Which Penn State wrestlers have entered the NCAA transfer portal?
Penn State wrestling completed the 2024-2025 season back on Saturday when it won two individual championships and its fourth straight team title. Now that the latest college wrestling season is over, the news cycle is moving on to the transfer portal. The mechanism college athletes can use to change schools actually opened before last weekend’s three-day tournament. A source told Blue-White Illustrated that Nittany Lions Alex Facundo and Gary Steen are now officially entered into the portal along with fellow backup Marco Vespa. All three are looking for a new school to compete at during the 2025-2026 season.
Facundo moved down from 165 pounds to 157 this season following an Olympic redshirt season. He lost the competition for the starting job to Tyler Kasak after winning in the Lions’ first dual meet of the year. Kasak, of course, just finished third at NCAAs. And, he plans to stay at 157 moving forward.
“I like ’57,” Kasak said in Philadelphia. “This is a weight that I think I can be a national champ for the next couple years. The weight cut’s not really that hard. And I feel like I got a good handle on these guys. I mean, there’s really not much that I feel like these guys can really do to me outside of what I kind of let them do. I feel like, if I take control of situations, they work out really well.”
Facundo finishes his Penn State career with a record of 34-10. In his lone year as the team’s 165-pound starter, he was 19-6 but went 0-2 at the national tournament.
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As for Steen, he moved up from 125 to 133 pounds this season but served as a backup. He is 19-25 at the college level.
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A new episode of the Penn State wrestling show is live
Blue-White Illustrated had complete coverage of the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships. Now, it’s time to recap the tournament. Host Thomas Frank Carr and reporter Greg Pickel spent 20 minutes Monday looking back at the Lions’ historic national tournament. The conversation also includes the impact of landing Japanese superstar Ono in addition to covering the portal news you read above.
Watch and listen to this week’s show below:
