#6 @PackWrestle Travels to In-State Foe Appalachian State

Friday, December 13

Boone, N.C.

7 p.m.

NC State

Appalachian State

#6 @PackWrestle Travels to In-State Foe Appalachian State

12/12/2019 9:51:00 AM | Wrestling

Dual will be streamed for free on AppStateSports.com

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RALEIGH, N.C. – The sixth ranked NC State wrestling team will make the drive over to Boone, N.C., and face the Appalachian State Mountaineers Friday night at 7 p.m.

	#6 NC State (6-0) at Appalachian State (0-1)
Date	Friday, Dec. 13
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Boone, N.C.
Stream	AppStateSports
Live Scoring	TrackWrestling
Social Media	@PackWrestle

QUICK TAKEDOWNS
• NC State and Appalachian State will be meeting for the seventh straight season. The Wolfpack has won all previous six matchups in this stretch by a combined score of 171-52.
• NC State won last year's matchup in Raleigh 29-9. The Pack won the first eight bouts, three for bonus points.
• Over the last five seasons, NC State has won 20 of its 22 road duals. Combining in neutral site duals, the Pack is 30-4 in duals outside of Raleigh since the 2016 season.
• NC State is ranked #6 for the second straight week in the NWCA Coaches Poll. The Pack has now been ranked in the top-10 for 64 straight polls dating back over the last five seasons.
• Four NC State wrestlers have combined for seven top-10 wins this season, four top-five wins. NC State's 10 starters are a combined 12-9 against ranked foes this season.

PROBABLE LINEUPS:
#6 NC State Wolfpack (6-0)
125: R-Fr. Jakob Camacho (8-3)
133: R-Fr. Jarrett Trombley (12-5)
141: #13 R-Jr. Tariq Wilson (13-2)
149: R-So. A.J. Leitten (11-5)
157: #2 R-Jr. Hayden Hidlay (12-1)
165: #8 R-Jr. Thomas Bullard (13-2)
174: #17 R-Jr. Daniel Bullard (9-3)
184: #2 R-Fr. Trent Hidlay (10-1)
197: #4 R-Jr. Nick Reenan (0-0)
285: So. Deonte Wilson (7-4) –OR- So. Colin Lawler (10-4)

Appalachian State Mountaineers (0-1)
125: Fr. Sean Carter (5-4)
133: Jr. Codi Russell (11-5)
141: Sr. Bradley Irwin (11-6)
149: #20 So. Jonathan Millner (13-1)
157: #20 Fr. Matt Zovistoski (9-4)
165: R-Fr. Will Formato (9-6)
174: Jr. Thomas Flitz (11-7)
184: Fr. Julian Gorring (9-6)
197: So. Paul Carson (7-6)
285: #19 Sr. Cary Miller (12-1)

FEATURED MATCHUP
157: #2 Hayden Hidlay vs. #20 Matt Zovistoski

In a rematch of a semifinals bout at the Wolfpack Wrestling Club Open back in November, #20 Hidlay will face #20 Zovistoski. That match featured just one takedown, but Hidlay in the third period for a 3-2 win.

Coming off a loss in the finals at the Cliff Keen Invite, Hidlay now has only lost six collegiate matches. In the three previous that happened in-season, he is 3-0, with two bonus point wins, outscoring those foes 39-10.

REENAN SCHEUDLED TO RETURN
NC State is about to get back the services of a top-five wrestler, as R-Jr. Nick Reenan is set to make his season debut at Appalachian State. Moving up from 184 pounds, Reenan sits at #4 in the InterMat rankings this week at 197 pounds.

Reenan has missed the first month of the 2019-20 season, as he recovered from offseason ACL surgery. Reenan tore his ACL last December, but finished the season. He was ranked as high as #2 nationally at 184 pounds when the injury happened.

HIDLAY BROTHERS BOTH BRING IN #2 NATIONAL RANKING
With each ranked #2 in their weight class this week in all six polls, Hayden and Trent Hidlay are the first set of brothers in the NCAA to be ranked among the top two in their weight class at the same time since 1993 (Ohio State - Stiebers).

Off back-to-back All-American seasons, R-Jr. Hayden Hidlay started the season the consensus #1 ranked wrestler at 157 pounds in all six polls. He started the season 12-0, before falling to #2 Deakin in the finals at the Cliff Keen Invite.

He became only the third wrestler in school history to All-American as both a freshman and sophomore, and he currently ranks second in school history in career win/loss percentage (.912- 62-6).

In his first season of action, younger brother R-Fr. Trent Hidlay has quickly ascended up to #2 rankings at 184 pounds thanks in large part to three wins vs. top-five foes thus far.

Trent was ranked #15 at the weight in the preseason. That all changed on Nov. 23, as he scored a pair of top-five wins in a pair of duals, and was named the ACC Wrestler of the Week - one week after Hayden was.

First Hidlay scored a takedown with 12 seconds left to down #5 Darmstadt of Cornell 7-5. Then later in the day at Binghamton, Hidlay scored an escape in extra time to down #4 DePrez, 2-1. He followed up by making the finals at the Cliff Keen Invite, taking out #3 Lujan of Northern Iowa in the semifinals, 8-4.