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The likelihood of me trying to wrestle goes up 10% with each .01 increase in BAC after .10

Medical certificate? I need a defibrillator and an oxygen tank in my corner.

I don't think it is good for the sport for UVU to be pillaging other schools like this. After PSU invests in them UVU just swoops in and takes them. It aint right.

Sounds like a transfer to Ohio State is in the works because they don't work on escapes in high-pressure situations

It's a lot of fun to do if you are thinking about it Rodent. I can't say I did good, but it was fun. I was bound and determined I would not lose due to passivity, so I initiated action and my inexperience and lack of ability got me in trouble from there. But I had a blast doing it. mspart

Davino, Forrest, and Blaze - we have three out of four semifinalists at 57 KG with all four years of eligibility remaining. could be a golden age at lightweights if they all stay down

In spite of the fact that it ended with the biggest upset of the tournament, 285 was the most chalk weight. The sum of absolute deviations from seed was 77, just ahead of 125 at 81.5. This also made the heavies the second most chalk weight since the 33 seed era began. Only 165 in 2019 was more chalk. At the other end of the spectrum 141 was the most busted bracket this year (but only sixth most in the 33 seed era). A lot of the "bust" came from five of nine guys seeded to go 0-2 finishing with win(s), and three higher seeded wrestlers doing the opposite.

2011: Burroughs beat Nick Marable at the 2011 US Open immediately after NCAAs then beat him again at WTT. Dake chose to go to Univeristy Natl's where he got 2nd to Howe, then DNP at WTT. 2012: *Burroughs ran through the 2012 Olympic Team Trials where there were no byes 2013: Burroughs beat David Taylor at the 2013 US Open (Dake didn't compete) and then beat Dake at WTT. 2014 Burroughs won the US Open over Taylor then beat him 2x more at WTT. Dake did not compete at either due to injury. 2015 Burroughs got a bye to the finals and then beat Dake 2x under new direct bye rules. 2016 Burroughs became the real Magic Man when everyone disappeared from 74kg. He won the olympic spot, Dake fell short at 86. However Burroughs did not medal, therefore no direct bye in 2017. 2017 Burroughs once again beats Dake at the US Open, gets a bye at WTT, and then stop me if you have heard this before but JB beat Dake to make the world team. 2018 UWW creates a new 79kg weight class and Dake finally gets a chance to make his mark as he makes his first world team and first world championship. Both win medals. 2019 Dake and JB both enjoy byes to the finals, win spots and world medals 2020ne OTT JB gets the direct bye as the returning 74 medalist, Dake gets a bye to the semis as the 79 medalist and proceeds to snatch Nolf's soul on live television. Dake finally wins. JB and Dake switch weights for a couple years until 2024 OTT where Dake gets the finals bye, JB gets a bye to the semis and loses to Nolf meanwhile NLWC/PSU fans show their true colors. Dake had plenty of chances over the years, he just didn't capitalize on them.

F'n Davis, still can't hit a leg attack when he needs to: "After a struggle, Davis was subdued by police. Police noted that after the struggle, Davis broke the officer’s wristwatch and radio earpiece, and ripped the body camera out of the officer’s vest."

This actually makes the kid more likeable. Not one of those Jesus-crazed robots that fill out the rest of the PSU roster. What's more concerning is that he was taken down and ridden out by a cop.

Dake losing fantasy matchups is a tale as old as time.

Melvin Miller gives up not one, not two, but three four-point moves and wins 17-14.

No one talks about all that baby fat he's going to gain the younger he gets

it's a tough call, imo. working on the final report/rankings now. thought i'd take it to the boards Penn State: #1-PJ Duke (NY/157), #2-Marcus Blaze (OH/141), #18-Will Henckel (CT/184), #22-Asher Cunningham (PA/174), #39-Nathan Desmond (PA, 125-133), #54-Dalton Perry (PA/149) Oklahoma State: #3-Ladarion Lockett (OK/165), #5-Landon Robideau (MN/157), #6-Sergio Vega (AZ/149), #24-Kody Routledge (OK/157), #26-Ronnie Ramirez (CA/133), #50-Austin Johnson (PA/197), #62-Ishmael Guerrero (OK/165), #63-Kruz Goff (OK/285), #72-Beau Hickman (OK/157), #205-Ethan Teague (OK/174)

You can take all the action you want.... but you're the last guy that should be making bets.

It's a humbling notion reaching the age of needing a medical certificate to participate

Nothing. He just talked about his injury (torn ACL), when it happened (sometime before collegiate duals, but was exacerbated at collegiate duals, what the rest of the season was like and how limited he was (tough and very), and talked about future plans to compete after he's fully recovered. It will be in Missouri, at least according to the interview. There was nothing "announced".

I just won't pick against Dake domestically until proven otherwise.

Big downgrade for Iowa to go from Angelo to Anthony.

half those frat guys are just trolling for 40 on 1 fights all night anyway...not sure what the point of security is.

Someone likely can do a better job …. If wrestler A attempts a throw and lifts the other wrestler, but the throw doesn’t work as intended and the other wrestler does not land in danger or otherwise no criteria is reached that would earn points for wrestler A, the ref can say hey … wrestler A tried, good for him. 2 pts! Ridiculous. You can tell by my description that I’m biased against it.

I didn’t want to put 40+ states of text on a social graphic, so I went with approx the top 15 (with ties)

I did Veterans FS from 2000-2002. It was fun. They look a lot slower, but I found out I was a lot slower as well. It all evens out. They used to have guys in the F division that did not look good at all. Kudos for getting out there but scary due to injury possibilities. Fortunately, they were not that quick or strong so danger was not high. But falling down could be a problem. I am now in the E category. I hurt my shoulder wrestling and my neck in a car accident. I don't do the competition anymore. They all outclass me anyway. But I did continue asst coaching HS until a few years ago. mspart

Nickerson in 2009 at 125. Defeated 2008 champ Escobedo in semis and 2007 champ Donahoe in finals.

Glad you're home safe and weren't deported...

I want to expand on my answer a bit. Do you people in Intermat hate nerds? No one on this message board is nerdier than I am. If you look at any of my content it is all about the math and probabilities. While I do not get universal love, I get damn near universal love for that content. But who would want universal love anyway? That would be boring and not help you to grow. I have found this community to be VERY open to new ideas and ways of looking at things. Be original and interesting and no one will care if you are a nerd. Am I gonna get bullied and ostracized? In Intermat? Sure a little, but that depends. You will find that you do not agree with every point of view or every method of expressing them. This will bother you a lot at first. But after a while it will bother you less. When it is bothering you the most you will be tempted to engage. But engaging is a choice. If you do not engage people tend to leave you alone. And if people get really unreasonable, the mods do a good job of banning people, or putting them on pause for a while. In the wider world? Sure. We all get bullied to some extent. But I think wrestling is very accepting of hard work. Hard work is easy to see and even easier to respect. Take a guy like Mitchell Mesenbrink. He is as nerdy as you will find in wrestling, but he is also respected for his high attack rate and mental approach.

Indubitably Once they get to 4 we can start calling them PSUw

It's worse than that. Excel was just the gateway drug.

Not sure if you should be canonized or seek help.

For very personal reasons, I sure hope not. #nerdsunite

After updating the scoring model I decided to looking into why the shifts that occurred had occurred. I was really focused on the seeds in the twenties and thirties as there was some expected smoothing out in that area. And sure enough, the #22, #23, #25, and #29 seeds all had their best ever performance. Though the #27, #31, and #32 had their worst performance ever. But what really jumped out was the #4, #5, and #6 seeds had their worst performance in the 16+ seed era. And it wasn't even close for the #5 seed. This year the 5 seed produced only 3 All-Americans. That is tied for the lowest total ever in the 8 AA era (1979 - 2025). In 1980, when there were also only 3 AA's from the #5 seed they finished second, fourth, and eighth. This year they finished fifth, fifth, and eighth. No #5 seed beat his seed. This year the #12 seed had more AA's (5) than the #5 seed (3). That had never happened before.

My understanding is they pushed him out because they wanted to give Keegan O'Toole a full-time coaching job and I'm assuming to make sure he stays after graduation. With Tyrel, they used the rational that as the top assistant it was time for him to find a head coaching position... and they helped out by taking his current job. Tyrel is the salt of the earth and an outstanding coach; anyone suggesting that he did anything to deserve this is just trying to make excuses for a pretty lousy way to treat someone.

IMO He’s a d1 Capable wrestler but I’m not sure he’s convinced himself of that. I watched him over the last few years go from a kid who could handle a Gavin Sax (and knew it), to the gap closing, to losing to him (seemingly confused as to how) to having to switch weights when Sax transferred to Oklahoma. Sax get better? Yep. Coaching? Maybe, but they’ve both had Kish and another coach. Mindset? Probably IMO. With what time he has left find a place that makes it fun and then let it fly.

What’s sick is the wingers that support the terrorists

Being in Mizzou is an announcement. There has been speculation on him heading wherever PK heads or back to Wiscy. Him staying put is absolutely an announcement I think).

This is a complete strawman argument.

Virgin.

It’s a high profile topic because wokesters made it one.

Indiana University 125- Jacob Moran 133- Logan Frazier 141- Henry Porter/Buttler 149- Joey Buttler/Porter 157- Bryce Lowery 165- Tyler Lillard/Gilcher 174 -Derek Gilcher/Roman Rogotzke 184- Sam Goin 197-Gabe Sollars 285- Nick Pavlechko

the last time dake wrestled zahid at 79kg (2018):

Now do Oklahoma State

That's where I'm at. Have the first 10 or 12 teams auto-qualify based on last year's dual season. Then hand pick the rest of the field with a best-guess lineup projection. But no matter what system you use, you'll miss out on a couple great teams at the margins and you just have to accept it.

That's a surprising take for sure...

Some of you are probably wondering if I can see the future, since I posted this topic back in March. All I can say is to hold off on buying Tesla stock for 12 months.

Olympic weights need to be the same as at the World Championships. No need for more, especially with the attitude of those in charge of Olympic events.

He entered illegally but was here legally ... how does that work?

Bono can make anyone hate the sport.

Behind the scenes. The matches are 1% of the time spent by the athletes.

I wrestled D2. Graduated in early 90s. I had a teammate qualify for the d1 tourney. Another guy, my roommate was 5th in D2 and had multiple wins over qualifiers including splitting with a R12 guy, including a win by major in their last meeting as seniors. A lot has changed in 30 years. The D1s are better at recruiting and don't miss on as many guys. The d1 training and coaching is better than it was, I think. Also the lower divisions don't get to challenge themselves as much against the big boys anymore. My roommate had a much closer match against the r12 guy than he thought it would be in their first meeting. That gave him a lot of confidence. When they met each other again less than a month later, my roommate took it to him and even turned the guy. I'm not sure how much that could happen these days.I mean, I was maybe above average d2 and I would hold d1 qualifiers/top 20 types to a regular decision if I had a decent match.