Penn State Wrestling: 5 burning questions for 2021-2022 season
By Chris Snyder
Important Question No. 5
Will Penn State be the recipient of an elite transfer?
Transfers in the world of collegiate wrestling happen at the same frequency as other major sports. Which means they happen a lot.
Former No. 1 seed Jaydin Eierman transferred from Missouri to Iowa a couple of seasons back. Sebastian Rivera also transferred just last year from Northwestern to Rutgers.
I also seem to vaguely remember a highly talented Penn State grappler who recently transferred to Rutgers, but his name seems to escape me. Maybe I’ll think of it later.
I realize transfers haven’t been a big part of Cael Sanderson’s vision at Penn State. But with so many freshman in the starting lineup and so much uncertainty at various weight classes, it wouldn’t be out of the question for someone to look to make the move to Happy Valley.
I mean what elite wrestler wouldn’t want to train with the very best in the Penn State wrestling room and the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club.
A major storyline to keep an eye on is whether or not Stanford will throw away the $12+ million dollars raised to try and keep their wrestling program going. The latest word out of the athletic department is that they don’t care about the $12 million and they are going to go forward with discontinuing wrestling.
If this is the case, do you think Penn State would want a newly crowned NCAA champ at 157? Shane Griffith, I’m talking about you!
Or what about the rumors that have swirled nowhere on the internet or in no one else’ brain except for mine regarding Ryan Deakin transferring?
The more times I think it and the more times I write it make it more true every day. Hey, this is just the world we live in today.
Either way, Penn State still has a lot of important questions to answer for next season.