By Rob Sherrill One of the more exciting NCAA Championships in recent memory did more than conclude a special collegiate season. It also supplied a fitting follow-up to a six-week odyssey of high school state tournaments that supplied plenty of thrills, especially from a team standpoint. A look at our final Top 25 Teams list [...]

By Leo Kocher, College Sports Council Spring is here. For college sports teams it is an uneasy time when schools announce the termination of programs. Unfortunately for wrestling fans, the spring slaughter has begun. On March 12, the word came down a few hours after the University of Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks took their third straight NCAA [...]

All-Class Individual Rankings (Editor’s Note: WIN is compiling recruiting status information from seniors and juniors in our rankings who have not yet committed to a college. Coaches, parents and wrestlers, please e-mail the wrestler’s name and the top 2-4 schools they’re looking at to Info@WIN-magazine.com. It will be listed under recruiting status and on-line.) WIN’s [...]

By Mike Chapman If you like and respect history, you can mark down April 17, 2009, as one of the biggest moments in the past century of college wrestling. That’s the day Penn State officially announced the hiring of Cael Sanderson as its new head coach. What a payoff that date has been for Penn [...]

Editor’s Note: Dan Gable, who helped lead Iowa to 15 national championships during his 20 years at the helm, was in Philadelphia for the NCAA Championships. He shared with WIN editor Mike Finn about why some individuals and teams won and what the others were missing?   WIN: By winning the team championship, has Penn State [...]

By Kyle Klingman Something was not right. Darrion Caldwell wasn’t taking any shots in his second-round match against Michigan’s Eric Grajales. Caldwell, a 2009 NCAA champion and the top-seeded 149 pounder at this year’s NCAA tournament, looked tentative and cautious. This was not our Darrion Caldwell. This was not the Darrion Caldwell who received a [...]

By Jason Bryant Wrestling is blessed in a way. We see great performances and once-in-a-lifetime moments. Or at least, they seem to be once in a lifetime. So many times in sports, we hear of “once-in-a-lifetime” feats and accomplishments. Nine years ago, current Penn State head wrestling coach Cael Sanderson provided a true “once-in-a-lifetime” moment, [...]

By Mike Finn NCAA record books will indicate that Penn State won the 2011 team championship on March 19 in Philadelphia. Nittany Lion fans may disagree. For some, the turning point for the Blue and White came on Jan. 30, in State College, Pa. That was the day that Penn State was supposed to have [...]

Check out the story in the Omaha World Herald about the Nebraska Board of Regents’ decision to support UNO’s move to Division I, which will turn drop its Division II national championship wrestling team.