STANFORD, Calif. - The Stanford wrestling team (10-5, 2-4 ACC) has completed its regular season and is ready for this year’s ultimate showdown - the 2025 ACC Championships. Duke will host the tournament in historic Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday, March 9. Wrestlers from all seven conference schools will compete for ACC titles and berths into the NCAA Championships. Wrestling gets underway at 7 a.m. PT on ACCNX and the finals will start at 5 p.m. PT on ACC Network.
CATCH THE CARDINAL: Both mats will be streamed live via ACCNX through the consolation finals. Fans can watch the finals of the ACC Championships on the ACC Network at 5 p.m. PT. Live results will also be available on Trackwrestling.com.
FULL SCHEDULE:
7 a.m. (PT) - First Round - ACCNX (Mat 1), ACCNX (Mat 2)
10 a.m. (PT) - Consolation Quarterfinals - ACCNX (Mat 1), ACCNX (Mat 2)
11 a.m. (PT) - Semifinals - ACCNX (Mat 1), ACCNX (Mat 2)
1:30 p.m. (PT) - Consolation Semifinals - ACCNX (Mat 1), ACCNX (Mat 2)
3 p.m. (PT) - Consolation Finals - ACCNX (Mat 1), ACCNX (Mat 2)
5 p.m. (PT) - Championship Finals - ACC Network and ACCNX
THE FIELD: All seven teams will be fighting for the conference crown on Sunday. Virginia Tech is the highest ranked team at No. 8 in the NWCA Poll, while NC State is No. 9. North Carolina is No. 16, Pittsburgh is No. 17 and Stanford comes in at No. 18. The ACC boasts 50 individually ranked wrestlers in the InterMat top 33 polls. Currently, eight Cardinal are ranked in the InterMat individual polls - No. 8 Tyler Knox (133), No. 20 Jason Miranda (141), No. 15 Jaden Abas (149), No. 28 Grigor Cholakyan (157), No. 13 Hunter Garvin (165), No. 5 Lorenzo Norman (174), No. 15 Nick Stemmet (197) and No. 25 Peter Ming (285).
WHAT’S AT STAKE: In addition to competing for team and individual conference titles, wrestlers will be looking to qualify for the NCAA Championships, held this year at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 20-22.
REGULAR SEASON RECAP: The Cardinal finished the regular season with a 10-5 overall record, including a 2-4 mark in ACC duals. Stanford matched its win total from a season ago despite forfeiting every dual at 125 pounds. In its first appearance at the Ken Kraft Midlands Championships since 2012, the Cardinal finished atop the team standings for the first time in program history. Jaden Abas (149), Tyler Knox (133) and Lorenzo Norman (174) each won individual crowns - Stanford’s first Midlands champions since Ryan Mango (2012). Knox was voted the Dan Gable Most Outstanding Wrestler, while Norman took home the Jack Leese Champion of Champions award. They become the second Cardinal to win their respective honors, joining Matt Gentry who won both in 2004. Stanford also turned in an eighth-place finish as a team at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (Dec. 6-7).
TOURNAMENT EXPERIENCE: Stanford’s projected wrestlers have made a combined 15 appearances at a conference championship tournament, while four will compete for the first time. It will be the fifth tournament appearances for Jaden Abas (149) and Nick Stemmet (197), the fourth for Jason Miranda (141) and Peter Ming (285), and the second for Hunter Garvin (165).
STANFORD AT THE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS: Stanford captured the 2019 Pac-12 team championship, edging defending champion Arizona State by two points in its home arena. It is the lone team championship in program history for the Cardinal. Stanford finished as the runner-up in 2020 and 2023, and placed third in 2021 and 2022. Jaden Abas (2021) and Daniel Cardenas (2023) are the only current Cardinal to win individual titles for Stanford, which has had 38 individual conference champions since 1978.
NCAA REWIND: Stanford had five wrestlers qualify for the NCAA Championships in 2024. Nico Provo (125), Jaden Abas (149), Daniel Cardenas (157), Hunter Garvin (165) and Nick Stemmet (197) represented the Cardinal in Kansas City. Cardenas was the top finisher, placing fourth at 157 pounds to garner his first career All-America honors. Garvin took sixth at 165 pounds after entering the tournament as the No. 20 seed. He became just the third Cardinal freshman to achieve NCAA All-America status. Stanford now has 26 individual All-Americans who have earned 37 combined honors. As a team, Stanford was 16th overall - tying for the third-highest finish in program history.
THE MATT GENTRY HEAD COACH CHRIS AYRES: Stanford is under the guidance of Chris Ayres, who was appointed the 32nd head coach in Stanford history on September 11, 2023. He is in his 19th season as a collegiate head coach. A four-time Ivy League Coach of the Year, Ayres spent 17 seasons at the helm of the Princeton program. With a career record of 113-177, he built the Princeton program into a conference and national contender. Among the many achievements, Ayres produced just the second individual national champion in Princeton history (it’s first since 1951), the program’s first and second four-time All-Americans, and its first Ivy League championship since 1986. The Tigers had their first NCAA finalist since 2002, producing two in the same season in 2022. They qualified a program-record seven wrestlers to the 2017 NCAA Championships, and, in 2019, had a program-record three All-Americans. In 2023, Princeton was 13th at the NCAA Championships – its highest placement in program history and its 10th top-25 finish all-time.