"Victory has 100 fathers, but failure is an orphan," is a notion that has been rehashed since Tacitus first observed that people have a tendency to cast blame, rather than accept it, when things go off the rails.
And Saturday night in the Rec Hall at Penn State, things went off the rails for a Buckeye wrestling team that seemed this close to snapping the Nittany Lions' incredible 42-dual win streak.
After opening with victories in four of the first five matches, and managing to avoid giving up a pin to 149-pound phenom Zain Retherford, the Buckeyes fell apart after intermission, dropping four of the final five matches, and not only losing them, but giving up bonus points the team could ill afford on the way to an 18-19 loss.