It was only a matter of time before Penn State wrestling broke the national dual meet wins record, and that time ended up being Saturday night in Nashville.
Competing in the Journeymen Collegiate Duals, Penn State tied the record—which had been held by Oklahoma State for almost 75 years— with a win over North Dakota State, and followed that up with a win over Stanford to break it.
Cael Sanderson’s wrestling empire has won 77 consecutive dual meets, the train doesn’t appear to be slowing down, much less stopping, anytime soon.
This is why Penn State should have no problem breaking the overall NCAA record, which had been held by Division II St. Cloud State. Penn State has tied St. Cloud State at 77, so that record should be going down Jan. 10 against Rutgers at Rec Hall.
As usual, Sanderson downplayed the milestone when talking about it earlier this week.
“I don’t know. I can’t really speak for anybody else,” Sanderson told reporters Monday. “We’re just trying to get better, just trying to make progress as the year goes on, as a team, obviously. But we compete as individuals, so that’s kind of what we’re looking it. Just looking forward to a couple more fun matches.”
Penn State will have many more fun matches down the road. PSU is done competing in 2025, with its next bout not scheduled for three more weeks. Penn State will be tested in the Big Ten season, but overall is expected to run away with its 13th national title in the past 15 seasons under Sanderson.
Here are the full match results.
Penn State 46 – North Dakota State 0 (76th consecutive dual meet victory)
125 – No. 2 Luke Lilledahl (Penn State) def. by decision No. 31 Ezekiel Witt (NDST) 6-5, PSU 3 – NDST 0
133 – No. 10 Marcus Blaze (Penn State) def. by major decision No. 29 Tristan Daugherty (NDST) 11-3, PSU 7 – NDST 0
141 – Nate Desmond (Penn State) def. by decision over Michael Olson (NDST) 4-1, PSU 10 – NDST 0
149 – No. 1 Shayne Van Ness (Penn State) def. by technical fall No. 24 Maxwell Petersen (NDST) 19-2, PSU 15 – NDST 0
157 – No. 8 PJ Duke (Penn State) def. by major decision over No. 21 Gavin Drexler (NDST) 16-5, PSU 19 – NDST 0
165 – No. 1 Mitchell Mesenbrink (Penn State) def. by technical fall over Boeden Greenley (NDST) 18-1, PSU 24 – NDST 0
174 – No. 1 Levi Haines (Penn State) def. by fall Tyler Secoy (NDST) 1:38, PSU 30 – NDST 0
184 – No. 4 Rocco Welsh (Penn State) def. by technical fall Andrew McMonagle (NDST) 19-4, PSU 35 – NDST 0
197 – Josh Barr (Penn State) def. by technical fall over Devin Wasley (NDST) 19-3, PSU 40 – NDST 0
285 – No. 13 Cole Mirasola (Penn State) def. by fall over Andrew Blackburn-Forst (NDST) 0:33, PSU 46 – NDST 0
Penn State 42 – Stanford 0 (77th consecutive dual meet victory – record)
125: – #2 Luke Lilledahl (Penn State) def. #11 Nico Provo, Stanford 4-2, PSU 3 – Stanford 0
Add Nittany Sports Now as a preferred source in Google! Click here to add us.133 – #10 Marcus Blaze (Penn State) def. by fall #6 Tyler Knox, Stanford, PSU 9 – Stanford 0
141 – Nate Desmond (Penn State) def. by major decision #20 Jack Consiglio, Stanford 9-0, PSU 13- Stanford 0
149 – #1 Shayne Van Ness (Penn State) def. #12 Aden Valencia, Stanford 10-4, PSU 16 – Stanford 0
157: – #8 PJ Duke (Penn State) def. by decision #4 Daniel Cardenas, Stanford 5-2, PSU 19 – Stanford 0
165 – #1 Mitchell Mesenbrink (Penn State) def. by fall EJ Parco, PSU 25 – Stanford 0
174 – #1 Levi Haines (Penn State) def. by major decision Lorenzo Norman, Stanford 14-4, PSU 29 – Stanford 0
184 – #4 Rocco Welsh (Penn State) def. Abraham Wojcikiewicz, Stanford 5-1, PSU 32 – Stanford 0
197: Josh Barr (Penn State) def. by technical fall #20 Angelo Posada, Stanford 19-3, PSU 37 – Stanford 0
285: #13 Cole Mirasola (Penn State) def. by technical fall Luke Duthie, Stanford 21-6, PSU 42 – Stanford 0
