Everyone using this to justify Penn State's absence is just backfilling reasoning to make it seem better that Cael is skipping out.
Cael flatly dismissed the national duals idea when it was first being discussed. It had nothing to do with the timing of it.
If you do, you can skip this first period. Only a penalty point and not much action.
Spoiler of what happened:
RBY got a late takedown to go ahead by criteria with 20 seconds left, tried for a gut to add to his lead and got reversed
Another match 3, another guy that gets teched who had to wrestle all day. Villasenor's 8th match of the day, Bassett's 6th. I don't think it's a coincidence