Wrestling season began Friday night with the annual NIU Wrestle-Offs with Huskie grapplers fighting for 10 starting positions for the upcoming year. The 2010 NIU Wrestle-Offs proved to be exciting in an 18-16 red over black victory where four seniors...
All things come to an end, but before they do, head coach Dave Grant has one more season with the NIU wrestling team. The Huskies begin their 2010-2011 season tonight at 7 p.m. with their annual Wrestle-Offs, which will determine the starters for the...
Throughout the first 50 years of NIU sports, Reino Nori was the best. Standing only 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing in at 155 pounds, Nori won 17 varsity letters in five sports (football, basketball, wrestling, baseball and track). The "Flyin' Finn"...
Jeremy Goeden made NIU wrestling history as the first Division I repeat All-American. Goeden placed eighth at the NCAA Championships in 1997 and seventh in 1998 as a senior. He also netted First-Team National Wrestling Coaches Association and Second-Team...
Scott Owen became the second two-time Division I All-American after placing fifth at the NCAA Championships in both 2002 and 2003. Owen also claimed MAC Championships three times from 2001-03 at 157 pounds. With his achievements on the mat, Owen has been...
I don't fancy myself a professional wrestling aficionado, but a few recent news tidbits have caught my attention and for all the wrong reasons. On Friday, March 13, former World Wrestling Entertainment talent Andrew Martin - known to fans as Test - was...
Dreams don't always come true. For wrestlers Tristen DeShazer and Bryan Deutsch, their dreams of becoming an All-American and possibly an NCAA Champion came to an end Friday. At the NCAA Championships in St. Louis, DeShazer and Deutsch combined for a...
Tristen DeShazer came into the NCAA Championships with 15 pins on the season. On Thursday, the redshirt sophomore recorded his 16th pin and 21st win on the season over North Carolina State's freshman Darius Little. DeShazer was taken down but reversed...
Bryan Deutsch had to pull off upsets to win the MAC Championship at 157 pounds. If he wants to do anything at the NCAA Championships, he will need to do the same thing, starting with his first match. The NCAA Championships run Thursday-Saturday at the...
To say that NIU's wrestling team is young would be an understatement. The team doesn't start a single upperclassman in its 10-man lineup. True freshmen Steve Zimmerman, Izzy Montemayor, Derrick Yant and Zak Saevre have been in the lineup most of the year....
Most current NIU students weren't even born when the decision happened. What am I talking about? One of the worst decisions in NIU athletics history. In 1975, NIU joined the Mid-American Conference, mainly thanks to three different people â€"...
For the second time in its last three dual meets, the NIU wrestling team had to wait until the final match of the night to decide the meet. On Feb. 6 against Eastern Michigan, NIU's Bryan Deutsch lost a 6-4 decision in the final match of the evening,...
