Lucas Byrd, for some, is living the dream. The 5-foot-5 amateur wrestling star of the University of Illinois recently ...

Lucas Byrd could’ve ended his career on top with a 2025 NCAA title for Illinois wrestling. But there’s a good chance he’s ...

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Illinois wrestling star Lucas Byrd captured a national championship on Saturday, and his victory is one that is being celebrated by millions of short ...

No. 1 redshirt senior Lucas Byrd recently won his first national title, becoming the 21st Illinois wrestler to ever win a ...

His biggest challenger will be Illinois' Lucas Byrd, who he is 1-1 against this season and who he lost to by fall at Big Tens. He says that when he wrestles like he is capable of, good things tend to ...

Illinois senior wrestler Lucas Byrd won his first national title on Saturday with a 3-2 decision over Iowa's at the NCAA Championship Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, avenging his only loss of ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – Illinois wrestler Lucas Byrd won a national championship in Philadelphia over the weekend. The Illinois sixth-year senior took home the crowd in the 133-pound weight ...

CHAMPAIGN — Sometimes, Lucas Byrd doesn't feel like wrestling is worthwhile. All the hours of training. The physical pounding from opponents. The injuries. The agony of cutting weight.

La Salle graduate and Illinois redshirt senior Lucas Byrd had already earned his third-career All-American honor in the 2025 NCAA Division I Championships. On Saturday night, he got his national ...

Byrd avenged Ayala after suffering a 4-2 loss to the Hawkeye in a regular season dual at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Although an eventful second period despite just 20 seconds off the clock then, the same ...

"We're going to Philadelphia," Brands said, referring to this week's NCAA Championships. Whether it was Drake Ayala losing to Illinois' Lucas Byrd, Kyle Parco dropping bouts to Nebraska's Ridge Lovett ...