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It isn't mentioned but the Willie figurine is actually life sized.

I wouldn't redshirt him. You redshirt him and he's somewhere else the next year.

Bartlett and Hardy if they gained superpowers

I'm not surprised that Penn State isn't doing this. I'm a little surprised at what salty b I t c h e s some of the fans are being about the event daring to exist.

As a Penn State fan and alumni, I really don't understand the hatred towards this event. I get why Cael will say no, the timing of it doesn't really make any sense, but the current wrestling season calendar doesn't either. If you have a team full of kids attempting to make world teams throughout the fall, they likely aren't "optimized" to compete in early November. This being said, as a wrestling fan, why would you not want to see at least most of the nations top teams compete. Particularly in a dual meet setting.

The top teams was invited. If a wrestlers is called to the mat but doesn't show up its a forfeit, you don't change the name or invalidate the guy who ended up winning. PSU doesn't want to put their foot on the line,fine, but they don't then get to say the name should be changed. If PSU wants to be the National Duals Invite champs then they can show up, but they are choosing to let someone else win that title.

Hunter Mason to Chattanooga

What?! No way. They have been the best thing since wrestling was invented in 2011. Stay classy Sandusky U.

cult-like behavior - their lord and savior Ca-El Sanderson didn't sanction the event so they must trash its mere existence

These are awesome!

I don't think it was worth the announcement unless he's cutting to 49... I cancelled my check.

When guys get hurt in January and February and have to miss the postseason, we can say they don't have their real roster, and we can also dismiss what happens at NCAAs, right? Lucas Byrd doesn't get to call himself champion because Ryan Crookham wasn't in the tournament, right? No. Like any other time, you go with the best guys available and the results are the results. Lots of guys are worn down by March and aren't the best version of themselves. Again, we don't discount the NCAAs because of it. There is no utopian scenario to get a perfect outcome. You can quibble with things like the date, or the selection criteria, or name of the event ... Or you can appreciate that there are people trying to make this sport bigger and putting their money where their mouth is to make it happen. And appreciate the fact that all these teams want to show up and COMPETE and put on a show for the fans.

It's certainly their choice, but there is no need for them to make comments like its not a real national duals or downplay the event because they didn't accept the invitation. It's a chance to grow the sport and create a cool event. . Cael doesn't think it helps his team win NCAAs in March so they are not going regardless of the impact it could have. I agree it's fine that they don't want to go, but its telling that everyone thinks this is a good idea.

incredibly lame Penn State isn't participating

Vincent Cornella I believe is much superior to Saunders. Saunders showed some good stuff this year with a major over Josh Edmond and some other good wins going 20-8 but Vince Cornella when healthy is too notch. Not only is he a junior bronze medalist but he bonused his way through EIWAs as a freshman. He last in tie breaker to Lachlan at ncaas who took 3rd . Then on back side he was destroying Swiderski 8-0 with 5 minutes of riding time before getting cement mixed and stuck with seconds left. His sophomore year he tore an acl during the Edmond match and still won. He couldn’t make it through Confernces though and was out all this past season: Talking about a guy who best Koderhandt 15-2 though. I like him to win the 141 spot. As far as Greg D, he did beat Milani last year. It was close but I believe that was just out of familiarity. Greg is far superior. If he can stay healthy, and that’s a huge if,,he is a podium threat. Started out 9-0 last year before injuring his neck and being done for year.

Someone check MP's bank account to confirm.

Obviously not as good as Chertow

They tried that already. Kid couldn't get over 138lbs after practice.

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Rex Holman went undefeated and beat two future NCAA Champs and a future Hodge winner at NCAAs.

I sure hope you are referring to Kentucky??

Sure. Have got plenty more in the chamber. If you weren't such an extremist we could probably have a constructive conversation https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3303369/economist-michael-pettis-chinas-consumption-paradox-and-pitfalls-trade-war

Where is all the outrage to pay cheap Chinese workers a living wage.

ohio st boards are saying cannon will likely be 65 and cody at 57. That leaves a hole to go to the portal at 49 or develop a kid there already.

To be honest, I have no problem with PSU not participating. There will be fun individual matchups that we don’t get, but there’s now more parity between the competing teams. If everyone but Penn State participates, we are still getting a fun and competitive event that I look forward to.

Protesting is fine. Taking over buildings, damaging property and verbally abusing other students is NOT.

Harvard's Sotello -> Michigan to man the 125. That means no to Spidle. Michigan looking pretty decent next year.

All good potential match ups. I hope we get to see all of these. I wish they would just get rid of all shirts and just give everyone 5 years. Then we wouldn't have to wait to see guys like Blaze.

Stanford 125- Provo 133- Knox 141- Valencia 149- Parco/Mara/Consiglio 157- Cardenas 165- Garvin 174-Norman/Guffey 184-Guffey/Norman/Montiero 197- Posada/Borelli 285- Gap Fun lineup with potentially 8 NQs. Wish they could land a NQ level grad transfer at one of the upper weights, but just isn’t easy at Stanford. Either way, wouldn’t be at all surprised to see 3-4 AA’s out of this group.

He got injured at CKLV in the Cory Land match. He never returned after that. Grey didn’t feel the need to inform or update any fans on the starting lineup this year at all so we were all pretty clueless all year. He was said to be coming back and would be at 125 lbs. This went on and on for the entire month of Feb but he obviously never made it back. He will be back next year, we will see. I know that the entire 2025 class they have coming in which includes 8 guys in the top 53 of the big board, are all grey shirting next year: By the way, watch out for Jaxon Joy next year at 149. He had to earn the spot over Ethan Fernandez but I believe he will. For his Grey shirt year this year as a true freshman he went 31-1 with 4 falls, 16 techs, and 6 majors (2 inj def) and had a bonus rate of 85%. He had 7 open tournament titles. He also had 5 wins over NCAA qualifiers, 2 of them techs, 3 majors. He vastly improved from his senior year of high school (which he was already a high caliber guy in HS).

Psu fans are bad for the sport.

Embarrassing for PSU, to be honest.

My guess would be they have a plan for redshirts and weights. It may have been what was holding up the official announcement???

But the top "teams" haven't opted out, only one has. It's not called the Top Teams Duals it's the National Duals and all the top teams in the nation are invited.

So you are saying China is a 3rd world country?? But yet they think 10 steps ahead of us and 50 years down the road??

Trump weighs 224 lbs.

My uncle was an MIT + Harvard guy. Always said he wished he went to Chicago. Then, a couple years after he passed, my cousin (who went to Duke for undergrad...nerd) left his job at GE Aerospace, and to my great surprise, had apparently listened to his dad, and got his MBA from Booth.

At this point, I don't think you should be surprised by this behavior from PSU fans, it more par for the course.

"Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting "Sickness?" he wrote on Truth Social. "Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!" a little to much support for the terrorists in Palestine…. May get you on the naughty list?

So the Democratic "narrative" is typically the dominant one is the explanation. I know your explanation for that is that everybody is ganging up on the Republicans. Another explanation is that the Democratic narrative is simply more accurate most of the time., so most of the mainstream media and institutions trust it more That goes along with the study that I provided.

As an opt-out, the roster limits won't apply to Cornell

Alpha chicks don’t bang beta guys. Imo at least. Trudeau is king beta cuck.

How a team performs later in the season doesn't impact the quality of a point-in-time event. For the event to succeed, fans need to show up, tune in, and have a good time.

The value of an event comes from the competitors. The top 12 teams (plus 4) from across the nation are invited.

It adds emotion to the story. emotion is part of certain narratives….. Like when they refuse to call illegal aliens “illegal” and they call them undocumented….. or asylum seekers or whatever. Both sides do it. But it is what it is. 10 million illegals flow over the boarder during the Biden admin. Now that they found a “grey immigration” case they will try to get as many emotional news cycles out of this as they possibly can. They want illegals here because they want them to vote blue. The politicians don’t care about said el Salvadoran…. The people arguing on this site likely do… and that’s the emotion they are playing on.

RBY

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Hardy is a terrible matchup for someone who's never wrestled folkstyle.

I am not overly impressed with the ultra lightweight kids. I have a lot more respect for a guy winning multiple state titles if he's not wrestling 8 graders, 9 graders, and sophomores. It stands to reason why, those kids are 2 or 3 years younger than the guys winning titles in upper weights and have 2 to 3 years less wrestling development. If a Fr or a Soph wins the state title at, say, 157 pounds though, I'm impressed because he's beating guys who are mostly older than him. If a Fr or Soph wins state at even higher weights I'm even MORE impressed because they are competing against kids who are more physically mature than they are in all likelihood. That's not to say that great wrestlers didn't pass through those very light weights as they matured, which explains guys like Valencia or Lee wrestling those weights in HS. Regarding tweeners, they don't usually pan out all that well. There are exceptions of course, but most 220 pounders are going to struggle at HWT in college. 190 pounders are a completely different animal. 190 is a much stronger weight class than 220 in HS, in my opinion.