The recruiting dead period ended Tuesday night, and it didn’t take long for 2012 defensive end Michael Onuoha (Edmond, Okla./Santa Fe) to get an Oklahoma offer now that coaches can go back to regularly contacting recruits again.

Onuoha said he was offered at 7 a.m. Wednesday by defensive ends coach Bobby Jack Wright.

“This process has been kind of crazy,” Onuoha said. “Things are a lot different now that I have this offer.”

Throughout the process, Onuoha’s contact has been tight ends coach Bruce Kittle. No matter what position Onuoha plays -- tight end or defensive end -- he is still a raw talent. His more natural position is defensive end, however.

And now that OU is looking at him as a defensive end, it didn’t take long for the Sooners to make the offer.

“The defensive coach never saw my footage,” Onuoha said. “They saw me as a tight end. He said if they would have shown him my defensive footage, he would have been interested a lot earlier.”

Onuoha, 6-foot-6 and 230 pounds, was offered by Missouri last month and was ready to commit until he decided to take some more time to discuss things with his family.

Onuoha took an unofficial visit to OU for the Sooners’ victory against Iowa State, where he said he was impressed with the game-day atmosphere and said he couldn’t wait to get his chance to play big-time college football.