Ohio State's senior captains got the job done at the Big Ten Wrestling Championships. Luke Pletcher avenged his only loss this season and Kollin Moore is a 3X B1G Champion.
Gas Tank Gary picked up his biggest win of the season – literally and figuratively — but Luke Pletcher dropped his first loss of the season at Penn State on Saturday night.
This isn't the same Penn State team that won four of the last five NCAA titles, but everything will have to go right for the Buckeyes to bring home a win.
Ohio State's newest competition venue was designed with "home field advantage" in mind. Sunday's capacity crowd for a dual versus Northwestern is the perfect example.
The Buckeyes finished their first season in the Covelli Center with a 28-10 drubbing of the Northwestern Wildcats, winning seven of 10 matches on Senior Day.
Ohio State lost three matches that came down to the waning seconds. Isaiah White's last-second pin of Ethan Smith sealed the Cornhusker's victory in a hard-fought dual.
Ohio State's Sammy Sasso was named Wrestler of the Week by both the Big Ten Conference and USA Wrestling after upending wrestlers ranked No. 1 and No. 4 in the country.
Sammy Sasso caught fire this weekend, upending No. 1 and No. 4 in successive duals, and Kollin Moore and Luke Pletcher each picked up win No. 20 in Minneapolis.
The Buckeyes look to bounce back from a loss at Iowa with a big win at Minnesota. Luke Pletcher and Sammy Sasso have a shot to beat their second top-five opponents of the weekend.
Iowa wrestling beat writer RossWB from Go Iowa Awesome previews Ohio State's daunting task in facing the No. 1 team in the country in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
