Tickets to watch the No. 1 Penn State Nittany Lions wrestling team square off with the 2nd-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes at Bryce Jordan Center on Friday night are heating up on the eve of match day.

Tom Brand’s Iowa Hawkeyes have been outstanding through nine matches. But Cael Sanderson’s Penn State wrestlers have been performing at a different level heading into its final match of January. Two 9-0 teams. No. 1 vs. No. 2 in State College on Friday night.

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Iowa is looking to change the narrative with a win on Friday night. That won't be easy, though as the Hawkeyes have lost three straight and five of the last six to Penn State. With 10 wrestlers all ranked No. 7 or higher for the Nittany Lions, the path to an upset seems narrow for Iowa.

Iowa is up against a behemoth in Penn State. It's a team coming off of the best NCAA Championship outing ever and has each of its projected wrestlers currently ranked in an All-American position by Intermat. By March, it could be seen as the best team in NCAA wrestling history. Yet, the message remains the same.

College wrestling's match of the year arrives Friday night in State College, where No. 1 Penn State will host No. 2 Iowa for national dual-meet supremacy. Penn State has not lost a match since falling to Iowa five years ago, and the Hawkeyes seek to restore their position atop the Big Ten by ending the Nittany Lions' 65-match win streak.

Penn State wrestling has continued its dominance this season. The Nittany Lions dismantled Rutgers over the weekend, the Nittany Lions won their 65th consecutive dual meet. Now Penn State gets ready for its toughest test of the year when they welcome Iowa for a highly anticipated showdown in the Bryce

Top-ranked Penn State hosts No. 2 Iowa in the Big Ten's most anticipated wrestling match of the season. It began with some trash talk.

The No. 1 Nittany Lions take on the No. 2 Iowa Hawkeyes — the last team to beat Penn State — on Friday night in the Bryce Jordan Center.

Iowa and Penn State meet in a dual of top-ranked teams on Friday. During the leadup, the two programs volleyed smack talk back and forth.

Iowa wrestling coach Tom Brands previews dual with Penn State, discusses Gabe Arnold's trash talk with Carter Starocci

The No. 1 Penn State wrestling team hosts No. 2 Iowa inside Bryce Jordan Center at 7 p.m. Friday. The highly anticipated match between the Nittany Lions and Hawkeyes will be broadcast on Big Ten Network.