An injury default after a hard hit in the first period of the first match is rare in wrestling. The rest of the Missouri wrestling team’s dual against Oklahoma State was no different. Missouri ultimately...

Why don’t more people care about Missouri wrestling? Here’s the simple answer: not enough people know about it. Before being assigned to cover wrestling, I couldn’t tell you how many weight classes...

It was another routine night for Missouri wrestling. The 125-pound and heavyweight classes — or the “bookends,” as head coach Brian Smith referred to them in a postgame interview — struggled in...

Grant Leeth seems to like it most when the opponent is best. Missouri’s 149-pound, giant-slaying redshirt junior dealt No. 24 North Carolina a critical blow Friday afternoon by earning a decision over...

The circumstances were all too familiar for Willie Miklus. Trying to clinch a crucial dual for Missouri at the 197-pound weight class last Saturday, the redshirt senior was struggling early on against...

Amidst fireworks surrounding the triumphant return of 197-pound redshirt senior Willie Miklus at Mizzou wrestling’s season opener against Illinois, Grant Leeth humbly took care of business in his first...

Austin Myers doesn’t get many chances to play the hero. A transfer from West Virginia at the heavyweight weight class, the redshirt sophomore closes out duals for Missouri, often competing in irrelevant...

No. 5 Missouri wrestling looked in midseason form on Sunday afternoon’s quad meet shutting out Missouri Valley, Truman State and Central Missouri at Hearnes Center. After an electric start to the season...

Inside the third base dugout, Mizzou wrestlers warmed up for their season-opening dual. The gold and black puffs atop their beanies bounced along as some practiced moves on imaginary opponents. Fans in...

Brian Smith has spent his final week of the wrestling preseason training himself in meteorology. Sitting in his fourth floor Hearnes Center office, the head coach of the Missouri Tigers instinctively...

The Missouri wrestling team went head to head with itself Friday night in the annual Black and Gold Dual at Hearnes Center. The squad split into two and wrestled someone in the same or similar weight class...

Missouri wrestling ditched its spot in the Hearnes Center on Thursday to practice in the MU Student Center for the second year. More than 30 wrestlers did drills together for approximately an hour while...