^^^ Wow, had no idea about Guzzo. He won many ACCs which is great, but the Big 10/12 is the historically strong conferences in wrestling. Its strange seeing NC State ranked in the top 3 in wrestling over the powerhouses in wrestling but by looking at the schedule results its rightfully deserved. I wholeheartedly welcome the change

2/1/2016 12:38:48 AM

Took down #11 Nebraska on the road today. Y'all better make it out and support the pack for the last two wrestling meets of this epic season.

2/7/2016 2:22:19 AM

The match Friday against #10 VT is for the ACC title.

2/7/2016 10:49:41 AM

nah, the winner will have the best conference record (which would be an awesome feather in our cap), but ACC title is decided March 6 in Charlottesville

if they don't move the match from Holshouser, it's gonna be nuts on Friday and Sunday regardless of whether any T-dubbers show up. place was packed against Old Dominion on a Thursday night back in December and that was well before much of the hype/publicity that's been building around the team.

2/7/2016 2:43:30 PM

Undefeated and #3 in the country!

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/nc-state-wrestling-team-continues-historic-season/15349816/

2/11/2016 9:10:22 AM

Lost 19-12 or something like that

2/12/2016 9:08:10 PM

Quote :

".@PackWrestle falls for the first time this season, to #8 Virginia Tech - 19-14. Pack won all three battles with top-10 ranked foes."

2/12/2016 9:10:30 PM

Quote :

"285: #1 Gwiazdowski defeats #2 Walz 4-2 to end the dual - Walz's first loss of the season, Gwiz improves to 25-0."

2/12/2016 9:12:09 PM

Gwiz is a monster

2/12/2016 9:56:34 PM

80 straight wins, right?

2/12/2016 10:23:10 PM

Tough loss, but finish the season the epic season strong boys.

2/12/2016 10:53:59 PM

Hopefully they can win the ACC tourney and take that momentum into the NCAAs.

2/12/2016 11:02:44 PM

Gwiz with a tech fall in the last match to give the Pack an 18-17 win over #5 Missouri

2/14/2016 3:14:00 PM

match was awesome. place was rockin when gwiz came up, down 13-17.

main ref was awful; no idea what stalling actually is. oh well.

hate i didnt get to any other matches this year, well worth it

2/14/2016 5:49:35 PM

What's the significance of the national dual's? is this the playoffs?

2/15/2016 2:07:24 PM

Basically just to give bragging rights to someone and raise excitement for the dual format and the sport in general. The national dual team title is awarded by the National Wrestling Coaches Association. The ACC and NCAA Championships matter more to the team, but it would be a big confidence booster to beat Iowa at Iowa heading into those. These duals are one off meets with the winner of Oklahoma State-Penn State named the national dual champion. That's because Penn State is the highest ranked Big Ten team (#1) and Oklahoma State is the highest ranked non Big Ten team (#3). Iowa is #2 and we're now #4. If we'd beaten VT, we'd be facing Penn State.

2/15/2016 2:42:16 PM

down 11-9 to Iowa at the break, restarting at 165

Quote :

" 165 lbs. #6 Max Rohskopf (Jr.; 12-2) vs. Burke Paddock (Fr; 10-5) or Patrick Rhoads (Sr; 10-8) 174 lbs. Nicky Hall (So.; 10-11) vs. #10 Alex Meyer (Jr.; 20-2) 184 lbs. #17 Pete Renda (Jr.; 19-6) vs. #9 Sammy Brooks (Jr.; 20-2) 197 lbs. #16 Michael Boykin (So.; 14-7) vs. #4 Nathan Burak (Sr.; 19-1) HWT #1 Nick Gwiazdowski (Sr.; 26-0) vs. #6 Sam Stoll (Fr.; 20-2)"

2/22/2016 8:53:02 PM

The Big Guy wins the final and deciding match over Iowa.

2/22/2016 9:51:33 PM

21-17 Pack final over undefeated #2 Iowa. first ACC team ever to beat Iowa, per radio guy.

23-1 record on the season

(well, the image they posted on twitter kinda sums that up now)

2/22/2016 9:54:20 PM

sweeet. 23-1 is a heck of a year

2/22/2016 10:05:41 PM

not to mention we beat teams that were ranked (at the time of each dual) #2, #4, #5, #11, #14, #16 (x2), #17 & #24. were just a single match away from beating #8 Virginia Tech also and going undefeated, but I think I'll take it compared to where we were when Pop came in

2/22/2016 10:11:47 PM

First team ever to win at Oklahoma State and Iowa in the same season.

2/22/2016 10:47:51 PM

hot damn.

2/22/2016 10:58:07 PM

i know nothing at all about wrestling but this seems very very very impressive.

2/23/2016 7:33:52 AM

^ I agree. I even find myself checking Twitter multiple times during matches to see the scores

2/23/2016 8:26:17 AM

This has definitely been the best season in school history. We've had national/ACC champs and team ACC titles, but haven't come close to being this much of a factor as a team. The team's confidence is really high going into the tourneys, which is always good. The ACC and NCAA Tournaments are individual tourneys at each weight class and the teams get points depending on where their wrestlers finish. Add those up to get the team standings.

2/23/2016 8:37:57 AM

Quote :

"The ACC and NCAA Tournaments are individual tourneys at each weight class and the teams get points depending on where their wrestlers finish. Add those up to get the team standings."

I was actually wondering about that. Thanks!

2/23/2016 9:49:10 AM

No problem. Wrestling is unique in how it awards the team titles. Tennis is the closest to it, but they have an NCAA team tournament and an NCAA individual tournament.

2/23/2016 9:58:57 AM

We're apparently a team that is better suited for duals than individual match-ups. We do have a couple studs, but a lot of guys "minimize" points...as in they don't get majors against them and allow for the other team to get bonus points. Then our studs come in and get majors and bonus points and it allows us to beat a team like Iowa (and OK State and Nebraska).

So don't be surprised if we lose the ACC tourney to Vtech (and since they did beat us already) and not put up a lot of points at the NCAA's either.

2/23/2016 11:13:25 AM

Yep. That was the key last night. Both teams won 5 matches, but State, obviously, got more bonus points.
In the ACC/NCAA tourney, it doesn't matter how you win a match, just that you do. The key for our non-ranked guys will be to finish as high as possible. That sounds like what they should be doing, but in a tourney, getting those guys to finish 3rd/4th will help us. The NCAA tourney will be a different animal. I'm not sure how many are projected to go from State. Of course the more that do, the better our chances. The key in tournaments is not only to have good wrestlers, but multiple ones.

Trip Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj8m6UBDjn0

Coach Pop and Gwiz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XJsrG8r9rA

2/23/2016 11:42:58 AM

yeah, we're not gonna win the NCAA title barring something crazy, but we do have a chance for four All-Americans this year (Gwiz, Max, Gantt, KJ, maybe even Renda), which would be a school record. I think we've had a total of around 30 All-Americans in school history, with a lot of those being repeats for the same guys (which Gwiz and KJ would be as well)

2/23/2016 11:53:03 AM

Under Coach Popolizio, State has finished 5th, 6th, and 6th (only 6 teams) in the ACC Tourney and 63rd, 19th, and 16th in the NCAA Tourney. Can definitely win the ACC this season and should be able to finish better than 16th in the nation, but tournament wrestling is a different animal from dual season. You can see here that there are two different sets of rankings: http://intermatwrestle.com/rankings/college/Team

Our dual ranking is 2nd.
Tournament ranking is 8th.

2/23/2016 12:10:36 PM

ACC Championships today at 11am on ESPN 3.

3/6/2016 8:26:14 AM

End of first round action.

Morris (pin) and Boykin (3-1) both won
Donahue (pin) and Hall (4-1) fell to wrestlebacks

3/6/2016 12:36:08 PM

2 guys we beat were UNC guys.

3/6/2016 12:40:21 PM

lookin good. down a few points to VT on team points

3/6/2016 3:14:13 PM

Quote :

" 1h1 hour ago NC State Wrestling ?@PackWrestle Another break in the action, back at 3:30 PM. 1. VT - 68.5 2. NCSU - 63 3. UNC - 33.5 4. Duke - 24 5. UVA - 19.5 6. Pitt - 16"

3/6/2016 4:11:19 PM

Quote :

"State Wrestling ?@PackWrestle Team Standings after 149 pounds: 1. NC State 76.0 2. Virginia Tech 73.5 3. North Carolina 46.5 4. Virginia 39.0 5. Duke 30 6. Pittsburgh 27"

3/6/2016 5:32:00 PM

would feel better if vt didnt have 1 more wrestler in the finals. beau's loss hurts

3/6/2016 5:35:46 PM

Finals starting now.

3/6/2016 7:00:01 PM

rackin up on conference champs. might pull off the team win too

3/6/2016 8:19:39 PM

up 8.5 with 3 weight classes left (VT in all 3, us in 184 & 285). VT has to win out

[Edited on March 6, 2016 at 8:32 PM. Reason : ]

3/6/2016 8:22:25 PM

w00t

3/6/2016 8:47:58 PM

Championship. Thanks for the help fellow Triangle schools.

3/6/2016 8:51:25 PM

Jack, Max, Gantt, Gwiz all win individual championships

also, all of our starters except for Beau and Nicky advance to NCAAs

[Edited on March 6, 2016 at 9:02 PM. Reason : ]

3/6/2016 9:00:59 PM

Woot woot. Go Pack.

3/6/2016 9:57:33 PM

with the 8 guys that advanced to the tourney. What are our chances of a team title?

3/7/2016 9:34:04 AM

I'd say we're in a great spot for a Top 10 finish. Top 5 would be awesome.

Maybe a 10-15% chance of winning the NCAA team title. I expect Penn State to win it.

[Edited on March 7, 2016 at 11:31 AM. Reason : .]

3/7/2016 11:30:53 AM

all 6 of our seeded guys won.
gwiz dominated, as per usual

3/17/2016 4:23:53 PM

Quote :

"Gwiazdowski from NC state got 6 minutes 12 seconds of riding time. For you non-wrestling fans, a college match is 7 minutes??????"

3/17/2016 4:28:58 PM