Prior to 8th grade Ramos had been living in Johnsburg, IL but his family moved back to Carol Stream where he attended Glenbard North High School.

After completing his storied high school career, Ramos committed to attend the University of Iowa under head coach Tom Brands.

Ramos started his college career battling for the 133 spot in the Iowa lineup with senior Tyler Clark.

[4] Coming back for his sophomore season Ramos saw much improvement as he finished 2nd at the Big Ten conference tournament, and earned his first All-American honors by placing 3rd at the NCAA championships.

Ramos lost two matches on the year, the first to Joe Colon of the University of Northern Iowa at the Midlands championship finals,[8] and to AJ Schopp of Edinboro.

10-0 at home, raising his career record to 34-0 all-time at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the first wrestler to accomplish the feat since Brent Metcalf.

Ramos originally planned to take a year off between college and International wrestling, but at his wife's suggestion he entered the World Team Trials in Madison, Wisconsin.

After winning the challenge tournament over Nico Megaludis of Penn State, Ramos then wrestled Sam Hazewinkel in the finals.

Ramos won a best of three tournament 4-0 and 5-1 to claim the 57 kg spot for Team USA at the 2014 World Wrestling Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

[12] In November Ramos picked up another win over Sam Hazewinkel in a match sponsored by the Global Wrestling Championship.

[14] The following weekend Ramos got back on track as he won gold in the 57 kg bracket at the Paris Grand Prix.

[16] There Ramos would rally from an 8-2 deficit to beat the former Olympic champion 12-8[17] and he won his second Global Wrestling Championship belt.