went 155-37 overall at Pacific, won the 2015 Class 3 Senior Wrestler of the Year. Voyles earned Academic All-State recognition and was named an Army Reserve Scholar Athlete.
Also among the new recruits: Purdue transfer Aaron Assad of Brecksville, Ohio; Alton (Ill.) High School twins Phyllip DeLoach and Nicholas DeLoach; Gardner, Kan., product Seth Pesek and James Romero from Atrisco Heritage Academy High School in Albuquerque, N.M.