College wrestling's match of the year arrives Friday night in State College, where No. 1 Penn State will host No. 2 Iowa for national dual-meet supremacy. Penn State has not lost a match since falling to Iowa five years ago, and the Hawkeyes seek to restore their position atop the Big Ten by ending the Nittany Lions' 65-match win streak.

The marquee dual meet of the college wrestling season is now just one day away. No. 1 Penn State hosts No. 2 Iowa at the Bryce Jordan Center on Friday. The first bout goes off at 7 p.m. ET. Big Ten Network is televising the showdown.

Great athletes. Great coaches. And the pre-match banter between PSU four-time national champ Carter Starocci and his likely opponent, Gabe Arnold, has been pretty good stuff, too.

Iowa is up against a behemoth in Penn State. It's a team coming off of the best NCAA Championship outing ever and has each of its projected wrestlers currently ranked in an All-American position by Intermat. By March, it could be seen as the best team in NCAA wrestling history. Yet, the message remains the same.

Top-ranked Penn State hosts No. 2 Iowa in the Big Ten's most anticipated wrestling match of the season. It began with some trash talk.

That hasn’t stopped Iowa’s Gabe Arnold from calling out defending four-time NCAA champion Carter Starocci ahead of a meeting. The two are expected to be part of the dual on Fr