BY JOAN NIESEN

Sunday is bound to be a long day for many of the wrestlers on the Missouri wrestling team.

In fact, it may be one of the most grueling days of competition that they face this season; the team will travel to Penn State University in State College, Pa., to compete in the Nittany Lion Open. This tournament kicks off a two-month stretch in which the Tigers will not compete at home, and it will also provide the wrestlers with an opportunity to face a variety of opponents and track their development thus far.

“There’s going to be some good matches,” Mark Ellis, a senior heavyweight, said. “It’s a good chance to show what we’re capable of.”

The competition features 41 teams and 594 wrestlers. It will give the wrestlers a chance to face opponents from a wide variety of schools. Brackets for each weight class have between 84 and 128 participants. Comparatively, the recent Missouri Open’s brackets were composed of between 16 and 32 men

via Missouri wrestlers travel to Penn State’s Nittany Lion Open – Columbia Missourian.

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