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No. 1 Penn State Wrestling vs. American: Nittany Lions send the Seniors out with the 50-3 win | FULL RESULTS

Chris SnyderPenn State Wrestling,

Penn State Wrestling capped off the 2024-2025 regular season by defeating American 50-3 Friday evening in Rec Hall.

The Nittany Lions won nine of the 10 matches. Additionally they kept the scorer’s table busy as all of their wins were via bonus points. This included four technical falls and five pins.

It was a great night for Penn State Wrestling, it was a great night for the Nittany Lion fans in attendance, and it was a fitting end to what was an incredible regular season for Cael Sanderson and his incredible wrestling program.

Now onto the dual meet and the individual results.

Penn State Wrestling vs. American FULL Results

Penn State Wrestling, Mitchell Mesenbrink
Mitchell Mesenbrink defeats Alex Uryniak 18-3 in Penn State’s dual meet against Maryland, February 9, 2025.
Credit – Lloyd McCully

There’s honestly not a lot to say here.

And look, this is no disrespect to American. They’re a fine wrestling program. However they are not whatever the heck Penn State Wrestling is.

The Eagles have put together a solid regular season in going an even 10-10 on the year. But the Nittany Lions scheduled this dual meet for the same reasons they scheduled Edinboro last year and Clarion the year before.

And that was to get their guys some live action against someone other than their teammate. It was also a good time to work out any kinks and to get additional reps in before the B1G’s. And more importantly, it was to send the guys who would be donning the blue and white singlet in Rec Hall for the last time, a hero’s farewell on Senior night.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

American 3 Penn State 50

125 –  No. 8 Luke Lilledahl (PSU) tech. fall over Coen Bailey (AM) 20-5, AM 0 PSU 5
133 – Raymond Lopez (AM) dec. over Kyison Garcia (PSU) 9-7, AM 3 PSU 5
141 – No. 1 Beau Bartlett (PSU) tech. fall over Elijah White (AM) 21-5, AM 3 PSU 10
149 – No. 2 Shayne Van Ness (PSU) tech. fall over Gage Owen (AM) 16-1, AM 3 PSU 15
157 – No. 1 Tyler Kasak (PSU) fall over Devon Capato (AM) 2:19, AM 3 PSU 21
165 – No. 1 Mitchell Mesenbrink (PSU) tech. fall over Kaden Millheim (AM) 19-2, AM 3 PSU 26
174 – No. 2 Levi Haines (PSU) fall over Breon Phifer (AM) 3:51, AM 3 PSU 32
184 – No. 1 Carter Starocci (PSU) fall over Lucas White (AM) 2:22, AM 3 PSU 38
197 – No. 3 Josh Barr (PSU) fall over Liam Volk-Klos (AM) 1:09, AM 3 PSU 44
285 – No. 2 Greg Kerkvliet (PSU) fall over Emmanuel Ulrich (AM) 2:47, AM 3 PSU 50

 

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Penn State Wrestling, Cael Sanderson,
Penn State head coach Cael Sanderson (Image via HawkCentral)

Penn State Wrestling finishes the regular season a perfect 15-0 and they extend their dual meet unbeaten streak to 71 straight.

Cael Sanderson picks up yet another win and his career Penn State record improves to 218-16-2.

Next up for Penn State Wrestling is the 2025 B1G Championships in Evanston, Illinois. Session I is set to start at 11:00am EST pm Saturday, March 8th. Session II begins the same day at 6:00pm EST and Sessions III and IV are slated for 1:00pm and 5:30pm EST respectively on March 9th.

 

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