NIU wrestling has some unfinished business to tend to this weekend.

The Huskies will take the road up to Mt. Pleasant, Mich., to take part in the MAC Championships on Saturday and Sunday. The meets start at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m on both days.

NIU (15-6) was co-champs of the MAC regular season with Central Michigan (13-3) and Kent State (16-5), which all had 4-1 conference records. NIU lost to KSU with a final of 18-14 but later snapped CMU’s 24-meet winning streak 16-15.

“This team is capable of anything,” coach Dave Grant said. “If we use our God-given abilities, anything is possible.”

Josh Wooton, the 19th-ranked 141-pounder, is expecting to do well along with the team. He already has beaten the top seed earlier this year, CMU’s Jason Mester, who was ranked No. 1 in the country at the time.

“I expect us to win the MAC,” Wooton said. “We could have 10 people all be champs and go to the NCAA Championships. That would be the best case scenario.”

The 157-pound Scott Owen, 184-pound Ben Heizer and 174-pound Bill Lowney are all trying to repeat as conference champs.

“I’ve been telling the guys the same thing I have been all year,” Grant said. “They just have to get in and get after it.”

Wooton, heavyweight Jack Dennis, 165-pound Jeremy Benesh and 197-pound J.D. Oliva are all making their debuts at the MAC Championships.

Just because it is the first time these four have experienced the MAC Championships, they all have a similar goal to that of Oliva’s.

“I expect to win,” Oliva said. “I want to go to Nationals more than anything; I just have to go.”

For seniors Marlon Felton, Oliver Vazquez, Owen, Lowney, Dennis and Oliva, they understand this could be the last time they hit the mat as collegiate athletes.

They agree that they have to make the most out of their chances.

“This possibly could be the last chance for the seniors to shine,” Oliva said. “I don’t think that it will be, but this could be it.”