In the buzz surrounding Miller's departure from Penn, our article on this morning's hearing for the three Penn wrestlers suspended earlier this semester may have gotten lost in the shuffle.

This morning's preliminary hearing resulted in a reduction of the charges brought against Cesar Grajales, Rollie Peterkin and Matt Dragon. The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office agreed to drop charges of alleged aggravated assault (a felony charge) against the wrestlers, though each still faces one count of simple assault and one count of recklessly endangering another person. The Athletic Department has not released a statement as to whether this will alter their suspensions from the team.

The wrestlers are scheduled to appear before municipal court Judge Teresa Carr Deni at 9 a.m. on Thursday.

It's already old news at this point, but three of Penn's top wrestlers — Rollie Peterkin, Cesar Grajales and Matt Dragon — were suspended on the eve of the Keystone Classic. We reported the suspensions in our recap of the event, but coach Rob Eiter did not reveal anything further. I've since dug up some more information on this news.

First of all, the original version of the Penn Athletics statement, which was sneakily buried at the bottom of their preview of the tournament, read as follows:

"The University of Pennsylvania's Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics has announced the indefinite suspension of wrestlers Matt Dragon, Cesar Grajales and Rollie Peterkin for a violation of University policy."

That version has since been edited, and now reads:

"The University of Pennsylvania's Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics has announced the suspension of wrestlers Matt Dragon, Cesar Grajales and Rollie Peterkin for a violation of departmental policy."

Note the deletion of the word "indefinite" before suspension and the change from "University policy" to "departmental policy." I do not know the reason for these changes, nor the time between the original posting and the edit, but I'm trying to figure that out. Based on my analysis of these changes (which might mean absolutely nothing), it seems likely at this point that these three stars of Penn wrestling won't be seeing the mat this season. Without the term indefinite, and especially considering the conscious removal of the word, the suspensions are presumably definite. And with no qualifier of "indefinite" and no specific length given for the suspensions, that seems to me like it means they will be out for the season (and by extension their careers).

Of course this is mostly speculation right now, though my preliminary reporting has given me more confidence in this assessment. It remains to be seen whether that is actually the case, and it will probably be a few weeks before any more information surfaces.

As far as the cause of the suspension, it seems to be a result of a currently unknown incident that occurred a few weeks ago, but the announcement was only made just recently. However, it might have been instituted before its announcement, since none of the three culprits competed at the Binghamton Open last weekend. All three have also been removed from Intermat Wrestling's rankings list. Previously, Peterkin was ranked sixth in the 125-pound weightclass, Grajales was seventh at 149 and Dragon was 17th at 157.

Keep checking The Buzz and thedp.com for more information as I try to get to the bottom of all of this.