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Cole Konrad throwing Mocco to his back and pinning him to end an 85 match winning streak.

Moisey over Gilman was a good one

Or he had a rough last two weeks, as history has shown us is likely the case. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"I just want some ice cream man. I just want some ice cream." -Kyven Gadsen

Wow what a surprise. Jimmy makes another stupid prediction

perhaps the greatest quote of all

we hosted parties at our house for rent in college. the 158 pounder was our bouncer. at one party, it was during the world series, he was carrying a bat. there was one particularly rowdy person who always was at the parties...but this time was picking too many fights. then he started messing with me. so our bouncer walks up to him tapping his bat and says to the guy, it's time for you to leave. the guy says... so what you gonna use the bat on me. not missing a beat the bouncer turned the handle toward the guy and said no, you're going to need this. the guy just left without a word.

Also, Mark Manning looks like he has aged 15 years in the last 3. Is Snyder ready to take over? What’s their infrastructure like with all their big graduate level athletes leaving?

FYI... I'm sure there was more action in the Andonian/Scott match tonight than there was in this entire dual. Also more action than Bravo Young in 4 years total.

Those fingers use up a lot of oxygen

Good thing Michigan has Jack Medley, their star to win one match

I don't care what Wkn and all his data tables say I think Penn St has a chance.

but how many tv, tablets & phone screens can a guy run at one time?

A little diversion, but still an incredible moment in wrestling since some international accomplishments are mentioned...... for the benefit of the youngsters in the crowd. Wilfred Dietrich hitting a suplex on 400+ lb. Chris Taylor to pin him in Greco at the Munich Olympics There's a backstory on this one. Suplex City! The Incredible Story Behind The Greatest Throw in Wrestling History (bjjee.com) Taylor had beaten Dietrich in freestyle earlier in the week.

Nolf as freshman also pinned IMAR when IMAR was an undefeated NCAA champ. Snyder pinned by Sadulaev. Taylor pinned Yazdani Kade Brock in his first match in college pinning defending NCAA champ Codie Brewer.

Hendricks getting pinned by Churella

Rohn pinning Albrecht. mspart

ban is a teddy bear... there is a large number of people that might say the same about me and i am a sweetheart... regardless... there will be greco conversation here going forward... it may just be me replying to myself... but... there will be greco talk...

Bob says you had your fifteen minutes.

cant get the edit function to work Yanni goes between lee and RBY

Its not stupid. Its schtick. "Woe is PSU. They are going to loose this dual. I am a big PSU fan, but what will we ever do?" When is the last time you picked those weaklings from State College to win a dual? Last year you had Iowa winning 21-9, for example.

Coaches.

Given that Bartlett is 2-0 against Mattin, and you picked Mattin, that's the first one I'd pick out as being not that great of a prediction.

To qualify.

It’ll be interesting to see how PSU comes out of this stretch, which was likely their hardest ~10 days they’ll have all year. Specifically, younger guys who aren’t going to be used to that workload. Facundo, SVN, and Haines. I expect the three upper weight NCs to kill their opponents, regardless of workload the last two weeks. Freshness could be a factor at HWT, but, they might have pushed Kerk a bit less with such a high quality opponent right after the big stretch of hard practices. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Or you'll run into one who got 100 career wins against guys in California. Prepared to be double arm barred and upside down.

1.You only get one pass at celebrating a victory in an overly emotional way, usually when you win a big tournament (like state) for the first time. After that you have to act like you've been there/done that before. Don't be the Roger Federer of wrestling. For those of you who don't know who Roger Federer is, he's arguably the greatest tennis player in history who's won every major tournament a bunch of times. But every time he wins the same tournament again, he flops down on the court, cries, or gets hysterical in some other way like he's a rookie winning the tournament for the first time. 2. You should, as a matter of respect, shake your opponent's coach's hand after the match. The only time you don't have to do this is if your opponent's coach makes a negative remark about you during the match ("He's tired!", "He's doing nothing, ref!" "He's just resting on bottom!", etc.) He disrespected you, so there's no need to show him respect by shaking his hand. 3. If you're a nobody (unranked) wrestler who makes it to the state finals against a superior wrestler, don't get overly emotional if you lose. You haven't achieved squat during your wrestling career (which is why you're unranked) and only got to the finals through some fluke. So don't act all angry/devastated when you lose as if you were expected to win. 4. If you're a nobody wrestler, chances are you're going to be spending a lot of time in the consolation bracket. If the #1 or even #2 ranked wrestler gets beat at some point in the tournament and chooses the indignity of joining you and the rest of the yabos in the consolation bracket, don't act all high and mighty and wrestle to defeat him. He's already lowered himself to try to get a meaningless 3rd place. He doesn't need the additional insult of some scrub wrestling hard to defeat him. The rule is you wrestle a solid match but the #1/#2 ranked wrestler gets to win. 5. When a weight class gets called at a tournament and all the wrestlers come down from the bleachers to get their bout sheets, it's the lower ranked wrestler who takes the bout sheet and brings it to the assigned mat for the match. 6. Rules for wrestling against the #1 ranked wrestler/returning champion: *Don't step on to the mat for the match before he does. *You wait until he offers his hand for the handshake before the match starts, never disrespect his higher position by offering your hand first. *You never take the first shot of the match against the #1 guy/returning champion. 7. Your headgear should be relatively clean and presentable. Don't tape it all up, put stickers on it, have it all torn up. It's pretentious and screams that you're trying way too hard to look tough/cool. 8. Tape up visible tattoos. This used to be the sport of kings. Don't denigrate that ideal by your trashy tats. Nobody cares how "meaningful" they are to you or how they make you "unique" (unique like every other jackwagon with tats). 9. Win or lose, go to center mat and get your hand raised or stay there while your opponent gets his hand raised. You don't look extra cool/defiant by running off the mat before your opponent gets his hand raised. 10. If you get screwed over in the finals there are several ways of handling the screw job. The ultimate option is to not show up to the awards ceremony so the 2nd place podium is awkwardly empty, which lets everybody know a screw job took place. The other more discrete option is to show up to the awards ceremony and stand on the 2nd place platform. But when the guy comes around to drape the silver medal around your neck, don't bow down and let him do so. Instead reach out and take the medal from his hand and hold it to the side during the ceremony. This is a subtle way of letting everyone know that you'll take the medal but you don't really accept it. If you want to really go all out, you can stand on the 2nd place platform but refuse to take the medal as he presents it to you. 11. If you win a tournament, don't "invite" the 2nd and 3rd place finishers up to join you on the 1st place podium. It's beyond condescending. You're basically saying to them "You weren't good enough to be up here on your own, but I'll give you permission to join me up here even though you don't really belong here." 12. Keep your headgear on after the match until you're off the mat. Have you noticed that the guy who wins is usually the one who pops his headgear strap off immediately after the final whistle or completely takes off his headgear while the guy who lost usually keeps his on? It's like some act of additional bravado after having won. Oh you say it's "uncomfortable" to keep wearing it? You were just wearing it for the entire match you hypocrite. You can keep it on for a few more seconds until you're off the mat. 13. Don't wear t-shirts advertising what "tough" camp you went to over the summer. Nobody cares or is intimidated that you made it through some "intense" camp. Besides it makes you look foolish if you end up losing to a guy who spent his summer sleeping in until noon and playing video games until dawn. 14. If a guy is wearing those old school tights (leggings) under his singlet then he's either the best wrestler at the tournament or the worst wrestler ever. There's no middle ground when it comes to guys wearing tights under their singlets. 15. If you get bounced early from a tournament it's perfectly ok to get the customary serving of extra large nachos with all the fixings and sit up in the bleachers and enjoy it with a huge satisfying grin as you watch everybody else still wrestling and struggling to make weight for the second day. It's one of the greatest joys of losing. 16. If the ref who's gonna be reffing your match is big fat guy then it's almost a given he's going to act like power hungry prick. If he's sporting the classic fat guy goatee (because fat guys think a goatee makes their double/triple chins less noticeable) then it's assured he's gonna be mega prick. The reason these fatties are colossal pricks is because (1) they're fat and (2) they achieved very little during their wrestling careers and now get a kick out of passive-aggressively projecting their fat frustrations on other wrestlers. The only good thing about having a fat ref is that if you put your opponent on his back these fatties will call a pin faster than they can wolf down an entire pie since it's super uncomfortable for them to be down on the mat on their huge gut for too long. 17. If you opponent is going through an "intimidating" pre-match warm-up (slapping himself all over, blaring angry music from his oversized headphones, doing air sprawls, etc.) then you're probably going to beat him fairly easily. The guy's scared and he's trying to hide it by going through this elaborate routine to try to "psyche" you out. The guy you have to worry about is the quiet one who's just standing off to the side of the mat, calmly watching the match going on before you two are up, maybe just nonchalantly bouncing up and down a few times being his entire warm up. 18. Awesome singlet + Brand new state-of-the-art wrestling shoes = mediocre wrestler 19. Your opponent is unusually undersized for your weight class but is highly ranked even though he comes from a no-name school with a non-existent wrestling history? Prepare to be destroyed. 20. You're not listening to a damn word your coach is telling you right before your match if there's a hot stats girl or female trainer nearby. 21. The token chick wrestler on the all-male wrestling team has major issues that you cannot even begin to comprehend. Just let her be. After a few months of trying to prove "she's just as good as any guy", possibly a year if she's really hardcore, she'll get bored and quit. 22. If a wrestler has an injured leg and you see his opponent intentionally avoid shooting in on that leg, don't mistake that for sportsmanship. He's actually hurting the injured leg more by shooting in on the good leg. Why? Because when he gets a single and gets the good leg up in the air he's making the guy balance himself by putting all his weight on the bad leg. Oldest trick in the book to make yourself look like a good sport to the uninformed fans. 23. There are few things more annoying than a loud shrieking middle aged woman cheering during a wrestling match when the rest of the crowd is relatively quiet. "WHOOOOOO!" Alright JOHNNY! WHOOOOO!" 24. It's always disappointing to win a tournament and the medal you get is the exact same design as the medal you got at another tournament a few weeks ago. 25. You made a huge mistake by not taking advantage of the information the announcer said about you to the crowd during your finals appearance at that tournament. While everybody announced that they had a 4.0 GPA, or had signed to wrestle at this or that college, or dedicated this match to their parents, etc...you could have "Been recently nominated for the Nobel Prize and dedicates this match to himself because without him this match wouldn't be taking place right now." 26. How sharp and GQ a coach dresses up to coach his wrestler in the state finals is inversely proportional to how many times he's coached a wrestler in the state finals before. 27. Wrestlers who dye their hair for the state tournament are the watered-down version of tattoo guy. Just like guys with tats, nobody who dyes their hair thinks of it as an original idea on their own. They saw some other shmucks do it and so they decided to copy said shmucks but think they're being original and unique by doing so, much like every guy who gets a tat thinks they're being original and unique. 28. Matside dads are the worse. It's all but guaranteed they've pushed their son to become a wrestler and are living vicariously through him, like most sport's dads do. It's also guaranteed the son hates wrestling even if he's really good at it. Watch any wrestler who has a matside dad and you'll notice he's miserable out there on the mat, even if he's in the process of techpinning his opponent in the state finals. 29. Parents who wear t-shirts and sweaters with encouraging slogans about their son wrestler ("Go Johnny!, "Team Johnny", etc.) come in two varieties. Some are plain obnoxious, especially if their son is an awesome wrestler, and they wear those slogans as a way to brag and let everyone know they're the parents of an awesome wrestler. And some are the sweetest, nicest couple you'll ever meet and are being genuinely sincere by wearing those shirts as a way to support a son they love very much. They're the kind of adorable couple who bakes snacks for the entire team and even become friends with their son's opponents and opposing coaches. Likewise, their son is also a respectful person on and off the mat and together they represent the family you wish you had. 30. Muscle shirt guy is harmless. He's just a dude who works out only his glamour muscles (biceps, pecs, abs) for the attention. He's not as strong as he looks. Definitely not even close to being as strong as farmer boy, who although looks soft compared to muscle shirt guy, will toss you around like a ragdoll during a match by using his unbelievable Herculian strength that is achieved only by those who grow up on a farm. The Legendary DF (Del Fino) from "Unofficial Rules of Wrestling" (the only existing known photo of DF, outside arena before his 2nd state finals match )

Even the biggest of Husker fans like myself think this is Homeriffic.

I don't walk around looking into cameras and telling people I'm the best fighter in the world just to hear myself talk. I say it for the same reason they put warnings on packages of cigarettes, and fighting Chael Sonnen may be hazardous to one's health. Chael Sonnen

Michigan's best chance is if this is Penn State train through week and the home team all looks tired. Then UM wins all the toss ups. Wrestlestat has RBY winning by 2, I will take the over on that. They also have Parris reversing last year's results and beating Kerkvliet. Mason has been wrestling well and maybe he gets the job done. 149 thru 165 are all great matches. Looking forward to this one.

Not only made the U20 World team but came home with Gold

Fair bet. I accept

Let's make it interesting. If either if is right on both, that person gets to choose the avatar of the other foe the next month. If it splits then nothing happens

"Bro, like totally not guilty." --AJ Ferrari (probably)

They get, "badder" as you go down my street. I live clear at the end in a cave.

I tried to find this quote again but couldn't. I think it was Royce Alger, not sure... In my hometown there are ten tough guys. Nine of them call me sir. Does anyone remember this better than me?

I agree completely with everything you said. I'd like to add a qualifier though. Except for the top x%, nearly all of the increase in the standard of living was up till the 70s or 80s. Since then, the standard of living for much of the middle and lower classes has leveled off or even lowered, while the wealth of that x% has skyrocketed. Now when the school (the taxpayer) buys a pizza for the school class, the fat kid eats half and the other 15 kids split the other half. I guess that makes sense to some people. (I trust the fat kid reference wasn't too oblique.)

BP, Yes, thankfully world situation is not like it was over 100 years ago. And was like for almost everyone, everywhere since time immemorable. The corrupt government I think you are referring to (USA) has raised the standard of living for almost everyone in the country from what it was in 1904(1804, 1850, 1776, 1669 etc), and that of many if not most of the rest of the world. Not recognizing this fact, and it is a fact, makes our situation not congruent with the Tsarist example. Now you may say our corrupt gov saw what happened in Russia and decided to change things around so people had it better so they would not revolt. On the other hand, the Bezos of this world became rich because of conditions in the country as have many many others. It doesn't keep people down, it allows for raising oneself up. Look at the southern border, that tells you all you need to know. Corrupt gov or no, people are coming in by the millions. mspart

Guilty as charged... And damn proud of it.

A rare exception to actually comment on one of your posts but , they are still solid in the transfer portal , Seabass, Bulsak who AAed, heilman , number 1 recruit dean Peterson whose the 125 , Alvarez himself was a portal guy.. but recruiting has taken a hit , then have basically no one coming in 2023 class , 165 has been a black hole since perrotti graduated in 15/16 , turley AAed at 174 as a freshman but is a complete shell of himself now and still has 2 years of eligibility, 197 is another guy the program has had at 3 different weights and his body is broken down , and they have a Juco heavyweight while wrestling in the big ten, add that to the fact that support is at an all time high , but can’t seem to bring in a resident athlete for more than a few months before they leave , they have no real upper weight coaches for both the college team and RTC and if they don’t beat Maryland it’s a good chance they go 0-8 in the big ten , things have stagnated at RU and they probably do need a change for a spark .. they have a lot of HS guys train at the RTC but don’t seem to be getting those guys to there for college also letting Sebastian Rivera do whatever he wanted after he transferred in rubbed some people the wrong way , claiming he’d make the cut for team 2 straight years then deciding close to the season that he wouldn’t , him going to do team Puerto Rico stuff over Rutgers stuff, some definite issues but that being said they have a #1 recruit at 125 with full eligibility, shawyver is a solid R16/r12 guy so those 2 should be 125/133 the next 2 seasons, Oliveri only a sophomore at 141 should be an AA eventually , White is a freshman at 149 and had a great redshirt year and has a lot of room to grow, 157 has Clark who was an afterthought recruit who has really taken some huge jumps ( beat artalona this year ) and at 184 they have a #1 recruit whose a freshman and an AA with 2 or 3 more years in redshirt , if they can fit all those guys in the lineup together and snag a big guy or 2 in the portal they could be back in the middle of the pack in the big ten by next year but if not then maybe it’s time to hand the keys over to pritzlaff or swing for the fences and throw a ton of money at someone like JB and hope he wants the challenge

Finally, a school that will let him grow into his true body.

Everyone should continue yelling until there are meaningful tax reforms. This is like we are all in a game of Monopoly that is winding down. One player is equipped to hoard everything and the rest are left with nothing.

Wittlake will make 165 again the same day you make 98 again.

That's fair. But it's also funny how some people want Trump to be not guilty of something without evidence, either. As President, his policy was to sign whatever the Senate put in front of him. Otherwise, watching morning TV, golfing and putting on rallies took most of his time. Until his final months in office, at which point scheming and plotting a way to stay in office despite having lost the election took most of his time and effort. If you're referring to the Republican party's policies, I understand that. That's fair. But those were hardly Trump's. He did very little positive work as a president - a monkey trained to sign his name could have done about as much. On the other hand, he did quite a lot of harm to the country, and he seems to show no sign of regret. That's why I despise him.

I agree with you. It's the "shenannigans in all the other pages" ... that's where any tax fraud would be found. That was my exact point. These few lines of final numbers don't prove anything either way. HIdden in the complexity is where any potential fraud would be found. We shall see.

Perfect timing. Sheets is in his 7th year, so an open spot at 165 awaits.