Mat Talk Podcast Network

MatStats does it s annual dive into HS wrestling. We look at the participation numbers, if having a separate coach for the girls helps, the number of forfeits, states HS numbers and number of college teams, how the 3-point TD rule has affected HS wrestling & analyze the state of HS wrestling.

With the 2025-26 NC State Wrestling season right around the corner, we visit with 2025 All-American Isaac Trumble on episode #140 of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast. The Nebraska native covers: marriage (including a kid on the way), injury, military life after college, and the excitement surrounding the Wolfpack program entering a new season. In his first season up at heavyweight last year, Tru...

The annual App State wrestling media day came and went on Tuesday, October 27. Featured with this year’s Mountaineer squad is head coach JohnMark Bentley and wrestlers Tomas Brooker, Jerry Price, Kaden Keiser and Stephan Monchery. 

Filmmaker Tony Melanson joins Jason Bryant to discuss his new documentary Iron Maidens: Wrestling for Glory, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Joe Uccellini is the founder of one of America's best clubs, Curby 3-Style in Troy, New York. Recently, Uccellini was also named as an assistant coach for the West Point Wrestling Club/RTC.

The season premier episode of Season #9 of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast was a banger! 2025 World Champion Trent Hidlay sits down to relive some of his favorite memories of winning GOLD at 92 kg at the Senior World Championship.

In this three-part series, MatStats does a business study using stats and financial data to help the viewers understand the drastic changes in college sports. It is so confusing, it is tough to understand the business of college sports in 2025.

Join host Jason Bryant as he talks with 2024 National Wrestling Media Association Journalist of the Year Kyle Klingman on the latest episode of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast.

Clete Hanson, newly appointed head coach at Simon Fraser University, talks about his return to the program that shaped much of his wrestling and coaching career. A Washington native and former nationally ranked high school wrestler, Hanson chose SFU for its unique blend of high-level international freestyle influence, academic excellence, and its rare status as a Canadian institution competing in...

In this three-part series, MatStats does a business study using stats and financial data to help the viewers understand the drastic changes in college sports.  It is so confusing, it is tough to understand the business of college sports in 2025.  MatStats explores the revenues, expenses, & profits of college athletic departments in Part 1.  In Part 2 we dive into Revenue Sharing, NIL, & roster lim...

Some might remember Vinny Barber wrestling in New York for coach Duane Ritter at Oneonta State. Others may remember him as a boisterous figure at Flowrestling. However you may remember the old Vinny Barber, things are a lot different now.

Nick Slack has powered through some of wrestling's biggest setbacks, but now he's in another battle.

The boys may wonder why anyone's actually listened to this show for the last 10 years ...

Division I men’s wrestling only has one current HBCU wrestling program and it’s at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Central Michigan alum and three-time All-American Jarod Trice is on staff with head coach Kenny Monday and Trice talks about the growth of himself as a coach under Monday, the growth of the program and the unique place Morgan State holds in wrestling.

Nathaneal Rankin was a nationally ranked wrestler and NCAA Division III qualifier in cross country while an athlete at the University of the Ozarks. After his competitive career ended, Rankin served as an assistant coach and this summer, was named the new head coach at the Clarksville, Arkansas school. Check out what led Rankin to Ozarks in the first place, what it was like competing in two sports...

Twenty years ago, Jim Beichner served as the host for the 2005 NWCA Convention in Buffalo, New York. The then-UB head coach helped coordinate the event and oversaw numerous logistical things with the annual NWCA gathering. Following his run as the head coach at Buffalo, Beichner went to work in the racing world. He’s recently returned to the sport as the Director of Coaching Development for the NW...

In this three-part series, MatStats does a business study using stats and financial data to help the viewers understand the drastic changes in college sports.  It is so confusing, it is tough to understand the business of college sports in 2025.  MatStats explores the revenues, expenses, & profits of college athletic departments in Part 1.  In Parts 2 & 3 we dive into Conference realignment,  Reve...

Dylan Wanagiel is no stranger to wrestling events. As the current Vice President of Sports Properties and Special Events for the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, Wanagiel is again bringing a major wrestling event to the tri-state area. Previously, Wanagiel was one of the driving forces into bringing the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships to Madison Square Garden in New York City, the...

We’ll get a chance to talk with new Army West Point Head Coach Troy Nickerson on Episode 786 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast. 

Full induction ceremony for the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Honors Weekend in Stillwater, Oklahoma on June 7, 2025.

The annual tribute brunch for Saturday, June 7, 2025 at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Honors Weekend.

This week Tommy and Kevin talk about USA Wrestling and the Kyle Snyder situation and strange lack of response. We also talk through the U20 and U23 results and some of the guys who stood out.

Parker Betts is the assistant coach for what is arguably the United States' most important Greco-Roman program, Northern Michigan University's National Training Site.

Episode #44 is our annual follow up of a statistical analysis of how the new 3-point takedown has affected our sport.

This week we connect with Joey Blaze - NCAA Finalist and 3rd place finisher at the World Team Trials.