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This will be another great event this year! Here is a link to all the state and nationally ranked teams that will be competing this year For those that would like to watch, all mats will be streamed on ILMatmen's Rokfin page. Here is a direct link to the page. https://www.rokfin.com/stream/27518/Cheesehead-

No Burwick tho. Maybe on same SW flight as Lovett and Gomez?

It feels like the sport is spiraling. The kids have the freedom not to wrestle, obviously, but the customers also have the freedom to stop watching.

I remember that candidacy! I proudly sported one of his campaign shirts- still own it- in the day.

And then find out they need to drive to Hoffman Estates.

I am totally missing the boat on these Twitter files. What did Twitter do wrong? The Trump Administration wanted to completely control a false narrative of Biden being an embarrassment and a criminal while providing Biden with no time to defend himself. This is called an October surprise and is an well established dirty political trick. Twitter filtered dick pics and what else to stymie this narrative? As time has proven out, nothing on that laptop is consequential. Search for yourself at https://bidenlaptopemails.com/ How is it that the Trump administration aren't the dirty ones here? They took a hard drive under active FBI investigation and gave it to a SINGLE far right news media corporation - via a private citizen at a news conference! - for the sole purpose of slander. Why not provide to everyone if they are so interested in 1A?

Ask Michael Beard and the Nevills family how taking a ___shirt for the team plays out. Most cutthroat room in the country by design.

Before the Holidays... After the eating is done... D3

That scenario ... will never happen unless it's gamed to be that way and if it's gamed that way, someone (more than one) should be fired. Good luck finding ANY scenario (we've looked) where you have 9 one-point decisions vs. one fall. Just doesn't happen. Won't happen despite it being statistically possible. I like point scored and a fall is 20. Yes, there CAN be a 22-point tech fall, but again, you're looking to create some safeguard for the statistical anomaly. Right now, 4 wins can beat 6, 3 cannot beat 7. 3 COULD beat 7 if you get three falls and the rest of the offense is a dude, but hey, you know the rules, you want to win the match, score points. Let's NOT not do something because of the chances to get struck by lightning.

The Soldier Salute feels like an Iowa fundraiser. Come out to one of your only chances to see Spencer Lee this season!!

Now that Intermat, Flo, and Wrestlestat have each updated their rankings to include results at the Collegiate Duals I have updated the team projections. Reminder: I treat rankings like they are seed projections Then based on average results by seed for the past 12 tournaments (2010 - 2022) I calculate an expected points total Expected points only takes into account the advancement and placement points - no bonus points Expected points differs from maximum points scoreable because not every wrestler finishes at their seed. For example, #1 seeds only win 98.33% of the time. All American probability takes into account the same phenomena. For example, #8 seeds only finish in the top eight 50% of the time. So a #8 seed counts as half an AA. And seeds below #8 also count as a fraction of an AA. Said another way, with a 5.5 AA probability for PSU per Intermat there is a 50% chance they end with 5 AA's and a 50% chance they end with 6 AA's.

If your in the area at midlands. Eat here. Thank me later. Chicago’s famous beef sandwich. I order it juicy (dipped) with both sweet and hot peppers. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100028989626506

Happy Valley Golden Corral Open

Soldier Salute looks like an Iowa wrestle off day in some weights. I guess if you are an Iowa fan then that's a great day for you to see that...meh. Midlands did fall apart.... still a couple matches to look forward to. TBH I'm wanting a Burwick Lamont match on teh backside.

Top 10 and Bottom 10 Changes in Expected Points since the pre-season ranks came out. Iowa State is hard charging for a spot on the podium. Meanwhile, injuries and transfers take their toll on ASU and Wyoming, respectively.

What was your favorite Christmas present? I am having a hard time deciding:

https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/opentournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=690537132 Track Dashboard shows a major tournament in full swing. Clicking on the camera icon used to bring up track's streaming. It now brings up Flo's Flo streaming shows... Let the Flo SUCKAGE continue to impress.

https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/opentournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=686019132

Safer than the badlands known as Old Town. I was shaking in my boots anytime I went to my brown line down in ol’ Cabrini Greens every day

Kudos for Johnnie’s but that’s in southside and if you’re in that neck of the woods you GOTTA do Vito & Nick’s instead of regretting getting a juicy beef for the next 48 hours. Or get into Beverly and grab some Top Notch if you prefer a burger.

“We will go but we won’t wrestle any key opponents” - Carl

He only beat stefanik (a bulked up 174 pounder ) 3-2 the round before

Glory feels the 133 lbers are too big to mess with, while at the same time being unable to cut enough to make 133.

He understood fine. He's just cantankerous Too much weight.

Ya mean the battle is over already? Wow... that blows! D3

In other news, Flo's most delicate snowflake has blocked me on twitter for daring to submit the following question in response to his public request for questions for FRL. Next week's FRL question:

Spencer Lee does have an outside shot at catching Logan Steiber for highest total points in the last 10 years. But, he needs needs his best tournament yet to catch him. He trails Stieber by 27.5 having scored 27, 24.5, and 24.5 in his three tournaments. If he has his average tournament (25.3 points) he will be in second on that list. All time Lee is seventh on the most points per tournament list behind Sanderson, Hodge, Gable Stieber, Wayne Martin, and Banach.

early advantage to Peterson as he is in quarterfinals. Shawyer lost to Baker from GMU in rd of 16.

You may be correct.

A believe the Scuffle was only allowing teams this year. No unattached guys wrestling. It seems a lot of tradition is dying. Wrestling is a niche sport, and the traditions are things to hold onto not push aside.

I hear the drive to Schaumburg is worth it whether you get to watch wrestling or not.

Kale & Co. only attend The Big One.

It tells you something that literally none of the other Illinois people had a problem with my opinion of that area lol

That literally almost happened to me my first year in Chicago. I looked up directions to NW. then was told I had to drive for over an hour of bad traffic to go watch

No one wants to drive all the way up to Nortwestern only to find out they've gotta drive all the way out to Schaumburg. Scuffle is going to be very good this year, look at 165 for example, think its supposed to be mid 60s there as well. It doesn't make sense for all the best teams to be at one tournament and have to face each other 4 times during the season. But it does seem odd that the top two teams are hiding out in IA and PA this weekend.

Though my all-time favorite bracket is still 115 lbs in 1929. Dell Shockley of Oklahoma State went 0-2 to finish third. Of course, it was a three man bracket. He got a bye to the final where he lost. He then lost in the true second place match. Dell Shockley does not appear again at the NCAA tournament. Even though he and I have won the same number of NCAA tournament matches, he is forever an All-American and I am forever not.

I'm in the same boat, sometimes post prior to other event, work, travel, find out 30 min/couple hours latter that put too many Os in Boob's name, but he is a 15 min guy.

I lean towards one date but I would assume that coaches run this question past their compliance folks(who then call Indy) for the answer. I would hope that coaches don't rely solely on their own reading of the NCAA manual but when all else fails, I would bet they all read the different forums for the final ruling

You want to be so cowardly as to duck? I can’t support that. Where is Maximo? Where is Luffman, or eithe of his backups? Why is a HS state champ many years removed with minimal college results the #1 seed at a previously top tier folk style tournament? We are quite literally on the same team but even I can’t deflect Ducks Unlimited. And Cannon being a 5 seed is a travesty.

Link here: Event Calendar (bigtenplus.com)

Pretty dumb the BTN is not even showing the finals live or recorded. Nothing from Iowa’s event either.

You are looking at it all wrong. Over the course of two months Iowa State has improved their total by 26 points while Penn State has added a measly 6.57, for a 19.43 net point gain for ISU. Right now ISU trails PSU by 38.3 points. So, ISU only needs four more months to pass PSU. If ISU can conspire to delay the 2023 NCAA tournament to April 27 then they will 100% be champions. It's just math.

You got em all. Nine titles amongst them from 2006 to 2022.

It's a win for me. Nice little Christmas present from the dead politician for me. I leave for a couple of days and everything is better. Obviously because of the reformatting and not because of my lack of presen...ts.

Thanks again to everyone who set these forums up!

How much is too much, GOP types? https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109571188060799356

It took me years but I’ve finally started to be able to just look at them and watch them melt. It’s so much easier than yelling

One of my favorites Kid that doesn't miss often misses an off-season practice. Me: Why weren't you here the other day? Kid: I had to get my internet turned on. Me(a little perplexed at why it was at 6pm in the evening): Why were you doing that at 6pm and why weren't your parents doing that? Kid: Well it was a little more than that. Me: Do tell... Kid: Well "someone" had been downloading movies on our router and I had to sit through an educational seminar. I think it was my neighbor. Me: Uh huh sure....