They can limit his weigh-ins all they want, problem is, he has to weigh-in 3 days in a row at NCAAs. With his cut, that is brutal.
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Agree it won't be easy . And no competition all year long simulates it. You would think someone would schedule 3 in a row
… but we’re talking about someone like Bouzakis being on a pitch count…the coaches know well before the weekend if they’re going to rest him, keep him home at his “walking around weight”…so then the alternate travels and wrestles…they shouldn’t have him make the cut and not wrestle… that’s the whole issue.
No. Just speculation that he might delay his enrollment as a full-time student.
Does anybody know any humans who work for and/or represent this "outlet" = The College Wrestling Report?
Website is no help, and all its content looks like it could easily have been created with AI: https://www.thecollegewrestlingreport.com/contact
Twitter's anonymous: https://x.com/TheCollegeWrR
I did manage to learn that the human being behind the newish-look The Open Mat (TOM), which once used to have its content created by the great Alex Steen, is now / has been for a few years Andrew Hipps--who himself was once a content creator and part-time owner at Intermat.
But I've got no leads on humans directing the bots that create CWR content. tia, I'll hang up & listen
The Dot Net has some fun new contributions to the discourse--including reports of hearing Mendez himself say he's going 149, and that Kade Brown is handling Bouzakis at 141...
It's no different than Cael's standing invitation to Iowa to return the favor and come here when the B1G cycles us off the schedule.
I think it's a great idea to wait honestly. I believe that when they do wrestle, im guessing about the time it's all osu recruits and Caels are gone, it will probably be a better dual than anything this year or next.
4 in the finals, 5 champs in first 2 years. His head may be getting bigger, but it isn't like the results don't warrant a growth in confidence.
I think it is smart to keep it out there. I have had a dozen friends, who are strongly interested casual fans, who ask all of the time why aren't we wrestling the Cowboys.
A match in Stillwater is on ESPN and probably sets viewership records, at PSU and the Big10 wrestling viewership sets a record. It is a match that would attract all viewers who have any wrestling interest.
David should apologize for pissing Cael off, and then ask if they can wrestle.
Heck, start it off with a Cael v David bout.
This seems to assume that Mendez will definitely go a 141, which per other recent info doesn't appear to be a done deal. Isn't Bouzakis-141 and Mendez-149 a legit possibility?
It is but it wouldn't be the best line up possible. In the end I think we see him at 141
why on earth would we drag our asses down to Stillwater? we're top dog, you come to us if you want the challenge so bad
Is this you switching from the Brown brothers (listed in WS Elig Chart as SO Kade at 149 & TRFR Karson at 141), to the Mills brothers, who are listed on the WS Elig Chart both as TRFR: Teequavious Mills at 125 & Antonio Mills at 133?
(this is me trying to learn)
I think he's joking about the Wrestlestat-ism of loading the team name at 125.
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It was just my attempt at sarcasm. El jefe caught the joke. On your screen shot "Ohio State" is listed as a sophomore at 125.
It is different because Iowa owes PSU a home dual from I think 2020.
If they don't Flo owes us a free telecast from 2017.
Okst came to Rec Hall the previous year I believe as part of National Dual Championship. I remember being there, and seeing John Smith in the bowels of Rec Hall getting interviewed afterwards… he didn’t look too happy after his squad took the L.
They owe us a 125.
2012-13.
In 2015-16 Iowa rotated off of the schedule and it was assumed Iowa would repay the PSU visit. Both sides agreed to an OOC match, but Brands (even after acknowledging he owed Cael a visit) refused to bring his team to State College. Brands insisted that PSU go to Iowa and Cael refused. In 2016 Iowa finished 5th or 6th and in a dual with PSU in front of a BTN TV audiance would have been on the receiving end of a face stomping.
2018-19 was the next time Iowa could have repaid the trip but again Brands refused.
I have concluded Brands is only going to wrestle PSU when the Big10 mandates it.
125 Luke (#1))
133 Blaze / Ono / (blaze would have be top 3- Ono not sure.... but I would have to say top 6)
141 Blaze / Desmond / Scooter (blaze would be top 3 - Desmond not sure but I would say AA and Scooter top 5)
149 SVN (gotta be #2)
157 Kasak / PJ / James / Sealy (kasak #3 / Pj #2 / Jayden top 4 / Sealy AA)
165 Mitch / PJ / Jayden (Mitch #1 / PJ #3 / Jayden top 5)
174 Levi / Mitch / Henckel (Levi #1 / Mitch #2 / Henckel AA)
184 Rocco (#2)
197 Barr (#1)
Hvy Connor / Cole (Connor #4 /Cole #5)
133 Blaze / Ono / (blaze would have be top 3- Ono not sure.... but I would have to say top 6)
141 Blaze / Desmond / Scooter (blaze would be top 3 - Desmond not sure but I would say AA and Scooter top 5)
149 SVN (gotta be #2)
157 Kasak / PJ / James / Sealy (kasak #3 / Pj #2 / Jayden top 4 / Sealy AA)
165 Mitch / PJ / Jayden (Mitch #1 / PJ #3 / Jayden top 5)
174 Levi / Mitch / Henckel (Levi #1 / Mitch #2 / Henckel AA)
184 Rocco (#2)
197 Barr (#1)
Hvy Connor / Cole (Connor #4 /Cole #5)
I'd love to see Van Ness beat this, and I think he's capable. But I don't see how he "gotta be #2" at a weight with returning national champs Henson, Valencia, Vega, and (allegedly) Mendez.
Also no way Mesenbrink is #2 at whatever weight he competes ... though we all know that will be 165.
svn is due and I think the biggest challenge out of that group would be Mendez (I'm aware of pass results). My crystal ball has him 1 or 2 when it is all over
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