The No. 6 Nebraska wrestling team earned a 27-9 victory over No. 16 North Carolina on Friday night at the Devaney Center. The Huskers recorded three major decisions and a pin in the heavyweight division to improve to 6-2 on the season.<\/p>\n
Nebraska opened the dual with a strong start at 157 pounds, as No. 6 Antrell Taylor<\/a> picked up a 13-2 major decision to give NU an early 4-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n At 165 pounds, redshirt freshman No. 10 LJ Araujo<\/a> earned a hard fought 2-0 decision over Bryce Hepner after three tightly contested periods. No. 6 Christopher Minto<\/a> followed at 174 pounds with a dominant performance securing a 17-3 major decision against Collin Carrigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n North Carolina picked up its first points of the night at 184 pounds after No. 24 Jake Dailey defeated Tyler Eise<\/a> by decision. Nebraska responded at 197 pounds after No. 10 Camden McDanel<\/a> took a 10-2 major decision win and secured the Husker\u2019s third major of the night.<\/p>\n In the heavyweight match, No. 4 AJ Ferrari<\/a> accentuated the Husker\u2019s lead with a dominant match leading to his first pin of the season before Alan Koehler<\/a> fell by decision at 125 pounds to No. 16 Kysen Terukina.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n At 133 pounds, No. 8 Jacob Van Dee<\/a> put up a strong contest to win 5-1 and secure his 50th career victory while No. 3 Brock Hardy<\/a> (141 pounds) pulled out a 5-1 decision over No. 19 Luke Simcox.\u00a0<\/p>\n The dual concluded at 149 pounds where Scott Robertson<\/a> and Nate Askew were tied 1-1 at the end of the third before Askew secured a 4-1 win in sudden-victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n Up Next No. 6 Nebraska 27, No. 16 North Carolina 9
<\/strong>The Huskers will take on No. 5 Oklahoma State on Sunday, Dec. 21. The top-10 dual is set for 1 p.m. (CT), and will be televised on BTN.\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/strong>157 | No. 6 Antrell Taylor<\/a> (N) major dec. No. 33 Laird Root (UNC) 13-2 (NEB 4, UNC 0)
<\/strong>165 | No. 10 LJ Araujo<\/a> (N) dec. Bryce Hepner (UNC) 2-0 (NEB 7, UNC 0)
<\/strong>174 | No. 6 Christopher Minto<\/a> (N) major dec. Collin Carrigan (UNC) 17-3 (NEB 11, UNC 0)
<\/strong>184 | No. 24 Jake Dailey (UNC) dec. Tyler Eise<\/a> (N) 8-4 (NEB 11, UNC 3)
197 | No. 12 Camden McDanel<\/a> (N) major dec. No. 33 Robert Platt (UNC) 10-2 (NEB 15, UNC 3)
<\/strong>HWT | No. 4 AJ Ferrari<\/a> (N) pinned Mikey Calcagno (UNC) 6:14 (NEB 21, UNC 3)
<\/strong>125 | No. 16 Kysen Terukina (UNC) dec. Alan Koehler<\/a> (N) (NEB 21, UNC 6)
133 | No. 8 Jacob Van Dee<\/a> (N) dec. No. 15 Ethan Oakley (UNC) 5-1 (NEB 24, UNC 6)
<\/strong>141 | No.3 Brock Hardy<\/a> (N) dec. No. 19 Luke Simcox (UNC) 5-0 (NEB 27, UNC 6)
<\/strong>149 | Nate Askew (UNC) SV-1 Scott Robertson<\/a> (N) 4-1 (NEB 27, UNC 9)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 6 Nebraska wrestling team earned a 27-9 victory over No. 16 North Carolina on Friday night…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3257,51,36541,3336,11995,50,144154,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-460337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-big-ten","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-huskers","11":"tag-nebraska","12":"tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nu","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}