About every wrestler who is signed to us, or committed us or is a target of ours has dropped in the rankings. Most of that drop is because of injuries and even long term injuries. Dopps is obviously a guy who is close to a walkon and he would have to develop unbelievably to wrestle much for the Cowboys. We need to get Voinovich but he has lost a lot of matches this year as documented by Wrassler, so a drop in the rankings is understandable.
The 2022 class is a real key and several members of that class were wrote about above but future Cowboys possibly and their ranking are: Jordan Williams the 5th rated prospect in this class is at 126, Anthony Ferrari is rated 8th in the class and is at 145, Rylan Rogers is rated 10th in the class and wrestles 182, John Wiley is rated 19th in the class and wrestles 138 although I've seen him wrestling 145, Zac Blankenship is rated 20th in the class and is wrestling 132, and Troy Sprately is rated 23rd and wrestles 120. An important recruiting class in 2022.
That must have been on Jan. 30th as they were scheduled to wrestle at Mustang. I also would have liked to have seen that match. I have not seen Surber this year as he was still on the mend early. He is tall but would be much lankier in build compared to Picklo who looks big for 182.
I wish he would have gone to ISU, 35 just got a little harder. He beat Young Mastro for the junior world team last year 2 matches to 1.
Wrassler17 of the above three I believe Jordan Williams is the must get-not to say that other two are not great.
So I went and checked out the board. Bunch of crap about how John “uses” and “screws over” a ton of wrestlers. They brought up Marsteller as an example.
I asked Seth over on PFB+ if he knew anything about it. If he replies I’ll let you guys know.
I would never trust the NCAA and what they might do or might not do. They have developed into a pitiful organization who look out for themselves and who is giving them the most money. Look at Missouri getting kicked in the head by the NCAA and North Carolina whose academic abuses were far greater and went on far longer and they got a slap on the wrists by the NCAA.
I just went to the upper weights and found out Travis Mastrogiavanni isn't wrestling in this very tough 152 weight class where had a chance for payback against a guy who upset him earlier in the year in the Iron Man finals.
Burks is in the Nebraska finals at 132 with a tech, 4 to 2, and 10 to 3 wins. Haas is in the semi's 5AA region and is 22-0 with 2 first period pins. John Wiley 145 is 12-0 and is in the finals with 3 1st period pins 6A West Region finals. Carter Young is in the finals 6A East. Cael Hughes is in the finals 6A East 38-0 with 2 first period pins and a 1st period tech fall.
Surber is in the 4A West Regional finals at 182 with 3 1st period pins. Harley Andrews is in the 195 finals with 2 1st period pins in 4A West Regional.
Doucette is in the 3A West Regional finals at 220 with 3 1st period pins. Spratley at 120 is in the 5A East Regional finals with 2 1st period pins. Jordan Williams is in the 5A East finals with 2 pins at 126.
I just picked up the scores on track wrestling and I am not aware of where these matches could be watched.
This morning I watched Rylan Rogers win at 182 at the National Preps and he is a sophomore who looks more like a 170 than a 182. Very quick like in the semi's he had 7 takedowns in the first period. Saw him use the assassin in several of his matches. He has a very good low single that he uses a lot.
Burks lost in the finals at 132 in overtime 4 to 2 to knopick who is a decent wrestler but still Burks can't score more than 2 points. I am sure Burks could wrestle 126 but still not to be a Nebraska State Champ his senior year is not good. Knopick is a junior who is rated 81st in the 2021 class.
