There’s been an interesting running conversation in the college wrestling community the past several years regarding whether and how different competitions matter. Like some other Olympic sports, wrestling is blessed with a few different competition structures it uses to ‘teamify’ an otherwise mano a mano individual sport.
Back in 2014, I tried to unpack them each with a deep dive and some amateur fanboy takery:
Perhaps here in the bleak-weather weeks of mid-February, it’s a good time to check in on that grind. And because the twitter debates of last week might still be somewhat fresh, let’s take a look at Penn State wrestling in the context of the sport’s three competitive structures.