No. 1 Penn State claims 2016 NWCA Dual Meet Championship

No. 1 Penn State took care of No. 2 Oklahoma State, 29-18, on Sunday to win the 2016 NWCA National Dual Championship Series title in front of another sell-out crowd (6,575).

The NWCA dual crown is Penn State's third championship of the season, as it also won its sixth straight Southern Scuffle title in early January and claimed a share of the 2016 Big Ten Regular Season title with Iowa.

The Nittany Lions end the regular season with a perfect 16-0 mark, including 9-0 in the Big Ten. The 16 dual meet victories are the most since Penn State won 17 in 2011 (17-1-1), and the perfect record marks the first time since 1972 (12-0) that a Penn State team has gone through the season, featuring at least 10 duals, without a loss or a tie.

Penn State will head to Iowa City, Iowa, for the 2016 Big Ten Wrestling Championships at the University of Iowa on March 5-6. The event, in Iowa?s Carver-Hawkeye Arena, begins on Saturday with an 11 a.m. session and a 7 p.m. ET session. The championship, serving as the NCAA qualifier for the conference, concludes on Sunday with a 1 p.m. session.

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#1 Penn State 29, #2 Oklahoma State 18
125: #4 Nico Megaludis PSU pinned #6 Eddie Klimara OSU, WBF (3:58) / 6-0
133: #5 Jordan Conaway PSU dec. Gary Wayne Harding OSU, 8-4 / 9-0
141: #1 Dean Heil OSU dec. Jimmy Gulibon PSU, 9-5 / 9-3
149: #1 Zain Retherford PSU dec. #12 Anthony Collica OSU, 4-1 / 12-3
157: #1 Jason Nolf PSU pinned Ryan Blees OSU, WBF (6:32) / 18-3
165: #1 Alex Dieringer OSU tech fall Geno Morelli PSU, 17-2 (TF; 4:36) / 18-8
174: #1 Bo Nickal PSU tech fall Heston Lamons OSU, 17-2 (TF; 4:39) / 23-8
184: #13 Nolan Boyd OSU inj. def. #6 Matt McCutcheon PSU, (3:38) / 23-14
197: #1 Morgan McIntosh PSU pinned Andrew Marsden OSU, WBF (1:59) / 29-14
285: #5 Austin Marsden OSU maj. dec. Jan Johnson PSU, 18-6 / 28-18

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Relive Penn State's trio of pins below.