One of the top recruiting prospects in the Class of 2027 got a visit from Penn State wrestling.
Landon Sidun, the No. 2 recruit in the country and an in-state star from Norwin High School in the Pittsburgh Area, received a visit from head coach Cael Sanderson and associate head coach Cody Sanderson.
Sidun is a stud.
With half of his high school career still to go, Sidun has already made a name for himself. He’s 72-2 through two seasons and won the state title at 114 pounds his freshman year. He may well have won another state title this season, but was unable to compete due to an injury suffered late in the year.
So what does Sidun want in a school?
“I look for a program to help me reach where I could be,” he said on the Locked On Nittany Lions prospect with Zach Seyko last month. I want to win NCAA titles, I want to go on after that and do the freestyle stuff like Worlds and Olympics. So I’m just looking for a program to help push me to be the best I can be so I can go on and do my goals.”
Sidun’s opinion on Penn State is, well, the same as everybody else’s.
Add Nittany Sports Now as a preferred source in Google! Click here to add us.“Top program in the country year in and year out,” he said. “Always have guys wrestling in the NCAAs, they’rewinning it. Then they also have a lot of success on the world stage.”
Sidun was impressed at Nittany Lion Wrestling Club’s Final X showing, in which it had seven competitors in final matches.
“They have so many people in Final X this year competing for a (world team spot),” he said. “So it was awesome.”
Granted, several of those NLWC members who competed, such as Mitchell Mesenbrink and Levi Haines, will be out of eligibility by the time Sidun gets to college.
But the nation’s top two recruits from the 2025 Class– Marcus Blaze and PJ Duke— will be in the fold, and Sidun knows the dynasty isn’t slowing down.
Penn State wrestling is also one of the many schools recruiting the top-ranked ‘27 prospect, Melvin Miller of Bishop McCort High School.
