Ohio State’s Jesse Mendez and Rocco Welsh will wrestle for national championships on Saturday.
Sophomore Jesse Mendez, the top seed at 141 pounds, will square off with No. 2 Beau Bartlett of Penn State. Sixth-seeded freshman Rocco Welsh will take on Penn State's No. 9 Carter Starocci at 174 pounds.It will be the third time this season Mendez has taken on Bartlett, who finished in third place at the 2023 NCAA Championships.
Welsh gets a familiar foe of his own in Starocci, who beat the Buckeye 4-2 at the Ohio State/Penn State dual mentioned above, which the Nittany Lions won 28-9. PSU has six total wrestlers in the finals on Saturday with 148 points toward a national title. Second-place Michigan has 64.5.
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