New York - Suzanne Gwiazdowski sat in some prime first-level seats at Madison Square Garden. It was the most uncomfortable she perhaps had ever been anticipating her son wrestle.

"A knot," she called the sensation that wouldn't possibly go away until after Nick Gwiazdowski won his third consecutive heavyweight national championship.

But the Delanson native and Duanesburg High graduate, turned North Carolina State senior star, dealt with some late-match nerves and couldn't pull off history. He lost 7-5 in overtime.