UNIVERSITY PARK
Two-time national champ Bo Nickal — who recently traded his blond locks for dyed blue hair — doesn’t mind trying something new. He embraces it.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s on the mat or off. In high school, he dyed his hair red, changed it back to blond in college and then dyed it blue this year. (“I just came up with the idea randomly and went for it,” he said.) In wrestling, he twice moved up weight classes, including his switch to 197 pounds this summer. In the offseason, he even traded his Happy Valley apartment for a chance to train overseas with 86-kg world champ David Taylor.