Jax is A Go

[Elevator]

Looks like his freestyle success is going to translate to collegiate folkstyle pretty well. 133 quarters, semis, and I hope the finals are going to be wild.

Cowboys could have quite a lot of guys in the semis and finals at NCAA's overall.    

[CHROMEBIRD]

I'm still in shock over that beatdown he delivered to Ayala. I was not expecting the match to go that way 

[Dan-by Taco]

Im surprised as well.  Ayala, while not wrestling his best has looked good as of late and I don't think has been teched in college (Spencer pinned). This group of young 33s is going to be fun.  Wrestling isn't always transitive but I just watched Seidel put it on Jax from a takedown perspective, could he be a real threat?.. at his best it appears to be a yes.  Obviously, Blaze and Davino too. I'm not discounting Byrd, tough to score on but I think one of the young guns gets it done this year.

[Maxwell Smart]

Drake hasn't wrestled well all year, and doesn't look like he's got any thing left. Very hard to watch, but just a mirror for the program. 133 is a competitive weight; he's not in the top 5.

[juniorvarsity]

Ayala has never been teched in his college career. He has also never lost by major decision in his college career.

He did get pinned by Byrd in Big Ten finals last year. And Spencer Lee pinned him at Soldier Salute his redshirt season. That is it.

[ionel]

2 hours ago, Maxwell Smart said:

Drake hasn't wrestled well all year, and doesn't look like he's got any thing left. Very hard to watch, but just a mirror for the program. 133 is a competitive weight; he's not in the top 5.

He looked pretty good against Davino didn't he and the next ~3 matches after that? 

[1032004]

Maybe this is a pastry post, but Jax may have given Evan Frost some bulletin board material.  I’m sure he’s not looking past B12’s but in this interview he mentions he’s “going to be seeded ahead of everyone he wrestles at Big 12’s.”  Great interview overall though

 

 

 

[Gus]

3 minutes ago, ionel said:

He looked pretty good against Davino didn't he and the next ~3 matches after that? 

Drake has wrestled pretty well lately. He had a close loss to Blaze where he nearly scored on the slide by and then a close loss to Davino where he was on the leg in the third period and just could not quite finish. Be beat Van Dee and then teched the other 4 guys he wrestled. Honestly, the match with Jax just looked like Drake was experiencing a style that he has never felt never. Jax is different. He is gonna be a problem. 

[Maxwell Smart]

Good point. Perhaps Jax took everything out of him, and he looked stunned. 1st time he was beaten by tech fall in his career. Big fan who was hoping he would do well this year, but these young guns are special.

[CHROMEBIRD]

Drake has looked a lot better since his match with Blaze, but outside of Davino (L) and Van Dee (arguably not a top 10 guy) most of his opponents were outside the top 30 so he was pretty much wrestling "as usual".

Aside from the sheer brutality of the loss to Jax, the timing of it has to be devastating. If Drake lost to Jax earlier on like at National Duals, I believe it would've changed the way he trained through the season and maybe last night's outcome would've been a bit closer. People will laugh at that because it's Iowa, but it's the type of thing that would actually motivate Drake. But getting crushed in the last dual of the season when you're supposed to be peaking can be soul-crushing. He doesn't have much runway left to pull it together.

[Tyler Perry]

I think Drake is has wrestled well all year outside of the first time against Davino. Now Jax, Jax is insane