Eastern will travel to Lincoln, Neb. Saturday to wrestle in the Great Plains Open hosted by No. 8 Nebraska.

Among the teams attending the tournament will be South Dakota, Wyoming, Northern Colorado, No. 3 Iowa State, No. 7 Michigan and No. 6 Oklahoma.

“This will give us a chance to get an eye on competition we haven’t seen,” said Eastern head coach Ralph McCausland. “If we get to wrestle some guys we’ll see later in the year, we need to capitalize on that; if we don’t then we need to look at some common opponents.”

One team that Eastern will see later this season is Wyoming, who is in the same regional as the Panthers. Two wrestlers that McCausland thinks will be helped are sophomore 174-pounder No. 20 Kenny Robertson (24-9) and senior heavyweight Pete Ziminski (6-5).

“For Pete and Kenny this should get some good exposure for them,” McCausland said. “They’ll also get to see some individuals they’ll see later this year.”

The host team, Nebraska, will also be wrestling No. 15 Missouri that night and will only have their backups wrestling in the tournament.

Eastern is coming off a triangular meet they hosted Sunday at Lantz Arena, and McCausland changed up their workouts to prepare for Saturday’s meet.

“We’re on a good frame rate right now where we’re wrestling about every six days,” McCausland said. “This will be a good change from dual meets because it will give us a chance to wrestle three or four matches in a day.”