Pittsburgh
The favorite time of the year for Penn State’s wrestlers is here: The first day of the NCAA Championships got underway Thursday inside PPG Paints Arena.
The good news for PSU fans: No Nittany Lions wrestlers were eliminated during the first day. Even better news: Penn State leads the team race with 32.5 points. But the bad? Three Nittany Lions, including No. 2-seed Shakur Rasheed, fell into the consolation bracket.
“We wrestled OK. We got to pick it up and wrestle a bit better (Friday),” coach Cael Sanderson said. “There is not much we can do about the past right now.