Part two of Nate Gallick’s wrestling career is over.

His days of wrestling back home in Arizona have passed, and last Saturday in Oklahoma, the ISU senior ended his time as a Cyclone with an NCAA title.

Soon afterward, he began thinking of what’s next.

Gallick said he will begin preparing for the Senior National Championships April 14 in Las Vegas.

“I guess my season doesn’t really end. From now on, it’s kind of a year-round thing,” he said. “It’s more important now than [the NCAA tournament]. I’m trying to make the world team this year and pick up my international career.”

Gallick finished with a 106-23 career record, tying Zach Roberson for 23rd on the ISU all-time win list.

He won 68 of his last 69 ISU matches, including a 3-2 battle with Oklahoma’s Teyon Ware last weekend to claim the national crown.

The storied rivalry between the two wrestlers may have come to a close in that match. For international competition, the Cyclone cuts weight and wrestles at 60 kilograms – 132.5 pounds – 8 1/2-pounds below his collegiate class.

Gallick said he hopes he has seen the last of the Sooner, and expects Ware to compete at 66 kilograms.

“I wish I could say he is fun to wrestle. He’s not,” Gallick said. “I’m glad my college career is over and I probably won’t have to wrestle him again. We’ve seen each other plenty. If I do wrestle him down the road, damn it.”

Ware and Gallick squared off in nine official matches during the past four years, eight of which Gallick won.

But his primary motivation and competitor has been Ware, who beat him in the 2005 NCAA Championship. The Sooner’s celebratory backflip afterward may have been his biggest mistake.

“[Gallick] was motivated by the backflip,” coach Bobby Douglas said. “I mean, I’m sure he saw that every night. And we kept reminding him of it.”

Douglas said he wanted his pupil to “wrestle the very best” and that Ware has provided that level of competition.

“They are two class acts,” Douglas said. “Teyon [Ware] is a tremendous champion and it took a tremendous effort to beat him. When you look at his records and what he has done, he is a phenomenal wrestler.”

After Senior Nationals, Gallick will prepare for the USA Wrestling World Team trials.

He had the top-seed in last year’s U.S. World Team trials, but finished second. He became the fourth American wrestler to win a gold medal at the World University Games last summer.