Penn State Wrestling won the 2023 NCAA National Championship, the 2023 Big Ten Championship and the 2023 Big Ten Regular Season title. Head coach Cael Sanderson's squad crowned two more NCAA individual champions and added eight more All-Americans. Check out the pdf (linked to the right) for a full recap of the season, important notes, updated stats, records, qualifier bios and full event recaps!
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From Dec. 18, 2023 -- Final recap at the NCAA Championships in Tulsa, Okla.:
The Penn State Nittany wrestling team, under the direction of veteran head coach Cael Sanderson added two more individual national champions to its 2023 NCAA Wrestling Championship team title, clinched early in this morning's first session. Carter Starocci and Aaron Brooks both brought home individual gold to cap off the three-day event in Tulsa's BOK Center. Starocci won the 174-pound title, followed immediately by Brooks claiming the 184-pound crown. Nittany Lion true freshman Levi Haines dropped the title bout at 157, Greg Kerkvliet lost in the finals at 285 and Roman Bravo-Young dropped his finals match at 133. All three leave Tulsa as 2023 National Runners-Up. Penn State clinched yet another team title early in the medal rounds, with nearly two full sessions remaining at the three-day event. Penn State won the team title with 137.5 points, fully 55.0 ahead of second-place Iowa's 82.5. That margin of victory between first and second is the largest in Penn State history (breaking the old record of 41.0 set in 2019) and the fifth-largest in NCAA history for any title winner. The title is Penn State's 11th overall and the tenth since Sanderson's arrival in Happy Valley prior to the 2009-10 season. The Nittany Lions have won ten of the last 12 contested NCAA Championship tournaments (2020 was canceled by the NCAA). Since 2011, Penn State has 34-16 record in the national finals (a .680-win percentage). (full story in notes pdf)
