Cal Poly Wrestling Announces Schedule; Season Tickets on Sale Now
10/11/2024 10:00:00 AM | Wrestling
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Highlighted by eight home duals and an outdoor dual against Stanford on O'Neill Green during Alumni Weekend, the Cal Poly wrestling program recently announced its full 2024-25 schedule.
The eight home duals this year are the most for the Mustangs since hosting 12 during the 2016-17 season. The team gets their home slate underway on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 1 p.m. when they host Big Ten opponent Indiana at Mott Athletics Center. Season tickets are on sale now for just $45 and individual dual tickets go on sale on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Cal Poly officially opens its 2024-25 campaign a day prior when non-starters travel to the Bay Area on Nov. 2 to compete in the Menlo Invitational.
The following week, the Mustangs head to Kansas City to take part in the third annual Tiger Style Invite hosted by Missouri on Nov. 9. Last year, Chance Lamer and Adam Kemp both won titles in their respective weight classes at the tournament.
Then the program returns home to host its annual Alumni and Supporter Weekend on Nov. 15-16. The jam-packed weekend of festivities starts at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 15, with the Mustang Wrestling Foundation’s 21st annual golf tournament, hosted this year at Hunter Ranch Golf Course in Paso Robles. You can register for the golf tournament on BirdEase.com. The day concludes inside the Multi-Activity Center on campus with a cocktail hour and silent action at 5 p.m., and a dinner and reception to follow at 6 p.m. Action on the final day of the Alumni Weekend celebration starts at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, with a special outdoor dual against Stanford on the O’Neill Green right outside Mustang Memorial Field at Spanos Stadium. Tickets to the dual cost $42 for adults and include admission to the battle against the Cardinal, access to the Mustang Corral Pregame BBQ served prior to all home football games to Stampede Club members and admission to the final Cal Poly home football game of the season against Sacramento State at 2 p.m. Tickets for youth 12 and under are $17 for the event. For more information and to buy tickets to the Alumni and Supporter Weekend events visit GoPoly.com/Tickets or click the link below.
Cal Poly will head to Cal State Bakersfield’s Roadrunner Open on Nov. 24 before the Mustangs travel to the prestigious Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational on Dec. 6-7 where they will square off against some of the best teams in the country.
The Mustangs will host a pair of duals in the Mott Athletics Center on Thursday, Dec. 19, facing Cal Baptist first at 5:30 p.m. and Northwestern at 7 p.m. to end the night. Non-starters are set to wrestle in the Reno Tournament of Champions on Dec. 22 before Cal Poly travels to Chicago on Dec. 29-30 to take part in the 60th annual Ken Kraft Midlands Championships hosted by Northwestern. Last year, Cal Poly had an historic showing at the tournament as a program-record three Mustangs placed in their respective weight classes and Cal Poly earned its second-highest team finish ever at the event, taking 13th.
Cal Poly rings in the New Year with a trip to Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Jan. 10-11 to take part in the NWCA National Dual Meet Championships hosted by Northern Iowa inside the UNI-Dome. The Mustangs will then host four consecutive duals at Mott Athletics Center with a battle against Southern Illinois University Edwardsville up first on Sunday, Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. Cal Poly hosts Oregon State on Friday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. to open Pac-12 action before welcoming Northern Illinois and Little Rock to San Luis Obispo on Friday, Feb. 14, for duals at 5:30 and 7 p.m. to wrap up its 2024-25 home slate. The team heads to Pac-12 foe Cal State Bakersfield on Feb. 23 for its final regular season action.
The Pac-12 Championships return to Corvallis for a second straight year with wrestling set to take place all day on Thursday, March 6, to determine automatic berths to the NCAA Championships. Due to conference realignment, only four teams are in the Pac-12 for wrestling this year — Cal Poly, CSU Bakersfield, Little Rock and Oregon State.
The 2025 NCAA Championships are set to take place March 20-22 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pa., marking the first time the venue has hosted the tournament since 2011 and just the second time overall. Last year, Cal Poly sent five wrestlers to the NCAA Championships for the third straight season, marking just the second time in program history the Mustangs have accomplished that feat.
Entering his ninth season leading the program in 2024-25, head coach Jon Sioredas is looking to build off another banner year for the Mustangs in 2023-24 and raise the bar even higher. Last season, Cal Poly reached as high as No. 23 in the NWCA Coaches Poll and were a top 25 nationally ranked tournament and dual team. The Mustangs also boasted six nationally ranked wrestlers for most of the season. Overall, Cal Poly returns 23 wrestlers and nine of its 10 starters from a year ago, including Chance Lamer — who was one victory away from securing All-American honors at NCAAs last season — and defending 174-pound Pac-12 champion Adam Kemp.
Currently, five Mustangs will enter the 2024-25 season nationally ranked (InterMat/Flowrestling Preseason Rankings) — No. 23/NR Zeth Romney (133), No. 9/10 Chance Lamer (149), No. 19/20 Legend Lamer (157), No. 11/12 Adam Kemp (174) and No. 22/17 Trevor Tinker (285).
