Brendan Wagner

No. 1 Penn State wrestling (7-0, 1-0 Big Ten) took care of business Friday night in Rec Hall, defeating Michigan State (2-2, 0-1 Big Ten) 55-0. The dual meet marked the Nittany Lion’s first conference challenge as the team moves into the daunting Big Ten schedule. Highlighting the dual were bonus point victories in every…

No. 1 Penn State wrestling (6-0) traveled to Nashville on Sunday to take on Binghamton, No. 16 Arkansas Little-Rock, and No. 15 Missouri in the Journeymen Collegiate Duls. The Nittany Lions combined for a 29-1 record in 30 bouts across the three duals, amassing a total score differential of 137-3, winning 52-0, 44-0, and 41-3…

No. 1 Penn State wrestling (3-0, 0-0 Big Ten) took down Wyoming (2-3, 0-2 Big 12) 54-0 on Sunday afternoon in the Bryce Jordan Center. The win was Cael Sanderson’s 250th as a head coach, with 44 coming at Iowa State and 206 at Penn State. After a switch in location to make way for…

After a dominant showing in Sunday’s Army Black Knight Invitational, Penn State wrestler Mitchell Mesenbrink was named Big Ten Wrestler of the Week. Mesenbrink went 4-0 at the Black Knight Invitational, winning by tech fall in each match by a total margin of 72-10. The sophomore 165-pounder is 5-0 to start his 2024-25 campaign after finishing…

As the newly minted 2024 NCAA national championship banner hung high over the Resilite in Rec Hall, No. 1 Penn State wrestling (1-0) defeated Drexel (0-1) 41-3 on Sunday in the 2024-25 season opener. Penn State won nine of 10 bouts, highlighted by tech falls from Mitchell Mesenbrink, Levi Haines, Carter Starocci and Lucas Cochran,…

Carter Starocci, whose name has become synonymous with Penn State wrestling over recent years, decided to return to Happy Valley once more this past offseason. He is looking to achieve a feat no college wrestler has ever done before and to put himself in a separate category that no college wrestler after him will likely…

Marcus Blaze, the No. 1 ranked wrestling recruit in the 2025 class according to Flo Wrestling and the No. 3 recruit according to MatScouts, committed to Penn State early Wednesday morning. Blaze, from Perrysburg, Ohio, has already made quite an impression in the world of wrestling, hauling in accolades such as a U17 world title in 2023, a U20 silver…

Penn State wrestling’s Carter Starocci found himself in the spotlight once again after another week of wrestling and media action. One of only seven wrestlers to win four individual NCAA championships, Starocci may try to navigate another tough offseason on a path to do something no one has done before: win title No. 5. Just…

With the opening session of the 2024 U.S. Olympic trials beginning at 10 a.m. Friday morning in the Bryce Jordan Center, current and former Penn State wrestlers and Nittany Lion Wrestling Club (NLWC) members all took to the mat vying for just six spots to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Throughout the first session,…

After five Nittany Lions took home individual titles at last weekend’s Big Ten Championships in College Park, Maryland, the newly released seeds for the NCAA Championships reflected Penn State’s dominance. The NCAA released the 33 seeds in each of 10 weight classes during a selection show on Wednesday night, and a Nittany Lion wrestler was featured in…