Most Improved Wrestler vs Last Season

[1032004]

I nominate Cal State Bakersfield heavyweight Jake Andrews.

Freshman year: 1-10

Sophomore year: 1-17

Last year: 7-16, best win was over wrestlestat #75, a backup for Cal Poly

So far this year: 7-2, best win is over 2x NQ and wrestlestat #31 Trevor Tinker of Cal Poly and also has wins over wrestlestat #60 and 69, the most recent of which was a major decision in their dual against Michigan State.

Dare I say possibly training with the Focus could have helped him?

Any other nominations?  Cal Poly’s Zeth Romney could be an option, but he was already pretty good last season.  But he did lose 16-3 Evan Frost at CKLV last year only to beat him 7-3 this year.

Edited Monday at 01:36 AM by 1032004

[Gus]

I’ll give a shout out to Drake Rhodes.

[ionel]

31 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

I nominate Cal State Bakersfield heavyweight Jake Andrews.

Dare I say possibly training with the Focus could have helped him?

How are his splits?

[Lunaticfringe]

Vance VomBaur has basically solidified he wasn’t a fluke AA. He’s been breaking matches open. He was losing those close matches last year. By the end he was winning those matches at NCAAs with his crazy pace.

[Truzzcat]

If we are doing simply from last year to this year I'm going Eddie ventresca. 2-7 vs d1 comp to 10-1 but even if you look at the year he AA'd he was 15-7 going into NCAA's.

[Konquest]

Paddy Gallagher

[D3 for LU]

On 12/16/2024 at 10:24 AM, Truzzcat said:

If we are doing simply from last year to this year I'm going Eddie ventresca. 2-7 vs d1 comp to 10-1 but even if you look at the year he AA'd he was 15-7 going into NCAA's.

That's a good pick... as a returning AA the season before last, he certainly hit that bad streak.

This season he's on fire... lets see how he goes on further into the season, yes?

D3

[flyingcement]

One guy in the running is Brendan McCrone.  Everyone assumed Kilkeary would take the weight this year but McCrone had other plans

Edited 13 hours ago by flyingcement

[MPhillips]

1 minute ago, flyingcement said:

McCrone

I thought he was pretty good last season...

[flyingcement]

1 minute ago, MPhillips said:

I thought he was pretty good last season...

He was for sure.  I think this version of McCrone is an AA though.