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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The top-ranked Penn State wrestling team posted a convincing 28-9 win at Michigan State on Sunday.
Penn State (13-0, 5-0 Big Ten) closed out a two-dual swing through Michigan with seven more wins to go 15-5 in picking up two Big Ten road victories.
Greg Kerkvliet had a fall for the Lions, Carter Starocci had a technical fall, Drew Hildebrant and Nick Lee won by major decision, and Beau Bartlett, Brady Berge and Aaron Brooks won by decision.
Penn State will travel to No. 2 Iowa on Friday night.
125: No. 7 Drew Hildebrandt PSU maj. dec. Tristan Lujan MSU, 8-0. 133: No. 12 Rayvon Foley MSU dec. Baylor Shunk PSU, 8-2. 141: No. 1 Nick Lee PSU maj. dec. Matt Santos MSU, 13-1. 149: No. 19 Beau Bartlett PSU dec. Peyton Omania MSU, 5-2. 157: No. 19 Chase Saldate MSU dec. Terrell Barraclough PSU, 4-2 (sv).
165: No. 16 Brady Berge PSU dec. Caleb Fish MSU, 7-4. 174: No. 1 Carter Starocci PSU tech fall Marty Larkin MSU, 19-3 (TF; 3:32). 184: No. 1 Aaron Brooks PSU dec. No. 27 Layne Malczewski MSU, 4-0. 197: No. 15 Cameron Caffey MSU dec. No. 2 Max Dean PSU, 3-2. 285: No. 4 Greg Kerkvliet PSU pinned Brad Wilton MSU, WBF (1:58).
Records: Penn State (13-0, 5-0 B1G); Michigan State (8-2, 3-2 B1G)
Two Lions win
Altoona Area High School had two wrestlers win titles in Saturday's Big 7 Tournament held at the AAHS Fieldhouse.
Luke Hileman won the 112-pound title, and Luke Sipes prevailed at 152.
Central Mountain won the eight-team tournament with 190 points, followed by Bald Eagle Area (137.5), Shikellamy (115), State College (110), Bellefonte (94.5), Altoona (69), Jersey Shore (53) and Hollidaysburg (42).
Other individual champs were Bald Eagle Area's Gavin Guenot (106), Caleb Close (172) and Matthew Knepp (285), State College's Asher Cunningham (120), Pierson Manville (138) and Nicholas Pavlechko (215), Central Mountain's Dalton Perry (126) and Luke Simcox (132), Bellefonte's Jude Swisher (145), Shikellamy's Colton Sempko (160) and Jersey Shore's Hadyn Packer (189).
Hollidaysburg's Carson Krupka finished second at 106.