Wrestling’s 2018 team race stage was set last summer, when Ohio State coach Tom Ryan pounced on Nick Suriano’s Penn State defection and stacked his lineup in an attempt to mitigate Cael Sanderson’s five returning National Champions. He brought in a former All-American transfer from Stanford and and an ACC Champion from Pitt, and dropped two of his lower weights a weight class lower to bolster a lineup that already had one 2x National Champion, two one-time Champs along with three other former AA’s with multiple 3rd-place finishes among them. Brutus looked on paper to be extremely capable of placing 10 All-Americans.
Phat Mat Stats Is Finally Ready to Analyze the Team Race for Wrestling Nationals
