{"id":86086,"date":"2025-03-20T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/nc-state-wrestling-advances-pair-into-ncaa-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:04:43","slug":"nc-state-wrestling-advances-pair-into-ncaa-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/nc-state-wrestling-advances-pair-into-ncaa-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"NC State wrestling advances pair into NCAA Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/nc-state-wolfpack\/\">NC State\u2019s<\/a> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/sports\/wrestling\/roster\/vincent-robinson-\/13275\">Vince Robinson<\/a><\/strong> (125 pounds) and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/sports\/wrestling\/roster\/isaac-trumble\/13280\">Isaac Trumble<\/a><\/strong> (heavyweight) both went 2-0 on the first day at the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships and will be in quarterfinal action Friday. In addition, three Wolfpack wrestlers are still alive in the consolation rounds.<\/p>\n<p>As a team, NC State sits in a tie for 13th place after Thursday\u2019s opening bouts.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most dynamic matches of the first day of action, No. 4 seed Robinson used a takedown with just one second left to earn his spot into tomorrow\u2019s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>In his second round battle against Princeton\u2019s No. 13 seeded <strong>Marc-Anthony McGowan<\/strong>, Robinson found himself in a 4-0 hole going into the third period.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson got an escape to start and forced three stall calls to pull the score to 4-3 with 28 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>One final restart with nine seconds left, Robinson used a duck-under move and converted the winning takedown with just one second left in the bout.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson will face No. 12 seed <strong>Dean Peterson<\/strong> of Rutgers in the quarterfinals. Peterson scored a pin over returning national champion<strong> Richard Figueroa<\/strong> of Arizona State. Robinson and Peterson faced off in the NC State-Rutgers dual earlier this year, but Peterson was forced to injury default during that match.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson opened his day with bonus points, scoring a 12-1 major decision over No. 29 seed Joey Cruz of Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Trumble joined Robinson in the quarterfinals after avenging a loss he took at the ACC Championships, downing No. 10 seed <strong>Dayton Pitzer<\/strong> of Pitt, 5-2. Trumble scored the bout\u2019s lone takedown in the first period and used a third period ride out to gain the win over the 2025 ACC champion.<\/p>\n<p>In tomorrow\u2019s quarterfinals, Trumble will face No. 2 seed <strong>Wyatt Hendrickson<\/strong> of Oklahoma State for the third time this year. Hendrickson won both previous match-ups, a fall at the Cliff Keen in Las Vegas and a decision in the NC State-Oklahoma State dual in early January in Stillwater.<\/p>\n<p>The Pack also has three wrestlers still alive in the consolation brackets: <strong>Ed Scott<\/strong> (157 pounds), <strong>Matty Singleton<\/strong> (174) and <strong>Dylan Fishback <\/strong>(184).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two-time All-American <strong>Kai Orine\u2019s<\/strong> NC State wrestling career came to an end, as he went 0-2 on the day at 133 pounds. He fell to 2024 All-American Shawver of Rutgers in OT, 4-1, in the consolation round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 3 \u2013 12 PM on ESPNU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quarterfinals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>125: #4 Robinson vs. #12 Peterson (Rutgers)<br \/>285: #7 Trumble vs. #2 Hendrickson (Oklahoma State)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consolation Rd. 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>157: #22 Scott vs. #5 Cannon (Ohio State)<br \/>174: #14 Singleton vs. #20 Braunagel (Illinois)<br \/>184: #15 Fishback vs. #17 Kane (North Carolina)<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/nc-state-wolfpack\/news\/nc-state-wrestling-advances-pair-into-ncaa-quarterfinals\/\">NC State wrestling advances pair into NCAA Quarterfinals<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State\u2019s Vince Robinson (125 pounds) and Isaac Trumble (heavyweight) both went 2-0 on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}