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 December 16 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 December 18 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.  

[flyingcement]

Evan Bates is off to a heck of a start for someone with a losing record last year (although he did qualify for nationals)

[ionel]

What about Hamiti?  He just teched the #4 kid.  Did he tech any top 5 guys last ?  I guarantee I know one poster who would approve.  

[1032004]

1 hour ago, ionel said:

What about Hamiti?  He just teched the #4 kid.  Did he tech any top 5 guys last ?  I guarantee I know one poster who would approve.  

He did major the returning NCAA finalist as a true freshman before 3 pt takedowns

[H82Lose]

Zeth Romney

[pokemonster]

I second Paddy Gallagher. 

[flyingcement]

8 hours ago, ionel said:

What about Hamiti?  He just teched the #4 kid.  Did he tech any top 5 guys last ?  I guarantee I know one poster who would approve.  

The Hamiti we saw last night was the Hamiti we saw his true freshman year and then never again.  He's back.

[funnyfletcher]

Isaac Dean, had no clue who he was until CKLV. 12-14 last year

[Gus]

11 minutes ago, funnyfletcher said:

Isaac Dean, had no clue who he was until CKLV. 12-14 last year

He is a space mountain nominee. He beats Berge (SDSU starter) and then loses to Fettig (SDSU backup) who is not even close to Berge. 

[flyingcement]

14 minutes ago, Gus said:

He is a space mountain nominee. He beats Berge (SDSU starter) and then loses to Fettig (SDSU backup) who is not even close to Berge. 

And then he went ahead and beat Jaxon Smith this morning as well.  haha

[WrestlingFan89]

56 minutes ago, Gus said:

He is a space mountain nominee. He beats Berge (SDSU starter) and then loses to Fettig (SDSU backup) who is not even close to Berge. 

Are you sure that it was actually Fettig and not just a mistake on trackwrestling?  He then beat both Smith and Heller.

[Wrestleknownothing]

18 minutes ago, WrestlingFan89 said:

Are you sure that it was actually Fettig and not just a mistake on trackwrestling?  He then beat both Smith and Heller.

If it is a trackwrestling mistake, it is shared by wrestlestat. They could have the same source or track could be wrestlestat's source. Or they could both be correct. Not sure.

[funnyfletcher]

22 minutes ago, WrestlingFan89 said:

Are you sure that it was actually Fettig and not just a mistake on trackwrestling?  He then beat both Smith and Heller.

SDSU twitter shows it was Fettig

https://x.com/GoJacksWrestle/status/1870141903381115017

 

[1032004]

That’s odd that they wouldn’t want Berge to try to avenge the loss

[Gus]

1 hour ago, 1032004 said:

That’s odd that they wouldn’t want Berge to try to avenge the loss

Agreed. Not sure what the deal was there. 

[RawDog]

It's going to end up being Ramos, going from dnp to champ