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Nebraska Hands Out Second-Place Rings To Wrestling Team
Not The Bee ^ | August 28, 2025 | Hamilton Porter

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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1 posted on 08/28/2025 7:33:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
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2 posted on 08/28/2025 7:35:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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If not for stupid Title IX, UF would have wrestling.


3 posted on 08/28/2025 7:39:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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4 posted on 08/28/2025 7:44:29 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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It is so great they get awards for being mediocre.


5 posted on 08/28/2025 7:47:48 AM PDT by shelterguy
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Wouldn’t want to hurt their FEELINGS................


6 posted on 08/28/2025 7:49:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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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.


7 posted on 08/28/2025 7:51:28 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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8 posted on 08/28/2025 7:52:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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.


9 posted on 08/28/2025 7:53:14 AM PDT by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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“””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


10 posted on 08/28/2025 7:55:00 AM PDT by shelterguy
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Maybe the Gators should get their rings for losing to Nebraska in the 1995 Fiesta Bowl.


11 posted on 08/28/2025 7:55:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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No shame in a silver medal.

But rings are for champions only.


12 posted on 08/28/2025 7:56:13 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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Will UF have a flag football team this year?..........


13 posted on 08/28/2025 7:58:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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the sissification of the USA continues ...


14 posted on 08/28/2025 7:59:07 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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I mean Long Island University?!?!?! Really?!?!?!


15 posted on 08/28/2025 7:59:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The NFL gives rings to the losing Super Bowl team. Granted, they’re Conference Champions.


16 posted on 08/28/2025 8:00:56 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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The second and third tier schools bitched for years to get in on the TV action...................


17 posted on 08/28/2025 8:01:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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18 posted on 08/28/2025 8:03:15 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: gundog

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!


19 posted on 08/28/2025 8:03:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Would anyone seriously be proud to wear a second place ring??? Its not like its an Olympics Silver Medal.


20 posted on 08/28/2025 8:08:02 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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