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CDT: Reality pins PSU in semis
Sanderson lone wrestler to reach today’s finals, Lions fall to fifth in race
Penn State went 1-6 in the semifinals to drop to fifth place in the team standings Saturday at Crisler Arena.
Senior 157-pounder Cyler Sanderson is the Nittany Lions’ lone finalist. Sanderson defeated Michigan State’s Anthony Jones 6-0 in the semifinals to qualify for the NCAA Championships. Sanderson meets Minnesota’s Dustin Schlatter in today’s finals. Schlatter defeated Sanderson 4-0 in the regular-season finale. The 157-pound weight class receives four NCAA qualifiers.
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SID: Cyler Sanderson Advances to Big Ten Finals with Semifinal Win at 2010 Big Ten Wrestling Championships
Three Lions on to Omaha, four more needing wins to earn their spots.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Penn State Nittany Lion wrestlers are sitting in fifth place after one day of wrestling at the 2010 Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Nittany Lions will have one wrestler competing in tomorrow’s Big Ten finals, have three NCAA qualifiers so far and four others still needing wins in tomorrow's consolation action to advance to nationals.
Penn State senior Cyler Sanderson (Heber City, Utah) advanced to the finals at 157 with a strong 6-0 win over Michigan State’s Anthony Jones in the semifinals. Sanderson clinched an automatic bid to NCAAs and will meet top-seeded Colton Salazar in the finals tomorrow.
SID: Nittany Lions in Second Place after Session I at Big Ten Championships
Sanderson’s squad has seven wrestlers through into semifinals.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.; March 6, 2010 – The Penn State Nittany Lion wrestling team finds itself in second place after the first session of the 2010 Big Ten Wrestling Championships. Penn State will have seven wrestlers in tonight’s semifinals with the other three continuing wrestling in consolation action.
Iowa leads the team race with 93.0 points while Penn State is in second with 59.0. Minnesota sits in third with 56.5 while Wisconsin is in fourth with 47.5. Ohio State is also close by with 46.0. Michigan State (28.0), Illinois (22.0), Indiana (20.0), Purdue (18.0), Michigan (16.0) and Northwestern (4.0) round out the field.
CDT: Nittany Lion freshmen giving it their best in starting lineup
Guy Cipriano
UNIVERSITY PARK — The freshman walk-ons who never medaled at the PIAA Class AAA Championships sat in their dorm room last year and visualized what others deemed unlikely.
Together, Bryan Pearsall and Justin Ortega glimpsed into the future. Their imaginations helped them endure a crowded practice room, where they toiled in anonymity, far away from Rec Hall’s signature evenings.
“We were thinking, ‘Man, it would be really cool wrestling out there in front of thousands of people,’” Ortega said.
The friends visualized many outcomes. Neither envisioned what has transpired this season.
Collegian: Gophers snap Penn State’s four-meet win streak
By Brendan Monahan
Collegian Staff Writer
Penn State 125-pounder Brad Pataky ran to the mat’s center to the awaiting referee, who grabbed the redshirt junior’s hand and raised it in the air.
Pataky simply had to make an appearance on the mat to solidify his win Friday. No. 6 Zach Sanders of No. 5 Minnesota sat out because of an ankle injury, and the Penn State wrestling team found itself leading at the get-go.
CDT: Gophers pin loss on Lions
Gophers pin loss on Lions
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota handed Penn State six points to begin Friday’s regular-season finale. The Nittany Lions failed to parlay the gift into their first victory over a top-10 team.
The fifth-ranked Golden Gophers won six of nine bouts contested as they dropped the 10th-ranked Nittany Lions 26-16 on Friday at the Sports Pavilion.
Penn State ends its first dual meet season under coach Cael Sanderson 13-6-1 overall and 5-3 in the Big Ten. The Nittany Lions went 0-6 against teams in the top 10 of the NWCA/USA Today rankings.
