AFTER WATCHING Penn State last night, has any team ever had 8 finalist's (in the NCAA) before in the modern era?

[Paul158]

I predict they will have 8 semi-finalists. Excellent chance to have 6 in the finals, maybe more.

[Jim L]

On 2/1/2025 at 1:59 PM, jackwebster said:

But other than recency bias, why does it feel different? It does feel different, no?

To me if feels different because the state of college wrestling is in much worse state than during the Gable era, based on the number DI teams.

Also NIL and transfer rules seem that they will negatively effect 95% of the remaining college teams. Having one dominant team and a very limited number that can even compete for a podium spot makes the future of NCAA DI wrestling uncertain. 

[Paul158]

I still believe barring sickness or injury Penn State has a good chance of having 8 finalists. But no one can predict unforeseen injuries or sickness. Penn is State is looking really good right now.

[666]

On 2/3/2025 at 6:32 PM, Jim L said:

To me if feels different because the state of college wrestling is in much worse state than during the Gable era, based on the number DI teams.

Also NIL and transfer rules seem that they will negatively effect 95% of the remaining college teams. Having one dominant team and a very limited number that can even compete for a podium spot makes the future of NCAA DI wrestling uncertain. 

Dumb question: how far into a season can a guy hit the transfer portal and still qualify for NCAAs? Also, how would you handle seeding that guy?  For example, say Buchanon transfers to Ohio State this week (assuming that was possible), would his B1G wins at Iowa count towards his conference seeding while he was wrestling for Ohio State? Probably, I think. 

Anyway, it occurs to me that if a guy had a lot of money he could basically buy himself an NCAA championship team each season. If I was a wrestler making $300k a year in NIL money and a crazy ISU billionaire alumni came along and offered me $5 million to change to ISU I'd be a moron not to accept the offer. I'm thinking NIL is going to be very bad for wrestling's competitiveness. Some clown billionaire could come in an basically take over college wrestling. 

Edited Tuesday at 06:06 PM by 666

[SocraTease]

Penn State had a 60 match win streak, I think, before losing to Iowa and beginning their present 70 match win streak. 

130-1 over the last decade.  Insane.   A 99.2 percent winning percentage. They are creeping up on the reliability of death and taxes.

[BruceyB]

1 hour ago, 666 said:

Anyway, it occurs to me that if a guy had a lot of money he could basically buy himself an NCAA championship team each season. If I was a wrestler making $300k a year in NIL money and a crazy ISU billionaire alumni came along and offered me $5 million to change to ISU I'd be a moron not to accept the offer. I'm thinking NIL is going to be very bad for wrestling's competitiveness.

Wait until you see what's happening in college football..

[Jason Bryant]

43 minutes ago, SocraTease said:

Penn State had a 60 match win streak, I think, before losing to Iowa and beginning their present 70 match win streak. 

130-1 over the last decade.  Insane.   A 99.2 percent winning percentage. They are creeping up on the reliability of death and taxes.

They lost to Arizona State and Iowa in that span. 

[666]

1 minute ago, BruceyB said:

Wait until you see what's happening in college football..

I saw Ohio State buy a title this year