2026 NCAA Championship Session III Thread

[Ruby Tues]

Damn man, you hate to see that for anybody! Pray that Hepner is OK.

 

[RS17]

Oh ****

 

[marsisol]

Yikes they're doing movement checks. Could be neck....

 

[District 4]

Damn a stretcher what the hell happened

 

[Random4598375]

He came straight down on his head. I think he lost feeling in his arms or something like that.

 

[PaWrestlingFan7]

National Anthem was awesome … top 5 of any I ever heard

I've always wished ESPN would show the national anthem on TV, but I guess we can be too "patriotic".

 

[donboy6499]

Hepner it looked like he had a choice of protect his head or fight the takedown and he chose the latter.
Good to see him up.

 

[SJP80]

He's not going to keep going, right?

 

[Pennstater55]

That's insane. Props to this kid.

 

[District 4]

Doesn't look hurt now

 

[NittPicker]

OK then. Let's go.

 

[SJP80]

wow

 

[PSUcup]

Why didn’t Mess take bottom

 

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

I'm amazed that they are still wrestling.

 

[JakkL]

Did anyone see any head contact for hepnet? I think he was gassed.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

I thought it was a head injury to Hepner. On the sequence before the stoppage, his head banged twice on the mat.

I can't remember the last wrestler to make Mitch work this hard for a period.

 

[Sunshine88!]

He’s okay. Concussion protocol

 

[District 4]

Wtf was all of that

 

[District 4]

Now we know why mm has been working on riding

 

[GregPickel]

Wtf was all of that

I'm not sure, but obviously glad the kid is OK. But that was certainly an interesting situation.

 

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

There's the count.

 

[o_BruceK-PSU83]

Hepner's shoulder is gonna be sore too, in addition to his neck.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Mesenbrink is really cranking the arm bar. I'm surprised Hepner took so long to tilt. He must have really loose shoulders.

 

[NittPicker]

Why didn’t Mess take bottom

He deferred.

 

[Random4598375]

Did anyone see any head contact for hepnet? I think he was gassed.

He landed straight down on his head (hard) on a takedown attempt. I'm sure he had a stinger where your arms get tingly or go numb for a minute or two. He wasn't faking that.

 

[PSUcup]

He deferred.

Was talking about after injury time

 

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

Mesenbrink is really cranking the arm bar. I'm surprised Hepner took so long to tilt. He must have really loose shoulders.

Well if he didn't before, Dr. Mesenbrink fixed that.

 

[District 4]

Bring it mm

 

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

Was talking about after injury time

Yeah, kinda surprised by that too. I guess MM figured he wanted to chase that takedown.

 

[Sir Pin Alot]

Nothing is easy at the NCAAs

 

[PSUcup]

Weird match.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Hmm, I wonder what was said between Mesenbrink and Hepner at the end.

 

[WEAREPSU_LI]

Mitchell was angry. Kid didn't come to wrestle at the end.

 

[Efejle]

Jesus Christ that kid was a funk machine

 

[o_BruceK-PSU83]

Hepner content to lose by decision. Didn't try to do much in the last minute, down 5-0.

 

[RS17]

Mess kept getting his legs caught. An odd match for him no doubt.

 

[Pennstater55]

Felt like Mitch took it easy on him. He really slowed his pace in the third.

 

[zzs006]

Mitchell pissed that Hepner wouldn’t attack at the end. He needed to go get 1 though to keep his 100% bonus

 

[cb1994]

Mitch should’ve taken top in the 3rd.

 

[RBOld]

MM should have taken top in the 3rd, he'd have turned him again.