Blue White Illustrated

June 2016

Penn State Sports Magazine

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threads and Twitter-sphere commentary until the season begins next November. Even with its graduation losses, Penn State has a surplus of stars. There are more stud wrestlers than there are weight classes, and while Sanderson is more than earning his paycheck with the results he's achieved since arriving in University Park seven years ago, the job only grows more complicated this year, as he and his sta= er claiming them the year before and is a candidate to move back to 133. He wrestled there as a soph- omore even though he struggled to make weight early in his career. As with most of Penn State's weight classes, the er the o=-season transfer of Garett Ham- mond to Drexel, one potential candidate is out of the mix. Two others, however, will join the competition this summer. Mark Hall, the nation's top recruit in the Class of 2016, just accomplished a feat no Minnesota wrestler had ever done, winning six state championships in his career. His latest came at 170, but while 165 appears to be an option at Penn State, Hall has expressed interest in redshirting, or even grayshirting, during his er starting the past two sea- sons but will have to fend o= a surge of competition in order to retain his spot. Kellan Stout, a 2014 state champion from Mt. Lebanon, Pa., could be a factor, while Shakur Rasheed, who appeared at 165 this season along with Morelli, is expected to bulk up this coming season and could be part of the mix at anywhere from 174 to 197. The latter is the weight class of which one of the biggest question marks surround – and there are a lot of them, as Penn State's lineup is as undecided as it has been since Sanderson's arrival. But it's not because there aren't enough options; rather, too many. While Stout or Rasheed both could even- tually

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