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For those with access to YouTube Ben is currently on Flowrestling Radio Live. He looks and sounds GREAT.

Some matches I’d love to see 125: Troy Spratley (Oklahoma State) vs Eddie Ventresca (Virginia Tech) Maximo Renteria (Oregon State) vs Marc Anthony McGowan (Princeton) Stevo Poulin (Iowa State) vs Jett Strickenberger (West Virginia) 133: Drake Ayala (Iowa) vs Ryan Crookham (Lehigh) Marcus Blaze (Penn State) vs Ben Davino (Ohio State) Lucas Byrd (Illinois) vs Richard Figueroa (Oklahoma State) 141: Luke Stanich (Lehigh) vs Brock Hardy (Nebraska) Nasir Bailey (Little Rock) vs Anthony Echemendia (Iowa State) Vince Cornella (Cornell) vs Aden Valencia (Stanford) 149: Lachlan McNiell (Michigan) vs Ethan Stiles (Ohio State) Casey Swiderski (Oklahoma State) vs Jacob Frost (Iowa State) Kannon Webster (Illinois) vs Ethan Stiles (Ohio State) 157: Antrell Taylor (Nebraska) vs Tyler Kasak (Penn State) Antrell Taylor (Nebraska) vs Meyer Shapiro (Cornell) Tyler Kasak (Penn State) vs Meyer Shapiro (Cornell) 165: Mitchell Mesenbrink (Penn State) vs Michael Caliendo (Iowa) Hunter Garvin (Stanford) vs Beau Mantanona (Michigan) Beau Mantanona (Michigan) vs Max Brignola (Lehigh) 174: Levi Haines (Penn State) vs Simon Ruiz (Cornell) Simon Ruiz (Cornell) vs Danny Wask (Navy) Brock Mantanona (Michigan) vs Lorenzo Norman (Stanford) 184: Max McEnelly (Minnesota) vs Angelo Ferrari (Iowa) Aeoden Sinclair (Missouri) vs Jaxon Smith (Maryland) Dylan Fishback (North Carolina State) vs Zack Ryder (Oklahoma State) 197: Josh Barr (Penn State) vs Stephen Little (Little Rock) Joey Novak (Wyoming) vs Mac Stout (Pittsburgh) Justin Rademacher (Oregon State) vs Sonny Sasso (Virginia Tech) 285: AJ Ferrari (Nebraska) vs Younger Bastida (Iowa State) Nick Feldman (Ohio State) vs Ben Keuter (Iowa) Cole Mirasola (Penn State) vs Braxton Amos (Wisconsin)

Northern Illinios is leaving the MAC in all sports - headed to the Mountain West for football and the rest of their sports are finding a home in the Summit League so I don't think this is in anyway a concern about the future of the MAC wrestling

Would love to see a team return there but unfortunately don't see it happening.

At the end of the season the national ranking was 1. Faith Christian 2. Bishop McCort ... 4) Wyoming Seminary. So 1st in their state was first in the country. Those three had split duals with Wyoming Seminary beating Faith Christian early in the season and losing to McCort later. Faith Christian then beat Bishop McCort to win the state dual title at the end of the season. So the picture might be a little unclear looking at duals, but there were also tournaments. McCort, Faith Christian, and Wyoming Seminary entered the same tournaments thought the year and Faith Christian won every tournament they entered. Bishop McCort outplaced Wyoming Seminary at every tournament the two of them entered. Wyoming Seminary is not in the PIAA so their end of season tournament was National Preps where they finished 3rd as a team. By the end of the season the pecking order was pretty clear with Bishop McCort #2 ahead of Wyoming Seminary and behind Faith Christian. I get the argument that McCort can't be number 1 all time because they were behind Faith Christian, but they were very close with Faith Christian who set a number of records - Most points ever at PIAAs (232.5), most PIAA champions in a season (4, tied with 8 teams), most PIAA place winners in a season (10 tied with 2004 Northampton). McCort was close with the 2nd most team points ever at PIAAs (218.5), the most PIAA champions in a season (4, tied with 8 teams), and 3rd most PIAA place winners in a season (9). 2025 Faith Christian had a big three that stacks up pretty well with all these historic teams we have been analyzing in terms of recruiting rankings. Joe Bachmann (#3 2027), Adam Waters (#7 2026), Nicholas Singer (#18 2027), Cael Weidemoyer (#57 2026), Mark Effendian (#58 2026), Gauge Botero (#68 2025), Jason Singer(#72 2026), Max Stein (#96 2025) Those rankings are from Flo who doesn't have a 2028 big board yet, but as someone else pointed out other services have Freddy Bachman #1 in the class of 2028. So last years Faith Christian could have 3 top 10s and 4 top 20s. Looking ahead to next season 3 of Faith Christian's PIAA place winners graduate whereas only 1 of Bishop McCort's is not returning, so it is possible the 2026 team wins PIAAs and the state dual title. It will be close again. The past historic teams discussed here did not always wrestle the top opponents and were not perfect. That 2005 Davison team finished 2nd at the Medina tournament where Metcalf famously beat Schlatter. The 2004 Davison team that also featured Paul Donahoe won Medina but only by ~4 team points and Medina wasn't the toughest tournament in the country that year.

I also play a little disc golf, and it's funny seeing an amazing athlete completely baffled by the way most discs turn hard to the left. It's also amazing to see (not that I doubted their genuine friendship before) that guys like DC aren't just friends when they can have fun on podcasts or in good times, but that he took the time to fly out and visit Ben in his home. I really hope this doesn't come out wrong, but as far as the wrestling community is concerned, Ben is the best person that could go through such an arduous ordeal. Between his absolutely positive outlook on most aspects of life, his support from the wrestling, MMA, and even the disc golf community, and how beloved he is by all has been so apparent over the past 2+ months. I'm not sure how many of you know (I nerded out on disc golf for a bit), but Ben has custom discs from one of the sports biggest brands Discraft. He also has a course on his property and holds an annual pro-am tournament where several of the top disc golfers in the world take part. My father-in-law passed away suddenly two weeks ago today, and between that and following Ben's unexpected journey, it is truly a reminder that none of us know when our time will come. This video brought me a lot of joy seeing even a fragile version of Ben being his truest self. Sorry for being sentimental, but this video struck me.

Matches in order: 120 - Rocklin Zinkin vs. Dom Munaretto 165 - Melvin Miller vs. Maximus Dhabolt 126 - Antonio Mills vs. Paul Kenny 157 - Wyatt Medlin vs. Camryn Howard 190 - Adam Waters vs. Tanner Hodgins 106 - Ariah Mills vs. Turner Ross 175 - Joseph Jeter vs. Nicholas Singer 138 - Kellen Wolbert vs. Tyler Dekraker 132 - Jayden Raney vs. Moses Mendoza 120 - Landon Sidun vs. winner of Zinkin/Munaretto HWT - Michael Mocco vs. Coby Merrill 150 - Bo Bassett vs. Jordyn Raney NCAA folkstyle rules (except for headgear). Notable absences: Jayden James (no reason given), Dreshaun Ross (football), Jax Forrest (U23s) Girls WNO matches

New movie about NCAA Champion Mark Kerr, played by the Rock, comes out in theatres this weekend. Looks decent and has some good early reviews. Also, I went back and looked at the bracket from 1992 when Kerr beat Couture. What a list of names in every bracket. Shout out to NWOF for putting out all of the old brackets and sucking me into a rabbit hole. https://nwhof.org/national-wrestling-hall-of-fame/brackets?page=2 Movie Preview:

Northern Illinois announced today they'll be a Pac affiliate starting 26-27 season. Pac needs at least 1 more to maintain AQ status for wrestling. I imagine they'll pry some of the Big12 affiliates away . . .

The schedule attached (from the UWW site.) U23 World Championships 2025 wrestling schedule 18 days... start the countdown. D3

I owe you an apology The last two episodes were horrible - what you said hits the mark

True. With the impact of shifting the federal tax burden to Midwest taxpayers like me. Note: New York plays the shell game with provider taxes to get federal funds for their illegal alien healthcare program. Note 2: New York declares health care as a human right for their residents. Forcing others to work so that others can get a service IS NOT A RIGHT! Entitlement to resources IS NOT A RIGHT! This popular disagreement is why state sovereignty matters and why its unfair for NY and CA to scam Federal dollars. Health care services may be provided freely through choice, not mandates!

That's on me - I always get those two leagues mixed up; the point stays the same about the reflection on MAC wrestling. It's football decision to get football in the MW and finding a home for the rest of their sports

Washington State had wrestling - they dropped it after the 1986 season.

No idea if it's true but I've heard affiliates in the Big 12 get no seat at the table per say; I also think the flip would stabilize the Pac 12 for wrestling and provide a potentially easier path to NCAAs for those schools (like how splitting off from the EIWA allowed more Ivy qualifiers this past year)

Well 2 reasons mainly 1. The conference needs to add another school to have an AQ for NCAAs 2. Cal Baptist and Utah Valley just switched their primary conference affiliation to the same conference as Bakersfield and Cal Poly so that doesn't seem like a crazy leap to get them into the same wrestling conference

Some of my fondest memories when I went to NIU was surfing in the Pacific Ocean. Dekalb is a beach town through and through

Chris was an attorney for the Carrier Corp. and an assistant for a pretty good Syracuse team at the time. The team included Kerr, Tom Ryan, highly ranked Richie Santana, Nick Garone, and others.

Don't be...

I don't think he's that bad but he really only plays one character. In Bull Durham that character is great, in Robin Hood (which i think is a great movie, I'd describe it as an alan rickman movie) its just bizarre.

I think he turned the page.

"hypocritical oath" Freudian slip?

The state taxpayer is directly funding state funded non-emergency care for illegal aliens. For example, California was providing coverage for 1.6 million illegal aliens per Newsome (source). ALSO the federal taxpayer is indirectly funding non-emergency care for illegal aliens in several ways. Method 1: Shell games California uses a shell game to collect federal subsidies and fund non-emergency care for illegal aliens. How? The state heavily taxes health insurance companies for each member plan The state uses the tax money to pay back the insurance company higher rates for Medicaid services. The Federal government matches a high percentage of the state funding for Medicaid services. The state uses the increased Federal funding to help pay for its state plan that covers non-emergency care for illegal aliens. John borrows $100 from Jack, and pays back $105 to Jack. Uncle Sam pays John $300 for "spending" $105. John actually spent $5... not $105... It meets the rules but is subjectively a scam... Method 2: Cost shifting The existence of an illegal alien getting health care that is not paid by that alien increase insurance premiums to citizens nationally. Method 3: Incentive Multiplier Free care incentivizes more illegal aliens to come the USA, which compounds the impact of shell games and cost shifting. ...I'm sure there is more. Administrative costs, logistic costs, care provider stress... --------- SO WHAT --------- The big beautiful bill eliminates the California shell game by restricting the provider tax strategy. It also reduces Fed Medicaid funding to states that offer state funded health coverage for illegal aliens. I had no idea California was scamming the Fed like this...

Not to be argumentative, but for the sake of accurate information….Im sorry but this is just simply not accurate. As I’ve said on here many times I am 100% in favor of immigration control, while also keeping the doors open to those looking to ‘live the dream” in the greatest country in the world. That’s how the greatest country in the world was built. I am in favor of immigration the right way, but that also involves our government doing things the right way, and staying true to who we are and what we were built on. Awhile back I talked on here about being in favor of these crackdowns but have concerns about a slippery slope. It wasn’t received well by some. Since that time our military has went into more cities, and a couple days ago our president and sec of defense talked to the top leaders of the military, and spoke to them about preparing for our city streets becoming proving grounds for war. It’s seems we have been experiencing that very slippery slope I spoke to, and that’s not who we are. I would like to see immigration be held under control in a much less extreme fashion.

Elijah Brown decommitted from Pitt. #32 on Willie's last board, #1 215 in the Country. Big loss

It is a long story, but the short version is that the core was all District 1. When they were young, Coach Hontz recruited them together, and they made Faith the place they would go, and it snowballed with other guys joining/moving in. Then, since you had all these elite guys training together in a great room with a great staff, they all kept jumping levels and hit HS in the same grouping of years.

I see that “ suffering” Elon is worth a half a TRILLION DOLLARS now

No fishing was separate afternoon outing, dry fly yesterday.

I should have bought shares that day.

Where TF did they come from? That is insane. Legitimately zero holes. Like... lets see a dual against a Davidson or a Sacred Heart...

But you're completely missing the bigger picture here. When someone has a wide variety of high-level skills, doors are opened. That doesn't mean any kind of guaranteed success. It simply means there are potential opportunities. Until he tried - he can't know if he can be successful in boxing. Until he tried - he can't know if he can be successful in the WWE. Until he tried - he can't know if he can be successful in the NFL. Until he tried - he can't know if he can be successful in MMA. How about bowling? Maybe shotput or hammer throw? Frisbee golf? My point is simply that nobody should be bagging on a guy who has skills and opportunities and is willing to seek out what is best for him. Don't pretend to know what he can or can't do. You don't know. He's finding that out on his own - and good for him.

San Diego State dropped in 1981 but added it back in 1992 and dropped again in 1994. Somebody who shall not be named was I think their last and possibly only All American.

Illegals don’t have to sign up for Medicaid or anything else. They walk in the hospital emergency room and taxpayers pay it. Or more likely, it gets added to the debt. Typical of dimocrats, they’re shutting down the gov’t over spending money they don’t have for something the people don’t want.

He not busy being born is busy dying. Congratulations to your dad and relish every minute of your time with him.

We know. It’s why you’re on a watch list. We’ve all read your crazy comments about this. It is not surprising to us. It isn’t shocking to us any longer. You are not going to get the attention you are so desperately seeking from your comments. People won’t engage with you in meaningful dialog on it.

It worries me that you know this.

I thought it was about rv's new veggie diet.

Well sure ... but why did you drag GWN over to the International forum? We miss him in the DF.

The "no seat" is referring to conference doings at large. The "easy path" would mean "hoping for a wildcard because OkSt and Iowa State are going to consume 18 of the 20 B12 allocations isn't an ideal situation as a coach." That's a money problem that cannot be easily solved no matter how much heart and hard work is put in.

who made a joke about him that he had censored?

The key here is that the Ds wanted to roll back the big beautiful bill requirement of medicaid eligibility. And that would allow people that should be ineligible to get it. Since the Big Beautiful bill, the CBO says it has saved money by not allowing ineligible people from accessing it. That's what the Ds want. They want ineligible (and that includes illegals) people to get Medicaid benefits they do not deserve. Period, end of story. See article below regarding Mike Johnson interview with George Stephanoplololossoooose on ABCs good morning america. https://www.foxnews.com/media/speaker-johnson-abcs-stephanopoulos-clash-over-government-shutdown-illegal-immigrants-getting-healthcare Speaker Johnson, ABC’s Stephanopoulos clash over government shutdown, illegal immigrants getting healthcare During an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," Stephanopoulos accused Johnson and Republicans of wanting to shut down the government to avoid continuing to fund Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans. The House Speaker pushed back on that claim. "The Democrats’ proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage or paying higher health care premiums. Why are you against that?" Stephanopoulos asked. "That’s an absurd statement, what you said there," Johnson replied. "It’s a factual statement," Stephanopoulos shot back. Johnson argued that the measure could allow illegal immigrants to access healthcare. "No, George. Let me tell you what happened last night. Everybody can go and review the facts for themselves. Forty-four Senate Democrats voted to reject a clean, non-partisan, continuing-funding resolution to keep the United States government open. The Democrats said instead that they wanted to give healthcare to illegal aliens instead of keeping critical services provided for the American citizens." "That’s what happened, plain and simple," Johnson added. Stephanopoulos pushed back: "Here are the facts. The proposal does not provide healthcare for illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants cannot buy health care under the Affordable Care Act. They cannot receive healthcare subsidies." Johnson interrupted, saying, "That’s not true." Stephanopoulos continued, "Illegal immigrants are ineligible for Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Program. The Democratic bill does not make them eligible." Johnson countered that Democrats’ ACA proposal would roll back Republican provisions from the GOP’s "big, beautiful bill." "It does actually, because what it does is it unwinds the changes that Republicans put into the big, beautiful bill – the signature legislation that we passed and signed into law on July 4. That has been very successful in shoring up Medicaid for the people who are actually to receive it," the Speaker said. Johnson added that the Congressional Budget Office confirmed the law helped reduce premiums by removing ineligible recipients — "illegal aliens and able-bodied young men who are not eligible to be there." mspart

Glad this has been approved... I was waiting until it was officially announced, and honestly even now I am skeptical until after the conference meet has wrapped up. NCAA realignment by way of *TV deals and NIL is wreaking so much havoc that everything is up in the air. We are not out of the woods yet regarding if the Pac 8-10-12 goes the way of the dodo bird.

Lehigh doing really good things per usual. They don’t miss on many kids. I agree great get.

I am not a dietician but I know that granulated sugar is different from natural sugar in fruit. Dude has the balls to call others morons.

That was an elective surgery meant to provide extra strength and stability to Manning's neck since it had so much trouble maintaining the weight of his fivehead.

Mineo reported Ballard to Lehigh.

Is the irony you have in mind -the named Kurugliev Vs Anonymous Greek Guy?

The irony in this post...