2026 NCAA Championship Session III Thread

SRATH

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Heard Steiber on the mat 3 broadcast yelling at the ref saying “he (Mendez) chased him around the mat the entire 3rd period. I’m trying to win the Hodge.”

Pretty goofy comment to make for a guy that sat in Paddy’s corner while Messenbrink chased him around all 3rd period (obviously giving him that instruction).
He may have something in his comp related to it
 

Potterlion

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Not to count chickens, but SVN's semi-final match is imminently winnable and #2 Joy (who many thought was Van Ness' only competition here) just lost. Very nice. Just win and advance PSU, win and advance.
 

zzs006

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These 157 quarters are ******* fire!! So good. I hate rooting for OkSt but I want Robideau to beat Larkin. Duke can smash Robideau I think. Probably Larkin too but he’s so long and funky it might give Pj some problems
 
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Tom McAndrew

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To folks complaining about the stalemate call in SV-1 (in SVN's match): those can be tough. As a ref, you try to give the wrestlers every opportunity to score points. But you're also aware in SV that situations where nobody can improve are just wasting precious time. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't, situation on making the call. FWIW, I thought the stalemate should have been called. But just as it was called SVN did clear his foot, and would have gotten the TD -- something you HATE to see as a ref, but you can't take back the call.
 

RS17

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I thought I was watching freestyle with all the fake timeouts to get their guy a break.
 

GregPickel

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Full NCAA semifinals
125 pounds:
No. 1 Luke Lilledahl, Penn State vs. No. 5 Troy Spratley of Oklahoma State
No. 14 Jacob Moran of Iowa vs. No. 10 Marc-Anthony McGowan of Princeton

133 pounds:
No. 3 Marcus Blaze, PSU vs. No. 2 Ben Davino of Ohio State
No. 4 Aaron Seidel of Virginia Tech vs. No. 1 Jax Forrest of Oklahoma State

141 pounds:
No. 5 Luke Stanich of Lehigh vs. No. 1 Jesse Mendez of Ohio State
No. 3 Brock Hardy of Nebraska vs. No. 2 Sergio Vega of Oklahoma State

149 pounds:
No. 1 Shayne Van Ness, PSU vs. No. 20 Chance Lamer of Nebraska vs.
No. 11 Lachlan McNeil of Michigan vs. No. 10 Adam Valencia of Stanford
 

F7Mello

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To folks complaining about the stalemate call in SV-1 (in SVN's match): those can be tough. As a ref, you try to give the wrestlers every opportunity to score points. But you're also aware in SV that situations where nobody can improve are just wasting precious time. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't, situation on making the call. FWIW, I thought the stalemate should have been called. But just as it was called SVN did clear his foot, and would have gotten the TD -- something you HATE to see as a ref, but you can't take back the call.
Luv ya, but now is NOT the time to be rationale
 

Lil Nicky Scarfo

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Got through the part of the lineup where Ok State might have a bit of an advantage overall only losing a point to them (difference between Jax’s 1.5 bonus points and Davis’ 1/2 point
 
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