Which top team has depended most on the portal this year?

[JWC]

10 hours ago, 1032004 said:

I feel like there’s less dependence on the portal this year than previously.

# of transfers in starting lineup, unless I missed any:

PSU: 2

tOSU: 1

OK State: 4 (interestingly, of their 10 starters counting Forrest, they have 22 total losses, and transfers have 17 of them)”

 

this guy counted for his share, but he’s on fire now. 

[nhs67]

2 hours ago, Caveira said:

The flo article said he entered the portal 

Ah, okay.  I stand corrected, at the very least.

[nhs67]

1 minute ago, JWC said:

this guy counted for his share, but he’s on fire now. 

It would be so cool to see these four re-enact this in twenty years.

[nhs67]

2 hours ago, Nak21 said:

Kerk was definitely a transfer. I can’t remember if he was pre portal days or early portal days. And yes I recall he committed to many a school before he actually enrolled in one and then transferred to another. 
I have no issue with the portal, kids should be able to change schools like coaches can at the drop of a hat. Fair is fair.
But I do think not all transfers are created equal. I don’t look at a 1yr mercenary the same way I do a kid who found a better fit and ended being somewhere 3-4 yrs (5 in Kerks case due to the COVID year) after being somewhere first for a hot minute.

I agree with you.

[Caveira]

3 minutes ago, nhs67 said:

Ah, okay.  I stand corrected, at the very least.

No worries boss.   It’s changing rapidly and it’s been a wild ride for the last 5/7/10 years 

I’m torn between the kids should be able to get paid and the amount of transfers makes it madness.  It’s much worse in the revenue sports too.   

Edited February 4 by Caveira

[nhs67]

1 minute ago, Caveira said:

No worries boss.   It’s changing rapidly and it’s been a wild ride for the last 5/7/10 years 

I fear we need the NCAA to stick around for wrestling to be viable at the collegiate level in the capacity we currently have (or more) and with the delineation we are going, we might not have it around for my children's children to see the same sport.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

16 hours ago, Coastal said:

WTF are you going off about.   You can read between the lines?    

Spadle asked if Ech counted as a transfer.  I said yes and gave the most obvious example of someone counting as a transfer with limited time at another school, much less wrestling activity at the same school, Ohio State, as Ech.

You'd have to be dumber than a box of rocks to take it any other way.

Again, no one asked about guys from PSU whose toes you want to lick.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

34 minutes ago, Coastal said:

Please keep your weird sexual fetishes off of this board.  We've had to drive you ALLEGED pedophiles off this place and will do it again if we have to.

You don't think it's odd that you randomly bring up guys who no one was discussing? Strangely, young Daniel Gregory happened to be from a certain school that built its athletic program on the backs of a pedophile and a pedo enabler. That was enough for me to stop supporting PSU as a program ever again... And then YOU randomly bring up pedophilia? 

Feeling guilty?

Edited February 4 by Interviewed_at_Weehawken

[fishbane]

15 hours ago, nhs67 said:

Kerk wasn't the portal, was he (pre-portal)?

Also, he followed his training partner (Snyder).

Also, also, wasn't he Christian Carrol before Christian Carrol was Christian Carrol? 6 or 7 schools before he competed?

I think Kerkvliet had committed to another school (MN?) before ultimately enrolling at Ohio State.  He only transferred the one time though unlike Carroll.

[fishbane]

ISU has wrestled some duals with 6 transfers in the lineup this season.  Aiden Riggins has wrestled 4 duals for the cyclones up at 174 filling in for MJ Gaitan.

[JimmyCinnabon]

On 2/3/2026 at 10:45 AM, 1032004 said:

I feel like there’s less dependence on the portal this year than previously.

# of transfers in starting lineup, unless I missed any:

PSU: 2

tOSU: 1

OK State: 4 (interestingly, of their 10 starters counting Forrest, they have 22 total losses, and transfers have 17 of them)

Iowa: 4 (was 5)

Minnesota: 2

ISU: 5

Nebraska: 2

VT: 3

NC State: 2

Michigan: 3

 

I guess Dresser is this year’s “most valuable purchaser”

 

I have Rocco Welsh as a portal guy starting for PSU this year. Who is the other you are talking about? Mesenbrink? 

[Dogbone]

5 hours ago, fishbane said:

I think Kerkvliet had committed to another school (MN?) before ultimately enrolling at Ohio State.  He only transferred the one time though unlike Carroll.

Minnesota -> Ok State -> Ohio State -> PSU 

https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/6032565-daniel-kerkvliet-decommits-from-minnesota-then-commits-to-oklahoma-state

[Dogbone]

20 hours ago, Nak21 said:

But I do think not all transfers are created equal. I don’t look at a 1yr mercenary the same way I do a kid who found a better fit and ended being somewhere 3-4 yrs (5 in Kerks case due to the COVID year) after being somewhere first for a hot minute.

This is a distinction I have never understood.  I don't get why it matters, like we are judging some transfers (either the athlete or the school) as superior to another. 

Guys transfers now, it happens.  To me, it doesn't matter how long they were at their previous school.  Almost all teams are using the portal as well, none of them are different or "less equal"  that any other. 

[1032004]

3 hours ago, JimmyCinnabon said:

I have Rocco Welsh as a portal guy starting for PSU this year. Who is the other you are talking about? Mesenbrink? 

Yes

[1032004]

1 hour ago, Dogbone said:

This is a distinction I have never understood.  I don't get why it matters, like we are judging some transfers (either the athlete or the school) as superior to another. 

Guys transfers now, it happens.  To me, it doesn't matter how long they were at their previous school.  Almost all teams are using the portal as well, none of them are different or "less equal"  that any other. 

Not to mention a lot of the “1 year mercenaries” particularly during the covid years had graduated and got graduate degrees at their new school, so it could be argued that is actually a “better” reason for transferring.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

2 hours ago, Coastal said:

Was Interviewed_at_Weehawken_by_Chris_Hansen too long of a name for you?

Spadle and I were having a discussion and you chimed in for no reason and then went with your depravity.   You add no value, so why are you here?

 

 

 

So sayeth the shrimping king of Central PA. 

"We were having a discussion..." Bahahahaha.  It is a private  message board.  PM if you want a private discussion.

Clearly I do add value, I have "won the day" multiple times, lol!

Edited February 4 by Interviewed_at_Weehawken

[ionel]

On 2/3/2026 at 4:36 PM, Caveira said:

The flo article said he entered the portal 

Yeah are we sure?  I agree with nhs in thinking he was pre-portal.  Flo doesn't always know just ask @Wrestleknownothing.  

[Caveira]

3 minutes ago, ionel said:

Yeah are we sure?  I agree with nhs in thinking he was pre-portal.  Flo doesn't always know just ask @Wrestleknownothing.  

Dunno I guess ha 

[1032004]

27 minutes ago, ionel said:

Yeah are we sure?  I agree with nhs in thinking he was pre-portal.  Flo doesn't always know just ask @Wrestleknownothing.  

Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic here, how would they know to call it the portal if it didn’t exist yet?

 

Edited February 5 by 1032004

[ionel]

5 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic here, how would they know to call it the portal if it didn’t exist yet?

 

When (the date/year of article) did they report he had been in the "portal?" 

[1032004]

2 minutes ago, ionel said:

When (the date/year of article) did they report he had been in the "portal?" 

Nov 2019

[ionel]

4 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Nov 2019

Well ok then.  I hereby gladly join my good buddy @nhs67 in the wrong category.  I've been here before.  

 

Edited February 5 by ionel

[1032004]

3 minutes ago, ionel said:

Well ok then.  I hereby gladly join my good buddy @nhs67 in the wrong category.  I've been here before.  

 

Not sure why that makes a difference anyway?  If we’re being technical pretty sure Echemendia never entered the portal

[fishbane]

7 hours ago, Dogbone said:

Minnesota -> Ok State -> Ohio State -> PSU 

https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/6032565-daniel-kerkvliet-decommits-from-minnesota-then-commits-to-oklahoma-state

Doesn't Carroll have that beat both in commitments and transfers.  Carroll had committed to three schools, Illinois, Penn, and OSU before ultimately enrolling at OSU.  He then never wrestled a match in an OSU singlet before transferring to ISU where he wrestled half a season before transferring to Wyoming.  So 5 schools and two transfers vs 4 schools and 1 transfer for Kerk.

Illinois -> Penn -> OSU (Transfer)-> ISU (Transfer)-> Wyoming

[ionel]

2 minutes ago, fishbane said:

Doesn't Carroll have that beat both in commitments and transfers.  

Illinois -> Penn -> OSU (Transfer)-> ISU (Transfer)-> Wyoming

He seems to be doing well.  Maybe he's finally found home.