North Carolina State University Athletics
Wrestling Begins ACC Action Wednesday At Duke
1/8/2008 12:00:00 AM | Wrestling
NC State will wrestle the first of its five Atlantic Coast Conference matches Wednesday when the Wolfpack travels to Durham to take on Duke. The match begins at 7 p.m.
NC State and Duke both wrestled this past weekend at the NC State Duals, with both winning matches against Gardner-Webb, Anderson and Campbell. NC State now is 4-5, while Duke is 4-4.
NC State has won 10 straight in the series vs. Duke, with the Blue Devils’ last victory coming in 1996-97, a 26-15 win at Reynolds Coliseum. NC State defeated the Blue Devils 26-15 at Reynolds a year ago, and the Wolfpack has won 33 of the last 34 matches with Duke.
NC State features four returning individual conference champions from last year’s ACC championship squad, including All-American candidates Joe Caramanica (junior, 19-4, No. 7 nationally at 141 pounds), Darrion Caldwell (sophomore, 19-3, 11 falls, No. 9 at 149) and Ryan Goodman (r-junior, 10-4 at 184). Taylor Cummings (r-sophomore, 14-8 at 125) also won a conference championship last season.
Following are the matchups for Wednesday’s bout at Duke (NC State wrestler listed first at each weight class):
125: Taylor Cummings (14-8) vs. Kellan McKeon (19-8)
133: Darius Little (5-7) or Ryan Tice (4-5) vs. Bryan Gibson (5-2)
141: Joe Caramanica (19-4) vs. Spencer Jasper (9-12) or A.J. Guardado (11-12)
149: Darrion Caldwell (19-3) vs. Mike Bell (10-12)
157: Ray Ward (4-3) vs. Voris Tejada (22-9)
165: Jalil Dozier (7-6) vs. Addison Nuding (19-6
174: Randy Goodman (5-10) vs. Ben Wales (13-10) or Aaron Glover (6-4)
184: Ryan Goodman (10-4) vs. John Barone (24-3
197: Mark Jahad (6-10) vs. Dan Tulley (0-0), Dan Fox (9-11) or Robert Holbrook (11-9)
Hwt: Bobby Isola (9-8) vs. Wade Van Sickle (21-7) or Mike Tunick (3-4)
NC State wrestling notebook
Caldwell A Fast Starter: Only at the midpoint of his sophomore season, 149-pounder Darrion Caldwell already has started a full-scale assault on the NC State record books. With 19 victories so far this season, Caldwell is on a pace that will put him within reach of the school record of 32 victories in a season by a sophomore, held by Sylvester Terkay. Caldwell has 11 dual matches, plus the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA championships still to go this season.
Given his fast start, Caldwell would have to be seen as having a better than even chance at winning 30 matches this season. Only nine wrestlers in the program’s history have won 30 or more matches, the last being Sylvester in 1993, when he went 41-0 and won the national championship.
With 21 pins to his credit, Caldwell already ranks eighth in school history for career pins. He has a ways to go to break the school record of 64 by Terkay, but the next five wrestlers on the list ahead of Caldwell are all between 22 and 29 pins.
Caldwell has just 48 bouts to his credit so far in his career, but his .813 career won-lost percentage (39-9) would rank 10th in school history. Because won-lost percentage is subject to fluctuation, NC State’s career leaders only include wrestlers who have wrestled 50 or more bouts and who have exhausted their eligibility. Terkay is the career leader at .897 (122-14).
Caramancia Also Pushing For 30 Wins: Darrion Caldwell is not the only NC State wrestler nudging towards the career lists in the record book. Following his three wins at the NC State Duals, junior 141-pounder Joe Caramanica has a 62-23 career record and needs just eight more victories to crack the school’s all-time top 20.
Like Caldwell, Caramanica has 11 dual matches plus the postseason remaining this season, meaning he has an excellent shot at winning 30 matches. Should Caldwell and Caramanica both win 30 matches this season, it would mark only the second time in program history that a pair of NC State teammates won 30 or more matches apiece in the same season. Brian Jackson (38) and Michael Stokes (34) both won more than 30 matches in 1989.
Goodman’s Career Numbers: Junior 184-pounder Ryan Goodman has a 54-14 record following his three-match sweep at the NC State Duals. He still has a ways to go to crack the top 20 for career wins, but his career winning percentage of .794 would rank 12th in school annals.
Fast Worker: Returning to Darrion Caldwell, he has been working hard to become a seven-minute wrestler and overcome the reputation that he either pins his opponents early or struggles to finish. Looking at his match-by-match results, it’s easy to see where that reputation comes from. Of Caldwell’s 21 career pins, 19 of them came in the first period, nine in the first minute, and six in the first 30 seconds of the bout. He has never recorded a pin in the third and final period of a match.
Caldwell won his first three college matches with pins at 0:13, 1:35, and 2:20, meaning he was 3-0 before he had logged five minutes of mat time. He has four first-period pins against ranked wrestlers, including three that were in the top 10 at the time.
Add in technical falls and defaults, and 23 of Caldwell’s 39 career victories came well shy of the seven-minute mark. All but two of his nine career losses were by pin or technical fall.
Prior to this year’s Las Vegas Invitational, Caldwell had gone the distance in back-to-back matches just four times, and never in more than two matches in a row. Caldwell went a full seven minutes in his last four matches at Las Vegas, including a 12-3 major decision over No. 2 Josh Cherulla and an 8-6 decision over No. 3 J.P. O’Connor. None of his five matches at the Southern Scuffle, however, went the full seven minutes.
For his career, only 18 of Caldwell’s 48 matches have gone the full seven minutes.
NC State and Duke both wrestled this past weekend at the NC State Duals, with both winning matches against Gardner-Webb, Anderson and Campbell. NC State now is 4-5, while Duke is 4-4.
NC State has won 10 straight in the series vs. Duke, with the Blue Devils’ last victory coming in 1996-97, a 26-15 win at Reynolds Coliseum. NC State defeated the Blue Devils 26-15 at Reynolds a year ago, and the Wolfpack has won 33 of the last 34 matches with Duke.
NC State features four returning individual conference champions from last year’s ACC championship squad, including All-American candidates Joe Caramanica (junior, 19-4, No. 7 nationally at 141 pounds), Darrion Caldwell (sophomore, 19-3, 11 falls, No. 9 at 149) and Ryan Goodman (r-junior, 10-4 at 184). Taylor Cummings (r-sophomore, 14-8 at 125) also won a conference championship last season.
Following are the matchups for Wednesday’s bout at Duke (NC State wrestler listed first at each weight class):
125: Taylor Cummings (14-8) vs. Kellan McKeon (19-8)
133: Darius Little (5-7) or Ryan Tice (4-5) vs. Bryan Gibson (5-2)
141: Joe Caramanica (19-4) vs. Spencer Jasper (9-12) or A.J. Guardado (11-12)
149: Darrion Caldwell (19-3) vs. Mike Bell (10-12)
157: Ray Ward (4-3) vs. Voris Tejada (22-9)
165: Jalil Dozier (7-6) vs. Addison Nuding (19-6
174: Randy Goodman (5-10) vs. Ben Wales (13-10) or Aaron Glover (6-4)
184: Ryan Goodman (10-4) vs. John Barone (24-3
197: Mark Jahad (6-10) vs. Dan Tulley (0-0), Dan Fox (9-11) or Robert Holbrook (11-9)
Hwt: Bobby Isola (9-8) vs. Wade Van Sickle (21-7) or Mike Tunick (3-4)
NC State wrestling notebook
Caldwell A Fast Starter: Only at the midpoint of his sophomore season, 149-pounder Darrion Caldwell already has started a full-scale assault on the NC State record books. With 19 victories so far this season, Caldwell is on a pace that will put him within reach of the school record of 32 victories in a season by a sophomore, held by Sylvester Terkay. Caldwell has 11 dual matches, plus the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA championships still to go this season.
Given his fast start, Caldwell would have to be seen as having a better than even chance at winning 30 matches this season. Only nine wrestlers in the program’s history have won 30 or more matches, the last being Sylvester in 1993, when he went 41-0 and won the national championship.
With 21 pins to his credit, Caldwell already ranks eighth in school history for career pins. He has a ways to go to break the school record of 64 by Terkay, but the next five wrestlers on the list ahead of Caldwell are all between 22 and 29 pins.
Caldwell has just 48 bouts to his credit so far in his career, but his .813 career won-lost percentage (39-9) would rank 10th in school history. Because won-lost percentage is subject to fluctuation, NC State’s career leaders only include wrestlers who have wrestled 50 or more bouts and who have exhausted their eligibility. Terkay is the career leader at .897 (122-14).
Caramancia Also Pushing For 30 Wins: Darrion Caldwell is not the only NC State wrestler nudging towards the career lists in the record book. Following his three wins at the NC State Duals, junior 141-pounder Joe Caramanica has a 62-23 career record and needs just eight more victories to crack the school’s all-time top 20.
Like Caldwell, Caramanica has 11 dual matches plus the postseason remaining this season, meaning he has an excellent shot at winning 30 matches. Should Caldwell and Caramanica both win 30 matches this season, it would mark only the second time in program history that a pair of NC State teammates won 30 or more matches apiece in the same season. Brian Jackson (38) and Michael Stokes (34) both won more than 30 matches in 1989.
Goodman’s Career Numbers: Junior 184-pounder Ryan Goodman has a 54-14 record following his three-match sweep at the NC State Duals. He still has a ways to go to crack the top 20 for career wins, but his career winning percentage of .794 would rank 12th in school annals.
Fast Worker: Returning to Darrion Caldwell, he has been working hard to become a seven-minute wrestler and overcome the reputation that he either pins his opponents early or struggles to finish. Looking at his match-by-match results, it’s easy to see where that reputation comes from. Of Caldwell’s 21 career pins, 19 of them came in the first period, nine in the first minute, and six in the first 30 seconds of the bout. He has never recorded a pin in the third and final period of a match.
Caldwell won his first three college matches with pins at 0:13, 1:35, and 2:20, meaning he was 3-0 before he had logged five minutes of mat time. He has four first-period pins against ranked wrestlers, including three that were in the top 10 at the time.
Add in technical falls and defaults, and 23 of Caldwell’s 39 career victories came well shy of the seven-minute mark. All but two of his nine career losses were by pin or technical fall.
Prior to this year’s Las Vegas Invitational, Caldwell had gone the distance in back-to-back matches just four times, and never in more than two matches in a row. Caldwell went a full seven minutes in his last four matches at Las Vegas, including a 12-3 major decision over No. 2 Josh Cherulla and an 8-6 decision over No. 3 J.P. O’Connor. None of his five matches at the Southern Scuffle, however, went the full seven minutes.
For his career, only 18 of Caldwell’s 48 matches have gone the full seven minutes.
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