The Weekend in the Top Ten (2/19/2024)

The penultimate weekend of the 2023-24 regular season is officially in the books. We only have a week left of duals before moving on to conference tournaments and the NCAA’s in Kansas City. So we’ll this will be the second to last recap on the top ten dual teams. 

The past week featured two matchups between top-ten teams, #1 Penn State and #4 Nebraska, along with #7 NC State and #8 Cornell. In both instances, the higher-ranked team prevailed; however, there’s still plenty to be learned about all four squads. 

Here’s the look back at the last week in the top-ten and what’s coming up next on the dual front…if anything. 

1. Penn State

On Sunday afternoon, Penn State held off #4 Nebraska to finish the 2023-24 campaign a perfect 8-0 in Big Ten competition. Two noteworthy performances came from Nittany Lion wrestlers who were facing familiar opponents. At 141 lbs, with his team in a 7-0 hole, #1 Beau Bartlett dispatched #7 Brock Hardy 9-6 after notching takedowns in each of the first two periods. Hardy defeated Bartlett in the 2023 Big Ten semifinals, one of Bartlett’s three losses during that season.

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