2026 NCAA Championship Session I Thread

[Tryingtodoitright]

A Tour de France worthy backpedal

 

[SlipperyPete]

Awesome. Where you when I was unable to sleep last night?!lol

I was finalizing my Darkhorse Derby line-up. That really helped pass some time this week. Thanks @Wrestleknownothing !

 

[Gronky]

How soon into the broadcast does Jordan Boroughs start talking about his own accomplishments? Might be a fun drinking game? I say 30 seconds into to the first match, if not during the opening intro!!

 

[Misalorales]

I was finalizing my Darkhorse Derby line-up. That really helped pass some time this week.

I never found the time for that. Unfortunately.

 

[GregPickel]

 

[ccdiver]

How soon into the broadcast does Jordan Boroughs start talking about his own accomplishments? Might be a fun drinking game? I say 30 seconds into to the first match, if not during the opening intro!!

Looks like it’s gonna be a 3 martini lunch.

 

[Aardvark86]

Id rather suffer the colonoscopy than corporate training.

Fair point. Propofol ain’t bad.

 

[AgSurfer]

My first year at PSU, I had an IBM XT. A 4.77MHz barnburner. I'm sure if I dug it out, it would boot up.

Hah! That would have been dream technology when I was in school. I had to rely on my TI-50 hand calculator and we programmed computers using punched cards!

 

[PAgeologist]

Fair point. Propofol ain’t bad.

Taking propofol so you can sleep is like taking chemo to avoid haircuts.
- Robin Williams
- the quote may not be exact.

 

[PAgeologist]

Hah! That would have been dream technology when I was in school. I had to rely on my TI-50 hand calculator and we programmed computers using punched cards!

My first gaming system was an old computer that ran with a cassette player.

 

[BriantheLion]

How soon into the broadcast does Jordan Boroughs start talking about his own accomplishments? Might be a fun drinking game? I say 30 seconds into to the first match, if not during the opening intro!!

National Anthem!

 

[Sir Pin Alot]

Looks quite nippy in Cleveland.

 

[Sir Pin Alot]

My first gaming system was an old computer that ran with a cassette player.

Commodore 64?

 

[mcpat]

Commodore 64?

Dude I had the VIC-20!

 

[Mat Burn]

Id rather suffer the colonoscopy than corporate training.

I have slept through both.

 

[mcpat]

FYI that the arena isn’t open/ letting fans in yet. Lol. The good news is that I definitely did leave central pa early enough this morning.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Sir Pin Alot]

FYI that the arena isn’t open/ letting fans in yet. Lol. The good news is that I definitely did leave central pa early enough this morning.

90 mins before start time and not open?

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[TangSoo]

Id rather suffer the colonoscopy than corporate training.

At least the drugs are good.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[PAgeologist]

Commodore 64?

I dont believe it was. But I honestly dont remember. The person who gave it to me wouldnt have used it for games.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

LOL

 

[AgSurfer]

What mat is Carton vs Pletcher? I don't see it.

 

[PAgeologist]

I am at a haunted hotel built in 1890.
6 minute walk from Rocket Arena. I only had 3 episodes last night. Ready to see real people.

The ghosts of Iowa past visiting?

 

[Brian LB-U]

Hav fun, @GregPickel

 

[Reiterate]

Looks quite nippy in Cleveland.

Well that was disappointing. Lionlover?

 

[ElDuce]

Ready for the highs and lows! We Are!

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Ready for the highs and lows! We Are!

that one never gets old. (Well, it get old; I just never tire of watching it.)

 

[AgSurfer]

Ready for the highs and lows! We Are!

A high or low? You decide.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

To update on PBP.

@SlipperyPete is planning to handle it

@GregPickel is at Rocket Arena. He'll handle more of the flavor at the event than actual PBP.

I get to sit back for the first time in 13 or 14 years (excluding Covid) and just watch matches, and will only handle PBP if there are multiple PSU wrestlers competing at the same time.

In short, we have the PBP covered in Session I, and all of the Sessions of NCAAs.

 

[trufan]

Id rather suffer the colonoscopy than corporate training.

Pretty much one and the same, aren't they?

 

[Aardvark86]

To update on PBP.

@SlipperyPete is planning to handle it

@GregPickel is at Rocket Arena. He'll handle more of the flavor at the event than actual PBP.

I get to sit back for the first time in 13 or 14 years (excluding Covid) and just watch matches, and will only handle PBP if there are multiple PSU wrestlers competing at the same time.

In short, we have the PBP covered in Session I, and all of the Sessions of NCAAs.

A live look in at the Slippery Pete Broadcast Command Center…



If I remember my alarm codes correctly, the “1201” reference that Tom McAndrew makes in the video means it’s about time for the first session bouts to begin. And 47 degrees is the projected high in Cleveland today. Go make some history boys!!!

 

[Dogwelder]

First year in awhile that I am going to miss session 1.

Are you proud of it?

 

[backdrft76-1]

To update on PBP.

@SlipperyPete is planning to handle it

@GregPickel is at Rocket Arena. He'll handle more of the flavor at the event than actual PBP.

I get to sit back for the first time in 13 or 14 years (excluding Covid) and just watch matches, and will only handle PBP if there are multiple PSU wrestlers competing at the same time.

In short, we have the PBP covered in Session I, and all of the Sessions of NCAAs.

Thank you in advance to Pete, Greg, and Tom, and to anyone else providing mat assignments, other relevant matches, scores, etc.

 

[Aardvark86]

Thank you in advance to Pete, Greg, and Tom, and to anyone else providing mat assignments, other relevant matches, scores, etc.

FWIW, I took I also took a peek at the HR Broadcast Command Bunker, and I'm pretty sure I just heard IRONHAWK say "Go at throttle up".

Or maybe that was johnstownsteel...

 

[dbldoofus]

Awesome. Where you when I was unable to sleep last night?!lol

 

[Lil Nicky Scarfo]

To update on PBP.

@SlipperyPete is planning to handle it

@GregPickel is at Rocket Arena. He'll handle more of the flavor at the event than actual PBP.

I get to sit back for the first time in 13 or 14 years (excluding Covid) and just watch matches, and will only handle PBP if there are multiple PSU wrestlers competing at the same time.

In short, we have the PBP covered in Session I, and all of the Sessions of NCAAs.

Tommy Mac may have moved slow after 2025, but that’s because he didn’t have to move for anybody

 

[Ruby Tues]

Fellas wish I could be there with you ( it’s a bucket list for me), but not this year. For the PBP guys, thanks you for extraordinary work that is going to go into this weekend. Let’s have some FUN and Go PSU!!!