UPDATE: Round One to the prosecution; defendants vow to fight on in Sandusky cover-up case

Graham Spanier, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz are headed for court.

District Justice William Wenner ruled Tuesday afternoon there was enough evidence for the former Penn State officials to stand trial on charges of obstruction of justice, endangering the welfare of children and conspiracy in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Spanier, the former Penn State president, is also facing perjury charges. Schultz and Curley were already bound over for court on those charges.

Before making his ruling, Wenner called it "a tragic day for Penn State, to say the least."

The Attorney General argued that had Spanier, Curley and Schultz told police that Mike McQueary saw Jerry molesting a boy in a shower in 2001, Sandusky would not have wound up victimizing at least three other boys between 2001 and 2010.

The defense argued unsuccessfully that the prosecution's case was little more than "innuendo and far-fetched inference," as Curley's lawyer Caroline Roberto said in her closing.

The trial will likely not begin before 2014.