Despite not being heavily recruited while in high school, NIU wrestler Ben Heizer proved his worth by taking second place Saturday in the NCAA championships. A senior, Heizer is only the third wrestler in the Huskies’ six decades of competing to make...

For the second straight year, the NIU wrestling team finished in the top 25 at the NCAA championships. Last year, the Huskies had the highest point total of all the teams in the MAC as they took 22nd. This year, NIU had 23 points and took 23rd of 68 teams,...

All three NIU wrestlers that went to the NCAA championships in St. Louis are alive for the second day. NIU’s second-seeded 184-pound Ben Heizer had decisions over Rutgers’ Rudy Medini and Cornell’s Jerry Rinaldi. Heizer will face 10th-seeded Travis...

Today is the first of three days in St. Louis for the NCAA wrestling championships for four Huskies. Ben Heizer, Sam Hiatt and Josh Wooton will represent NIU, which jumped back into the Top 25 on Tuesday with a No. 23 showing. "All three of these wrestlers...

For the third year in a row, the NIU wrestling team took second place at the MAC championships held March 6 and 7 in Athens, Ohio. Central Michigan took first place with 89 team points; NIU had 73 points and Ohio took third with 55.5 points. The Huskies...

After a second-place finish last year at the MAC championships, the NIU wrestling team will try to improve at this season’s conference tournament on Saturday and Sunday in Athens, Ohio. To prepare for the tournament, the Huskies (12-5 overall, 4-1 MAC)...

While some athletes come into college not ready to compete or use their first year as a redshirt season, NIU freshman heavyweight Joe Sapp was asked to step in immediately for the Huskies. “You have to be a pretty tough-minded freshman like Sapp [to...

The NIU wrestling team will try to get back in the win column against Buffalo and Eastern Michigan at 10 a.m. Sunday in a triangular meet at Buffalo. The Huskies (10-5 overall, 2-1 MAC) have more conference wins than Buffalo (11-4, 1-2) and EMU (9-7,...

The current trend of the NIU wrestling team beating unranked opponents and losing to ranked opponents continued Wednesday as the Huskies fell to Missouri. NIU (9-5) lost for the fifth time this season against a top-20 team. This time it was the fifth-ranked...

A year after beating Missouri at the Convocation Center, the NIU wrestling team will travel to Columbia to take on the fifth-ranked Tigers at 4 p.m today. Coming off a loss to fourth-ranked Iowa State in its last meet, Missouri (10-2) is the fifth top-20...

Last year, NIU football coach Joe Novak had his team 41 seconds away from playing in the MAC championship. Coach Rob Judson got the men’s basketball team to the semifinals of the MAC tournament. Dave Grant got his wrestling squad ranked in the top 25...

Most siblings bicker. However, not all of them throw each other against walls and punch each other in the head. Freshman Andy Hiatt and junior Sam Hiatt are teamed together on the NIU wrestling team, and a third brother may be on his way to NIU. With...