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Penn State won its first-ever Big Ten Wrestling Championships aggroup title by meet digit saucer over continual word champ University of Chiwere at Welsh-Ryan Arena at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Sunday afternoon.

When the terminal match was wrestled, the Nittany Lions had place 139 points on the board over the two-day event... while the Hawkeyes had 138. According to Andy Hamilton of the Iowa City Press Citizen, that's the closest edge since the 1957 Big Tens, when Minnesota ended digit saucer ahead of Michigan.

Penn State had dispatched fivesome of its wrestlers into the finals... and all fivesome came discover winners: Andrew Long at 133 pounds, Frank Molinaro at 149, 157-pounder David Taylor, Ed Ruth at 174, and Quentin Wright at 184.

If all that weren't sufficiency for Cael Sanderson's crew... Quaker State also made a clean sweep of the field awards. designer was named the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler. President designated as Big Ten Freshman of the Year, and Sanderson Big Ten Coach of the Year.

Results -- Finals Matches

125: No. 1 Matt McDonough (Iowa) dec. No. 2 Brandon Precin (Northwestern), 3-1 133: No. 1 saint Long (Penn State) dec. No. 2 Tyler Graff (Wisconsin), 7-3 141: No. 1 Kellen Russell (Michigan) dec. No. 3 Mike Thorn (Minnesota), 8-4 149: No. 1 Frank Molinaro (Penn State) dec. No. 6 Eric Grajales (Michigan), 3-0 157: No. 1 king President (Penn State) dec. No. 2 Derek St. John (Iowa), 8-3 165: No. 1 saint Howe (Wisconsin) dec. No. 2 Colt Sponseller (Ohio State), 3-1 174: No. 1 Ed ballplayer (Penn State) dec. No. 2 Nick Heflin (Ohio State), 8-5 184: No. 8 Quentin designer (Penn State) dec. No. 2 Kevin Steinhaus (Minnesota), 4-3 197: No. 1 Trevor Brandvold (Wisconsin) dec. No. 2 Luke Lofthouse (Iowa), 5-2 285: No. 3 painter Rasing (Iowa) dec. No. 4 Tony Nelson (Minnesota), 5-2

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