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Holding Teemer in the air, blood rushing down his face, through his bandage, he holds his fist in the air LOL!

Kasak wrestles like a Gable Hawkeye

I am upset that Arnold is ducking the Penn State dual (again).

Chael has had a couple interesting Iowa videos the last few days:

Did Starocci take an offensive shot in the match? A potential 5x champ wins via a stall point over a true freshman.. Yuck.

4X ncaa champion. Can’t take down freshmen. Meh. He is maybe more boring than boring beau

Satrocci with a disappointing match. Props to the freshman.

Seriously wtf is this ref doing? Isn't it enough that our wrestlers are worse?

Kasak is a palindrome.

Local News shows Coleman Scott at OSU. how was he in two places at once

Since we appear to have hit a wall, I will post the "final" results. Some Accounting Turns out I am a bad accountant. I miscounted. There are only 49 entries. But I will let you keep the cash prize @Ragu for the 50th entry. Here is what I have for each of the 49 entries. If anyone feels their entry is in error, please let me know. There are 40 Intermat entries (an all time high), and 6 HVI and 1 HR (both all time lows), to go along with one from Twitter, and Willie's prediction. Wisdom Of The Crowds If you believe in that sort of stuff, the final score prediction is...... Spread 'Em On HVI I saw someone say they saw a betting line of Iowa +21.5. With our WOTC Predicted spread of 17.5, maybe it is time to take Iowa and the points (not gambling advice). The distribution of differences looks like this: Who You Calling a Lier? Nobody. I said outlier. Settle down. As you can see there are a few outliers in the stack. @Mr. PeanutButter wins the Hawkeyed Cockeyed Optimist Award for greatest Iowa fan. But he is a singular bird of that feather. I am frankly shocked and disappointed at the practicality of the rest of Hawkeye nation. Two thirds of PBJ sees Iowa taking 6 of 10. Nobody else could talk themselves into even 5 wins for Brands' Boys. For goodness sake, even the greatest four three time champ in Hawk History (@Spencerlee) has the Nittany Lyings Lions winning by 14. For shame. On the flip side, who woulda thunk it? We have a Wolverine in Lions' clothing. At 37-0, @nhs67 exposes the lie. He can claim to be a Michigan fan all he wants. We know better. Only baccafarmer (HVI, no duh), Kale_yeah (guess where), @Pish (who hides as psih69 on HVI), and your faithful author could also see PSU hitting the triple decade. What Abouts The Bouts? But enough about us. What about the wrestlers? Glad you asked. Kerkvliet, Haines, and Bartlett are the only unanimous choices. Iowa is favored in 3 matches with Ayala the biggest favorite, followed by Buchanon and Teemer. Teemer v Kasak appears to be the most interesting match of the night at a near 50/50 split. But I feel like Buchanon v Barr should be given the 22 points in 1:19 onslaught we witnessed last week. But come on. Don't be stupid. It has to be the match that will end with a beheading, right? Two bold statements have been made. The first one turned out to be silly. But now we get a chance to see one of them actually backed up. Or sorta backed up. I do not expect an actual beheading. He Shoots. He Scores. From a scoring perspective things move around a bit. While Mikey Caliendo got one vote of confidence (we see you @RawDog) the expectation is that Mesenbrink will do more damage than a Lion in an aviary. And in a shocker, Beau "One Shot, Everyone Knows The Rules" Bartlett is the collective second favorite to take a second shot. Or maybe you guys just like him for the back points (aka near pinfall points)? At the other end of the spectrum is the one, if we are really being honest, we are tuning in to see. Two Brands. Two Team Point Deductions. Too bad Vegas doesn't offer a prop bet. I have told the wife every night this week what I am planning to do on Friday night. Come join me. I think I will crack open some spirits for the big event. But if clean living is your thing, then God Bless.

coming out to the Halloween (Michael Meyers) theme like he's going to kill Ferrari and then not once trying to initiate a scoring sequence is clown behavior.

it's funny because i recall leagues of psu fans complaining about pushing == not wrestling. But isn't that what Carter "Golden Globes" Starocci has been doing?

I think that image just might go viral

That would be brutal. "Hey, Gabe, I want you to call for Starocci's head in the press conference. But make it more vague than that." "OK, coach. So that means I am starting?" "Oh no, you aren't starting. We just need you to be a distraction."

Rock Legends 125 Jett Strickenberger - West Virginia 133 James Joplin - Lander 141 Jameson Garcia - Harvard 149 Dylan D'Emilio - Ohio State 157 Isaiah Hendrix - Central Baptist 165 Jagger Condomitti - Nebraska 174 Harrison Smith - Va Tech 184 Sincere-Hall Osbourne - Central Methodist 197 Austin Starr - The Ohio University 285 Austin Chapman - Clarion I tried to do a @Jimmy Cinnabon one but all I could find was Dylan Croisant. Oh well.

Draftkings actually has these listed as "duels."

cool topic. i'll take some liberties here... 125: Travis Lee - 4x EIWA Champ, 2x NCAA Champ, ended with most wins in Ivy History and first ever Ivy 4x AA beats out TNick 1x Champ, 3x EIWA Champ, 4x AA 133: Vito Arujau - 4-3-1-1 and his last two were thrilling. beats out Nahshon who was 3-2-5-1 141: Yianni D - 4x won his first two at 141 149: Kyle Dake - 4xer. His title at 149 came over Molinari in the finals, who would be the champ the next year. 157: Jordan Leen - 2008 NCAA Champ beat fellow Champ Gregor Gillespie in quarters Meyer Shapiro pending. 165: Mack Lewnes - 3x AA. Finalist. 4x EIWA Champ 174: Brian Realbuto - 3x AA. NCAA Runner Up* at 157. Was 5th as SR at 174. Beats out Chris Foca, who was 3rd as a SO and has one more shot. 184: Gabe Dean - 4x AA, 2x Champ, win over Ed Ruth beats out Steve Bozak - 3x AA, 1x Champ over Quentin Wright 197 - Cam Simaz - 4x AA, 1x Champ, 4x EIWA Champ 285 - Never Had an AA. I guess i'd go with Lewis Fernandes.

That you are not on the forums all the time is cause for celebration rather than need for apology. Thank you for the response. As always, you are a class act. Thanks for doing the rankings that we all endlessly debate. Now that I think about it, maybe slip a crazy one in there every now and again so that we have something to go nuts about. You know, liven things up a bit around here.

Hey sorry for the delay - just checked the forums today. Yeah, it's a bad ranking...it happens from time to time. Most times we catch it before it gets to this point but Block slipped through the cracks. You'll remember last year I had to answer for dropping Maida 18 spots and this year I have to answer for not dropping Block. It'll be fixed on Monday...unless he beats Bartlett tonight of course

Ferrocci

I think @nhs67 said he's overrated

NO KYLE DAKE ? Wow - how soo they forget, how fleeting is the glory....

True soph vs 7th year portaled hired gun

Kudos to Kasak for the Johnny Cash walkout song.

@PortaJohn

JK Simmons as Casey Cunningham

Well, at least Parco will have no choice but to score a takedown now

3 backups so far in 3 matches. Way to grow the sport

Kurt McHenry at 133? He's undersized at 125!

is anyone else having issues with the stream (lol)? I'm using hulu live and can't get it to work on my tv, phone, or tablet. The internet seems to be fine. Everything else is loading fast edit: NVM. I can see on twitter that I'm not the only one having issues. How did flo get their grubby fingers on this?

He might be closer than @Mr. PeanutButter

The Brand Bros have been looking for a small advantage.

I mean it might’ve been Brands’ idea for Arnold to make the callout knowing all along it was going to be Ferrari. The funny part is that Starocci saw right through it

Arnold wants to be undefeated against Penn State. Can't be defeated if you don't wrestle.

Ferrari v Starocci anyone?

Mark me down for Starocci vs Ferrari

It sure seems that way. Arnold is hilariously bad at meme attempts.

I actually did notice that, but I couldn't bring myself to typing a wrestling dual with the "e"

lol I love the forums - I'm usually on them most days but we had a little family get away the past few days so that spared me from getting caught in the weeds of my Ryder Block error.

you're the man, Kozak. it does happen. to all of us from time to time.

It's unreasonable to expect Dake to make a fantasy lineup in the year 2025. What is he, like 14 years old now?

a few more Carl Adams, Mike Grant, Stewart Carter, Pete Bush.

Probably not mentioned because it's the most well known circumstance regarding DT and OKST...

Shame on those citizens wanting to have their tax dollars actually go to citizens vs illegal aliens.

I sure hope you have readily available mental health treatment, and you take advantage of it.

I chuckled that after all that you still picked one of the three.

Flying Cement -- Congratulations for one of the most intriguing and entertaining posts I have ever seen here.