College wrestling's match of the year arrives Friday night in State College, where No. 1 Penn State will host No. 2 Iowa for national dual-meet supremacy. Penn State has not lost a match since falling to Iowa five years ago, and the Hawkeyes seek to restore their position atop the Big Ten by ending the Nittany Lions' 65-match win streak.

Great athletes. Great coaches. And the pre-match banter between PSU four-time national champ Carter Starocci and his likely opponent, Gabe Arnold, has been pretty good stuff, too.

There is nothing small about Iowa wrestling vs. Penn State. The No. 1 Nittany Lions host the No. 2 Hawkeyes on Friday in State College, Pennsylvania, marking the fifth time the two have squared off while ranked in the top two of the NWCA Coaches poll (1986,

Iowa wrestler Gabe Arnold engages in some trash talk before the Hawkeyes visit Penn State for the biggest college wrestling match of the year.

That hasn’t stopped Iowa’s Gabe Arnold from calling out defending four-time NCAA champion Carter Starocci ahead of a meeting. The two are expected to be part of the dual on Fr