{"id":6961,"date":"2014-03-22T21:57:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T01:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6961"},"modified":"2014-03-22T21:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T01:57:16","slug":"states-gwiazdowski-upsets-reigning-wrestling-champ-for-ncaa-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=6961","title":{"rendered":"State&#8217;s Gwiazdowski upsets reigning wrestling champ for NCAA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6962\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gwiazdowski.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gwiazdowski.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Gwiazdowski.\" width=\"173\" height=\"260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6962\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Gwiazdowski.<\/figcaption><\/figure>NC State&#8217;s Nick Gwiazdowski upset two-time defending champion Tony Nelson of Minnesota 4-2 in the heavyweight finals of the NCAA Wrestling Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 seeded Gwiazdowski got two take downs, clinching the match with the second with less than half a minute left.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson beat Gwiazdowski 1-0 earlier in the year and after a scoreless first period this time, Nelson was able to stay on top of Gwiazdowski the entire second period to score one point and got a second point for riding time.<\/p>\n<p>Gwiazdowski started the final period on his feet, rather than the bottom position that cost him in the second period. He was able to take Nelson down at the 1:30 mark. Following an injury timeout for Nelson, who tweaked an ankle, Gwiadzdowski got that second take down near the end to win it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NC State&#8217;s Nick Gwiazdowski upset two-time defending champion Tony Nelson of Minnesota 4-2 in the heavyweight finals of the NCAA Wrestling Tournament. The No. 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6963,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions\/6963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}