In reality Penn State got some bad draws in hitting the eventual champ in 60% of their weights.
Davis lost to Byrd
Barlett lost to Mendez
SVN lost to Lovett
Haines lost to Hamiti
Barr lost to Buchanan
Kerk lost to Hendrickson
Buchanan is great but he wrestled at Wyoming and Oklahoma before coming to Iowa as an 8th year senior. He was already very polished before coming to Iowa City. Same with Caliendo.
Will Angelo be their first homegrown champ since Spencer?
Iowa fans are feeling major cognitive dissonance right now...
Decades of incessant whining for stalling calls, now suddenly challenging to argue their guy WASN'T stalling....LOL!