Ever since his first-round loss in last year's NCAA Wrestling Tournament, NIU's T.C. Dantzler has been waiting anxiously for this moment. Dantzler will square off today with the top wrestlers in the nation, as the first round of the NCAA Wrestling Championships...

The moment has finally come for the individuals on NIU's wrestling team. That moment is The NCAA West Regional, which determines which wrestlers will travel to Oklahoma City, Okla., to compete with the best wrestlers in the nation at the National Tournament...

Giving up 18 points before the match ever started didn't help the NIU wrestling team one bit. Winning two out of the seven remaining matches made things even worse as the Huskies dropped a 39-10 decision to Central Michigan Friday at Chick Evans Field...

The 2-16 NIU wrestling team will try and end its season on a winning note when Central Michigan visits the Chick Evans Field House for a noon match today. Central Michigan is an opponent the Huskies know little about. However, they do know one thing:...

The NIU wrestling team finally wrestled a match in DeKalb, but the final outcome was an Illinois State victory, 24-18 at Chick Evans Field House last night. The Huskies, who have wrestled most of this season on the road, and the Redbirds met for the second...

The NIU wrestling team will be able to show off its skills at Chick Evans Field House for the first time since Northwestern visited DeKalb back in December. Illinois State will be only the second team this season to wrestle NIU at home. After being on...

With the high school individual state wrestling championships being held at Champaign, Ill. this weekend, NIU's head coach Ed Vatch and his assistants will be heading south for recruiting purposes. Vatch is seeking future Huskie grapplers to fill some...

Instead of asking for a full-time assistant coach, perhaps NIU wrestling boss Ed Vatch would prefer to see a psychologist added to his staff. In Sunday's triple dual at the University of Missouri Hearnes Center Arena, the Huskies lost a 36-9 contest to...

Traveling seems to be what the NIU wrestling team has been doing most of this season. The Huskies have found themselves packing their bags for 14 of their first 15 matches. NIU's last, and only home meet, was when Northwestern University invaded Chick...

The state of Iowa has long been a hotbed for football and wrestling, but this weekend the focus is on tennis as far any Huskies are concerned. The NIU men's tennis team faces a tripleheader in the Hawkeye State. Tonight, NIU stops in Des Moines for a...

In the NIU wrestling room in Chick Evans Field House, 3:50 p.m., Feb. 3, T.C. Dantzler makes an announcement to everyone within earshot. "Hey, guys, I bet I don't get taken down today." Dantzler is a member of the NIU wrestling team. The 158-pound junior...

Sixth-ranked Northern Iowa wrestled like its ranking and Illinois State wrestled just well enough to hand the NIU wrestling team two dual-meet losses over the weekend. Northern Iowa shut out the Huskies 51-0, with the only close match coming from a hard...