It’s been a long and winding road for Nebraska’s seventh-year senior Liam Cronin. Ranked #3 at 125 pounds this season, Cronin has never looked better as he sets his sights on the postseason.

As this year’s dual season comes to an end, seven-time Olympic and World champion Jordan Burroughs has a close eye on his former team.

Nebraska’s longtime head coach Mark Manning recently hit a career milestone, capturing his 300th dual win with a 24-11 victory over Wisconsin.

Sixteenth-ranked Nebraska is finally done with its non-conference slate. The Huskers are 4-2 in duals and won team titles at both CKLV and the Navy Invite.

Under head coach Mark Manning, Nebraska has always had a solid staff of assistants. In the past, those names have included the likes of Terry Brands and Tony Ersland. Brands is currently the associate head coach at Iowa under his brother Tom Brands, while Ersland is in his ninth season as the head man at Purdue.

Going into the Cliff Keen Invitational, few were giving Nebraska much of a chance to win its third straight team title after losing four All-Americans from last year’s squad and sputtering to start the season with dual losses to North Dakota State and NC State.

There have really been only a handful of big storylines that have surrounded this Husker team to start the season.

This past spring, Nebraska put together its best NCAA tournament in more than a decade. The Huskers’ fifth-place finish was the best Nebraska fans have seen since they finished fourth in 2008 and 2009.