NC State
Battle at The Citadel
No. 8 Wrestling Opens Season at Battle at The Citadel Tournament
10/31/2024 5:32:00 PM | Wrestling
RALEIGH, N.C. – Eighth-ranked NC State wrestling kicks off its 2024-25 slate by traveling to The Citadel for their Battle at The Citadel tournament on Sunday, November 3rd. Matches are scheduled to start at 9 a.m. from the McAlister Field House in Charleston, S.C.
Match Info
• Official start time is 9 a.m. at McAlister Field House in Charleston, S.C.
• Live stats will be available on TrackWrestling here.
• Admission is $10 and tickets can be purchased here.
• Teams competing include: Air Force, Appalachian State, Duke, George Mason, NC State, and The Citadel
Ranking Check-In
• Team | #8 (NWCA)
Individual Rankings (InterMat)
• 125 | Jakob Camacho - #7
• 141 | Kai Orine - #6
• 149 | Koy Buesgens - #32
• 157 | Ed Scott - #6
• 165 | Derek Fields - #22
• 174 | Matty Singleton - #24
• 184 | Dylan Fishback - #10
• 197 | Christian Knop - #27
• 285 | Isaac Trumble - #10
Quick Notes
• The ACC holds five teams ranked nationally in the top-25 (No. 7 Virginia Tech, No. 8 NC State, No. 21 Stanford, No. 24 North Carolina, and No. 25 Pittsburgh). There are seven teams total with wrestling programs in the ACC.
• Nine of the 10 weight classes for NC State boast a ranked wrestler by InterMat, five of which are in the top-10.
• NC State opens the season as the defending ACC Champions for the sixth-straight season. The consecutive titles make the Wolfpack the second wrestling program to hold at least six consecutive ACC trophies (other program is previous conference member Maryland. The program now has 21 total conference championships, the most among current ACC teams.
New Faces and New Places
• The Wolfpack lineup will look much different this year between graduated members, (Alex Faison, Trent Hidlay, and Jarrett Trombley), redshirts returning (Matty Singleton and Isaac Trumble), redshirts leaving (Jackson Arrington and Ryan Jack), and rising freshmen.
• The red-and-white welcomed their new associate head coach, Zack Esposito, to the team back in April. He joins after being a coach at USA Wrestling and prior to that, Oklahoma State.
• Two-time All-American, Kai Orine, has bumped up to the 141 weight class for his final round of college wrestling while the previous holder of that starting position, Ryan Jack, takes the year to redshirt. Speaking of Orine, Kai's little brother, Draegen, is a new face in the program coming in as a freshman competing in the 133 pound weight class.
• In total, the team has welcomed 11 freshmen to the 2024-25 roster, each boasting their own impressive accolades from their high school careers around the nation.
• Matty Singleton and Isaac Trumble re-enter competition for the Pack after taking the 2023-24 season to redshirt and compete on the world stage. Both were featured in the 2022-23 lineup, but will return entering new weight classes (Singleton at 174 and trumble at 285).
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