For my wrestling folks here, Tom Housnick confirmed tonight that Stroudsburg’s Lenny Pinto is out for the season and will not defend his state title. Pinto is the #1 wrestler in the country at 182 which was cemented when he beat Blair Academy’s Rylan Rogers at FloWrestling’s “Who’s Number One” in October. Pinto suffered a pretty major knee injury during the match, which cost him his season. Pinto won one of the best brackets in state tournament history last year at 170 as a junior, which included nine division I commits, and six kids in the national top 20. He also shut out the field at Fargo in 2019.
This is a big loss in PA. Pinto is one of the most fun wrestlers I can remember - he’s a great athlete, with a super high risk, go for broke style, and can score from anywhere. If I had to pick a current Pennsylvania kid to win an NCAA title, it’d be Pinto, assuming his knee recovers. He’s headed to Nebraska, where former Easton great Bryan Snyder is the associate head coach and has cleaned up recruiting the D11 recently (Northampton’s Jagger Condomitti, #2 nationally at 160, is also in the class). Pinto is probably a college 174.
This is a big loss in PA. Pinto is one of the most fun wrestlers I can remember - he’s a great athlete, with a super high risk, go for broke style, and can score from anywhere. If I had to pick a current Pennsylvania kid to win an NCAA title, it’d be Pinto, assuming his knee recovers. He’s headed to Nebraska, where former Easton great Bryan Snyder is the associate head coach and has cleaned up recruiting the D11 recently (Northampton’s Jagger Condomitti, #2 nationally at 160, is also in the class). Pinto is probably a college 174.
