The 2013-14 Wrestling Schedule

At the beginning of the year we used to just go to the Hokie Open & the Eastern Michigan Open, but we’re kind of getting away from that.  People want more dual meets.  We’ll probably take 20 guys…weigh 15 in for the duals….the other guys will wrestle in an open tournament.  Our  unattached guys will also go there on their own and compete at these events. It’s something new that Derek DelPorto from Eastern Michigan came up with.  And you can actually have guys wrestle in both events.  It’s a good opportunity for guys to not only get a lot matches in for that experience, but also to give them dual meet experience.

It’s a great home year for us. We have seven matches on six different dates.  We’re going to do Beauty and the Beast again and this time wrestling and gymnastics will both compete against North Carolina State.  At the end of the dual season we get Missouri on Feb. 21 and our goal is to go into that match and wrestle for a MAC Championship.  Central Michigan on Jan. 26 is a huge match for us that will determine where we’re at in the conference.

We’re going back to the Southern Scuffle where we can take 15 guys over winter break and get them a lot of good experience there.  The Scuffle’s a little easier on us travel wise than going out to Las Vegas.

The NWCA duals is a two-day event this year over President’s Day…A Sunday and Monday. They’re still working out some of the details, but we’ll have to turn right around and wrestle Missouri and Edinboro four days later.  That Sunday and Monday is a down time for basketball so we’re hoping to get some exposure on that.

It’s exciting to have nine teams here for the MAC Championships.  We don’t get to host this kind of event often.  With the Ohio high school state tournament being the week prior, we hope to have a lot of wrestling fans from around the state so we’re hoping to get over 2,000 people in the stands for our conference tournament.

2013-14 Schedule