
Dual Rank: 17
Record: 0-1
Ranked Wrestlers: 4
125 No. 18 Liam Cronin
157 No. 4 Peyton Robb
174 No. 3 Mikey Labriola
197 No. 24 Silas Allred
Looking at this year’s Cornhusker’s wrestling team from top to bottom, it’s not hard to believe this is one of their weaker teams in quite some time. By no means are they “bad”, they just aren’t the top five Big Ten team most wrestling fans are used to seeing.
It does hurt slightly that they are going to be without the services of Taylor Venz and 2022 All-Americans Eric Schultz and Christian Lance as they wrestled their last matches for Nebraska.
To further dampen the mood, the Cornhuskers already have an “L” on their resume as they fell to No. 22 North Dakota State 20-16 in a hard fought dual on November 4th.
Nebraska went just 1-2 in the three matches between 184, 197, and 285 with a decision win by Allred. However, the two losses were a technical fall at 184 and a decision at 285. The reason I bring this up is the fact that Venz and Lance occupied these two spots last year, and instead of losing the matches at 184 and 285, they would have most likely been wins.
Therefore, this explains the difference between being top five in the Big Ten versus being in the eighth spot.
The Cornhuskers look to put a tally in the win column as they square off against Army and NC State in the Journeymen Wranglemania on November 12th.