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I just hope that everyone who should wrestle does wrestle. It is what is good for wrestling. I really want to see SVN v Murin and Facundo v Kennedy. While they won't likely be high scoring I think they will be tough matches.

Pitzburgh time, yinz be ready.

I think he's going to end up sticking with the orange.

WHAT A RETURN TO THE FORUMS! Better than I could have ever expected. 10/10.

With the predictions slowing down on all four boards (Intermat, HR, and the two split PSU boards) I thought it would be a good time to post of review of what we have so far. And to give you time to check for errors in my data. The wisdom of the Intermat crowd says the final score will be....Iowa 15 - PSU 20. (HR sees it 16-19, sigh, defeatist, and BWI/On3 has it 13-23). The 23 Seers saw it this way. For those of you who submitted a pre-season prediction I have included both that prediction and your current prediction. Based on current predictions only (18 total) the average final score prediction would be unchanged. Most in the Bag for PSU Shockingly, it turns out @nhs67 is a bigger PSU fan than the self-proclaimed PSU fan @Jimmy Cinnabon (or is it @JimmyCinnabon?), as NHS edges your author out for the prize. Is This Heaven?...It's Iowa @Gus stands alone. Only he has the foresight to predict a 6 point Iowa win. I think we may have smoked out Tom Brands' burner account on Intermat. Favorite Favorite I am Become Death Destroyer of Worlds, Spencer Lee takes it in a cakewalk. Only the sweetly naïve @nhs67, @Le duke, and @VakAttack of an earlier, more innocent time thought Lee would not pin his opponent. All current projections have Lee pinning Steen, because of course. (though, as I mentioned earlier there is stunningly one guy on HR calling for a TF, WTH). 70% of you have Brooks with the major and 60% have RBY with the major, but 100% of you have take them. Jump Ball The two that have all of the current prognosticators tied in knots are Murin v Van Ness and Cassioppi v Kerkvliet. Murin v Van Ness is 9/9 and Cassioppi v Kerkvliet is 10/8 to Iowa. Haines was picked by 11, but 4 of them specified they would flip to Siebrecht if Barraclough wrestles. Rodney Dangerfield Take a look at Woods v Bartlett. Intermat has this as a #2 v #4 matchup. Flo puts it at #2 v #3, and Wrestlestat has Bartlett winning 5-4 (even though they have Bartlett down at #6), but you nattering nabobs of negativism lean heavily toward Woods... on the road no less. Put some respect on that name (oops, I picked Woods too). The Prognosticator of All Prognosticators Finally, Wrestlestat scores it Iowa 9 - PSU 27. Hmmm, that sounds familiar.

I've been slowly putting together a list which contains the high school, hometown, and home-state of every Division 1 wrestler. Been going by conference and have half of EIWA, SOCON and MAC still left to go... been many hours of data gathering. Need to make this more efficient

Repeat what again?

Penn State? Wait...strike that, reverse it.

The Wiscy HWT was oiled up; and you can print that!

There are FCC regulations on TV and radio stations. I don't recall any that pertain to college wrestling rankings though. I know there used to be government regulations on newspapers. I would assume there are also government regulations of some sort on internet media. I kind of doubt any of those involve college wrestling rankings either.

I need an Iowa v PSU pick out of you. And no, you cannot pick any Nebraska wrestlers.

You need to be...

@nhs67wouldn't.

His schtick has gone beyond college wrestling, I'm assuming he'll be the next governor of Oklahoma.

I think that'd be the only way you could accomplish such a magical task.

And with a Wizard instead of a Whizzer nonetheless.

hell yeah brother never surrender

But did you "bring your hips to the party"???? Asking for a friend.....lol (If you don't get this, ask somebody that knows wrestling)

1986 Iowa vs Iowa State 10 individuals with a national championship during their NCAA career. Bracket '86 Place Name College 126 1 Brad Penrith Iowa 142 3 Joe Gibbons Iowa State 142 1 Kevin Dresser Iowa 150 5 Tim Krieger Iowa State 150 1 Jim Heffernan Iowa 158 5 Royce Alger Iowa 167 3 Mike Van Arsdale Iowa State 167 1 Marty Kistler Iowa 177 4 Rico Chiapparelli Iowa 190 1 Duane Goldman Iowa

This was one of my favs. I'm sure Alex can appreciate it.

You can't out post ionel. He's always on his game and savvy.

How about a “Prime” Steve Mocco at 165 this year?

Ladies and gentlemen, 11 minutes with the great Spencer Lee. This goes about the length of half a dozen of his matches. Some thoughtful stuff in here. Most interesting revelation -- he is extremely engaged with other Iowa sports, roots for and talks to athletes in other sports to pick their brains and says he's attended events for every Iowa varsity team except rowing, "just because I don't really know how to go to a rowing event because I don't think we've have a river we go to, I've certainly watched them compete but I've never been to one.".

This is great. At the 10:05 mark, Brands says that the Big Ten Network has taken to calling Iowa before matches to ask if Spencer is going to wrestle, promising confidentiality on the answer, so that if so, they would want to delay the start of the dual so when the preceding basketball or whatever game goes over, the wrestling broadcast doesn't miss the 125 match.

My main takaway is Lee is still salty about getting booed at PIAAs when he took late-match injury time during his eventual loss to DeSanto.

Here’s the problem: In order for him to declassify a document, he has to give the order to the DOD (or other original classification authority) which requires them to log that order and begin the process. It is not, in fact, instantaneous. If those orders happened, there appears to be no such record of these orders. It seems unlikely that hundreds of documents were ordered declassified, across four years, and none of them were logged. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Spencer Lee wins at tweeting too.

Where's the love...

This was quality and deserves more attention.

And at least one in the front. Had to look that one up. Hard to know nothing around @BerniePragle, he teaches me too much.

We’re really all different posters - just using old “the mat” usernames to throw people off. Good to see it’s working!

I wouldn't know...

I watched it live. Nashon did gas, but DeSanto seemed to downshift midway through the match and find a better gear for him. Reminds me a lot of Aaron Pico vs Jayson Ness at Olympic Trials.

props for the proper use of pinfall

Regardless of the R/D divide, every case this guy worked on for the last 20 years needs to be looked at. The people he assigned need to be looked at. A bunch of investigations will likely need to be revisited.

https://www.youtube.com/live/1lXhHMXT03I?feature=share Yeah, he gassed. Pretty non-stop action the whole match, and Desanto is relentless. Pretty good sportsmanship, too, at the end. Of course, Desanto won so... 5:44:03

Surprised that the FBI has corruption in its ranks? They say not so. In fact, Merrick Garland just told us all that there is no difference in justice for Ds or Rs, rich or poor. They do the same thing to whoever. mspart

welcome back @jajensen09

Shouldn't it be Deliver the Dayton or Deliver the Pitzer, or something like that?

i hope you are right about burwick

Maybe some volunteers to assist? Just a thought.

Since 1928? Gonna nominate you for the Wkn Medal of Honor.

He posts under the username Wrestleknowsomething

Being late is ok, but did you bring a housewarming gift? Bottle of wine? Something?

The guy in NM should be behind bars if he did the shooting. But can anyone honestly say this is typical of Rs or Ds response to losing elections? He is an outlier and let him lie out there in a cold dark cell. mspart

Not sure where to share this, so I will just put it here. Enjoy the fun graphics after you click on the arrow:

Was really hoping this would be a better forum than the last. It’s nearly unreadable.