Please post results and any match-related discussions here. Thanks!

When:
Friday, April 19 at 10 am - 3:45 pm EDT; and at 6:30 - 10 pm.
Saturday, April 20 at 10 am - 2:30 pm EDT; and at 6:30 - 10 pm.

Where:
@ Penn State University in State College, PA (Bryce Jordan Center)

Parking info:
https://www.themat.com/news/2024/ap...c-team-trials---wrestling-parking-information

Streaming/TV:
Streaming: Peacock, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
TV: USA Network - Day 1 Challenge Tournament (6:30 to 10 pm) and Day 2 Finals (6:30 to 10 pm)
Broadcast team: Jason Knapp, Jim Scherr, and Zora Stephenson

Session 1 (10 am to 3:30 pm) 4 mats will be streamed, as well as a Quad box option.
Session 2 (6:30 to 10 pm) 3 mats will be streamed.
Session 3 (10 am to 2:30 pm) 4 mats will be streamed, as well as a Quad box option.
Session 4 (6:30 to 10 pm) streamed and on TV.

PRO TIP: I subscribe to Peacock every year around the week of Black Friday for their special price of $1.99 per month or $20 per year. Can't beat it! Lots of great content (including old school WWF shows and PPV's).

Session 1:
Challenge Tournament: Preliminaries, Quarterfinals and Consolation Rounds, for all styles and weight classes. (Note: all Championship matches will be held prior to the consolation rounds).
Session 2:
Challenge Tournament: Semifinals and Finals, all styles and weight classes.
Session 3:
Round 1 of Best-of-3 Championship Series, all styles and weight classes, plus Round 2 of Best-of-3 Championship Series in the five weight classes not yet qualified for the Olympics. Also the completion of the Challenge Tournament: consolation semifinals, consolation finals, third place bouts and True third (if necessary).
Session 4:
Round 3 of Best-of-3 Championship Series (if necessary) in the five weight classes not yet qualified for the Olympics. Followed by Round 2 and Round 3 (if necessary) in the 13 weight classes qualified for the Olympic Games. The session concludes with the presentation of the U.S. Olympic Team.

Radio:
98.7 State College radio (local coverage only - no streaming). Friday - all day. Saturday - last couple hours.

PBP:
Hopefully someone(s) will be able to step up and provide some PBP. As always, please remember to provide the score at the end of the match. Thanks!

Mat assignments/Brackets:
Check: https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/opentournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=853157132, or
https://www.flowrestling.org/articl...s-olympic-team-trials-mens-freestyle-preseeds

Here's to hoping the 2024 US Men's FS Olympic Team is fielded by 6 Nittany Lion Wrestling Club wrestlers!!

All of our 2024-2025 commits are eligible.

Registrants so far: Lilledahl, Sealey, Ryder, the twins, Duke, Desmond, Henckel.

Good morning Penn State Wrestling Fans! And just like that, another Team Championship is in the books. Congrats to all of the Wrestlers, Coaches, Support staff, and families. It's been another great year!

Feel free to use this thread for today's match discussions and PBP's.

Today's schedule:

11 AM EDT (ESPNU and ESPN+):
Consi Semi-final Matches:
149: #7 T.Kasak vs. #1 R.Lovett (NEB)
184: #6 B.Truax vs. #4 Munoz (ORST)

The winner advances to 3rd place match and the loser wrestles for 5th.

7 PM EDT (ESPN and ESPN+):
Finals Matches:
141: #2 B.Bartlett vs. #1 J.Mendez (OHST)
157: #1 L.Haines vs. #2 J.Teemer (ASU)
165: #2 M.Mesenbrink vs. #4 D.Carr (ISU)
174: #9 C.Starocci vs. #6 R.Welsh (OHST)
197: #1 A.Brooks vs. #2 T.Hidlay (NCST)
285: #1 G.Kerkvliet vs. #10 L.Davidson (MICH)

The Trophy Presentation will be streamed on ESPN+.

While it's not all about the team scoring record, it should be noted that it is in play (170). PSU currently has 148 points. 33 points are available in today's matches (plus any bonus):

• Finals win = 4 placement points, 0 advancement points
• Consi semi win = 3 placement points, .5 advancement points
• 3rd or 5th win = 1 placement point
• Plus any bonus

Another record that's in play: In 1986, Iowa won by 73.75 points. PSU currently leads by 83.5.

Lastly, thanks again to @SlipperyPete12 for his PBP's this weekend. Great job! And to everyone else for their informative posts as well!

Chael Sonnen claimed today that Carter has been offered $400k just to show up in the NCAA post season in 2025. He doesn't say who made the offer.

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(I shut him off after he said JB was not a bad sport)

Now that the OTT’s are over, I would like to see if anyone sensed the same thing that I thought that I watched, and that was a sudden maturity of Mitchell Messenbrink. Even though he lost to Jordan Burroughs, he did score a couple points against JB, but there were some things that I saw from MM, beginning with his smile prior to the hand shake at the beginning of the match that I found interesting, and that was his confidence at the start of the match. The MM bounce. Beginning with the first period I saw how MM squared himself to JB on the mat, and I think it made JB uncomfortable. As the 1st period progressed, MM showed some inexperience and allowed a take down and a back exposure. On the restart MM went straight back to the middle of the mat. At this point, JB was not sure of this upstart kid, but I think he knew he was in a match that he was not ready for. Head slapping ensued on the next start, and the official stopped it, and MM wanted to make sure that he was on the up and up by attempting a high 5 to JB to let him know that is competition, nothing more. But if I recall JB did not respond. This is only 30 seconds into the first period. In my opinion, MM was more prepared for this match than JB. As the 1st period progressed, JB’s experience showed. But watching MM continue to square up against JB, I was impressed even more with MM and his preparation for a wrestler like JB. Down 7-0 after 2, MM continued to square up against JB and attempted leg attacks. Even with under 1 minute to go MM continued his attacks, and JB was not sure, at times, how to defend MM’s attacks. With time winding down, there was some head butting and head pushing initiated by MM to let JB know that MM is coming at the decorated wrestler, and whatever the outcome, JB now knows who MM is. The shove with :07 left in the match is important. Sometimes a torch is passed, but a lot people of don’t see it or understand it. I like to think that I just saw a torch passed from a decorated champion to a young Penn State wrester who I think is going to shine in the NCAA’s as well as the world stage. I like to think that, in this particular match, I watched Mithell Messenbrink progress to the next level of the great Penn State type of wresters like David Taylor, Jason Nolf and Zain Retherford. Penn State Nation get ready to cheer on the next of Penn State’s incredible person/wrestler. This is just my observation.

The Transfer Portal opens up this coming Wednesday and remains open thru May 3.

Does anyone transfer in? Does anyone transfer out (ie Bearclaw)?

Seriously amazing accomplishment tonight but if a certain 4x champ comes back I could easily see next year's team beating this record.

LL should outscore Davis' output
Davis/Nagao should score more
Bartlett should at least equal this season
SVN/Kasak should score more
Haines should at least equal this season
MM should score more
Carter should score more if he has access to both legs
Barr should be able to match Truax
Mirasola will score less but will score
Kerkvleit should at least equal this season

That's three weights were they improve and only one where they take a hit. There is no doubt this is the most dominant team in sports.

I thought Askren had some good thoughts on the two major controversies from this weekend.

1) MM-Burroughs - Askren essentially says that's who MM is, he loves to fight, he straddles the line, the head shove was well deserved, and that he's had to choke MM in practice many times to get him back in line. Overall, pretty funny discussion from one of the last people that could be accused of anti-MM bias.

Also interesting discussion about when MM started training with him and how one of the big issues he had was keeping his composure. Ben used to purposely try to get him mad so he could learn to control himself. Reminded me a lot of the process with
Desanto in the Iowa room.

2) The PSU fans - I agree with him on this too. When a crowd gets large, it doesn't behave rationally. It gets swept up in the emotions of the event and sometimes does things that nobody would ever think they'd do outside of that context. I don't think it's an accident that the two notoriously poorly behaved fan bases are Iowa and PSU, the two largest by far. Get everybody together and people get wild and those in the crowd who actually suck become more emboldened to misbehave.

also this, boys. this. let's have some perspective, huh?

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3rd from the last pick in the draft. Should he have stayed another year? Seems like this happens to this program every year, somebody leaves too early?

Coming up in in less than a month. April 19th-20th. I’ll post the entire list of qualifiers but first look at 74kg. Absolutely loaded! Whoever comes out will be battle tested. I’m hoping it’s Nolf but still think Dake wins it. I’m most interested to see how Mesenbrink does against this group of killers though

74 KG​

Sitting To Best of Three Final Series

2023 Senior World silver medal at Olympic weight - Kyle Dake (Titan Mercury WC/Nittany Lion WC)

Challenge Tournament

2019 World Team member – Jordan Burroughs (Sunkist Kids/Pennsylvania RTC)

2023 U20 World champion – Mitchell Mesenbrink (Askren Wrestling Academy)

2023 U23 World champion – Keegan O'Toole (Tiger Style WC)

2023 Bill Farrell champion – Jason Nolf (Nittany Lion WC)

2023 Senior Nationals champion – Quincy Monday (NJRTC/Titan Mercury WC)

2023 Senior Nationals 2nd place – Alex Marinelli (Hawkeye WC/Titan Mercury WC)

2023 Senior Nationals 3rd place – Alex Facundo (Nittany Lion WC/Titan Mercury WC)

2023 Senior Nationals 4th place – Jarrett Jacques (Tiger Style WC)

2023 Senior Nationals 5th place – Tyler Berger (Pennsylvania RTC)

2024 NCAA D1 champion at 157 lbs - Levi Haines (Penn State)

2024 NCAA D1 champion at 165 lbs - David Carr (Iowa State)

Next weekend is the Olympic Team Trials Last Chance Qualifier in Fairfax, VA.

Several individuals affiliated with PSU are trying to make it to the Olympic Trials on April 19&20. Only the winner of each weight advances to the Trials.

57kg:
Nate Desmond
Josh Rodriguez
Cael Nasdeo
Mason Gibson
Gary Steen
Jax Forrest

65kg:
Bo Bassett
David Evans

74kg:
Joe Sealey
Cenzo
Will Henckel
Terrell Barraclough

86kg:
Morgan McIntosh
Aarif Asif

97kg:
Cole Mirasola

130kg:
Michael Rogers (Greco)

Men’s Freestyle Schedule
Sunday, April 7
(Late entry deadline 6 pm the night before)
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. - Preliminaries, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Consolations
4:00 p.m – 6:30 p.m. - Consolation Semifinals and Third Place Match followed by Finals

Posted on GIA this morning that Tom Ryan was involved in a serious auto accident today. Two broken legs and a broken hip if reports are accurate. Here is hoping for a full and speedy recovery.