Very nice photo, Dwayne. A wolf spider, correct? I love those beasties.
I suspect this is a Funnel Weaver (Family Agelenidae), named for their, well, funnel-shaped webs! See http://bugguide.net/node/view/1974.(Crab spiders do not create such webs; they prowl for prey.)
A Potential Confusion:The family of "funnel weaver" spiders (family: Agelenidae) found in the United States are 99.9% harmless to people. However, there are a few genera of spiders (family: Hexathelidae) that are called "Funnel-web spiders" (Genera: Atrax and Hadronyche). These spiders ARE NOT related to the agelenid spiders found in North America. Many of the hexathelid spiders are common favorites for the Discovery Channel-style "Deadliest Spider" documentaries; some of the famous "funnel-web spiders" being the Sydney Funnelweb (Atrax robustus) and the Northern Tree Funnelweb (Hadronyche formidabilis). These funnel-web spiders are found in eastern Australia, including Tasmania, in coastal and highland forest regions - as far west as the Gulf Ranges area of South Australia. These spiders are known to be harmful to people, HOWEVER, as mentioned above, they are not found in the United States.
