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PSU wins fourth straight NCAA title with 3 champs

PITTSBURGH — Penn State clinched the team title at the 2019 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh Saturday, with three Nittany Lions earning individual championships … hours before any of them took to the mat for the finals.  The trio of Penn State wrestlers to win titles in Pennsylvania’s second-largest city were Jason Nolf at 157 pounds, Bo Nickal at 197, and, at 285, Anthony Cassar. It was Cassar’s first national crown; Nolf and Nickal each claimed their third national titles, joining Nittany Lion alums Ed Ruth and Zain Retherford in the three-timer club.

Penn State won the 2019 NCAA team title with 137.5 points. Ohio State placed second with 96.5 points, with Oklahoma State placing third with 84 points. Iowa and Michigan were fourth and fifth in the final team standings, with 76 and 62.5 points, respectively.  It is the fourth straight championship for Penn State, and eighth since Cael Sanderson became head coach in April 2009. Add in the team title that the Nittany Lions won at the 1953 NCAAs in their home gym, Rec Hall, and the program now has nine championships … placing it just behind the wrestling programs at Oklahoma State and University of Iowa, with 34 and 23 team titles, respectively. Rest of the story at https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/21739

March 25, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized