Penn State Wrestling's Shayne Van Ness defeats Layton Schneider 20-1 in Penn State's dual meet against Oklahoma, November 14, 2025 Credit - Lloyd McCully
No. 1 ranked Penn State Wrestling completely crushed the Drexel Dragons Friday evening on the road in Philly.
From start to finish it was yet another butt-whooping for the Nittany Lions. Drexel simply had no answers for Cael Sanderson’s stacked lineup in the 43-3 blowout.
(Credit – Lloyd McCully for NittanyCentral)
And look, this was a Drexel Wrestling team that “only” had two ranked guys coming into the dual meet. So the results were not exactly “surprising”.
However it is worth noting that Drexel did sit one of their ranked guys at 197.
Moreover, yes, I do like using quotation marks.
Now onto the dual meet.
Penn State Wrestling vs. Drexel FULL RESULTS
Keeping with that, this recap isn’t going to be the most hard-hitting summary of all-time.
Furthermore, dual meets like this for Penn State Wrestling are meant for the guys to work up a sweat, hone their moves/technique, and get a break from having to beat themselves and their teammates up in the wrestling room.
About the only item to note was that Aaron Nagao was not in the starting lineup. This is on the heels of his injury during the finals of the Black Knight Invite a couple of weeks ago. No word on the severity of Nagao’s injury. But as always, not much news comes out of the Penn State Wrestling room in situations like this.
Cael Nasdeo filled in for Nagao and while he dropped an 8-5 decision, he wrestled a tough match.
As for the Nittany Lions dual meet this coming Sunday? That may have a bit more action and some better matchups in it.
But here’s my recap for this dual meet: Penn State Wrestling dominated and no one got hurt.
Moving on …
No. 1 Penn State 43 Drexel 3
125 – No. 2 Luke Lilledahl (PSU) major dec. over Desmond Pleasant (DREX) 19-7, PSU 4 DREX 0
133 – No. 11 Marcus Blaze (PSU) fall over Kyle Waterman (DREX) 4:33, PSU 10 DREX 0
141 – Jordan Soriano (DREX) dec. over Cael Nasdeo (PSU) 8-5, PSU 10 DREX 3
149 – No. 1 Shayne Van Ness (PSU) tech. fall over Patrick Kelly (DREX) 20-4, PSU 15 DREX 3
157 – No. 15 PJ Duke (PSU) fall over Luke Nichter (DREX) 1:15, PSU 21 DREX 3
165 – No. 1 Mitchell Mesenbrink (PSU) tech. fall over Cody Walsh (DREX) 19-4, PSU 26 DREX 3
174 – No. 1 Levi Haines (PSU) major dec. over No. 17 Jasiah Queen (DREX) 12-1, PSU 30 DREX 3
184 – No. 4 Rocco Welsh (PSU) major dec. over Ethan Wilson (DREX) 13-3, PSU 34 DREX 3
197 – Connor Mirasola (PSU) tech. fall over Justin Griffith (DREX) 22-5, PSU 39 DREX 3
285 – No. 10 Cole Mirasola (PSU) major dec. over Nate Schon (DREX) 10-2, PSU 43 DREX 3
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Nittany Lion Notes, What’s Next for Penn State Wrestling?
Penn State Wrestling improves to 2-0 on the season and they extend their dual meet unbeaten streak to 73 straight.
Cael Sanderson’s career record with the Nittany Lions climbs to 220-16-2.
Penn State Wrestling hosts their first home dual meet this Sunday inside of Rec Hall. The No. 14 Lehigh Mountain Hawks descent into Happy Valley for a 1:00pm EST start time. Ironhead’s audio broadcast will be on Lionvision and you can tune into the viewing action through the B1G+ Network.
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Even though he had no prior journalism experience, Chris has now covered Penn State Wrestling and Penn State Football for the past three years, including as the Penn State Wrestling Beat Writer for VictoryBellRings.com, part of the FanSided network.
And it's clear he also likes constant torture as he's been a PSU Basketball fan for way too long.
Several years back, Chris made the seamless transition from PGA Professional to computer programmer and thoroughly enjoys following and writing about all things related to Penn State sports during his spare time.
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