Big 10 Session 3

heldyhawk606

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YOU give it a rest!!!! AJ has been at TWOOO skools now with NO problems, yet US/IOWA aint one of them even though his brother is here and he was here!!!!

^^^^^ THIS is the sHEEEttttt I am talking about!!!! Ceratinaly NOT saying he was an ANGEL or would have saved the program or ANYTHING like that!!!!

I AM SAYING, we?IOWA are behind AND falling farther behind INSTEAD of the opposite!!! good ol HGH head Krailure over at F*** st has ALL sorts of "Happy Valley HORSE SHeeet going on!!!! Hell just brought in the JAPanese kid..... WTF is that????? Can we get the Russian Tank????

NO we can't KEEP the F-in #1 kid in the country!!!! Then WE/IOWA takes a chance on what appears to be??? Some A$$HAT at 197, and he screws us!!!!! That story ALSO needs to be TOLD!!!! WTF happened????? I can ONLY see it as oneway!!!! That is kid walked away looking for MORE$$$$$

Well, IF that is the case, you know what FU!!!!
He had no issues at Bakersfield. But you must have missed the whole almost got extradited to Texas on a warrant this year. That doesn’t qualify as “NO problems.”
 

Iron Doc

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Man, it’s good to know you guys are still the same! Three weight classes. Three winning records. EARNED his spot wrestling up TWO weight classes. Yet the thing I am most proud of? He stood up and said “I’ll do it”. And without complaint. Gabe said it best, “there are NO weight classes in the jungle”

that is all, because you already know, ITS JUST WRESTLING!
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!
A warrior!
 
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maxpain

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I am interested in how Volk matches up with Lilledahl. He looked great against Bouzakis
 

el dub

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Man, it’s good to know you guys are still the same! Three weight classes. Three winning records. EARNED his spot wrestling up TWO weight classes. Yet the thing I am most proud of? He stood up and said “I’ll do it”. And without complaint. Gabe said it best, “there are NO weight classes in the jungle”

that is all, because you already know, ITS JUST WRESTLING!
Congrats to you and Gabe, Phil…
 

WEH8ST8HAWK

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this stupid interpretation has to be changed. how many times are we going to see this. Award aggressive wrestling! If there is loss of control, hold 1, let them go for a reversal, if they don't get it, retro award the one and let action continue.
You obviously can't do that. If the top guy regains control you would have to give him another 3 then.
 

InTheCircle

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Oh, look. An ignorant comment from you. What else is new?


Two things can be true…

Iowa wrestled well today.

The above take is laughable. The seeding system was a joke.
Agreed, however, As. Team Iowa wrestlers are going to finish about where they should have been seeded, except Ferrari.
On a less positive note, Our team
Score took a small hit because of the ridiculous seeding.
 

Libertylover

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He has looked good...I guess having functional hands is important in wrestling!
My fear is that his performance this weekend might move him up to the 8/9 line. I think he can wrestle with almost anyone at 141 if this is how he performs...but not Mendez.
Maybe he needed the other hand injured for balanced feeling.
 

Libertylover

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^^^ This is one of the B1Gest problems I have with our current program!!! If nothing else!!!! Do NOT get called for STALLING!!!! That was a HUGE reason I started following IOWA back in the day.

GABLE era HAWKS just KEPT COMING!!!! IF I was TnT, that might be where I start. Every time you back out I would tell the wrestlers, you have 1 stadium stairs to run!!!

Hit for stalling, You run an entire circuit!!!! ANYTHING more, you run till you drop PERIOD!!!
Ironically, if Dan Dennis would have stalled a little, he would be a national champion.
 

BringBackBradBanks

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Ironically, if Dan Dennis would have stalled a little, he would be a national champion.
Just think how far we’ve fallen since that 2010 national tournament in Omaha. Hell we should have had four national champs that night, I think we had three with Matt M, Metcalf, and Borschel winning and Dennis and Marion in the finals. Now we only have one Big Ten finalist and the future is looking even bleaker next season.
 
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Libertylover

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6 guys already finishing above seed.
PK only guy not wrestle to his seed? Love PK, but he seems to be fading at the wrong time. Don’t see top 4 like last year, but hopefully sneak onto podium. He’s a guy who really got the most out of his limited athletic abilities, kind of like TnT. He was horribly overrated in high school because he was physically mature at a young age, and his pressure and tenacity will beat many high schoolers. Caliendo was basically the opposite rating wise. PK being top 5 pfp gave us way too high of expectations.
 
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BringBackBradBanks

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PK only guy not wrestle to his seed? Love PK, but he seems to be fading at the wrong time. Don’t see top 4 like last year, but hopefully sneak onto podium. He’s a guy who really got the most out of his limited athletic abilities, kind of like TnT. He was horribly overrated in high school because he was physically mature at a young age, and his pressure and tenacity will beat many high schoolers. Caliendo was basically the opposite rating wise. PK being top 5 pfp gave us way too high of expectations.
I think PK is a guy that wouldn’t surprise me If he makes it to a national final. Just like it equally wouldn’t surprise me if he went 1 and 2 at nationals. When you wrestle a lot of close defensive matches, a lot of strange things can happen, good and bad.
 
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Squatch96

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I think PK is a guy that wouldn’t surprise me If he makes it to a national final. Just like it equally wouldn’t surprise me if he went 1 and 2 at nationals. When you wrestle a lot of close defensive matches, a lot of strange things can happen, good and bad.
Yah he always kinda makes you nervous he had a similar big tens last year and turned it around and a great Ncaas we shall see
 

Libertylover

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Yeah, I probably didn't need the exclamation point. I feel better about Block up a weight next year just because it seems like he's had a tough time with the cut, and lack of energy, multiple times this year. He's big, and filling out to a 157 seems like a plus for him.
Insane to think he or the coaches thought he was a 141 at about 6ft. He has decent shoulders, not crazy scrawny.
 

Libertylover

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YEP!!!! Will also say, the kid Mirasola is good, but a 197 wrestling heavy. I am sure Krailure and F*** st will try and JUICE em up like they always do? but this is where as an IOWA "rep", you get in his ear!!!

"hey come wrestle 197 for us, instead of wasting yo time with those POS!!!"

AND don't give me any recruiting crap either!!!!
His brother is a good 197 that may sit all but the last year of his career behind Bar. Joe Sealy may sit every year of his career, crazy for a top 6 pfp guy. Don’t give me this freestyle crap either. You only get to experience the attention you get from passionate college fans once, and guys like this shouldn’t be room guys during their college days. I remember someone who didn’t understand wrestling interviewing Spencer when he was starting his senior freestyle career after graduating. They asked him if he was ready for the huge crowds at the freestyle events, and Spencer set him straight, saying most fan interest and big crowds at competitions, other than Olympics, happens in college wrestling. He said he will be wrestling in mostly empty arenas.
 

WillieTheBrain

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VV's situation

InterMatNameSchoolCONFAllocation
157 (4)Four Available
#7Vinny ZerbanIowa St.Big 12Yes
#16Teague TravisMissouriBig 12No
#18Dylan EvansPittACCYes
#20Mason ShraderC. MichiganMACYes
#24Tony WhiteRutgersBig TenYes
#27Stoney BuellPurdueBig TenYes
#32Jonathan LeyNavyEIWAYes
NRVictor VoinovichIowaBig TenNo
 

Squatch96

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VV's situation

InterMatNameSchoolCONFAllocation
157 (4)Four Available
#7Vinny ZerbanIowa St.Big 12Yes
#16Teague TravisMissouriBig 12No
#18Dylan EvansPittACCYes
#20Mason ShraderC. MichiganMACYes
#24Tony WhiteRutgersBig TenYes
#27Stoney BuellPurdueBig TenYes
#32Jonathan LeyNavyEIWAYes
NRVictor VoinovichIowaBig TenNo
Your doing the lord's work willie!! thanks for laying that out. Hope your recovery goes well!
 

VakAttack

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there was a reason Minto had that reaction
I'm sure there was! I like all of that stuff, I wasn't criticizing Minto, but taking my team's side in the smacktalk!

I think my favorite thing of the whole B1G Finals was PJ Duke, a wrestler on my least favorite team, just beating the ever loving piss out of Antrell Taylor, and then doing the bullying head shoves. I like the extra stuff as long as it's not actual risk of injury.
 

Squatch96

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Seems pretty standard from are corner wasnt the 2021 big tens with very little fans you could here the Brands on the broadcast saying the same thing lol
 

ctoun

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Seems more to me like encouraging Kennedy to keep fighting, but I can see how it could be taken the other way from the opposing wrestler.
 
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JoeBagobagels

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His brother is a good 197 that may sit all but the last year of his career behind Bar. Joe Sealy may sit every year of his career, crazy for a top 6 pfp guy. Don’t give me this freestyle crap either. You only get to experience the attention you get from passionate college fans once, and guys like this shouldn’t be room guys during their college days. I remember someone who didn’t understand wrestling interviewing Spencer when he was starting his senior freestyle career after graduating. They asked him if he was ready for the huge crowds at the freestyle events, and Spencer set him straight, saying most fan interest and big crowds at competitions, other than Olympics, happens in college wrestling. He said he will be wrestling in mostly empty arenas.
Well those guys seem to look at it differently.