Finalized Bellator 298 Lineup Includes Debut of NCAA Wrestling Champ Jordan Oliver

Two-time NCAA national wrestling champion Jordan Oliver will make his professional MMA debut against Andrew Triolo in a featherweight fight on the preliminary card at Bellator 298.

The promotion on Tuesday announced the finalized lineup for the card, which also includes a new bantamweight matchup pitting Josh Hill against Kasum Kasumov. Bellator 298 takes place at Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D., and is headlined by a welterweight clash between Logan Storley and Brennan Ward. The main card airs on Showtime at 10 p.m. ET/PT and features a newly-elevated featherweight tilt between James Gallagher and James Gonzalez.

Oliver, who twice won national titles at Oklahoma State University, signed a multi-fight deal with Bellator earlier this year. He was 89-6 over the course of his collegiate career, with the two aforementioned national titles in folkstyle wrestling. He was also a 2019 U.S. national champion in freestyle wrestling.

South Dakota’s Triolo is 0-1 in MMA. His lone professional outing came at LFA 128 in April 2022, when he suffered a first-round TKO defeat at the hands of Adamu Isah.

There were also a few changes to previously-announced bouts at Bellator 298. Sullivan Cauley will face Hamza Salim at light heavyweight, while Jairo Pacheco will lock horns with Vladimir Tokov at lightweight. Meanwhile, two middleweight contests — Khalid Murtazaliev vs. Mike Shipman and Imamshafi Aliev vs. Anthony Adams were removed from the card.