UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus has been selected to host the 2020 U.S. Olympic wrestling team trials from April 4-5, 2020.
Penn State is serving as the local organizing committee.
The champions from the team trials will become eligible to represent the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
Tickets for the U.S. Olympic wrestling team trials will become available to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 20. Tickets start at $49 for an all-session ticket and can be purchased at ticketmaster.com. Fans are encouraged to purchase tickets early, as this event is expected to sell out. For additional information, visit bjc.psu.edu.
The Bryce Jordan Center has already established itself as a historic wrestling venue. It served as the site of the 1999 NCAA Wrestling Championships, which featured current Penn State head wrestling coach Cael Sanderson’s first of four NCAA titles and Penn State assistant coach Casey Cunningham’s 157-pound crown. The Bryce Jordan Center also was the site of the 1998 and 2009 Big Ten Championships and will serve as the host site in March 2021.
The top four (and six of the top 10) all-time NCAA wrestling dual meet attendance records indoors have taken place at the Bryce Jordan Center, including the all-time indoor record crowd of 15,998 who saw Penn State down Iowa 28-13 on Feb. 10, 2018. That record crowd is the largest to ever witness a Penn State athletics event not held in Beaver Stadium.
University Park becomes only the 10th U.S. city to host the U.S. Olympic wrestling team trials since USA Wrestling became the national governing body for wrestling in the United States in 1983. The only previous time it was held in Pennsylvania was in 1992, when the U.S. Freestyle Olympic Team Trials were hosted in Pittsburgh.