Penn State Big Ten wrestling schedule: Which in-conference foes will the Lions face at home, on the road?
Penn State wrestling now knows who it will face during the Big Ten portion of its dual meet schedule in 2025-2026. The conference announced home and away opponents without scheduled dates and times on Monday morning. The Nittany Lions will host Ohio State, Nebraska, Indiana, and Rutgers in State College. They will travel to Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, and Northwestern.
Start times, in addition to the remainder of the program’s 2025-2026 schedule, will be announced at a later date. It’s likely that Penn State will pick either the Buckeyes or Cornhuskers to be their annual Bryce Jordan Center opponent. Or, they may just decide to have both matches there, as the team did do two matches there a year ago. Everything else will take place at Rec Hall.
Head coach Cael Sanderson’s team returns seven of 10 All-Americans and starters from 2024-2025. The team needs new starters at 141 pounds, 184, and 285. It will again be favored to win the team title in 2025-2026. And, it will try to be the first program to ever have 10 All-Americans, which means every starter finished in eighth place or better at nationals, in back-to-back seasons.
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Penn State has hardly had any time off this “offseason.” Many of the program’s wrestlers quickly moved from folkstyle competition to freestyle. Two of them, incoming freshman PJ Duke and senior Levi Haines, are on the senior U.S. team that will compete at the World Championships this September in Croatia. Others are on the U23 team. And, Penn State also has connections on the U20 and U17 teams. It’s all part of the program’s continued success under Sanderson, even if it’s something he does not talk about very often.
“My job’s to put together the best staff we can at Penn State and recruit the student-athletes that fit the character and the focus and the mold that we’re looking for, and just be the absolute best we can be,” Sanderson said after NCAAs back in March. “If we do that, we’re going to continue to be successful. But that’s what I’m focused on. Anything else, it’s just not something we think about.”
