What time, channel is Penn State-Maryland wrestling on? Projected lineups, time, and more

No. 1 Penn State wrestling returns to the mat today in College Park. The Nittany Lions continue their Big Ten schedule on Sunday when they meet Maryland. It will mark the team’s first time in action since securing a pair of road victories last weekend at Michigan and Michigan State. The match is sold out. And, many of the fans in attendance will be clad in blue and white.

“I think it’s fun to wrestle in front of your home crowd and it’s fun to wrestle in somebody else’s home arena,” Lions coach Cael Sanderson said this week. “You just enjoy wherever you’re at and just make the most of it. And I think that you know, a big thing is not making a big deal out of either opportunitity. We just want to be ourselves regardless of where we’re at.”

Get ready for the match below.

Penn State at Maryland wrestling: Time and TV details

Venue: Xfinity Center Pavillion in College Park, Md.

Start time: Noon ET

TV: Big Ten Network

Streaming: Big Ten Plus (BTN+) is streaming the match for subscribers. Fans can visit bigtenplus.com to learn more about how to watch the match and other Nittany Lion events on the streaming service by signing up for one of the offered plans. Besides web browsers, B1G+ is also available on the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku, and XBOX.

Radio: Longtime Lions play-by-play voice Jeff Byers will be on the call starting with the pre-match show at 11:45 a.m. ET. You can listen on Lionvision by clicking here.

What are the top bouts to watch?

Maryland is not ranked. But, the match itself will not be void of ranked matchups. The top bout on paper, assuming it starts at the traditional 125 pounds, will come toward the end of the meet. At 197 pounds, No. 1 Aaron Brooks (8-0) is set to meet No. 5 Jaxon Smith (12-2). The senior and sophomore have not met in college after the multi-time national champ bumped up a weight class this year. But, Smith is sure to give him everything he has.

Another entertaining bout should be on the docket at 149 pounds. Penn State is expected to wrestle freshman Tyler Kasak there after he missed last week’s matches due to illness. If so, it will pit InterMat’s No. 12 wrestler at that weight class opposite No. 14 Ethen Miller. And, it would put Kasak one step closer to burning his redshirt.

Last but certainly not least, former Nittany Lion Seth Nevills, who is No. 25 at heavyweight, will meet No. 1 Greg Kerkvliet. Nevills left the Lions to join the Terrapins as a grad transfer this offseason.

Projected Penn State-Maryland lineups

Projected Penn State-Michigan lineups

All of the matchups listed below are subject to change both after weigh-ins and when the time comes for each individual bout. The projections are courtesy of Penn State athletics. All rankings are courtesy of InterMat.

125 pounds: No. 4 Braeden Davis, Penn State vs. Tommy Capul, Maryland

133 pounds: No. 5 Aaron Nagao, Penn State vs. No. 21 Braxton Brown, UMD

141 pounds: No. 2 Beau Bartlett, PSU vs. No. 17 Kal Miller, Maryland

149 pounds: No. 12 Tyler Kasak OR David Evans, PSU vs. No. 14 Ethen Miller, UMD

157 pounds: No. 1 Levi Haines, PSU vs. No. 33 Michael North, Maryland

165 pounds: No. 7 Mitchell Mesenbrink, Penn State vs. AJ Rodrigues, Maryland

174 pounds: No. 1 Carter Starocci, Penn State vs. Dominic Solis, UMD

184 pounds: No. 5 Bernie Truax, PSU vs. Chase Mielnik, Maryland

197 pounds: No. 1 Aaron Brooks, Penn State vs. No. 5 Jaxon Smith, UMD

285 pounds: No. 1 Greg Kerkvliet, PSU vs. No. 25 Seth Nevills, Maryland