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I agree it would be bad to reduce the number of weight classes, but I don't see that it necessarily follows that classes would have to be cut to make matside weigh-in feasible.

He was really good. Gave up a single point in four matches I believe...

not sure how to tell you guys this, but every country is warming faster than .... everyone

To be fair I'd emphasize that there are only a few (not so many) non-PSU fans of THIS forum that can be routinely counted on to make over-the-top whiny jealous little bitch anti-PSU posts in this thread and others.

Come on now my bother, you know we’ve established that long ago…

How about the All Atheist Team (or at least Skeptics, Agnostics, "Apatheists", philosophical Buddhists or Taoists, and even Christian Atheists ... yes they exist)? It's often the more educated or preternaturally intelligent folks who don't go in for the superstitions and fictions. I have no idea who would be on it, but here are some possibilities: Jason Welch? I can't recall religious-speak from Dake, Taylor, Askren, Stieber, Yanni, or JB ... but who knows? Among athletes who were not wrestlers, I've heard Bruce Lee, Lance Armstrong, Nadal, Ted Williams, and Diana Nyad are (or were) likely non-believers. I'm sure there are quite a few, but it's still somewhat of a taboo for public figures to share that they don't believe. And, I think, many athletes tend to project their own athletic struggles, training, and stories onto the world or universe and so frequently tend to view things in simplistic, dualistic or Manichaean ways. And/or they often believe that "faith" will help them win, perform well, or at least comfort them in loss (and there is some evidence that it serves these pragmatic functions.) In any event, sports often have religious dimensions to them and in certain respects they are a substitute or supplement for religion: https://theconversation.com/how-sport-became-the-new-religion-a-200-year-story-of-societys-great-conversion-199576 If you follow or peak in on the Penn State wrestling forum, many of the posters actually seem to worship a wrestler: "In Cael we Trust" is the de rigueur mantra.

We are seeing it. On this forum, on Twitter, on Youtube, on the Penn State boards. It's not even that PSU fans are actually against it. They just see whatever Cael says or does, and then backfill justifications to support Dear Leader.

If you and your buddies are so adamant that rules should be followed, then this is easy. Garcia broke the law and he’s being reformed.

There were only one or two judges who refused to use the Enron obstruction charge that was eventually thrown out by the Supreme Court.

"Thanks!" - all B1G coaches

Look I'm going to be real here when I say that it's super fun that Carl couldn't give two hoots while Taylor is hosting the event and Magic Man was fantastic when it came to disappearing until two domestic finals matches and worlds

You have hearings with your lawyer present to discuss bail. Also how was the law misapplied?

For all the criticism of Bono (from me included) - getting Zan on the podium was pretty cool.

Looks like Rademacher will be the 97kg U20 rep again this year (Merrill is competing at 92kg). Next year's 184 weight class is understandably getting all the attention, but 197 is going to be pretty great as well imo.

Yeah... I'm not seeing it, and I doubt you are either. I see a lot of people whining about PSU fans not wanting to go, but I don't see any actual PSU fan saying "we shouldn't go." I'm sure there's a couple if you hunt around long enough, but the "Locked On" people want them to go, Byers wants them to go (see video here (here), every PSU fan I know wants them to go. I don't even see any PSU wrestlers saying they don't want to go. But it's Cael's call, and dissent aside, no one's gonna stage a coup over this. There's always a few saying "it's not a real national dual championship if PSU isn't there," but that's also what the fans of pretty much every other school are saying too, which is why everyone wants PSU to go. I guess it sounds self-important when PSU people say it, but they aren't wrong. It's amazing how jealousy has turned so many non-PSU fans into such whiny little b*tches.

https://uwbadgers.com/news/2025/4/16/general-news-uw-athletic-board-approves-coaches-contracts.aspx

Stalin style due process. Held without bail, lengthy delays, biased judges and juries, misapplied law, and over sentencing. Some were jailed nearly four years without trial.

He placed 3rd for the final spot at the Big 8 - he defeated Steve Kelly who did not qualify for the tournament by placing 4th.

Was the alleged misconduct by the fbi and other 3 letter gov agencies admissible in their trials? similar to this where the us gov hid its stingray cellular technology until they got caught/exposed and the guy had to be released https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/03/cyrus-farivar-book-excerpt-stingray-218588/ good documentary. For the record. I think this is what it’s called https://m.imdb.com/title/tt21029130/

This is super petty. That's okay. That's your right. But crying about people being worked up when that was your goal is sad. If you're going to go heel, go full heel. Don't go half heel and then whine about people not liking it.

They literally all got due process, wtf are you talking aboit?

I'm hard pressed to see why what Cael's beef is here. I get that he's a traditionalist who doesn't want to see March's significance diluted, but this is a private invitational, not an NCAA sanctioned event. The only rationale I can come up with for PSU/Cael's refusal is that if they go, and the event is popular, then its legitimacy may carry over to a renewal of demands that there be two separate NCAA championships (dual and individual) and/or that the National Duals results factor into the March individual NCAAs. But that's probably not it, as I think Cael's opposition to National Duals predates the efforts to get it NCAA sanctioned. Besides, other coaches that were opposed to a NCAA-sanctioned dual championship are participating. So... I dunno. I do wonder how long they can hold out, though. If this ends up being a big and popular event, with all the top teams, then PSU will be even further behind than they already are in the number of competitions their guys get. It could be a tiebreaker in recruiting too. Can't imagine the guys on the team are thrilled about being left out either. Hopefully the event's a big success and Cael gives in next year.

I’m sure they do.

I wonder, a lot of those complaints include pictures of the injuries.

Criminals always admit their crimes. So he says. What do you say to him beating his wife?