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I'll take 125 lbs - all of them and none of them at the same time.

I think Ryder Rogotzke is going to ruin a higher seeds dream this year or at a minimum give someones fanbase a near heart attack.

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It started a week plus ago pointed out by @Wrestleknownothing, teams were closing the gap, instead of three teams to beat Penn St it would only take two. Then the Hawks plowed thru the Pokes one of those teams and now Iowa is back at #2. Same day Starocci goes down, can he even drill? Penn State likely to lose two more at B10s. Ayala looking like a NC and Davis keeps sliding. Woods is the real deal and BB will get dumped @PortaJohn style to the back side. Also Brooks is still too short. Kueter showed why he’s gonna beat Kerk. Sure Tom put in VV and Gabe A against the pokes, but that was just a ploy, he’s still working on the Ferrari bros to man 149 & 197, Glazier will drop to 184. Mesenbrink will be toast running into Carr on the front side & KOT on the back to end up out at R12. Iowa with 3 NC and 7 AA walks away with it, you can bet on it!

Brackets are out. Zane - CRC/GUA in quarters then CRUZ or ECU in semis. Great draw. Lee - Gomez then McNeil or Kramer. Quarters is the big match here. Should still qualify though. Dom - CHI then CUB/CAN. CAN is a tough match (she has beaten Dom and Winchester but lost to Augello). Miracle - CUB then VEN. VEN is the tough one. Elor - Cub then COL. Great Draw. Ildar - CUB then DOM. Cuba is the big one. Win that and qualify. Sancho - ARG/PUR then CHO. Great draw. Bey - ARG then COL. Toughest draw he could get probably. Woods - HON then CUB. Toughest draw possible. Vera - PAN then VEN. Should qualify. Schultz - Round Robin with BRA and CAN. Better draw than CHI. BRA still a tough beat.

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Here's a little preview of the Qualifiers (I'm using the entry list with the seeds as a basis for this). *Reminder - A wrestler only needs to make the finals to qualify. Thus the only opponents that matter are those that are seeded on the same side or get drawn in the same side* Men Free 57KG - Zane Richards - Seeded #2 11 man bracket meaning Zane will need to win a quarter and semi Semi #3 seed - Guesseppe Ricardo REA VILLARROEL of Ecuador (Just won bronze at Pan-Ams losing to VEN in semis by tech) Random draws - RBY of Mexico and Cruz of Puerto Rico. Zane has beat Cruz multiple times and they haven't been close. RBY is the wildcard here. If he gets drawn on the opposite side then I don't think Zane has a problem with anyone else. Results from Pan-Am Champs BRA - 5th. Lost to Lee and COL CAN - DNC CRC - Lost to ECU GUA - 5th. Lost to VEN and ECU MEX - DNC PER - Lost to COL PUR - DNC 65KG - Nick Lee - Seeded #1 12 man bracket meaning Lee will need to win a quarter and semi Semi #4 seed - Austin Klee GOMEZ of Mexico (The only real landmine in the draw) Random draws - Lachlan McNeil is the only other notable wrestler to be drawn in. Results from Pan-Am Champs BAH - 3rd. Lost to ARG. Beat PER and DOM. BRA - No entry CAN - DNC CHI - Lost to COL COL - Lost to CAN DOM - 5th. Lost to ARG and DOM. ECU - 3rd. Teched by Lee. PER - Lost to BAH Women 53KG - Dom Parrish - Seeded #1 11 woman bracket meaning Dom will need to win a quarter and semi Semi #4 seed - Antonia Alejandra VALDES ARRIAGADA of CHI (teched by CUBA at pan-ams) Random draws - Cuba seems to be the only one. Shouldn't be an issue as Gomez beat her this past weekend by tech. DOM beat Canada by fall and had a close match with VEN the 3rd seed. Results from Pan-Am Champs BRA - Lost to CUB COL - Lost to CAN CUB - 5th. Lost to ECU and USA (Gomez by tech). DOM - 3rd. Lost to VEN. Beat CAN. MEX - DNC PAN - Lost to DOM PER - Lost to USA 62KG - Kayla Miracle - Seeded #1 9 woman bracket meaning Kayla will need to win a quarter and semi Semi #4 seed - Astrid Paola MONTERO CHIRINOS of VEN (Miracle beat by fall in semis but was down 5-0) Random draws - Shouldn't really have any issue with anyone in the draw. Cuba has a closish match with Brazil in the quarters losing 5-0. The big match is the semi with VEN. Results from Pan-Am Champs COL - DNC CUB - Lost to BRA JAM - Lost to COL MEX - 5th. Lost to CAN and BRA PUR - Lost to CUB 68KG - Amit Elor - Not Seeded 9 woman bracket meaning Elor will need to win a quarter and semi and potentially a prelim. Random Draw - Without a seed there is no telling where Elor will be. CAN is the biggest obstacle here as a former world champ and a bronze this past year. Neither side looks more difficult than the other. Results from Pan-Am Champs BRA - DNC CAN - DNC (Morais - World Champ at 59 in 2019 and 3rd at 68 in 2022) CHI - No entry COL (#1 seed) - 5th. Lost to CAN and USA (Glaude 3-3) CUB (#4 seed) - Lost to MEX ECU (#3 seed) - 3rd. Lost to VEN. Beat MEX. MEX - 5th. Lost to VEN and ECU. Beat CUB. VEN (#2 seed) - 2nd. Beat ECU and MEX. INJ in finals. Greco 60KG - Ildar Hafizov - Seeded #1 10 man bracket meaning Ildar will need to win a quarter and semi Semi #4 seed - Dicther Hans TORO CASTANEDA of COL. (Miranda teched at pan-ams but has beat Hafizov previously) Random draws - DOM looks to be the toughest test if he lands on the same side. Results from Pan-Am Champs BRA - Lost to CHI CAN - Lost to DOM CHI - 5th. Lost to VEN and DOM. Beat BRA. DOM - 3rd. Lost to VEN. Beat CAN and CHI. ECU - Lost to MEX. MEX - DNC 67KG - Alejandro Sancho - Seeded #1 12 man bracket meaning Sancho will need to win a quarter and semi Semi #4 seed - Almanza Truyol NESTOR EVIAN of CHI (Sancho beat in close 3-1 match at pan-ams) Random draws - Sancho seems to always have a one technique match. He can go out and win it or lose first round it feels like. Results from Pan-Am Champs ARG - Lost to COL. Beat MEX. BRA - No entry CAN - 5th. Lost to ECU and COL. Beat GUA. DOM - 5th. Lost to Sancho (4-3) and CHI. Beat PUR. GUA - DNC MEX - DNC PER - Lost to CHI. PUR - DNC. 77KG - Kamal Bey - Seeded #2 12 man bracket meaning Bey will need to win a quarter and semi Semi #3 seed - Rivas Espinoza WUILEIXIS DE JESUS of VEN (Bey teched at pan-ams) Random draws - ARG has Arsen Julfalakyan entered who has a world and olympic title and 3 other medals to his name. Most recently he won a bronze in 2019 at the Euros. Obviously has the highest credentials of the rest of the group combined. But he is 36 now and hasn't had a world result in 10 years. COL is the other potential obstacle in the bracket as he beat Bey just this past week. Bey has beaten him before, as has RaVaughn and PSmith, as recently as last year. Results from Pan-Am Champs ARG - No entry CAN - Lost to GUA. CHI - 5th. Lost to BRA and CUB. COL - 1st. Beat PAN & VEN, Bey (6-6), and BRA. GUA - Lost to Bey by tech. Beat CAN. MEX - DNC PAN - Lost to COL and VEN. PUR - Lost to CUB. Beat MEX. 87KG - Spencer Woods - Not Seeded 8 man bracket meaning Woods will need to win a quarter and semi Random draws - Hope that Spencer gets drawn into the bottom half and the top has CUB, who has dominated the Pan-Ams the past few years, and COL, the guy that beat him this past weekend. Either way. Don't expect this to be qualified. Results from Pan-Am Champs BRA (#3 seed) - Lost to HON. CHI - 5th. Lost to CUB and COL. Beat MEX. COL (#4 seed) - 3rd. Lost to CUB. Beat Woods and CHI. CUB (#1 seed) - 1st. Beat CHI, COL, and VEN. HON - 3rd. Lost to VEN. Beat BRA & ARG. MEX - Lost to CHI VEN (#2 seed) - 2nd. Lost to CUB. Beat ARG & HON. 97KG - Alan Vera - Seeded #2 8 man bracket meaning Vera will need to win a quarter and semi Semi #3 seed - Luillys Jose PEREZ MORA of VEN (Vera beat 5-3 at pan-ams) Random draws - This one feels like it's a pretty easy rode to the semis. But Vera has dropped some strange matches. He really should make the finals though. Results from Pan-Am Champs ARG - 5th. Lost to HON and DOM. BRA - Lost to VEN. DOM - 3rd. Lost to HON. Beat ARG and BRA. MEX - 5th. Lost to Vera and VEN. PAN - Lost to VEN. 130KG - Cohlton Schultz - Seeded #1 6 man bracket meaning Cohlton will need to win a semi Semi #4 seed - Acosta Fernandez YASMANI of CHI Random draws - None to worry about as neither are beating Acosta. Acosta (the former cuban) has beaten Coon a few times rather easily. I'm not sure is Cohlton was wrestled him previously but I would have Acosta as the favorite. Results from Pan-Am Champs CAN - Lost to Schultz (6-0) and VEN. Beat MEX. MEX - DNC BOTTOM LINE - The men free should qualify both. The women should qualify all 3 but Miracle is iffy. Greco should get 1 in Ildar, Vera, Sancho, and Bey are 50/50. Schultz will need and upset. Woods will need his lucky rabbits foot. I predict all the freestyle weights get qualified and 3 greco (60, 67, 77).

According to Starocci, "Coach Casey would fold that man like an accordion" . If he had a clue he'd know that Clemsen is about 8 years younger than Cunningham, and was an AA 5 weight classes heavier. I know where I'd put my money.

Again, I am just a nobody wrestling fan so feel free to let me know where you think I went wrong. I will also add the caveat that I did this based primarily on head-to-head within the conference and the EIWA seems to have a different formula so I would not be shocked if some are drastically different but figured it would be fun anyway. EIWA Interactive Brackets Interactive Brackets: use the interactive brackets using the following letters: D, M, T, F (decision, major, tech, fall). Seed changes: You can change those seeds on the 125R, 133R, 141R, etc. sheets and it will automatically update the team predictions based off of seeds with no bonus factored in. 125 lbs. #1 Luke Stanich (LEH) (15-3, 2-0 EIWA): 5 WS #2 Brett Ungar (COR) (15-6, 7-1 EIWA): 20 WS #3 Diego Sotelo (HAR) (21-7, 5-3 EIWA): 25 WS #4 Jack Maida (AMER) (13-2, 1-1 EIWA): 31 WS #5 Ethan Bergnic (ARMY) (20-8, 4-1 EIWA): 32 WS #6 Drew Heethuis (PRIN) (15-10, 5-3 EIWA): 49 WS #7 Nick Babin (COL) (15-12, 5-3 EIWA): 22 WS #8 Max Gallagher (PENN) (16-6, 3-3 EIWA): 28 WS #9 Desmond Pleasant (DREX) (19-14, 5-3 EIWA): 50 WS #10 Michael Joyce (BRWN) (4-5, 2-4 EIWA): 54 WS #11 Carson Wagner (BING) (17-15, 5-7 EIWA): 55 WS #12 Dylan Acevedo (HOF) (7-14, 2-2 EIWA): 64 WS #13 Robbie Sagaris (LIU) (11-12, 2-6 EIWA): 56 WS #14 Jake Ice (SH) (7-5, 1-2 EIWA): 63 WS #15 Dayton DelViscio (NAVY) (8-12, 0-4 EIWA): 65 WS #16 Eric Howe (F&M) (7-15, 0-4 EIWA): 69 WS #17 Grayson McLellan (BUCK) (0-12, 0-2 EIWA): 77 WS 133 lbs. #1 Ryan Crookham (LEH) (15-0, 4-0 EIWA): 3 WS #2 Vito Arujau (COR) (10-1, 6-1 EIWA): 1 WS #3 Michael Colaiocco (PENN) (15-8, 5-4 EIWA): 13 WS #4 Kurt Phipps (BUCK) (22-3, 3-1 EIWA): 25 WS #5 Angelo Rini (COL) (8-3, 0-0 EIWA): 29 WS #6 Mason Leiphart (F&M) (22-9, 6-5 EIWA): 19 WS #7 Braden Basile (ARMY) (19-11, 2-1 EIWA): 38 WS #8 Micah Roes (BING) (22-9, 6-3 EIWA): 37 WS #9 Andrew Fallon (SH) (14-3, 2-1 EIWA): 47 WS #10 Sean Pierson (PRIN) (14-12, 3-3 EIWA): 36 WS #11 Coleman Nogle (HAR) (17-15, 3-8 EIWA): 42 WS #12 Brendan Ferretti (NAVY) (10-9, 2-4 EIWA): 34 WS #13 Max Leete (AMER) (14-9, 0-2 EIWA): 54 WS #14 Hunter Adrian (BRWN) (12-13, 1-5 EIWA): 59 WS #15 John Hildebrandt (DREX) (12-10, 4-3 EIWA): 50 WS #16 Dylan Ryder (HOF) (12-10, 0-3 EIWA): 55 WS #17 Kaelen Francois (LIU) (2-11, 0-3 EIWA): 72 WS 141 lbs. #1 Josh Koderhandt (NAVY) (18-6, 5-1 EIWA): 4 WS #2 Vince Cornella (COR) (13-7, 4-0 EIWA): 14 WS #3 Malyke Hines (LEH) (15-5, 8-2 EIWA): 19 WS #4 CJ Composto (PENN) (17-7, 4-2 EIWA): 25 WS #5 Dylan Chappell (BUCK) (18-8, 4-2 EIWA): 39 WS #6 Pat Phillips (F&M) (21-10, 7-1 EIWA): 34 WS #7 Devin Matthews (LIU) (16-10, 5-1 EIWA): 54 WS #8 Jordan Soriano (DREX) (18-8, 5-2 EIWA): 52 WS #9 Michael Jaffe (HAR) (5-5, 2-2 EIWA): 43 WS #10 Logan Brown (ARMY) (20-11, 3-4 EIWA): 47 WS #11 Nathan Lucier (BING) (14-11, 2-5 EIWA): 58 WS #12 Kai Owen (COL) (14-9, 2-3 EIWA): 30 WS #13 Tyler Vazquez (PRIN) (10-13, 1-7 EIWA): 49 WS #14 Ian Oswalt (BRWN) (11-16, 1-8 EIWA): 57 WS #15 Vincent Milazzo (SH) (10-16, 0-4 EIWA): 68 WS #16 Cael McIntyre (AMER) (7-13, 0-4 EIWA): 73 WS #17 Alex Turley (HOF) (7-18, 0-5 EIWA): 70 WS 149 lbs. #1 Ethan Fernandez (COR) (19-7, 7-0 EIWA): 16 WS #2 Jude Swisher (PENN) (21-6, 3-1 EIWA): 9 WS #3 Matthew Williams (ARMY) (23-7, 5-2 EIWA): 37 WS #4 Kelvin Griffin (LEH) (22-11, 5-3 EIWA): 18 WS #5 Jack Crook (HAR) (13-7, 4-3 EIWA): 39 WS #6 Eligh Rivera (PRIN) (14-10, 3-4 EIWA): 26 WS #7 Dominic Findora (DREX) (21-10, 4-0 EIWA): 38 WS #8 Riley Bower (BUCK) (11-12, 3-3 EIWA): 66 WS #9 Richard Fedalen (COL) (6-13, 2-4 EIWA): 57 WS #10 Jack Nies (AMER) (6-6, 0-2 EIWA): 58 WS #11 Kaemen Smith (NAVY) (22-11, 1-1 EIWA): 36 WS #12 Drew Witham (LIU) (11-15, 4-3 EIWA): 63 WS #13 Noah Tapia (HOF) (20-13, 2-2 EIWA): 47 WS #14 Michael Zarif (BING) (8-11, 1-3 EIWA): 68 WS #15 Josh Hillard (F&M) (12-16, 1-4 EIWA): 61 WS #16 Sam McMonagle (BRWN) (2-9, 1-6 EIWA): 71 WS #17 Mike McGhee (SH) (4-9, 0-5 EIWA): 76 WS 157 lbs. #1 Meyer Shapiro (COR) (19-2, 6-0 EIWA): 1 WS #2 Lucas Revano (PENN) (19-8, 5-2 EIWA): 21 WS #3 Max Brignola (LEH) (17-6, 5-2 EIWA): 25 WS #4 Nathan Lukez (ARMY) (23-9, 4-1 EIWA): 29 WS #5 Blake Saito (BRWN) (19-10, 5-2 EIWA): 36 WS #6 Jaden Le (COL) (9-10, 1-1 EIWA): 49 WS #7 Jonathan Ley (NAVY) (8-9, 2-2 EIWA): 50 WS #8 Rocco Camillaci (PRIN) (13-14, 3-5 EIWA): 57 WS #9 Jimmy Harrington (HAR) (10-9, 2-5 EIWA): 53 WS #10 Tyler Williams (DREX) (12-16, 5-4 EIWA): 56 WS #11 Carter Baer (BING) (14-15, 1-6 EIWA): 61 WS #12 Rhise Royster (LIU) (12-14, 3-3 EIWA): 62 WS #13 Jurius Clark (HOF) (12-7, 1-2 EIWA): 60 WS #14 Ethan Szerencsits (AMER) (4-5, 0-0 EIWA): 63 WS #15 Aiden Davis (BUCK) (9-12, 0-2 EIWA): 58 WS #16 Dominic Wheatley (F&M) (4-13, 1-3 EIWA): 73 WS #17 Connor MacDonald (SH) (5-8, 0-4 EIWA): 76 WS 165 lbs. #1 Julian Ramirez (COR) (18-2, 4-0 EIWA): 4 WS #2 Andrew Cerniglia (NAVY) (19-4, 4-1 EIWA): 15 WS #3 Brevin Cassella (BING) (24-6, 7-1 EIWA): 17 WS #4 Jake Logan (LEH) (8-9, 2-4 EIWA): 38 WS #5 Noah Mulvaney (BUCK) (25-4, 4-1 EIWA): 20 WS #6 Gunner Filipowicz (ARMY) (21-7, 2-2 EIWA): 19 WS #7 Cody Walsh (DREX) (23-9, 5-2 EIWA): 37 WS #8 Jake Slotnick (HOF) (10-10, 2-2 EIWA): 63 WS #9 James Johnston (LIU) (10-15, 3-2 EIWA): 67 WS #10 Kaya Sement (PENN) (13-12, 1-5 EIWA): 42 WS #11 Joshua Kim (HAR) (13-7, 3-4 EIWA): 40 WS #12 Blaine Bergey (PRIN) (12-12, 2-6 EIWA): 50 WS #13 Kyle Mosher (COL) (10-9, 3-2 EIWA): 28 WS #14 Keegan Rothrock (BRWN) (6-13, 2-5 EIWA): 59 WS #15 Josh Palmucci (F&M) (12-16, 1-3 EIWA): 72 WS #16 Calvin Pineda (SH) (7-15, 0-3 EIWA): 77 WS #17 Ryan Zimmerman (AMER) (8-18, 0-2 EIWA): 71 WS 174 lbs. #1 Phillip Conigliaro (HAR) (20-1, 6-0 EIWA): 8 WS #2 Nick Incontrera (PENN) (21-3, 5-1 EIWA): 6 WS #3 Lennox Wilcox (COL) (11-5, 5-2 EIWA): 13 WS #4 Ben Pasiuk (ARMY) (17-4, 6-1 EIWA): 11 WS #5 Danny Wask (NAVY) (20-9, 6-1 EIWA): 18 WS #6 Noah Fox (F&M) (25-8, 5-0 EIWA): 36 WS #7 Myles Takats (BUCK) (21-11, 5-3 EIWA): 32 WS #8 Connor Herceg (LEH) (7-6, 2-4 EIWA): 52 WS #9 Benny Baker (COR) (15-11, 1-3 EIWA): 40 WS #10 Ross McFarland (HOF) (12-6, 2-3 EIWA): 42 WS #11 Jack Janda (DREX) (16-11, 3-6 EIWA): 53 WS #12 Dimitri Gamkrelidze (BING) (16-12, 3-6 EIWA): 46 WS #13 Jonathan Conrad (BRWN) (13-13, 1-4 EIWA): 57 WS #14 Mikey Squires (PRIN) (10-12, 0-5 EIWA): 65 WS #15 Lucas White (AMER) (11-12, 0-5 EIWA): 61 WS #16 Corey Connolly (LIU) (8-12, 1-4 EIWA): 55 WS #17 Owen Ayotte (SH) (1-13, 0-3 EIWA): 76 WS 184 lbs. #1 Chris Foca (COR) (17-4, 6-2 EIWA): 4 WS #2 Jacob Nolan (BING) (20-4, 6-1 EIWA): 22 WS #3 James Conway (F&M) (26-7, 5-3 EIWA): 28 WS #4 Nate Dugan (PRIN) (19-6, 6-2 EIWA): 19 WS #5 Max Hale (PENN) (19-5, 4-4 EIWA): 21 WS #6 Aaron Ayzerov (COL) (15-9, 5-2 EIWA): 9 WS #7 David Key (NAVY) (13-10, 4-1 EIWA): 31 WS #8 Michael Bartusch (BUCK) (20-9, 3-4 EIWA): 41 WS #9 Leonardo Tarantino (HAR) (9-8, 2-4 EIWA): 51 WS #10 Anthony D'Alesio (LIU) (16-11, 6-4 EIWA): 32 WS #11 Jack Wilt (LEH) (12-11, 2-7 EIWA): 46 WS #12 Ethan Wilson (DREX) (10-7, 0-1 EIWA): 53 WS #13 Daniel Lawrence (ARMY) (9-12, 0-3 EIWA): 69 WS #14 Connor Bourne (AMER) (8-9, 0-1 EIWA): 62 WS #15 Will Conlon (HOF) (8-14, 1-5 EIWA): 64 WS #16 Colby Isabelle (BRWN) (1-7, 1-3 EIWA): 65 WS #17 Hunter Perez (SH) (4-7, 0-4 EIWA): 67 WS 197 lbs. #1 Michael Beard (LEH) (22-1, 8-0 EIWA): 3 WS #2 Louie DePrez (BING) (19-1, 6-1 EIWA): 5 WS #3 Jacob Cardenas (COR) (19-5, 4-2 EIWA): 7 WS #4 Luke Stout (PRIN) (18-5, 3-4 EIWA): 14 WS #5 Cole Urbas (PENN) (13-8, 4-3 EIWA): 28 WS #6 John Crawford (F&M) (20-9, 5-0 EIWA): 29 WS #7 Jack Wehmeyer (COL) (17-9, 5-2 EIWA): 30 WS #8 Logan Deacetis (BUCK) (17-11, 5-2 EIWA): 31 WS #9 Cael Crebs (NAVY) (7-8, 2-1 EIWA): 47 WS #10 Wolfgang Frable (ARMY) (13-16, 3-9 EIWA): 48 WS #11 Ibrahim Ameer (DREX) (12-14, 5-5 EIWA): 51 WS #12 Nikolas Miller (HOF) (9-14, 2-3 EIWA): 50 WS #13 John Dusza (LIU) (13-11, 3-6 EIWA): 46 WS #14 Liam Volk-Klos (AMER) (10-15, 0-5 EIWA): 67 WS #15 Alex Whitworth (HAR) (4-11, 2-5 EIWA): 63 WS #16 Lear Quinton (BRWN) (2-12, 1-4 EIWA): 74 WS #17 Jake Trovato (SH) (3-13, 0-6 EIWA): 75 WS 285 lbs. #1 Nathan Taylor (LEH) (19-3, 7-0 EIWA): 7 WS #2 Cory Day (BING) (22-5, 9-1 EIWA): 13 WS #3 Grady Griess (NAVY) (20-8, 4-3 EIWA): 16 WS #4 Keaton Kluever (HOF) (13-3, 4-1 EIWA): 18 WS #5 Lewis Fernandes (COR) (17-9, 5-3 EIWA): 14 WS #6 Lucas Stoddard (ARMY) (21-11, 4-5 EIWA): 29 WS #7 Dorian Crosby (BUCK) (20-8, 6-3 EIWA): 25 WS #8 Matthew Cover (PRIN) (13-7, 4-6 EIWA): 32 WS #9 Vincent Mueller (COL) (14-10, 1-2 EIWA): 43 WS #10 John Stout (PENN) (13-10, 3-2 EIWA): 52 WS #11 William Jarrell (AMER) (16-13, 2-4 EIWA): 35 WS #12 Alex Semenenko (BRWN) (9-13, 2-6 EIWA): 58 WS #13 Santino Morina (DREX) (11-14, 2-7 EIWA): 62 WS #14 Aeden Begue (LIU) (12-9, 4-3 EIWA): 65 WS #15 Harrison Shapiro (F&M) (4-14, 0-3 EIWA): 73 WS #16 Nick Marcenelle (HAR) (1-4, 1-2 EIWA): 66 WS #17 Marc Berisha (SH) (1-12, 0-7 EIWA): 75 WS Team Standings (Based on seeds; no bonus projections) 1. Cornell - 143 2. Lehigh - 129 3. Penn - 92.5 4. Navy - 68.5 5. Army - 67 6. Binghamton - 64 7. Bucknell - 54.5 8. Columbia - 50 9. Princeton - 49 10. Franklin & Marshall - 48 11. Harvard - 44.5 12. Hofstra - 19 13. Drexel - 18.5 14. American - 14 15. Brown - 13 16. LIU - 8.5 17. Sacred Heart - 2

Hey guys, we'll use this as our official thread. Our league is capped at 15 participants, and last year's participants will have first dibs. CONFIRMED RETURNING @Idaho @MPhillips @flyingcement ...me. I'm in. @nhs67 @jajensen09 @MizzouFan01 @lu_alum WAITING ON RESPONSE @goheels1812 @Jerry Callo @JVStateChamp @GreatWhiteNorth @idc2 @Antitroll2828 @Perry The plan is to try to have a Zoom call this year to make the draft move faster. Looking forward to it, boys!

This is a good listen.

Needed a reset, mate. High school season just ended and it's my first time coaching full time in decades. I have been creeping and busting balls on Twatter.

Sure:

I was agreeing with your point that there were definitely differences, just that. ========================================================== But I just had a weird moment. The local cable company is showing a repeat of the 2017 PA state high school championship (they used to be broadcast on PCN, a public cable channel for free, until Flo bought the rights a few years back.) The 2017 finals featured the well-known match between Spencer Lee, with his knee bandaged up like a quilt, going for his fourth championship and an undefeated high school career versus Desanto, repeatedly described as being on a Visionquest to defeat Lee after having been bonused the prior year. And everybody knows that Lee lost that match. But, the finals also feature a young (sophomore?) Carter Starocci from Erie Cathedral Prep, who has a high schooler's middleweight body, and gets pretty much owned by eventual champion, the senior from Penn Trafford, Coy, who captured his third state title. Starocci's glory would have to come later. Both shown live on TV in 2017, and now both of them (or, at least their knee injuries) are being discussed in this same thread. Deja vu all over again, as they say.

Nebraska takes it all on the strength of title runs by hardy and pinto!

You know, when you lie you have to remember exactly what the lie was. When there are too many because you are an untrustworthy person, you can't keep up and you see what happened today. It should be so embarrassing that they are caught up in this corruption scandal due to their own acts. This could have all been avoided if they had just not. Be professionals and just don't. The boss should not be having sex with the employee. When did they not hear this? And she is the DA, she should know this. But it was disregarded because it couldn't be applied to them. This is a cut and dried case of appearance of corruption and that can't have a place in the justice system. Everything has to be above board. They are giving Fani way too much credit on this, trying to prove that this does not have the appearance of corruption. Well it does and that is that. mspart

Everyone listens to their cherry picked whack job of choice. mspart

I know a fellow who graduated with a geology degree, but had poor grades and never was able to gain employment in his field. He made a career in repairing brick work. He also tried to make a little money playing music with only slightly better results than geology. He paid all his bills.

VT’s 184 Stewart. He’s starting to hit his strides after getting his weight under control. Dude is a beast from neutral. Being a freshman, I could see him get stuck in bottom from a seasoned vet but wouldn’t be surprised if he gets high on the podium too

Iowa, PSU, and Minnesota always have a few guys who come out of nowhere to make the podium. Obviously, if you are from PSU just being on that team removes the element of surprise a bit. One guy I've been really impressed with who has amazing defense is the 141 from WVU Jordan Titus. He has some impressive defense, and can scramble his face off. He definitely has the skills to be a bracket buster and send a few guys to an early off season.

I don't know what we need to do to get access to their programs, but, even though they kick our butts, I can't think of a an organization or a group of people I would more like a hypothetical daughter of mine to get to know. A bunch of gentle, patient savages. I know Japan has a lot of kooky aspects to its society, but they have to have things right somehow. The Japanese women's team is the most dominant team anywhere in the world, across styles, age groups and genders. Mad respect.

I reckon I'll play. 57 - My gut says Spencer, My Heart says Fix, my mind says... I don't know maybe Vito does his thing. Yeah for my money give me Vito but with about 20% confidence. I guess I'm counting out Gilman and Im a forever Richards doubter (Respect to him but he's not a possible finalist in my mind) 65 - Alirez, in my eyes, is the favorite. He's just developed into an elite world-level 65kg wrestler. He's relentless, his takedowns are clean and he doesn't need a lot of "Funk" to finish. He's just designed for freestyle. Could somebody beat him? sure. Lee/Yainni/McKenna/Zain-Train any winner of the weight isn't a huge surprise, but I guess if we were wagering I'd take Alirez heads up in any of those matches. 74 - Mind says Dake, Heart says JB. I want to believe so badly that Burroughs will come out in top form. Having trained with Chamizo, a year off from World Competition to get his mind and body right, he's had forever to take a deep dive into how to beat that chest-wrap. blah blah blah. But the reality is, he didn't make the team last year against lesser competition which gives me such strong doubt. He's dropped matches before though, especially in best of 3's. Part of me wants to discount the losses and speculate that maybe you're not "all-in" on the prospect of beating Marstellar for a 6th or 7th time. But in your final year of wrestling dedicating your entire life to getting back to the Olympics.... it just feels like he is going to come out the best version of himself. Hope its enough. (I think the "up and comers" have some good battles with each other, but none take out JB or Dake) 86 - DT maybe his last rodeo? Or does he keep striving to go down as the goat. 97 - Snyder, just the ideal 97kg approach. Size, strength, pressure. I wish J'den would come out well adjusted to the weight muscle/cardio wise but the few times we have seen him bump, he's looked very human. His lack of activity, new fatherhood role, etc etc kind of removes him from the picture (but I still think he gets 2nd 9x out of 10) 125 - I guess Parris. Gable is out doing whatever and i don't think he wants to come back and meet a Zare who never took a break. Parris is athletic and stays busy on his feet which is enough to possibly medal depending on draw. Kerk relies a lot on being a hammer on the mat in folk , I know he had some success at cadets/juniors but just doesn't seem ready for seniors. Who knows. Recap. Probably: Vito, Alirez, Dake, DT, Snyder, Parris. but at the weights where I don't think it would diminish our team if the guy I am a fan of won. 57kg - Fix 74kg - JB (I just don't have the faith I used to)

LOL. A couple days go by and I forget why I stopped responding to him, yet here I did it again and got what he always does...psycho babble stupidity.

"I'm going to a state school in Missouri for a world-renowned education to learn the intricacies of grammar of the American English language!" -no one ever

doing hardly nothing to win means you are doing a lot to win

Psycho babble boy is back give him a break though. He needs people like us to survive.

No, no, no, and no. Theoretically Morgan State is, but they don't have a conference. They are eligible for at-large bids, but won't get any. The rest are still in their transition period. Bellarmine clears it this year, and will be eligible for SoCon's in 2024-25. Queens will be eligible in 2026-27.

Sickening

I’ve been saying for years now that young Greta needs to go protest in places like China, India and Pakistan. Until the entire world is involved it’s no different than pissing in the wind.

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SHM...does man have an impact on the environment, absolutely! Is man solely responsible for the slight change in weather currently, absolutely not! And you do make a good point...to have any sort of significant impact on things, it would take a coordinated global effort. However, as the saying goes, is the juice worth the squeeze...aka, would it be financially beneficial, I am not sure. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't try and not pollute the environment as much as possible.

Agreed! One of the proudest moments I had was when I made that last student loan payment.

TBF, Cael kept up the Suriano charade for so long, they couldn't even re-seed 125 lbs at NCAAs, or swap in an alternate to take Suriano's place. Blew up the bottom half of the bracket, arguably created an "uneven playing field", and for about as ephemeral a potential gain as I can conceive. Not that it's his job to look out for anyone beyond his own athletes. He's there to win. But please stop with the 'glory to god' babble, and anything to do with jesus. According to your own holy book(s), the latter was as uninterested in winning (let alone at all costs) as he was in any of the other nonsense done in his name today.

My fear is that Hamiti faces Amine in the semis and loses (because he can never beat him) and then we get cheated out of the matchup at nationals too. Both Hamiti and Mesenbrink have non-stop pace, but very different offensive skillsets so I just want to see the constant attacks.

There seems to be no sense of accomplishment and self respect anymore. I set a goal of paying off my debt and was both happy and proud when I did it. Life isn’t easy so get over yourself and earn something.

We've had limited success in Greco over the years. 96, Paulsen, Hall, and Ghaffari all won silver. 98 Ghaffari won silver 2000 - Lindland, Lowney, Gardner to silver, bronze, and gold 01 - Paulsen, Lindland, Gardner - first two with silver, Gardner with Gold. 02 - Byers Gold 04 - Gardner Bronze I'm getting this from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_results_in_Greco-Roman_wrestling. Not a lot of consistency from our guys. Gardner was pretty consistent. The difference is that our FS guys are consistent for the most part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_results_in_men's_freestyle_wrestling This shows a different story. We have had a lot more success in FS, but recently, even more. The last year Russia as able to compete as Russia, 2021, we had 7 medalists in 10 weights. That's pretty good. 2020 we had 5 medalists in 6 weights. We had Hancock in GR that did well and improved his performance every year and took 3rd and then retired. Perhaps he could have been that guy. I don't see anyone on the horizon. It seems like we did better in GR when we had the coach with the secret sauce, Dan Chandler. He seemed able to get folks ready. It will have to come from USA Wrestling I think as they place new emphasis on GR. Otherwise, it will stay obscure. mspart mspart

Not to re-litigate the Hardy/Bartlett call but if a guy calls out for injury time and the TD is imminent then I think the points should be awarded. Okay with stopping the action to prevent injury but not points. Some injuries are not preventable by PD, but I am not sure that means we should eliminate PD.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/02/the-link-between-age-and-conservatism-is-breaking/ Interesting article showing Millennials and Gen Z aren't getting more conservative as they age like previous generations. You guys have any theories? I have one! (hint: they're the first generations to grow up without extensive exposure to lead paint and gasoline)

Who says he could remember the other two? He had to read their names off a card.

17 schools in the EIWA is nuts. Seems that getting rid of the ivy schools will just share wealth and hopefully encourage Dartmouth and Yale to get on board with wrestling.

Amine doesn't do much to be fair. AND in saying that he's done enough to be a three time AA, so I'm not knocking him.

In the past, Amine has not reacted much to Hamiti's fakes and movements. Often times, Hamiti can use the reaction to his fakes and arm movements to propel the next sequence of offense for him. Amine doesn't bite and then Hamiti has been stifled. I hope he can figure it out - but with Bono and the boys helping him out, I'm not sure how confident I would be

‘You use a lot of words’ interrsting first statement.

Another slight upset... Lou DePrez #9 Binghamton over Jacob Cardenas #7 Cornell 7-3 dec. @ Cornell. D3

Yes sir

What an absolute bonkers day of wrestling..... Lemley MICH over Woods IOWA 14-2!!!! Will Lewan MICH over Franek Iowa TB-1 Marlon Yarbrough Virginia over Sam Latona VT DeAugustino over Ayala Sonny Santiago UNC over Ed Scott NC State Troy Spratley over Richie Figueroa 13-5 Ryder Rogotzke tOSU over Bernie Truax fall Kasak over D'Emilio Bouzakis over Nagao