Penn State Wrestling's Mitchell Mesenbrinks wins 2nd NCAA title

Penn State Wrestling’s Mitchell Mesenbrink wins his second consecutive NCAA title Saturday night in Cleveland, Ohio.

With Mesenbrink’s 20-4 win over Iowa’s Mikey Caliendo, the super electric Nittany Lion wins his second NCAA title. Additionally, Penn State Wrestling picks up their first NCAA title of the night inside the thunderous Rocket Arena crowd.

Penn State Wrestling, Mitchell Mesenbrink — Penn State Wrestling’s Mitchell Mesenbrink defeats Iowa’s Mike Caliendo 8-2 to win the individual title at 165 in the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships.
Credit: Lloyd McCully

Following up on a 27-0 record last season, Mesenbrink again compiled a perfect 27-0 record while also taking home his third straight B1G title. And with his seemingly endless gas tank, Mitchell finishes the year with a ridiculous bonus point percentage of 96%.

Furthermore, tonight’s result gives MM his third straight All-American finish as he finished runner-up in the 2024 NCAA’s. And Mitchell also adds his name to a very prestigious group of Penn State Wrestlers to win two or more NCAA titles.

Being a front-runner for this year’s Dan Hodge Trophy for the majority of the season, it’s going to be very interesting to see who ultimately takes home the coveted award. Wrestling fans have seen co-winners before, and it’s possible that may happen yet again.

And even though recognition and awards are nice, that’s not why Mitchell Mesenbrink busts his tail off each day in the wrestling room.

Nope.

He does it to get better each and every day.

So everyone better watch out for next year …

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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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Expertise: College Wrestling, College Football, Lays Chips Education: Penn State University Location: State College, PA 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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Expertise: College Wrestling, College Football, Lays Chips Education: Penn State University Location: State College, PA 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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