Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
Indiana
November 14, 2022 | Wrestling
Princeton will open the dual-match season Friday at 6 p.m. ET at Indiana in a match streamed on BTN+.
Series vs. Indiana • This will be just the second meeting between Princeton and Indiana. The Tigers were 23-15 winners over the Hoosiers in Princeton during the 1973-74 season. IU is one dual match into the season, defeating SIU-Edwardsville 26-15 on Nov. 4.
Tough schedule • Princeton will have seven dual matches against teams in the Nov. 8 NWCA rankings, including #6 Arizona State, #7 Cornell, #13 Wisconsin, #14 Lehigh, #20 Penn, #21 Rutgers and #24 Oregon State, beginning with Wisconsin at the Garden State Grapple in Newark, N.J. on Dec. 4.
Rankings • As of Nov. 8, Princeton had seven wrestlers ranked by national media outlets. Quincy Monday (157) was No. 1 by AWN, FloWrestling, InterMat and WIN while WrestleStat had Monday at No. 4. Patrick Glory (125) was No. 2 by AWN, FloWrestling, Intermat, WrestleStat and WIN. Luke Stout (197) was No. 15 with AWN, No. 17 with InterMat, No. 18 with FloWrestling and No. 19 with WrestleStat. Marshall Keller (149) was No. 29 with WrestleStat, Matt Cover (HWT) was No. 21 by InterMat, No. 31 by WrestleStat and honorable mention by FloWrestling, Travis Stefanik, now at heavyweight, was No. 15 at 184 by WIN, and Nate Dugan (184) was honorable mention by FloWrestling.
Homecoming for Joe and Nate • Princeton associate head coach Joe Dubuque and assistant coach Nate Jackson have quite a place in Indiana wrestling history. Dubuque won two NCAA titles there, at 125 in 2005 and 2006, and Jackson was a two-time All-American, finishing fifth at 174 in 2016 and eighth at 184 in 2017. Dubuque is one of two two-time NCAA champions in Indiana history, along with Charlie McDaniel (275, 1935 & 38), and is Indiana's second-most recent NCAA champion, with Angel Escobedo winning at 125 in 2008. Dubuque was a three-time All-American, finishing eighth in 2004, finished with a 114-18 career record, and the team's Most Outstanding Wrestler award, which he won in 2005 and 2006, was renamed for him. Jackson won the Dubuque Award in 2016 and 2017 after winning the team's Brian Dolph Award in 2015 as the Most Improved Wrestler, a season that resulted in his first of three NCAA bids.
Raise the Stakes • Princeton's team theme this year is Raise The Stakes, a reflection of the team returning all six of its NCAA qualifiers from last year. Seniors Patrick Glory (125) and Quincy Monday (157) not only became Princeton's first finalists in 20 years but gave Princeton its first two-finalist NCAAs ever. Seniors Marshall Keller (149) and Travis Stefanik (184, now HWT), junior Matt Cover (HWT) and sophomore Luke Stout (197) are back after earning NCAA bids last year. Princeton is looking make more program history, following up on the 2020 Ivy League title that was the program's first since 1986, pursuits of the program's first EIWA team title since 1978, of the program's first NCAA individual champion since 1951, and of an NCAA trophy, which would eclipse its current best-ever finish at the NCAAs of fifth in 1951.
More returners • All 10 wrestlers from Princeton's EIWA lineup are back this year. Along with the six NCAA qualifiers, junior Nick Kayal (133), sophomore Danny Coles (141), sophomore Blaine Bergey (165), and junior Nate Dugan (174, now 184) are also back.
All-Americans • Of Princeton's 25 All-American finishes, 12 have come during Chris Ayres' coaching tenure, and all since 2016. Of the 13 wrestlers to earn All-American honors, five have come during Ayres' tenure.
Probables: Princeton's probable lineup includes Patrick Glory (125), Sean Pierson (133), Danny Coles (141), Rocco Camillaci (149), Quincy Monday (157), Blaine Bergey (165), Kole Mulhauser (174), Nate Dugan (184), Luke Stout (197) and Matt Cover (HWT). Glory, Mulhauser and Cover won titles at Princeton's season-opening Princeton Open.
