I mean he has some serious fast and quick wheels. Sophomore year video. He will be a lot more put together when he arrives.

They should have a pretty good women's wrestling team for the next few years

Throwing this out there now in advance of tomorrow's action. Feel free to use this thread for any and all match discussions and PBP's. As always, if you are replying to another post, please remember to use the Quote function. And please try to avoid those vague "Wow"'s, "Holy Crap"'s and "WTF"'s type posts - provide some friggin' context, for cryin' out loud! ;-)

When:
Thursday, March 21 at 12 pm EDT (Session 1), and at 7 pm (Session 2).

Where:
@ Kansas City (T-Mobile Center)

TV:
12 p.m., March 21 – First Round (Session 1) on ESPNU and ESPN+
7 p.m., March 21 – Second Round + Consi. (Session 2) on ESPN and ESPN+

ESPN+ will have coverage of each mat, for those that are subscribers. Here is the link to those streams: https://www.espn.com/espnplus/sched...84bd2e7f/channel/ESPN_PLUS/startDate/20240321 (thanks CM)

Radio:
Byers will have the radio call of the action and PBP's. The radio show starts at 11:40 am EDT, and the later session coverage starts at 6:40 pm. You can access the LionVision audio at: https://gopsusports.com/watch/?Live=2143&sport=30&type=Live, or via the Penn State Athletics app.
If LionVision ain't working, maybe this link will work: https://www.audacy.com/stations/bigfootcountrylegends.

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

Mat Assignments:
Mat assignments can be found here: https://bubbaland.net/wrestling/NCAA_Wrestling_Championships_2024.htm and https://twitter.com/pennstateWREST.

Team Scores:
The best source for team scoring throughout the tournament is the Penn State Wrestling Club's website. Their link for live team scoring is: https://pennstatewrestlingclub.org/. Learn it, Know it, Live it. And don't forget it!

Brackets:
Lastly, here are the brackets once again (in PDF) (still have Cornella at 141): https://www.ncaa.com/_flysystem/public-s3/images/2024/03/13/2024NCAAd1Wrestlingbrackets.pdf

Will there be more?

2025 LB Cameron Smith from St. Joe's Prep is on campus this weekend.

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with my brother and nephew as part of the West delegation, and the campus is very alive with student tours and the big recruiting weekend. I visited the All Sports Museum today, which is a treasure, and got to go on field level; Beaver Stadium on the inside on a beautiful day like today is a wonderful site.

The tour guide told us that when the west side renovations are finished, the seating capacity will be reduced by 6000.

Also, I’d be surprised if we don’t get some commitments soon after a beautiful weekend up here like this weekend.

We should only replace Franklin if we have someone better to replace him with!

Here's what I mean. If you have your GPS going through your phone and you're driving somewhere and the GPS says to you "Make a right in one-half mile" and you have your radio going or other noise from your car infotainment system, then you may not hear the GPS instructions. What would be optimal would be to have the GPS going through your car and then have your car automatically mute other noise, radio or whatever, when it is about to give GPS instructions to make sure you hear the directions.

What do you think?

I am old and I admit stopping along the way on my trip to the top of the stadium to catch my breath, but escalators in the Beav? I'd love it, but does it make economic sense for seven days a year? Heavily used escalators in places like airports seem to break down fairly often, so can we be sure these escalators will even be operational all of those seven days? Restrooms? Not sure we need elaborate decor in existing restrooms, we just need more of them. What other aspects of the remodel budget are "nice to haves" but not truly necessary? My point is PSU needs to take a hard look at some of the expenditures in the Beav remodel. A number of these "nice to haves" should be reevaluated to see if the $700M price tag can be sliced somewhat. For example, what is the ROI on the luxury boxes? How many more can the PSU fandom support? Same with more "premium" seating. Kraft says all the figures have been closely examined but has anything been released to the public? I've been going to the Beav since 1966 and I'd love some improvements, but they need to be fiscally prudent.

Just finished watching “
Highlights” of last seasons game against Ohio State on the BTN. Wow.. how bad was our offense… Defense solid.. offense was as bad as I have ever seen at Penn State…it hurt watching again. Not one solid receiver.. zero…

Here is a running list of which high school football recruits will be on campus for Lasch Bash weekend (July 26th - 27th). Expect a large majority of the 2025 commits to also make their way to campus, but this event is mostly for the younger kids in future classes. Also it should be noted that this event held annually at the end of July will no longer be possible in the future, as the recruiting calendar will change to a full dead period throughout all of July next year.

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…or are we waiting for the Sixers time to shine?

Since Gable stepped down as head coach for the Hawks, the Iowa fans have more than their fair share of disappointments over the years. Who do you think turned out to be their biggest disappointment during this time? Note - I included Gilman and Metcalf primarily because they chose to leave for better opportunities.

Men's Freestyle is on Saturday at 10 am Central.

"Initial opponents for each U.S. wrestler can be found below. Athletes in a round robin bracket will have multiple opponents listed. A full set of brackets and match-by-match results is available here: https://arena.uww.org/weight-category/1ef3dd85-1ff9-61ca-af5b-a7cf27765806
A live broadcast of the event can be found at FloWrestling.com."

57 kg – Luke Lilledahl (Saint Charles, Mo./Nittany Lion WC/Titan Mercury WC)
VS Matteo Romano (Canada) or Ricardo Pena Valencia (Mexico)

65 kg – Bo Bassett (Windber, Pa./Bishop McCort)
VS Wenzo Nogueira Da Silva (Brazil)

70 kg – PJ Duke (Slate Hill, N.Y./KD Training Center)
VS Santiago Pinargote Sornoza (Ecuador)

79 kg – Zack Ryder (Westtown, N.Y./M2 Training Center)
VS Hector Hernandez Castillo (Ecuador)

92 kg – Connor Mirasola (Jackson, Wis./Askren Wrestling Academy)
VS David Hildago Nunez (Peru)
VS Alan Perez Uribe (Mexico)
VS Rafael Abrahams Delgado (Puerto Rico)

https://www.themat.com/news/2024/ju...r-u20-pan-american-championships-in-lima-peru

Now at a crap program, out of position with little hope of getting on field. No offense to kid but 5 star is not a sure thing.

I was looking over NCAA champs in history and was struck by the fact that from 1984 to 1993, inclusive, Pennsylvania college wrestlers won 8 titles between 4 different wrestlers. Penn State got 3 of them - DeStefanis in 1984 and Prescott in 1991 and 1992. Three for Bloomsburg (Ricky Bonomo) and two for East Stroudsburg (Cuvo). Pretty remarkable.

Click here for the interview of Pat Kraft.
It is a rather interesting interview with lots of information. Two positive things I took from this is that PSU has zero interest (thankfully) in getting in bed with private equity vultures and that Kraft is truly dedicated to the entire athletic dept (vs just football), as he should be. The one negative take away was that they have talked about the PSU NIL brand academy for two years and are still setting it up, which I think is way too long.

Wide Receivers. Are there any poised to commit?

2026 OL Kevin Brown highlights this week piece and is a must-get OL from Harrisburg.