Wrestling might be the most underrated sport here at Penn.

In its 103 years it has had three Olympians, five NCAA champions, 23 All-Americans (including at least one in every year from 1997-2007), 61 EIWA champions and 60 first team All-Ivy selections. Yet covering it last season I got the sense that because it shares a season with men's basketball, it always received the attention a middle child gets.

Whether or not as a direct response to this, Penn Athletics recently started a weekly feature called the Penn Wrestling Report. Each edition will review the past week, preview the upcoming one and have an interview with a wrestler. But of all its features, "What I Learned About Wrestling This Week," might be the most informative. It will discuss a different wrestling term each week, starting with "The Cement Mixer." Considering the rich, yet confusing, lexicon of wrestling, this might be quite the entertaining feature.

Tags: Wrestling

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