Returning for UNC will be reigning Big 12 champion and NCAA tournament qualifier Steve Poulin at 125 pounds, and Vinny Zerban who qualified for NCAAs at 157 pounds.
"I've decided to turn my attention to another goal and that goal is to represent our country and win an Olympic gold medal," Alirez said in a video posted on the UNC Bears Wrestling Facebook page.
In an event designed to “celebrate humankind’s original form of recreational combat,” the first-annual Garden State Grapple at the Prudential Center will feature three Top-25 college wrestling teams as well as the strength of the Hofstra Pride. These are three storylines you’ll want to know before following this unconventional, exciting, wrestling event.