“Bill Graham said to me he’d love to see Iowa or Oklahoma State come in here in four or five years,” Wirnsberger remembered. “I laughed. I said we’d never be ready. But here we are.”

LEWISBURG — When Dan Wirnsberger started looking for wrestlers to jumpstart the Bucknell wrestling program, he wasn’t very picky, especially that first year. With the program dormant for three years and Wirnsberger put in charge of the rebuild, he was looking for two things: A pulse and good grades.