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[Ragu]

Antonio Mills with an insanely clutch TD, holy smokes

[okokzach]

Awful way to end it. 0-0 and Jordyn Raney pulls something in his ankle and can't continue 

[Hilton Head Joe]

Dang Merrill looks juiced like a WWE wrestler. He is absolutely huge? Arms? My gosh if he is natural his genetics are superior and he will dominate at the next level and beyond!

Edited yesterday at 01:27 AM by Hilton Head Joe

[Truzzcat]

15 minutes ago, okokzach said:

Awful way to end it. 0-0 and Jordyn Raney pulls something in his ankle and can't continue 

really praying it was not his Achilles. Do not really have any other thoughts on what else could have happened given the replay. He seemed super ready for Bo's pace I think it was going to be an incredible match. Watching him cry and say he couldn't continue was absolutely heartbreaking.

[Psalm 1 guy]

1 hour ago, Truzzcat said:

really praying it was not his Achilles. Do not really have any other thoughts on what else could have happened given the replay. He seemed super ready for Bo's pace I think it was going to be an incredible match. Watching him cry and say he couldn't continue was absolutely heartbreaking.

The mechanism of injury reminded me of when Suriano got injured against Piccininni his freshman year at Penn State.

Edited yesterday at 02:45 AM by Psalm 1 guy
Misspelling

[Hoyt Matthews]

6 hours ago, Truzzcat said:

I know morgan turner took third at Illinois state when she weighed like 90lbs wrestling 106 I feel like I recall Audry placing in Arizona as well. Fun fact I  got leftie headlocked and pinned by the same girl on two separate occasions in fifth grade.

Audrey won AZ State her senior year. Back in the day Michaela Hutchinson may have won Alaska state, definitely placed, just not sure if she won. 

[BruceyB]

@Truzzcat Sorry I missed out on more back and forth banter. Had to make dinner and pause the stream for a while. 

Key takeaways: 

Dekraker vs Wolbert was frustrating for me. Dekraker got that clean throw by, and then for the rest of the match basically just let his head get buried and clung to elbows to prevent any action. I get that it's kind of tough to stall calling there, but I think he should have been hit at some point as he really shut it down for 2/3 of the match and Wolbert was pushing the action that entire time.

Ariah Mills was my MVP, I get some people may disagree because it was 106, but I am extremely curious how good he is going to be. He absolutely dominated a Fargo champ.

Zinkin needs to improve his short offense. It felt like half the match was spent with him having a front headlock and Sidun clinging to an elbow. But Sidun struck so fast and scored very cleanly multiple times.

Merrill is going to be an absolute problem to score on for anyone. But man, his matches are absolute snoozers. 

If Mendoza can clean up his finishes, he is going to be so good at the next level. He seemed to have a huge advantage when it came to attacks in neutral, but Raney was able to get an ankle and prevent him from converting. Then the cradle happened.

 

 

[Truzzcat]

7 hours ago, BruceyB said:

@Truzzcat Sorry I missed out on more back and forth banter. Had to make dinner and pause the stream for a while. 

Key takeaways: 

Dekraker vs Wolbert was frustrating for me. Dekraker got that clean throw by, and then for the rest of the match basically just let his head get buried and clung to elbows to prevent any action. I get that it's kind of tough to stall calling there, but I think he should have been hit at some point as he really shut it down for 2/3 of the match and Wolbert was pushing the action that entire time.

Ariah Mills was my MVP, I get some people may disagree because it was 106, but I am extremely curious how good he is going to be. He absolutely dominated a Fargo champ.

Zinkin needs to improve his short offense. It felt like half the match was spent with him having a front headlock and Sidun clinging to an elbow. But Sidun struck so fast and scored very cleanly multiple times.

Merrill is going to be an absolute problem to score on for anyone. But man, his matches are absolute snoozers. 

If Mendoza can clean up his finishes, he is going to be so good at the next level. He seemed to have a huge advantage when it came to attacks in neutral, but Raney was able to get an ankle and prevent him from converting. Then the cradle happened.

 

 

Agree across the board. Raneys ability to pull in shots from being fully extended really impresses me its kinda like yianni. I also thought nicky singer was very impressive. Kellen did not look like the same guy from fargo his output was very down.

[nhs67]

18 hours ago, BruceyB said:

The whole Mills family and having 19 kids and the wrestling background with the brothers is fascinating to me. Looking forward to this match with Antonio and seeing Ariah later on.

What?

[nhs67]

12 hours ago, BruceyB said:

@Truzzcat Sorry I missed out on more back and forth banter. Had to make dinner and pause the stream for a while. 

Key takeaways: 

Dekraker vs Wolbert was frustrating for me. Dekraker got that clean throw by, and then for the rest of the match basically just let his head get buried and clung to elbows to prevent any action. I get that it's kind of tough to stall calling there, but I think he should have been hit at some point as he really shut it down for 2/3 of the match and Wolbert was pushing the action that entire time.

Ariah Mills was my MVP, I get some people may disagree because it was 106, but I am extremely curious how good he is going to be. He absolutely dominated a Fargo champ.

Zinkin needs to improve his short offense. It felt like half the match was spent with him having a front headlock and Sidun clinging to an elbow. But Sidun struck so fast and scored very cleanly multiple times.

Merrill is going to be an absolute problem to score on for anyone. But man, his matches are absolute snoozers. 

If Mendoza can clean up his finishes, he is going to be so good at the next level. He seemed to have a huge advantage when it came to attacks in neutral, but Raney was able to get an ankle and prevent him from converting. Then the cradle happened.

 

 

Wolbert and Mendoza will be teammates in Ann Arbor.  Looking forward to that.

I am excited for both of them, despite the losses.

Merrill won't be a problem.  Ross has zero problems scoring on him.  Mocco just doesn't... wrestle him?  I don't get it.

Will Zinkin be a 125/133lb version of Andonian?

[nhs67]

5 hours ago, Truzzcat said:

Agree across the board. Raneys ability to pull in shots from being fully extended really impresses me its kinda like yianni. I also thought nicky singer was very impressive. Kellen did not look like the same guy from fargo his output was very down.

What impressed me with Raney is that he was 121lbs for Greco Worlds a few weeks ago.

[BruceyB]

1 hour ago, nhs67 said:

What?

Yes. The Mills family has 19 children.

[BruceyB]

Oh, one other takeaway: Zinkin IIRC was literally the only Senior that was still 17. Every other athlete that I recall was already the age they should be turn by completion of their grade (ie: 16 for Soph, 17 Jr, 18 Sr) or older. Ariah Mills is already 16 as a Freshman. I knew hold backs were common, but I didn't realize that everyone was a year older for their grade. 

I'm sure a couple of athletes are the natural year for their grade and just have September/early October birthdays, but I'm assuming the vast majority of these athletes will be turning a year older during this school year. The holdbacks don't bother me but I couldn't help but notice.

[MNRodent]

2 hours ago, BruceyB said:

Yes. The Mills family has 19 children.

Are they Amish?

[HokieDave87]

4 hours ago, BruceyB said:

Oh, one other takeaway: Zinkin IIRC was literally the only Senior that was still 17. Every other athlete that I recall was already the age they should be turn by completion of their grade (ie: 16 for Soph, 17 Jr, 18 Sr) or older. Ariah Mills is already 16 as a Freshman. I knew hold backs were common, but I didn't realize that everyone was a year older for their grade. 

I'm sure a couple of athletes are the natural year for their grade and just have September/early October birthdays, but I'm assuming the vast majority of these athletes will be turning a year older during this school year. The holdbacks don't bother me but I couldn't help but notice.

These days it seems like the norm, you're either older for your grade or you hold back. Parents want kids ready to go w/o a redshirt year. Just the world we live in.

[okokzach]

Antonio Mills flipped from Mizzou to tOSU 

[BruceyB]

2 hours ago, okokzach said:

Antonio Mills flipped from NC State to Mizzou to tOSU 

FTFY