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Any chance we lose these two to the greco world? Jayden is in the open finals for seniors and Jordyn has a cadet gold and bronze.

Good one! But no, Nick has room for more bar fighters at Grand View! "He's not as bad as Andrew" is how he pitches it to his administration lol

is this her? no one is above the law right?

I'm all for leaving it up to the athlete, but asking for their hometown isn't the same asking for their state of wrestling origin. If you asked me for mind, I'd give a different state for each, as what I call my hometown isn't the state that I'd say produced me as a wrestler. Regardless, your points are well taken, especially when you're in the wrestling media as you are -- that is, you need to have an approach which, despite its potential inaccuracies, can't be said to be borne of bias. And, as you mention, you're paid by your output, not by the hour. For me, though, since I don't have to answer to anyone besides online hecklers and angry Arizonans as I bask in anonymity, I'll stick to my way. :]

Poking around, it looks like the Bout Board function or the Dashboard on USABracketing are probably going to be the best bets for mat assignments.

still haven't named the judge

nice job by flo

Or cry through the beers...

Dake weighed in at 84.3kg (186 lbs)

There’s always exceptions in both directions - so I feel the hometown distinction BY THE ATHLETE will balance out - for every Bartlett, there’s a counter so it’ll all be a wash in the long run anyway. i’ve lived in my current house longer than any other place. I’m a Minnesota resident but I will always claim Virginia as where I’m from. And I don’t think there’s a solution that can be easily deduced. Unless my time gets paid for to go year by year, athlete by athlete - and even then, that decision can come under added scrutiny.

There's not a crying reaction, so I guess I'll have to laugh through the tears

Brackets are out. How do you find mat assignments though?

Rv has to wait for the next mini news cycle (few hours maybe) so the press can tell him his next argument. Give him some time. Sheesh

Federal Law does not distinguish between a judge dong this, or a normal citizen. What RV wants is to have some people above the law. But he was complaining about that not long ago. It's ok today, not tomorrow. Maybe RV is just upset that it happened to a WI judge. Well, the WI judge should not have broken federal law. Immigration law hasn't changed. Enforcement has. mspart

Studs, Dad is a solid mofo too.

Your quote said something like. Bla bla stop posting put the phone down. Approx 10 hours after we stopped posting and put the phone down. “There is a pretty big wrestling tournament this weekend”. if you weren’t referring to the us open. Fine. But that isn’t the most exciting tourney to me …. I find freestyle boring. I’ll check out the results though but I won’t watch.

Interesting reply, given that the wrestling was but one of the options mentioned. But hey, by all means…

If they don’t stick what are you mad about? Judges aren’t allowed to violate federal law boss. can’t help an illegal alien get away. Cya in the back of a cell.

Charges won't stick. Whether it was right or wrong, this was done as part of her job, not as an ordinary citizen.

They are men, not boys. Lame.

For those who want a lame narrative. Black is their last name. Anyone wanting to focus on anything but that can STFU and GTFOH, all respects due.

Page says brackets released at 9:30 AM local time. It is now 9:37 AM. Sadface.

This has been a topic of debate on this forum and its predecessor for 20 years. It was especially contentious when Blair was tops and Sem wasn't a factor, as the NJ folks would want to take credit for every kid who ever wore a Blair singlet, no matter how short the duration, while Blair haters wanted to deny them credit for anyone who ever lived outside of NJ, no matter how much Blair developed them. Examples: Was Mark Perry from OK, where he trained under the Smith family, or from NJ, for spending 4 years at Blair? Was Mocco from NJ, from his Blair years, or MD, where he was thru his freshman year? How about Jordan Oliver, who was in NJ junior high stud before moving to PA for high school? Heck, the Wyoming crowd (such as it was) thought David Taylor should be considered a WY kid as he only moved to OH somewhere in junior high when he was already a killer and wanted better competition. I understand and respect your approach, and that of @Jason Bryant , to just look at what hometown the kid lists, as that has the benefit of simplicity, removes the bias, and takes the question out of the hands of squabbling fans. But I still don't like it. My main issue is the whole idea of looking at state of origin is to try to measure which state "produces" the best wrestlers, not which state happens to have the most number of kids who once lived there. If, say, Luke Lilledahl moved from Missouri to PA his senior year, and his family did too, such that his hometown is now PA, should PA take credit for him? No way, and I'd side with the Missouri folks balking at that. I think everyone would. I think that's a built-in flaw with the hometown approach. At minimum I think you need to make exceptions for those situations. But it works the other way too. A kid can list his hometown as a place where he didn't do squat as a wrestler, and was coached up elsewhere. I don't see why the hometown should get "credit" there. Lets say 2 kids from Hawaii, who are good but far from great, go to a Blair type boarding school as freshmen, where both become elite wrestlers. Both kids love NJ, and compete on NJ's squad in state/freestyle duals/Fargo. Kid 1's family moves with him, so now his "hometown" is NJ. Kid 2's dad has a job in Hawaii he can't leave, so the family never moves, such that their "hometown" is still HI. Does it make sense to say that, just because of kid 2's dad's job, one's from NJ and the other HI? Over the years, an uneasy consensus sort of developed on the boards that if a kid spent 4 years at a given school, *and* chose to compete for that school's state team (e.g. Fargo) during that time, then he's "produced" by that school for purposes of these calculations. So by the same standard that everyone grudgingly agreed, say, Mark Perry should be treated as a "NJ kid" for these purposes (despite his legit OK roots), Bartlett would be a "PA kid" (despite his legit AZ roots). I'd readily admit that's still imperfect, since these days, kids start crazy early, and the top kids are already killers by the time they hit 9th grade. Bartlett, for example, trained under Beloglazov out west, and did win preps as a freshman, so I can't get too huffy about PA not getting "credit" for him. But you could say the same about any of these other guys I mentioned who excelled elsewhere before finding a new high school, whose state takes credit for their accomplishments. You have to draw the line somewhere. Am I overthinking this? Yeah, probably, but I'd use the "4 years HS + competing for that state" test over the "what they say their hometown is" approach.

Make up your mind. Do you want due process or not.