The Meadville wrestling team couldn’t recover from an early deficit and lost its home-opening dual 34-33 at The House of Thrills on Wednesday.

The Bulldogs dug themselves an 18-0 hole and never crawled out, despite a couple of convincing wins from their big dogs.

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