Next Year’s Lineup '26

rcsone1

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Aug 15, 2023
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...yes, he was Chris Taylor....who, as I remember, was a great guy...but I do not remember anyone larger being his effective...it seems he and his brother are not much in exchanged regards. I heard somewhere that they were raised about 250 miles apart and did not have anything much in common. Daniel C. has never mentioned the bigger C....?
Chris Taylor?
 

Old Number Nine

All-Conference
Jan 20, 2005
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...currently I would favor Merrill in a competitive tractor pull contest with one of small to medium size...as he continues to eat and GROW will he be the first authentic heavy weight like one in the '70's at Iowa State whose name I cannot recall but I remember him from OSU contests in person...
Chris Taylor weighed over 400 lbs when he enrolled as a freshman. There is no heavy weight class anymore, it's 285
 

Old Number Nine

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Jan 20, 2005
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Lets just jump now to 125, 135, 145, 155, 165, 175, 185, 195, 205, 305. Or start at 120 and ending at 200 and 300.

I've never understood the logic (if there is any) of the different pound increases in the weight divisions and the 300 just seems logical to me.
 

Btbw1968

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Jul 1, 2025
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I think the average human is in the middle and 8 pound increments provide for more weight classes where the average male weighs.
I went to a small town school and we rarely had heavier or lower weight wrestlers and forfeited many of the larger and smaller weights in duals. My normal weight was around 184 and I could choose to wrestle 168 or 178 considering how much I wanted to pull.