Posted on 08/28/2025 7:33:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
Nebraska earned second place in this spring's NCAA Wrestling Championships, and for that the entire team ...
Got runner-up rings?
RING ‘EM.
New hardware for the team that made history 💍#ToughTogether | #GBR pic.twitter.com/Jpi2QNbVC1— Nebraska Wrestling (@HuskerWrestling) August 26, 2025
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding this...
So Penn State, a conference rival, was wrestling at such a high level this year that Nebraska, after losing to them, thought it was appropriate to hand out second-place rings?
Is that really a thing? I mean, they did some damage:
Ridge Lovett (149) and Antrell Taylor (157) won NCAA titles on Saturday night, helping Nebraska wrestling to its best performance and finish ever at the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships. The Huskers finished as NCAA team runner-up, with 117.0 points.
NU garnered eight All-America honorees at the tournament, with four semifinalists and two champions. Nebraska's title winners bring home the first individual championship since 2011 (Jordan Burroughs) and the first two in a year since 1984 (Jim Scherr and Bill Scherr).
The Big Red wrestlers put together 17 bonus-point wins for the fifth-highest point total by a runner-up in NCAA history.
Here was the final point tally:
Penn State just dominating!
Some comments:
TWEETS AT LINK.......................
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If not for stupid Title IX, UF would have wrestling.
It is so great they get awards for being mediocre.
Wouldn’t want to hurt their FEELINGS................
A silver medal on the wall is nothing to be ashamed of but I don’t think I would make an ostentatious display of being number #2. If nothing else it would be a constant conversation piece about who was better than you.
Nobody has even been close to Penn State for years. Nebraska has never placed second before.
Second place at the NCAAs has been like a silver medal in basketball during the “Dream Team” era of the 1990’s.
It’s still a pretty big deal.
Hopefully that will be changing soon though. OK State is going to make a run at them.
“””Wouldn’t want to hurt their FEELINGS................””””
I wonder what they put on their resumes.
I ALMOST won the game.
I ALMOST got good grades
I ALMOST graduated from college
Maybe the Gators should get their rings for losing to Nebraska in the 1995 Fiesta Bowl.
No shame in a silver medal.
But rings are for champions only.
Will UF have a flag football team this year?..........
the sissification of the USA continues ...
I mean Long Island University?!?!?! Really?!?!?!
The NFL gives rings to the losing Super Bowl team. Granted, they’re Conference Champions.
The second and third tier schools bitched for years to get in on the TV action...................
The 1969 Minnesota Vikings did win the NFL Championship game, but they did not receive the associated Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy. The trophy, which was awarded to the last NFL champion before the AFL-NFL merger, was actually found in the possession of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame, with the Vikings never getting it.
LOL!
Would anyone seriously be proud to wear a second place ring??? Its not like its an Olympics Silver Medal.
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