How cool would it be a tournament @ BJC with all or most of the PA D1 schools. You would have PSU, Pitt, Bucknell, Lehigh all the PSAC schools.
You could host it over Christmas break
You could host it over Christmas break
PA collegiate open
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My memory isn’t so good anymore but several years ago I went to the Nittany Lion Open and I just love tournaments like these. Great wrestling, good seats, no lines and you don’t get interrupted by any ‘We Are’…. I know I know, grumpy old man syndrome. In any event I was watching two guys across the way and one man takes down position and the other guy assumes the top position. Before the ref has a chance to get them ‘set’, the top man takes a moment to reinsert the bottom man’s clothing tag back into his singlet. Top guy reassumes his position and ref blows the whistle to start.
Reminded me of a Jason Nolf type movement. It was a great day for wrestling!
I don't remember it either. Below is a listing of Opens/Tournaments that PSU wrestled in big numbers (i.e., they were on PSU's schedule, and not something that just some PSU wrestlers did):
| 2023-24 | Journeymen Collegiate Classis Army Black Knight Invite |
| 2019-20 | Army West Point Invite |
| 2018-19 | Keystone Classic Southern Scuffle |
| 2017-18 | Keystone Classic Southern Scuffle |
| 2016-17 | Keystone Classic |
| 2015-16 | Nittany Lion Open Southern Scuffle |
| 2014-15 | Nittany Lion Open Southern Scuffle |
| 2013-14 | Southern Scuffle |
| 2012-13 | Nittany Lion Open Southern Scuffle |
| 2010-11 | Nittany Lion Open Southern Scuffle |
| 2009-10 | Nittany Lion Open Reno Tournament of Champions |
| 2008-09 | MSU Open Nittany Lion Open |
| 2007-08 | Nittany Lion Open |
| 2006-07 | Nittany Lion Open |
Jeez, surely I can’t be the oldest one in the room! If my feeble memory is correct the Nittany Lion Open (hosted by the NLWC) was running when I first arrived on campus in 1990. It used to be the Sunday before Thanksgiving but then shifted to early December. Tickets were in the $5-10 range and most people seemed to treat it as the wrestling version of the Blue-White game. I went to a few of them and seem to remember teams such as Rutgers, VATech, Army, Harvard, F&M, etc. attending. It never seemed to be a big deal and petered out during Sanderson’s early years.
I remember that Hughes forfeiting to Hughes in the finals made some news when they were Frosh. Whichever one that attended PSUHazelton their first year was wrestling unattached. That was one of three or four that I attended. There seemed to be quite a few Penn State wrestlers that would meet up in the finals. Matt Brown beat Nickal in the finals during Bo’s RS year.
I remember that Hughes forfeiting to Hughes in the finals made some news when they were Frosh. Whichever one that attended PSUHazelton their first year was wrestling unattached. That was one of three or four that I attended. There seemed to be quite a few Penn State wrestlers that would meet up in the finals. Matt Brown beat Nickal in the finals during Bo’s RS year.
I think you're mixing and matching a bit here. I certainly remember the NLO, and suspect most PSU wrestling fans on this board do as well. My comment of "I don't remember it either" was in reference to @Roar More's post that Coach Casey indicated that "this had happened several years ago," in response to the OP's post about a Christmas break tournament at PSU. As my above table indicates, there hasn't been a Christmas break tournament at PSU in the years I checked, which is since 2006 -- basically, since before Coach Casey was at PSU.
I was not proposing a return to the NLO, but a dual tournament with PA colleges.
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