Penn State’s search for its 12th head wrestling coach took 13 days, and when it ended Friday, the university made a move that stunned the entire wrestling community.

On the day college wrestling changed, Penn State made one of the boldest moves in its athletic history.

Penn State shows a penchant for hiring its own for prominent head coaching positions.

This year's NCAA championships will be remembered for three things — North Carolina State's Darrion Caldwell's upset win over Iowa's Brent Metcalf at 149 pounds, Metcalf's unsportsmanlike push of Caldwell after losing and the courage and skill of Arizona State's Anthony Robles, a fourth-place finisher. Let's look at each.

ST. LOUIS — Despite false claims by fans in Iowa or Oklahoma, Pennsylvania has always truly ruled supreme in producing wrestling talent. The numbers back it up.

Michigan's Kellen Russell has gotten one "two-fer." He registered that when he won a second Big Ten title March 8 with an overtime victory over No. 1-ranked Frank Tanelli of Wisconsin at 141 pounds.

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When Indiana's Angel Escobedo won the NCAA crown at 125 pounds in March 2008, he did so with a bandage on his shoulder. It was obvious that Escobedo wasn't operating at 100 percent but he still had enough to defeat Minnesota's Jason Ness.

A retired wrestling writer who can't stay away from this addictive sport made the same comment during the District 6 and Northwest Regional Championships.

Basketball calls it "Selection Sunday."

Wrestling now has 'Wait and See" Wednesday.

UNIVERSITY PARK — They don’t like discussing the dual meet season in these parts. They also don’t like forgetting it, either.

HERSHEY — The youth displayed by Bellefonte’s Tom

HERSHEY — Sudden victory.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The new system the NCAA implemented to allocate qualifiers for the 2009 NCAA Wrestling Championships, the one which shrunk the Big Ten’s total from 72 to 61, was spurred by the coaches of the teams who expect to duke it out for this year’s Big Ten tournament team championship.

Once every 11 years the Big Ten’s best finally make their way East.