Andy Elder
BlueWhiteIllustrated.com Assistant Editor
The matches didn’t count for anything but experience and there was no team score, but that didn’t prevent 2,400 fans from streaming into Rec Hall on Thursday evening for the unofficial start to the Cael Sanderson Era.
In a departure from years past, when varsity wrestle-offs served to help set the lineup and whet the appetites of Penn State wrestling fans, Sanderson introduced the intrasquad dual meet, where the top two healthy wrestlers at each weight, plus one exhibition bout, squared off in blue and white singlets.
Each wrestler had to get down to scratch weight. One team wore the traditional blue singlets. The other team wore the recently introduced white singlets.
While a majority of the matchups were clearly mismatches between established starters and young backups, there were four matches that piqued the interest of fans and one that produced the biggest surprise of the night.
What follows is a weight-by-weight analysis of the night’s 11 bouts:
via BlueWhiteIllustrated.com – Fans get their first look at Lion grapplers.
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