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Kennedy Blades cuts her hair short and wrestles as Ken Blands for ASU at 174 lbs. She makes it to the semis, where she meets Carter Starocci. In the middle of the match, Cael and company figure out that she is an interloper and imposter. Starocci goes nuts and is disqualified for bad mouthing her and the officials. Blands (aka Blades) makes the final and ESPN ratings go through the roof for the match, which overshadows both Yianni's and Lee's attempts to win 4. Starocci quits Penn State and decides his revenge will be to "wrestle like a girl" at the Olympics in the 76KG weight. His new name will be Cartier StarLight. Inter-gender wrestling is born ... or re-born. Andy Kaufman smiles and winks from the Great Beyond.

Blades looked solid her first match. She's still young and it shows. Glaude looks pretty good. She's holding position well and hand fighting better than she has in the past. Jennifer Page lost an 11-11 criteria bout in her first match against Bullen, who looked slow. I wasn't wild about the reffing on that match. Grote got manhandled. She looked bad. Amanda Martinez got teched by China. She needs more international experience.

Bonocorsi and beard are wrestling in the finals when the lights flicker and AJ and Anthony Ferrari rush the mat with full WCW nWo gear with folding chairs and knockout both wrestlers , then mr Ferrari strolls onto the mat ( obviously wearing sunglasses inside at night) and forces the ref to call the fall has AJ lays on top of both beard and nino , then they double bird and finger guns John smith and exit the arena

Note: I have no inside information on seedings so these are merely just my best guesses for fun but figured they could be good discussion starters. You can use the interactive brackets using the following letters: D, M, T, F (decision, major, tech, fall). Big 12 Interactive Bracket Conference record is based on their record vs. who I have as projected starters at the same weight CR = NCAA Coaches Ranking RPI = NCAA RPI Ratings WS = WrestleStat Rankings 125 lbs. #1 Killian Cardinale (WVU) (10-0, 3-0 BIG 12): 7 CR, 9 WS #2 Noah Surtin (MIZZ) (13-4, 4-1 BIG 12): 11 CR, 16 RPI, 12 WS #3 Jore Volk (WYO) (21-7, 4-1 BIG 12): 19 CR, 21 RPI, 22 WS #4 Stevo Poulin (UNCO) (24-5, 4-2 BIG 12): 21 CR, 9 RPI, 24 WS #5 Joey Prata (OKLA) (17-7, 3-3 BIG 12): 27 CR, 22 RPI, 26 WS #6 Kyle Golhoffer (UNI) (8-11, 2-3 BIG 12): 32 RPI, 43 WS #7 Reece Witcraft (OKST) (15-9, 1-2 BIG 12): 37 WS #8 Kase Mauger (UVU) (12-11, 4-3 BIG 12): 33 CR, 29 RPI, 16 WS Tanner Jordan (SDSU) (17-12, 3-5 BIG 12): 26 CR, 23 RPI, 29 WS Tucker Owens (AF) (23-9, 2-3 BIG 12): 28 RPI, 35 WS Caleb Fuessley (ISU) (8-12, 0-3 BIG 12): 56 WS Eli Griffin (CB) (6-5, 1-3 BIG 12): 17 WS Carlos Negrete (NDSU) (6-8, 1-3 BIG 12): 51 WS 133 lbs. #1 Daton Fix (OKST) (22-0, 9-0 BIG 12): 2 CR, 2 RPI, 1 WS #2 Kyle Biscoglia (UNI) (17-7, 4-2 BIG 12): 16 CR, 16 RPI, 21 WS #3 Cody Phippen (AF) (16-4, 3-1 BIG 12): 20 CR, 12 RPI, 27 WS #4 Connor Brown (MIZZ) (9-7, 3-2 BIG 12): 27 CR, 23 RPI, 16 WS #5 Zach Redding (ISU) (13-9, 4-4 BIG 12): 18 CR, 13 RPI, 17 WS #6 McGwire Midkiff (NDSU) (12-9, 3-3 BIG 12): 39 WS #7 Wyatt Henson (OKLA) (13-11, 2-6 BIG 12): 29 CR, 25 RPI, 38 WS #8 Jace Koelzer (UNCO) (19-9, 3-3 BIG 12): 47 WS Davin Rhoads (WVU) (2-9, 1-5 BIG 12): 59 WS Derrick Cardinal (SDSU) (10-13, 4-4 BIG 12): 50 WS Hunter Leake (CB) (16-11, 2-2 BIG 12): 40 WS Garrett Ricks (WYO) (14-14, 3-3 BIG 12): 63 WS Kobe Nelms (UVU) (5-14, 0-6 BIG 12): 75 WS 141 lbs. #1 Andrew Alirez (UNCO) (20-0, 6-0 BIG 12): 1 CR, 3 RPI, 3 WS #2 Mosha Schwartz (OKLA) (19-3, 7-1 BIG 12): 7 CR, 8 RPI, 7 WS #3 Cael Happel (UNI) (16-4, 6-2 BIG 12): 8 CR, 5 RPI, 12 WS #4 Carter Young (OKST) (13-10, 5-4 BIG 12): 14 CR, 9 RPI, 10 WS #5 Clay Carlson (SDSU) (17-7, 4-5 BIG 12): 9 CR, 22 RPI, 16 WS #6 Allan Hart (MIZZ) (12-4, 3-2 BIG 12): 13 CR, 23 RPI, 8 WS #7 Dylan Droegemueller (NDSU) (10-7, 1-3 BIG 12): 30 CR, 18 RPI, 31 WS #8 Jordan Titus (WVU) (18-10, 2-5 BIG 12): 31 CR, 30 RPI, 24 WS Casey Swiderski (ISU) (9-8, 0-5 BIG 12): 29 WS Job Greenwood (WYO) (11-6, 2-4 BIG 12): 48 WS Ty Smith (UVU) (9-7, 2-3 BIG 12): 33 RPI, 42 WS Garrett Kuchan (AF) (14-13, 0-3 BIG 12): 69 WS Christian Nunez (CB) (3-11, 0-1 BIG 12): 77 WS 149 lbs. #1 Brock Mauller (MIZZ) (13-1, 7-0 BIG 12): 6 CR, 6 WS #2 Paniro Johnson (ISU) (14-4, 4-1 BIG 12): 10 CR, 13 RPI, 14 WS #3 Colin Realbuto (UNI) (16-4, 7-1 BIG 12): 14 CR, 6 RPI, 11 WS #4 Kellyn March (NDSU) (20-5, 7-2 BIG 12): 17 CR, 11 RPI, 18 WS #5 Victor Voinovich (OKST) (14-8, 4-5 BIG 12): 22 CR, 19 RPI, 23 WS #6 Mitch Moore (OKLA) (13-6, 3-3 BIG 12): 23 CR, 20 RPI, 21 WS #7 Sam Hillegas (WVU) (17-9, 1-4 BIG 12): 28 CR, 22 RPI, 30 WS #8 Dylan Martinez (AF) (16-9, 4-2 BIG 12): 32 CR, 30 RPI, 47 WS Chris Sandoval (UNCO) (14-8, 4-2 BIG 12): 43 WS Alek Martin (SDSU) (17-12, 4-4 BIG 12): 32 WS Isaiah Delgado (UVU) (13-12, 0-6 BIG 12): 54 WS Chaz Hallmark (CB) (8-11, 1-4 BIG 12): 55 WS Chase Zollman (WYO) (12-17, 0-12 BIG 12): 66 WS 157 lbs. #1 Jared Franek (NDSU) (19-1, 7-0 BIG 12): 2 CR, 6 RPI, 5 WS #2 Kaden Gfeller (OKST) (18-5, 8-1 BIG 12): 9 CR, 2 RPI, 10 WS #3 Jarrett Jacques (MIZZ) (14-3, 3-2 BIG 12): 10 CR, 10 RPI, 14 WS #4 Cael Swenson (SDSU) (18-6, 4-2 BIG 12): 19 CR, 15 RPI, 27 WS #5 Derek Holschlag (UNI) (15-5, 5-1 BIG 12): 23 CR, 14 RPI, 23 WS #6 Jacob Wright (WYO) (15-4, 5-3 BIG 12): 17 CR, 24 RPI, 22 WS #7 Jason Kraisser (ISU) (17-11, 2-4 BIG 12): 29 CR, 31 RPI, 31 WS #8 Alex Hornfeck (WVU) (14-7, 1-3 BIG 12): 19 RPI, 38 WS Vince Zerban (UNCO) (16-8, 3-7 BIG 12): 30 RPI, 41 WS Jacob Butler (OKLA) (14-8, 0-3 BIG 12): 33 RPI, 34 WS Jack Ganos (AF) (14-10, 0-4 BIG 12): 57 WS Tyson Humphreys (UVU) (10-10, 0-5 BIG 12): 64 WS Nolan Miller-Johnston (CB) (6-12, 0-3 BIG 12): 75 WS 165 lbs. #1 David Carr (ISU) (19-0, 7-0 BIG 12): 1 CR, 2 RPI, 1 WS #2 Keegan O'Toole (MIZZ) (12-1, 6-1 BIG 12): 2 CR, 2 WS #3 Michael Caliendo (NDSU) (20-2, 5-1 BIG 12): 9 CR, 11 RPI, 9 WS #4 Peyton Hall (WVU) (22-3, 5-2 BIG 12): 11 CR, 16 RPI, 8 WS #5 Gerrit Nijenhuis (OKLA) (13-5, 3-4 BIG 12): 21 CR, 22 RPI, 17 WS #6 Tanner Cook (SDSU) (15-4, 2-2 BIG 12): 17 CR, 9 RPI, 14 WS #7 Wyatt Sheets (OKST) (12-12, 3-6 BIG 12): 24 CR, 26 RPI, 20 WS #8 Austin Yant (UNI) (15-4, 3-3 BIG 12): 18 CR, 14 RPI, 22 WS Baylor Fernandes (UNCO) (18-9, 2-2 BIG 12): 38 WS Cole Moody (WYO) (15-12, 2-5 BIG 12): 50 WS Seamus Casey (AF) (11-10, 0-5 BIG 12): 74 WS Daniel Snediker (UVU) (5-11, 1-3 BIG 12): 68 WS Frank Almauger (CB) (5-6, 0-5 BIG 12): 42 WS 174 lbs. #1 Peyton Mocco (MIZZ) (17-3, 6-1 BIG 12): 6 CR, 11 RPI, 5 WS #2 Sam Wolf (AF) (11-2, 2-0 BIG 12): 18 CR, 28 WS #3 Demetrius Romero (UVU) (12-2, 4-1 BIG 12): 9 CR, 7 WS #4 Dustin Plott (OKST) (18-4, 7-2 BIG 12): 10 CR, 6 RPI, 9 WS #5 Tate Picklo (OKLA) (21-6, 4-2 BIG 12): 27 WS #6 Cade DeVos (SDSU) (21-6, 4-2 BIG 12): 14 CR, 13 RPI, 10 WS #7 Andrew Berreyesa (UNCO) (20-10, 2-4 BIG 12): 29 WS #8 Lance Runyon (UNI) (4-5, 2-3 BIG 12): 21 WS Scott Joll (WVU) (13-9, 1-3 BIG 12): 35 WS Julien Broderson (ISU) (17-10, 3-4 BIG 12): 27 CR, 29 RPI, 39 WS Hayden Hastings (WYO) (12-4, 0-1 BIG 12): 34 WS Gaven Sax (NDSU) (12-10, 1-6 BIG 12): 47 WS Louis Rojas (CB) (4-18, 0-7 BIG 12): 68 WS 184 lbs. #1 Parker Keckeisen (UNI) (18-1, 6-0 BIG 12): 2 CR, 2 RPI, 2 WS #2 Marcus Coleman (ISU) (17-2, 5-1 BIG 12): 4 CR, 3 RPI, 3 WS #3 Travis Wittlake (OKST) (16-4, 7-0 BIG 12): 11 CR, 6 RPI, 15 WS #4 Colton Hawks (MIZZ) (14-8, 3-4 BIG 12): 25 CR, 32 RPI, 37 WS #5 Deanthony Parker (NDSU) (15-7, 5-2 BIG 12): 27 CR, 20 WS #6 Anthony Carman (WVU) (16-12, 2-2 BIG 12): 31 CR, 17 RPI, 43 WS #7 Keegan Moore (OKLA) (4-9, 1-5 BIG 12): 41 WS #8 Cade King (SDSU) (17-7, 5-2 BIG 12): 19 CR, 26 RPI, 32 WS Noah Blake (AF) (16-11, 1-3 BIG 12): 44 WS Peter Acciardi (CB) (13-12, 2-5 BIG 12): 28 RPI, 45 WS Quayin Short (WYO) (17-12, 0-6 BIG 12): 42 WS Branson Britten (UNCO) (10-14, 0-4 BIG 12): 70 WS Hunter Murse (UVU) (3-13, 0-3 BIG 12): 76 WS 197 lbs. #1 Rocky Elam (MIZZ) (7-1, 4-1 BIG 12): 4 CR, 9 WS #2 Younger Bastida (ISU) (14-4, 3-1 BIG 12): 7 CR, 5 RPI, 10 WS #3 Tanner Sloan (SDSU) (20-1, 6-0 BIG 12): 9 CR, 6 RPI, 3 WS #4 Owen Pentz (NDSU) (14-5, 4-2 BIG 12): 13 CR, 11 RPI, 7 WS #5 Luke Surber (OKST) (17-7, 4-2 BIG 12): 20 CR, 13 RPI, 16 WS #6 Evan Bockman (UVU) (17-5, 2-2 BIG 12): 23 CR, 18 RPI, 27 WS #7 Calvin Sund (AF) (16-12, 1-2 BIG 12): 46 WS #8 Austin Cooley (WVU) (14-7, 2-3 BIG 12): 32 CR, 33 RPI, 36 WS Seth Seago (OKLA) (8-11, 0-0 BIG 12): 58 WS Noah Glaser (UNI) (8-7, 1-2 BIG 12): 44 WS Xavier Vasquez (UNCO) (14-12, 2-6 BIG 12): 47 WS Caden Gerlach (CB) (15-11, 0-4 BIG 12): 57 WS Tyce Raddon (WYO) (8-12, 0-4 BIG 12): 68 WS 285 lbs. #1 Wyatt Hendrickson (AF) (23-1, 8-0 BIG 12): 6 CR, 6 RPI, 5 WS #2 Sam Schuyler (ISU) (15-2, 7-0 BIG 12): 7 CR, 5 RPI, 9 WS #3 Zach Elam (MIZZ) (15-2, 5-1 BIG 12): 8 CR, 3 RPI, 7 WS #4 AJ Nevills (SDSU) (18-4, 6-2 BIG 12): 12 CR, 10 RPI, 11 WS #5 Konner Doucet (OKST) (15-8, 5-4 BIG 12): 19 CR, 23 RPI, 28 WS #6 Michael Wolfgram (WVU) (18-9, 3-4 BIG 12): 21 CR, 16 RPI, 18 WS #7 Josh Heindselman (OKLA) (21-8, 3-5 BIG 12): 17 CR, 11 RPI, 23 WS #8 Tyrell Gordon (UNI) (14-9, 4-5 BIG 12): 13 CR, 21 RPI, 25 WS Chase Trussell (UVU) (11-10, 3-4 BIG 12): 49 WS Juan Mora (NDSU) (14-10, 3-6 BIG 12): 30 CR, 38 WS Xavier Doolin (UNCO) (9-11, 2-6 BIG 12): 59 WS Christopher Island (CB) (5-15, 1-7 BIG 12): 68 WS Terren Swartz (WYO) (13-12, 0-6 BIG 12): 63 WS Projected Team Standings (no bonus) 1. Missouri - 143 2. Oklahoma State - 107.5 3. Iowa State - 93.5 4. Northern Iowa - 89.5 5. North Dakota State - 77 t-6. Oklahoma - 66.5 t-6. West Virginia - 66.5 8. South Dakota State - 65 9. Air Force - 56.5 10. Northern Colorado - 40.5 11. Utah Valley - 25 12. Wyoming - 20.5 13. Cal Baptist - 0

Well that’s just ridiculous.

ROLL SHARKS!

Jacob Warner pins Max Dean with a bow n arrow to win his first ncaa title.

Fix scores an offensive point in the finals

Levi Haines agrees to NIL deals with Lee Jeans and Fruit of the Loom

PSU drops their wrestling program. All the starters band together and create the Northern Florida University, Wrestling Team or as some like to call it No. F Un Wrestling

By not being onthemat.

McKee dominates the championship bracket in the greatest plot twist since The Sixth Sense

We see Pat Glory take the mat Saturday night walking around at ~170. During a long break in the action (to review a replay, no doubt), he whips out a bottle of ranch dressing from under his singlet and starts eating buffalo wings in his corner. The following year, the rules committee rejects a push-out rule in favor of a no finger foods rule.

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Yes. That is how Josh Mason got 3. He pinned #32 in the pigtail.

HR is saying Brands did not enter a name at 133.

I remember you could edit a post after 15 minutes.

She wrestles tonight. She has Malgren (SWE) first match. Tough. If she wins that match, she has Leorda (MDA). Also tough. Top half either Hemmer(GER) or Ana(ROU) will make the finals. https://uww.org/arena/weight-category/1edb381c-a0fd-6a2c-becd-abf04b58a124/bracket.pdf I'll be watching and grinding my molars.

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You are welcome

Now we know why you took up swimming. not that anythings wrong with that!

Can we all just agree that Kentucky Mudflap is/was the GOATer of all wrestling forums? Sure he didn't post a lot but when he did it was the GREATEST! pip

You may want to temper expectations (yes, I understand the irony of that statement given this audience), but since we went to 33 seeds the three highest scoring 30-33 seeds (out of 120) in aggregate scored 10.5. Maybe 10 points might be aggressive. For further context 77% score zero points (0-2). Another 15% scored either 0.5 or 1.

good work, Bracketbuster

Hayden Cunningham is a hs SR this year. Asher is a Soph.

1. Yes 2. No 3. No 4. No 5. Yes 6. No 7. No 8. No but Sparks will be seen tying Gibbons shoe laces 9. Yes 10. Yes 11. No 12. No 13. who cares, I'm going to win without need of tie breaker criteria

Chicago pizza sucks. Period. I've never been to Chicago so I should know. Actually this thread has taken on a life I did not expect. Very good posts here and all very informative for the most part. mspart

Nelson Brands shoots from space and takes everyone down. He wins 174 and does a victory celebration that becomes a viral dance sensation on TikTok.

... I guess you HAD to throw a bone to the gang on question 11, eh? D3

https://fightingillini.com/news/2022/10/13/illinois-announces-plans-for-illinois-wrestling-training-center.aspx Wrestling doesn't draw the crowds of football or hoops, but the school is definitely investing in it. Really, I think Illinois is trying to get to the elite level in as many sports as possible. Women's basketball and the combined track and field program have seen big changes in the past year. They should do better on the stats thing though, yeah.

Losing to Vito and RBY isn't exactly going to shake things up because 1.) RBY is the top seed, clearly, and 2.) Vito isn't in the conference. Mendez has earned the No. 2 seed at the B1G Tournament. The good news for Byrd is that he'll have a chance to wrestle in the same tournament on the same side of the bracket. Hopefully he won't be devastated because of his seeding and wrestles to the best of his ability. Side note: Does Illinois care about its wrestling team? I wanted to check Byrd's results and the stats link on the Illini website has 21-22 final stats. That's horrible for a B1G school.

1. Yes 2. No 3. Why tf not 4. No 5. No 6. Yes 7. No 8. No 9. Yes 10. No 11. Lol. No 12. No Team standings: PSU, Iowa, Nebraska, OSUe

Believe Wkn would say: Pinfall implies majesty spenders and a belt.

Pin or fall implies a differentiation. Pinfall implies ‘spenders and a belt.

Yes because there is no chance of a "pinfall," the B10 tournament is in the real world not in Wkn's fantasy world.

So either way, you win

Yes

Pin or fall?

I'm putting all my money on a combo prop bet: A team point will be deducted from Iowa's score during the 2023 B1G tournament before Spencer Lee gets a first-period pin or fall in his first match at the 2023 B1G tournament (Y/N) I could use a new t-shirt.

Thank you for the time and effort you put in to this @ILLINIWrestlingBlog. I could throw out criticisms here and there, however I will refrain and express my gratitude towards the content. It is quite refreshing. I will throw out one insight, though: They have never ignored the prevailing wisdom of head to head matches from out of conference dual matches. I am referencing the Mendez/Byrd(133) and Paddy G/Gilcher(157) 'seeding' projections. I honestly wish they would seed based off team dual meet results, though.

No, but maybe on Farmers Only.

Mullet. mspart

If the rankings are any good at all, they could just include the top 32 and fill the bracket. That way conferences don't get auto bids, the top guys do. As in the case of 149, pac -12 should send 3. Maybe the correction takes this into account. Just seems like a weird way to do it. Yes, I understand B1G is the best and will have the most qualifiers. I think doing this by conference is wrong. Do it by individual ranking, if those are any good at all. mspart

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Looks so good. My wife is sensitive to gluten so most gluten crusts are awful. Cauliflower crusts are tolerable.

Yeah, being from New Jersey I took an interest in fellow Jerseyans Larry Sciacchatano, Ricky Dellagatta, Clarence Richardson, etc., going down south. The SEC had multiple AA's 8 times in 11 years from 1975 thru 1985. They also had 4 different teams (Kentucky, Auburn, LSU & Tennessee) place in top 10 scoring. So while saying that "the SEC used to have some tough wrestling" may be giving the conference a little too much cred - "more of a myth than reality" may be a little bit harsh.