Patrick Glory's place in Princeton wrestling history was already assured before he stepped on the mat at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., Saturday night.

Having clinched a fourth All-American honor with his semifinal win Friday night, he joined former teammate Matthew Kolodzik '21 as the only Princeton wrestlers to do that. As with that, what Glory did Saturday night isn't unprecedented in Princeton history, but it's been a long, long time.

With a 4-1 win over fourth-seeded Matt Ramos of Purdue in the final at 125 pounds, Glory became Princeton's first NCAA wrestling champion in 72 years, since Bradley Glass '53 won the unlimited-weight title in 1951.

Glory's win caps a career that saw him finish sixth in his NCAA debut as a freshman in 2019, earn an NCAA bid in 2020 before that event was canceled due to the pandemic, and after taking a year off from Princeton with the Ivy League not competing in 2021, Glory was back last year, making history as Princeton's first NCAA finalist in 20 years, finishing runner-up at 125. A year later in Tulsa, he ended a drought five decades longer than the one he ended in Detroit.

Against Ramos, Glory opened the scoring with an escape off the second-period start, and Glory added a takedown 36 seconds into the third period, keeping Ramos off the board until a penalty point with just a second left in the third. The riding-time point went to Glory for the 4-1 final.

Princeton finished 13th as a team with 37.5 points, with Glory contributing 23 of those and Quincy Monday 14.5 with his third-place finish. The 37.5 points were the second-most at the NCAAs in program history, behind only last year's 38, and the 13th-place finish was also the second-best in program history, behind only the fifth-place finish in 1951.

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(2) Patrick Glory (Princeton) wins by decision over (4) Matt Ramos (Purdue), 4-1

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