Some university wrestlers had their American moments on Saturday evening.
A few moments after Penn State wrestler, Carter Staroci, entered the story by becoming the first national champion champion in the NCAA history, he went to the Mat side seats in Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia to shake hands with President Donald Trump.
Starocci beat the Northern Iowa, Parker Keckeisen, 4-3, to win the 184 pound championship and its fifth title NCAA.
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Carter Starocci of Penn State in a 184 -pound match in the male wrestling championship of division I at Wells Fargo Center on March 21, 2025 in Philadelphia. (Photos Isaac Wasserman / NCAA via Getty Images)
It is the first and perhaps the last time that a university wrestler achieves such a feat.
Staroci had a fifth year of eligibility after participating in the 2021 season when all the athletes had another year due to the Pandemic COVID-19.
Staroci coach Cael Sanderson also shakes the president’s hand on Saturday evening.
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On Friday, other Penn State wrestlers talked about Trump who attended the event.
“It is a great honor for the sports sport,” said Josh Barr de Penn State. “The sports sport is in a place where he needs growth. He needs life and energy behind her, and President Trump brings it.”
Mitchell Mesenbrink told journalists on Friday that whatever politics, he thinks that Trump’s attendance would help improve viewers.
President Donald Trump speaks with Senator Dave McCormick, R-P-Pa., While sitting next to Tesla and the CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk and the American representative Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, while looking at the NCAA fight competition at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on March 22, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)
“We want to bring people to look at, right? We want people to look at the fight. We want people to channel, not just money, but the time of people, and attention is money. So, I think it’s cool. And I think if it was conservative or liberal, it would be really cool,” said Messenbrink.
“Democrat or republican, whoever he is, is the President of the United States. The head of the free world of our wrestling event is really cool when you think about it.”
The wrestling championships are back at the Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center for the first time since 2011, when Penn State has won everything. This launched a dominant race by the Nittany Lions who continues. They have now won 12 of the last 14 titles, including four in a row, after winning the team championship earlier on Saturday.
Trump met and celebrated a handful of other wrestlers after their championship victories.
The presence of Trump during the event brought a national projector to the sport of university struggle and an electrical energy to the building.
Trump entered the Wells Fargo Center and was greeted by a noisy crowd that sang “USA! USA!” A few fans hooked when Trump entered.
Musk; The founder of the Outkick, Clay Travis,; The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt,; The Secretary of Education and former executive of WWE, Linda McMahon,; The president of the judicial committee of the Chamber Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; Senator Dave McCormick, r-pa.; And several other Trump allies were in the front row to greet the president.
President Donald Trump and Carter Starocci of the Penn Stateny Lions kiss each other during the male wrestling championships in Division I of the NCAA 2025 at the Wells Fargo Center on March 22, 2025 in Philadelphia. (Mitchell Leff / Getty images)
Jordan was a champion of wrestling in high school and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he won a male wrestling title in Division I of the NCAA twice. He was then assistant coach to the Ohio State University wrestling program from 1987 to 1995.
This is the second time in three years, President Donald Trump attended the NCAA wrestling championships. He also attended in 2023 in Tulsa, in Oklahoma.
