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Penn State wrestling clinches 11th NCAA national title under Cael Sanderson

Death, taxes, and Penn State winning a national championship in college wrestling.

Add another national title to the books for Penn State’s wrestling program. The Nittany Lions clinched the NCAA team national championship with a strong showing in the semifinals on Friday, going a perfect 6-0 in semifinal matches at the NCAA national championships.

Penn State sits in first place with 148.0 points after Friday’s semifinal matches. Michigan is in second place with a point total of 65.5, and Iowa is in third with 65.0 points. This marks Penn State’s third consecutive team national title under head coach Cael Sanderson, and its 11th in the past 13 seasons. This is Penn State’s 12th all-time national championship for the wrestling team.

[autotag]Beau Bartlett[/autotag] (141 lb), [autotag]Levi Haines[/autotag] (157 lb), [autotag]Mitchell Mesenbrink[/autotag] (165 lb), [autotag]Carter Starocci[/autotag] (174 lb), [autotag]Aaron Brooks[/autotag] (197 lb), and [autotag]Greg Kerkvliet[/autotag] (285 lb) all will compete for individual national titles on Saturday.

Penn State has also had eight wrestlers named all-americans, bringing the school’s all-time total to 254.

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Penn State locks up wrestling national championship early

For the 11th time, Penn State is your wrestling national champion.

The final session of the NCAA Wrestling Finals starts on Saturday night but that doesn’t mean that Penn State wanted to wait to lock up another team national title.

The Nittany Lions held a wide lead of 39.5 points in the team ranks thanks to them having eight wrestlers earning All-American honors, including five NCAA finalists out of the eight they had as a whole, who will compete on Saturday night in the sixth and final session of the tournament. Each win they secured in the tournament earned them seven points which between that and their All-Americans they entered Saturday with 77.5 points as a team.

Before they then thought, the consolation bracket had to play out starting with [autotag]Beau Bartlett[/autotag].

Bartlett would wrestle South Dakota State’s Clay Carlson in the consolation side of things and he would win handily. That win would create a wide enough margin that no team, including Iowa, Michigan, Ohio State, and Nebraska.

This would be the program’s 11th overall team national title and the 10th in [autotag]Cael Sanderson[/autotag]’s tenure which started in 2010. It’s also Penn State’s second consecutive national championship, as the Nittany Lions took home the 2022 title last year.

This will be Penn State’s sixth perfect dual meet season under Cael Sanderson as well. The program that he has built at State College has this university’s wrestling program among the very best teams regardless of the sport.

NCAA wrestling championship photos: Penn State nearing another national title

Penn State’s wrestling team is inching closer to yet another national championship.

The month of March has much more than basketball madness popping up around Happy Valley. At Penn State, March is when the school’s wrestling program performs at its best, and it is once again closing in on another national championship at this year’s NCAA wrestling championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Penn State’s top wrestlers went 5-2 in the semifinals to inch closer to another team title under head coach Cael Sanderson. Following Friday’s round, Penn State owned 116.5 points in the standings, with Iowa in second with 77.0 points in the overall team standings. Five Penn State wrestlers will have a chance to secure an individual national title on Saturday; [autotag]Roman Bravo-Young[/autotag], [autotag]Levi Haines[/autotag], [autotag]Carter Starocci[/autotag], [autotag]Aaron Brooks[/autotag], and [autotag]Greg Kerkvliet[/autotag]. [autotag]Beau Bartlett[/autotag] and [autotag]Shayne Van Ness[/autotag] will battle for third-place in consolation matches on Saturday.

Here are some of the best photos of Penn State hitting the mats at the NCAA wrestling national championships in Tulsa.

2019-20 ALL-USA Preseason Wrestling Team announced

2019-20 Preseason ALL-USA High School Wrestling Team is here. Meet the top wrestlers in the country!

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The ALL-USA Preseason Wrestling team for the 2019-20 season was selected by Earl Smith of OpenMat in coordination with USA TODAY High School Sports based on past performance, level of competition and strength of schedule.

Statistics are from last season, except where otherwise noted. Players are listed in alphabetical order.

Click through the gallery to meet the players:

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