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Wrestling Postview: Penn State Reasserts Dominance Over Michigan, 29-6

College Wrestling is exceedingly dope.

Its structures and scoring layers allow for competitions to delicately and brutally showcase individual and team performances that can weave a variety of narrative tapestries. In one of its coolest structures, the Dual Meet, team wrestling is a backdrop to the ten individual mana a mano battles that take place separately, out on the mat. Dominance, a concept explicitly requested by the nature of the sport and richly rewarded in its scoring machinery, also takes on a variety of hues.

Its style—Folkstyle—provides a further cornucopia of beautiful brutality. Every wrestler gets a chance to display a diversity of skill sets, in any of its three key positions: on their feet; on the mat on top; and on the mat on bottom.