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TheREALSpooner

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luthius dagan said:
He’s a Florida kid, I’ve see him wrestle. He wrestled Christopher Minto like 4 times their senior year, might have been all 4 of his losses haha. Tough kid… not an answer at 165 in my opinion.
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Not based on recent results but looks like a guy who’s come on some, and was just a freshman. Was potentially going to qualify for NCAAs before being injured. If he wants to come to Iowa, gotta respect him for it.
 
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AndreTheHawk

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maxpain said:
My bad I must have looked at old rankings. Duffy and Youngblut was who I was referring to.

As for whether or not they stay, I don’t know. Statistically speaking it’s unlikely in this era. I just don’t think stressing about fits for middleweights who are in HS is necessary. It’s not like they are a career 125 or 197/285 who can’t move around as much.
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Well that and if you're really good you'll start, if you're not good enough you won't. Same as it's always been. You're 3-4 State Titles don't mean Jack when you hit DI.

If you're scared to compete for a starting spot then Iowa isn't the place for you from the get-go. Pretty sure these kids and their parents know that.
 
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NeedMoreIronside said:
I'm not so sure. First off i don't honestly think that line up ever comes to fruition, but if it did... we could potentially outscore OSU at 25, 49, 74, 84, 97 and heavy. Block at 57 would hopefully negate some of their points at 57 as would Crookham at 133 and Nassir at 41. Once again it's a pipe dream, but that lineup would be much more competitive than you give it credit.
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Again, I like the optimism. With the hammers they have and the ones that are coming I just don’t see it. Truthfully, with the losses we took this year (Mikey, PK, and Drake), I’ll be pretty darn impressed if we can improve on this year. We have guys that I believe have the goods if they improve their offensive tactics…and of course AF will be battling for it all.
 
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Libertylover

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luthius dagan said:
Not just him. Dawson Youngblut, Bobby Duffy, and Israel Borge all competed at 144, plus Sonny Amato at 150 and Joey Bachmann at 152. That’s 5 of our 11 commits in the 141/149/157 range. Hopefully 1 goes 165, but there’s already an “odd man out” in that group of 5, let alone if we transfer in a Zepada. That could some of them decommit just because they won’t see the lineup.
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Hopefully they all come, ones that don’t start as true freshman take a redshirt and try to break the lineup year two before they throw in the towel. Doubt we can brainwash and pay them enough to ride pine for 4 years like PSU and maybe okyst, they definitely have the money.
 
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Libertylover

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luthius dagan said:
Not just him. Dawson Youngblut, Bobby Duffy, and Israel Borge all competed at 144, plus Sonny Amato at 150 and Joey Bachmann at 152. That’s 5 of our 11 commits in the 141/149/157 range. Hopefully 1 goes 165, but there’s already an “odd man out” in that group of 5, let alone if we transfer in a Zepada. That could some of them decommit just because they won’t see the lineup.
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Hopefully Fred and the older Kinney can separate without Fred also competing for 149-165, but he probably will if his brother is getting that big. Also hope the younger Kinney has patience behind Deluca for a year and doesn’t overlap weights with his older brother. If one or two of the brother duo’s doesn’t make the lineup and leave, hope the brothers starting don’t follow them. Tom better not be looking at anyone in the remainder of the 28 class who’s not already at least 165 and growing.
 
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Libertylover

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maxpain said:
PSU has like 5 top 10 p4p guys on the bench and the brain is like “why would they transfer”

Iowa has a couple top 50ish types who may not make the lineup and there is too much overlap
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Yet another example of how far we are behind PSU and even OSU as far as respect is concerned, not just results.
 
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Libertylover

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bnicolls said:
I'm shocked you're posting during church time, or did you go last night? Glad you're not a lite beer guy, nor am I but my limit is likely 20% of your intake.

I don't think Fred Sr would be upset at me sharing this, but Joe cut to the weight he wrestled at this year to fill a hole for his team. He's growing. I would expect 165 to even 174 for Iowa as a freshman.
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Hopefully that growth is in height, not just width.
 
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Libertylover

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bnicolls said:
I'm shocked you're posting during church time, or did you go last night? Glad you're not a lite beer guy, nor am I but my limit is likely 20% of your intake.

I don't think Fred Sr would be upset at me sharing this, but Joe cut to the weight he wrestled at this year to fill a hole for his team. He's growing. I would expect 165 to even 174 for Iowa as a freshman.
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I still think he looked smaller than Bassett and most other 150-152 guys he wrestled. Maybe they cut even more.
 
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Libertylover

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MALOS said:
I fully believe that each of these kids believe they will be the starter. I doubt they decommit because someone else is at their weigh. If so, wouldn’t they have already done so — you just said 5 of them are at three weights. Two of them are already over 149 as high school juniors.
You mean we might actually have two guys competing for one spot? That’s an insane concept 😂
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Shamus was the last to commit, he definitely knew what he’s up against, love his confidence. This what’s going on in spades at PSU and even OSU now. Question is can Taylor convince them to hang around as highly paid room guys like Carl’s doing? Just a shame to see a guy like Sealy wasting his college years when we have a huge hole he could fill.
 
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Libertylover

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luthius dagan said:
He’s a Florida kid, I’ve see him wrestle. He wrestled Christopher Minto like 4 times their senior year, might have been all 4 of his losses haha. Tough kid… not an answer at 165 in my opinion.
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Anthony Ferrari was their 165 when he wasn’t injured. Did old Anthony taken a visit with him😉
 
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I had two different people message me and tell me that Endene was moving to 285. I dismissed it as nonsense....he was just 184 a couple of years ago. One insisted he kept hearing he was moving. Well.....
 
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UNIHawk said:
I had two different people message me and tell me that Endene was moving to 285. I dismissed it as nonsense....he was just 184 a couple of years ago. One insisted he kept hearing he was moving. Well.....
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Was listening to the weighing in podcast a while back think a couple of those guys used to do rankings for intermat and they were saying that was part of the problem with iowa he didn't wanna cut weight anymore but we had kueter at hwt
 
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Anon1750896976 said:
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