INDIANAPOLIS --- Fourth-ranked Austin O'Connor leads seven members of the North Carolina wrestling team in the initial NCAA coaches' panel rankings released Thursday. A redshirt freshman from Lockport, Illinois, O'Connor is 22-3 on the year at 149 pounds, with all three losses coming to wrestlers ranked in the top six.
Redshirt seniors Gary Wayne Harding (No. 22 at 133 pounds), Chip Ness (No. 13 at 197) and Cory Daniel (No. 24 at 285) join O'Connor in the first of four national ranking releases, along with redshirt junior A.C. Headlee (No.