Jesse Mendez has lofty goals for himself and the entire Ohio State wrestling team going into the 2024-25 season and beyond. Coming off a national title at 141 pounds, Mendez will be the favorite ...

Ohio State wrestler Jesse Mendez won the national title Saturday. He joins a list of six wrestlers at OSU who have won multiple titles. Mendez advanced to the final by knocking off a Penn State ...

Ohio State’s Jesse Mendez won an NCAA Wrestling title in a classic in 2024 and did it again in 2025 in Philadelphia. Mendez wasn’t the top dog this year until the end, going through rivals in ...

Make it back-to-back titles for Jesse Mendez. The Ohio State wrestler won his second straight NCAA championship at 141 pounds on Saturday. Mendez cemented his legacy as one of the program's all ...

PHILADELPHIA — Jesse Mendez successfully defended his national championship Saturday with a 12-9 decision over top-seeded Brock Hardy of Nebraska, becoming the sixth Ohio State wrestler to win ...

During the 2023-24 wrestling season, Ohio State’s Jesse Mendez reached that peak, claiming the Big Ten Championship and the NCAA Championship at 141 pounds. Now a junior, Mendez must defend his ...

Braeden Davis (133), Beau Bartlett (141) and Shayne Van Ness (149) won by three, two and three points over Buckeye stars Nic Bouzakis, Jesse Mendez and Dylan D’Emilio, respectively. And while ...

The 141-pound bracket at the NCAA Wrestling Championships has two previous champions - last year’s winner, Jesse Mendez of Ohio State, and 2023 champion Andrew Alirez of Northern Colorado.

Bartlett, ranked No. 3 nationally, vs. No. 1 Jesse Mendez, Friday night in Columbus, Ohio. Both wrestlers are undefeated at 141 pounds. They also share quite a recent history. The Penn State ...

Bartlett defeated former No. 1 Jesse Mendez of Ohio State 4-2 in a match last Friday that served as a preamble to the postseason. Bartlett won Penn State's 11th Big Ten award of a season in which ...

Penn State's Beau Bartlett wrestles Ohio State's Jesse Mendez in the 141-pound final at the 2024 NCAA Wrestling Championships. / Reese Strickland-Imagn Images Penn State wrestler Beau Bartlett ...

Jesse Mendez repeated as champion at 141 lbs. And, like they always do for the finals in recent years, the NCAA has posted full video of the match. Mendez then faced Hardy in the final.