The ACC Championship will be held Saturday, March 9, at Virginia Tech’s Cassell Coliseum, with one $10 ticket good for all-day admission.
The host Hokies will enter the event as two-time defending champions. Virginia Tech will be serving as the host school for the third time after previously welcoming the Championship in 2009 and 2014. The doors to Cassell Coliseum will open at 10 a.m. on match day, with first-round action kicking off the event at 11 a.m. Semifinals are set for 1 p.m., followed by the consolation semifinals at 3:30 p.m. and the consolation finals at 5 p.m. Championship matches begin at 7 p.m., followed by the awards presentation.
ACC Network Extra again plans nearly 10 hours of live coverage from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Matches will be delivered on two concurrent live streams. Shawn Kenney and Tim Foley will handle the call on Mat 1, with Dean Linke and Rock Harrison manning Mat 2. The wealth of wrestling knowledge among the talent promises fans great insight into the competition.
NC State and North Carolina share the ACC regular-season dual title after both posted road wins on Feb. 22 to finish conference play at 4-1. The Wolfpack won 17-16 at Virginia Tech on criteria, while the Tar Heels claimed a 23-16 victory at Duke. NC State owns back-to-back ACC dual championships for the first time since 2001-2002. UNC’s dual championship is its first since it shared the title with NC State at the end of the 2002 regular season.
Conference teams will now focus on the upcoming ACC Championships, which will be held Saturday, March 9, at Virginia Tech’s Cassell Coliseum.
Duke 149-pound redshirt senior Mitch Finesilver was named the final ACC Wrestler of the Week for the 2018-19 season. Finesilver is 26-3 overall on the year and finished the dual season with a perfect 10-0 mark. Sporting a 10-3 record against top 20 foes, the Colorado native owns 88 career victories heading into postseason action. A three-time ACC runner-up, Finesilver is currently ranked fourth by InterMat and FloWrestling.
NC State remains No. 10 in the final 2018-19 NCWA rankings and again leads five ACC teams among the top 25. The Wolfpack is followed by No. 12 North Carolina, No. 13 Virginia Tech, No. 16 Pitt and No. 22 Virginia. NC State was ranked in the top-10 in all 16 polls this season, and dating back over the last four seasons, he Wolfpack has appeared in the top-10 in 57 straight polls overall.
Twenty-three Atlantic Coast Conference student-athletes are ranked among the top 20 of their individual weight classes by InterMat, including 15 among the top 19. Virginia Tech senior Zach Zavatsky holds the highest ranking at No. 3 in the 184-pound class (which includes three ACC wrestlers among the top 10). Duke senior Mitch Finesilver (149), and NC State sophomores Hayden Hidlay (157) and Nick Reenan (184) each hold No. 4 rankings.
Tickets to the 2019 ACC Wrestling Championship are now on sale on-line at vthoki.es/19WR-ACCs …
–ACC Athletics
