NC State wrestling coach Carter Jordan announced that Ryan Goodman has transferred to NC State from Nebraska. A two-sport athlete for the Huskers, Goodman redshirted last wrestling season at 197 pounds and was the No. 2 quarterback on the football team.

Goodman will sit out the 2005 football season at NC State, per NCAA transfer rules, but will join the Wolfpack wrestling team after the football season and should contribute immediately on the mat as a redshirt-freshman, according to NC State officials.

A two-sport standout at Absegami High School in Egg Harbor City, N.J., the 6-foot-2, 190 pound Goodman passed for 3,108 yards and rushed for 1,300 yards in his four-year career with the Braves' football team. He received All-South Jersey honorable-mention accolades on the gridiron and was highly recruited by many Division I schools as a wrestler. Goodman holds the New Jersey record for wrestling victories and ended his high school career with a 72-match winning streak.

In 2004 Goodman completed his only pass attempt for no gain after rising up the depth charts to No. 2 at the quarterback position, and then sat out the remainder of the season. He was later switched to free safety.

Goodman's rise surprised many in Lincoln, Neb., as Goodman was not even listed in the Nebraska football media guide at the time. Nebraska coach Bill Callahan called Goodman an "interesting guy" whose mechanics needed to get stronger.

"His throwing mechanics may not be exactly where he want them right now," Callahan said. "But he'll get there."

Nevertheless Callahan was very impressed with Goodman last fall.

"I'm just in awe of the guy," Callahan said. "I was honest with everyone when I said I didn't expect him to play football because he was such a high-profile wrestler. I really felt that his focus was going to be toward wrestling. Little did I know how bad he really wanted to play football."

Goodman's father Randal told The Associated Press that one of his son's primary motivation for transferring was that he wanted to go to a school that gives him the best shot of attaining his dream of playing in the NFL.

While an unknown on the gridiron, Goodman will be a major edition to the wrestling squad. He was the nation's top-ranker 189-pounder wrestler in the spring of 2004.