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HikeNatParks

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some may remember I posted on the old board about discovering that I am related to former Lock Haven coach and national wrestling HOF member Kenneth Cox, which was super cool.

Today, I made an even bigger discovery. I am actually 6th cousins, once removed, from none other than Cary Kolat. My family roots in Jefferson date back to 1790, almost to its founding, with the Rex family, so I guess it's not a surprise, but this is definitely a cool discovery.
Becoming less and less random by the day. Very cool, indeed. ;)
 

WexfordWarrior

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amattaro

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This is hard to watch.



I recently had a similarly uncomfortable interaction via email:

Dear @amattaro

We would like to extend an official invitation to our tailgate on Mar 7 and 8. We are gonna party Brock Hardy. Hopefully you come ready to back that azz up like an Iowa Hawkeye!

Formal attire mandatory, as shown below. See you there, silly goose.

Your friends (in thongs), @86PSUPaul and @Hlstone
 

Hlstone

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I recently had a similarly uncomfortable interaction via email:

Dear @amattaro

We would like to extend an official invitation to our tailgate on Mar 7 and 8. We are gonna party Brock Hardy. Hopefully you come ready to back that azz up like an Iowa Hawkeye!

Formal attire mandatory, as shown below. See you there, silly goose.

Your friends (in thongs), @86PSUPaul and @Hlstone


Hopefully the weather is that nice that weekend. 🔥
 

Psalm 1 guy

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I'm not sure where to place this, but this is from Cornell Kevin from the Intermat forum regarding SVN's eligibility for next season:

Cornell Kevin


  • Posted 13 hours ago
    On 2/22/2026 at 9:27 PM, SocraTease said:
    One small error: Van Ness is a junior not a senior
    I just wanted to take a min and say that I was wrong. Despite there being no official statement that SVN filed for a medical hardship waiver or was approved by the NCAA for one, this actually did take place recently. When I first started this project, that was not the case, however, things do change of course, as did this. I reached out to the Penn St athletic compliance office along with wrestling strategic communications and they just wrote me back thanking me for checking back in and letting me know that SVN does in fact now have Junior eligibility status. Of course they did not go deeper into that in discussing the medical hardship, as I didn’t think that they would. Don’t need them too however as this means that he did get approval for it and fairly recently.

    It’s my bad I should’ve reached out to them before I initially told you that what you said was not correct.

 

WexfordWarrior

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I'm not sure where to place this, but this is from Cornell Kevin from the Intermat forum regarding SVN's eligibility for next season:

Cornell Kevin


  • Posted 13 hours ago

    I just wanted to take a min and say that I was wrong. Despite there being no official statement that SVN filed for a medical hardship waiver or was approved by the NCAA for one, this actually did take place recently. When I first started this project, that was not the case, however, things do change of course, as did this. I reached out to the Penn St athletic compliance office along with wrestling strategic communications and they just wrote me back thanking me for checking back in and letting me know that SVN does in fact now have Junior eligibility status. Of course they did not go deeper into that in discussing the medical hardship, as I didn’t think that they would. Don’t need them too however as this means that he did get approval for it and fairly recently.

    It’s my bad I should’ve reached out to them before I initially told you that what you said was not correct.

And why would I care?
 

zzs006

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Yet another top DT OSU commit. Zinkin vs Sanchez State championship match.

I hope we land Sanchez


Great match! OkST has a massive logjam coming in the lower weights. They need Zinkin to make 125 for a couple years at least. Villasenor is coming in another year as well. Fitting Zinkin, Ramirez, Sakamoto, both Raney’s, Jax, and Vega into the lower weights will be interesting to watch. No different than PSU in the upper weights though. Cael has always done a masterful job at this while seeming to keep everyone happy. Let’s see if DT can follow suit
 

BaccaFarmer

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I'm not sure where to place this, but this is from Cornell Kevin from the Intermat forum regarding SVN's eligibility for next season:

Cornell Kevin


  • Posted 13 hours ago

    I just wanted to take a min and say that I was wrong. Despite there being no official statement that SVN filed for a medical hardship waiver or was approved by the NCAA for one, this actually did take place recently. When I first started this project, that was not the case, however, things do change of course, as did this. I reached out to the Penn St athletic compliance office along with wrestling strategic communications and they just wrote me back thanking me for checking back in and letting me know that SVN does in fact now have Junior eligibility status. Of course they did not go deeper into that in discussing the medical hardship, as I didn’t think that they would. Don’t need them too however as this means that he did get approval for it and fairly recently.

    It’s my bad I should’ve reached out to them before I initially told you that what you said was not correct.
Cornell Kevin writes like a weenie. For gods sake, just spit it out without all the weasel words.
 
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Psalm 1 guy

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Cornell Kevin writes like a weenie. For gods sake, just spit it out without all the weasel words.
Weenie and weasel? You don't post over on Intermat do you as that is the kind of post I might expect to see over there? I just appreciate he went through all the effort to organize and layout all the information for us wrestling fans.
 

Tom McAndrew

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