Nebraska is fresh off a third-place finish at the Big Ten Championships and heads into this week’s NCAA tournament as one of the favorites to earn a team trophy.

Against a tough Michigan team last weekend, Nebraska got some signature wins out of its redshirt freshmen on the way to a dominant 25-7 win over the Wolverines. Both Antrell Taylor and Jacob Van Dee scored Top-10 wins — the biggest of both of their young careers to date.

The Nebraska wrestling program is already a Top-5 squad in the country, but the Huskers got an extra shot in the arm a couple weeks ago when football standout Nash Hutmacher took the mat for the first time since high school.

The Cliff Keen Invitational has become a sort of measuring stick that the Huskers have used each year to see where they stack up against the rest of the country’s elites.

In a five-day span, Nebraska has suddenly put together the framework for a top 2025 recruiting class.