Cael Sanderson likes to call Penn State the best place in the world to wrestle, and with each passing season, making an argument against that belief becomes a formidable task.

Penn State’s head coach since the 2009-10 season, Sanderson runs a program that quite simply is unparalleled.

The raw numbers — 12 NCAA titles, 71 straight dual-meet victories and 40 individual NCAA champions out of 59 semifinalists since 2011, to name just a few — aren’t what drives Sanderson and his staff of brother Cody Sanderson, good friend Casey Cunningham and former wrestler Nick Lee.

“The program’s different; it’s more of a big-picture, eternal perspective, and that’s what’s important to us,” Sanderson said earlier this fall. “If you’re here for a little while, you know that … you sense it.

“We care about

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