Nebraska hosts the last home dual of the season Sunday Feb. 22 against Iowa State (2PM Central at the Coliseum - wear black). The Huskers.com preview is here:

http://www.hu...TCLID=3673688

In the most recent Intermat rankings, NU moved up to #3 from #4, while ISU dropped from #2 to #4 following an 18-15 loss to Mizzou last Sunday (NU beat Mizzou 16-15 on Jan.31). The Huskers would move to 4-0 in Big 12 duals with a win, which I guess would be a regular season championship of sorts. NU and ISU last met at the National Duals in January, and the Clones beat the Huskers 20-19. Here are the match results from then:

125 - Tyler Clark (ISU) pinned Andrew Pokorny (NU), 3:58
133 - Nick Fanthorpe (ISU) major dec. Matt Vacanti (NU), 12-4
141 - Nick Gallick (ISU) major dec. Curtis Salazar (NU), 11-2
149 - Mitch Mueller (ISU) dec. Robert Sanders (NU), 7-5
157- Jordan Burroughs (NU) major dec. Cyler Sanderson (ISU), 12-4
165 - Stephen Dwyer (NU) dec. Jon Reader (ISU), 4-0
174 - Brandon Browne (NU) dec. Andrew Sorenson (ISU), 7-4
184 - Vince Jones (NU) pinned Jerome Ward (ISU), 5:50
197 - Jake Varner (ISU) dec. Craig Brester (NU), 10-3
HWT – Tucker Lane (NU) dec. David Zabriskie (ISU), 7-6

What must NU do to beat ISU this time? First, avoiding the pin at 125 would help. Even a tech fall here would be an extra point for NU. At 149, Sanders lost by two to Mueller. A win by Sanders here would be a six point swing from January. The match of the day will be at 197, where #1 Varner and #2 Brester meet. Varner beat Brester by seven last time, so that is not an easy task. On the ISU ledger, NU made it close on the strength of a pin by Jones at 184 and an upset by Tucker Lane at HWT over current #1 Zabriskie. The Jones match was actually pretty close until Jones caught Ward on his back. Don’t expect another six points here. Zabriskie has been on fire since losing to Lane, and Lane has been up and down. Expect Zabriskie to beat Lane. At the end of the day, I’m afraid the matchups favor ISU in this dual.

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