The top-ranked Penn State wrestling team shut out Big Ten rival Michigan, 39-0 at the Bryce Jordan Center Friday night.

Though NIL has rewritten the recruiting rules across college sports, Penn State wrestling coach Cael Sanderson hasn't allowed it to take over his top-ranked program. Sanderson said that his recruiting pitch will continue to focus on what the Penn State program can do for wrestlers and not how much it can pay them.

Those were the words Penn State’s Josh Barr used when asked about trailing in his bout against Jacob Cardenas. The 197-pound bout was the one that everyone wanted to see. Not only was it to see how Barr would respond from last week’s loss — his first — but because of the matchup with the No.