tOSU dual of the century - deja vu
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Ono can’t wrestle without burning his shirt. He doesn’t have five dates because he’s not a true freshman.
If you try 6, the answer is very close, but the slight difference squared can't equal the slight difference and there is no answer.
Last year's version of Sealy was a different animal coming off of injury, and despite their one match together, I think Duke is significantly better than Joe.
T=5 makes the denominator zero, so the solution is no real number. T=5 = positive infinity
And SVN what? He's got another year of eligibility after this and is in the 6 or 7 #1s for the starting next year I mentioned.
I should have ended with a ;-)“no real number” = positive infinity?
You mean the national champ? At least according to the tan one.
Mendez is very good and will likely beat Davis, but Bartletts (for Shane) was always able to keep him from scoring. They went 3-3 in their series.
BB W 4-1 SV, L 4-1, L 4-1, W 4-2, W 4-2, L 2-1 TB
Davis can be a little wonky but I don't see him getting blow out. He is a strong solid wrestler that occasionally makes a big mistake costing him a win he should get.
BB W 4-1 SV, L 4-1, L 4-1, W 4-2, W 4-2, L 2-1 TB
Davis can be a little wonky but I don't see him getting blow out. He is a strong solid wrestler that occasionally makes a big mistake costing him a win he should get.
Ranking on Intermat
PSU vs OSU
125 - 1 vs 2
133 - 4 vs 2
142 - 11 vs 1
149 - 1 vs 4
157 - 3 vs 1
165 - 1 vs 18
174 - 1 vs 4
184 - 1 vs 5
197 - 1 vs 10
285 - 12 vs 3
When is the last time a team with eight top-5 wrestlers was considered an underdog?
PSU vs OSU
125 - 1 vs 2
133 - 4 vs 2
142 - 11 vs 1
149 - 1 vs 4
157 - 3 vs 1
165 - 1 vs 18
174 - 1 vs 4
184 - 1 vs 5
197 - 1 vs 10
285 - 12 vs 3
When is the last time a team with eight top-5 wrestlers was considered an underdog?
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You really want to work knownothing to the point of exhaustion!
5.001 gets you to 10.001, but that’s as close as anyone should dare go. Any closer puts you in danger of being sucked into the black hole that is division by 0, from whence no one can hear you scream.
In other words, analogous to a skilled wrestler entering the Iowa program.
125 Luke dec over Bouzakis 3-0 PSU
133 Blaze dec Davino. This may be the match of the evening.... and Davino could win this and Blaze win in March.. but 6-0 PSU
141 Mendez MD Davis. I think Scooter will hold his own but Mendez will be too much down the stretch... 6-4 PSU
149 SVN with a major over Stiles... 10-4 PSU
157 Duke dec Cannon... this will also be very good and I think one late TD separates them... 13-4 PSU
165 Mesenbrink by major over Paddy... 17-4 PSU
174 Levi dec Kharchla. 20-4
184 Rocco dec Fishback. 23-4 PSU
197 Barr major over Geog.... 27-4 PSU
HVY Feldman dec Mirasola. but I think cole beats him in the post season 27-7
27-7
worst case scenario... Davino and Cannon win 21-14
best case ... 30-7
26-10 avg
133 Blaze dec Davino. This may be the match of the evening.... and Davino could win this and Blaze win in March.. but 6-0 PSU
141 Mendez MD Davis. I think Scooter will hold his own but Mendez will be too much down the stretch... 6-4 PSU
149 SVN with a major over Stiles... 10-4 PSU
157 Duke dec Cannon... this will also be very good and I think one late TD separates them... 13-4 PSU
165 Mesenbrink by major over Paddy... 17-4 PSU
174 Levi dec Kharchla. 20-4
184 Rocco dec Fishback. 23-4 PSU
197 Barr major over Geog.... 27-4 PSU
HVY Feldman dec Mirasola. but I think cole beats him in the post season 27-7
27-7
worst case scenario... Davino and Cannon win 21-14
best case ... 30-7
26-10 avg
Nebraska over achieved last year. Nebraska for at least the short term past have underachievers at the tournament....I dont pick Nebraska wrestlers when money is on the line.
other teams may be getting better but PSU is still getting better as well!
Is this the same cannon that kasak horsed all over the mat last year?
It is.
If i recall Cannon wrestled Tyler fairly tough, but Tyler did Tyler things twice.
Ranking on Intermat "after" the dual
PSU vs OSU
125 - 1 vs 2
133 - 1 vs 4
142 - 11 vs 1
149 - 1 vs 4
157 - 1 vs 3
165 - 1 vs 18
174 - 1 vs 4
184 - 1 vs 5
197 - 1 vs 10
285 - 8 vs 6
133 Noone is passing Byrd unless he loses.
I remember the 2019 dual as the last real punch for Ryan in a dual. Leading up to the match he said it was a 5-5 split on paper. Nickal pinned Moore, Freshman RBY beat Pletcher, Nick Lee beat McKenna, and the camera constantly panned to Ryan squirming and talking to himself. 28-6 this year, it won't be close.
RBY over Pletcher and Lee over McKenna don't look like upsets in retrospect, but they definitely were at the time. The dual started at 133 and tOSU started with Pletcher, McKenna, and Micah, who were all top 3-5. They needed to not only sweep those first three but also get bonus because PSU had Nolf, Cenzo, Hall, Bo, and Cassar, who were all #1, in the next 6 weights. The meet finished with 125, which was a PSU black hole that year, so if tOSU was within 4 going into that one, they had a puncher's chance with Heinselman vs. Schnupp.
Instead of being up 11-0 after those first three, which is where they needed to be to make it competitive, RBY upset Pletcher, Lee upset McKenna, and Verk did Verk stalling things and kept Micah to a regular decision, and they were not only not up by double digits, they were losing 5-3 (we got docked a team point, I think RBY if I remember correctly) heading into PSU's murderer's row. The meet was all over but the crying already.
Loved Jarod, but “Verk did Verk stalling things” is a pretty good description of his offense. I appreciate that line a lot.
I loved Verk as well. He was one of those guys that did whatever was asked of him. Those type of guys were needed much more in his day than now since we have a full lineup of hammers now. He was like a poor man's Braeden Davis, and I'm really glad he finally qualified and got to wrestle at nationals his final year at UVA.
He was definitely a good tomato and a great utility guy. Just a selfless, great teammate glue guy. Plus, I always liked the fact that we could run a 47-year old guy out there to lean on kids. Sincerely kidding, being a type-1 diabetic and routinely taking on D1 competition tells you all you need to know about what kind of man Verk is.
Verk had the smoothest duck under. looked like he teleported
Manville bumped up 2 weight classes to wrestle Myles Martin that year as well. Talk about a glue guy.
I was on a short vacation to RBY’s hometown, Tucson, at that time. Listened to the dual on headphones in the resort bar where, as luck would have it, a U of A sorority was having its winter formal. It was like a parade of Livvy Dunne-esque fitness model types. My internal monologue on repeat was saying to a younger me - “why did you go to a cold weather school, dumbass?”