VakAttack

I think my brother in law and I are going to make this happen. In what will surely make @LJB happy (he'll pretend he doesn't care, but he does) we're going to be there for greco as well. Any recommendations on hotels, the South Point is not taking reservations for that time period. I've never been to Vegas

Full homer and Iowa still only wins by 5.5? Man, PSU is just so far ahead, lol.

Kennedy did not, but he was legitimately close on one attempt (the others were mostly fake close given Hamiti's scrambling ability). Stylistically, given Kennedy's dimensions and lack of lighting-quick finishes, it's always going to be tough, unless he can find a takedown that doesn't involve him having to navigate through the winding labyrinthine pathway of Hamiti's legs.

I should also have said that I think it's totally possible that Kennedy beats a healthy Amine anyway. I give him a much better chance against Amine than against Hamiti.

Iowa perspective presuming the seeds hold: Murin is hurt by Sasso getting seeded over Gomez, given Gomez' injury status. Unless Gomez is fine, then it doesn't matter much, but Murin is more likely (see: not likely) to beat Sasso than Gomez Reverse that for Kennedy, who gets put into the semi bracket w/ a potentially injured Amine. If Amine is still hurt and/or forfeiting out after the quarters, Patrick Kennedy has a great shot to be a finalist. Siebrecht in a tough spot with an ascending Paddy Gallagher as opposed to...whatever is happening to Brayton Lee. It's odd to see Siebrecht at the 5, I thought his best case was the 6 given the loss to Mikey Carr. Warner with a gift of a 5 seed. Caffey is a tough wrestler for a quarterfinal, but with Warner's season, can't really ask for much more than that, and it's a good stylistic matchup for Warner, historically. Everything else about where you would anticipate.

It's true that the Askren name allows them to help tell toxic parents to kick rocks, which I have to assume is invaluable.

Anybody know when the tickets go on sale? it looks like it's either $50 a day or $100 for all events, so I'll just buy the all Events pass, but there doesn't appear to be a link on the site. I tried to email the contact on the site (Hargrove?) and she said all the information was on the site.

I believe we'll have spots available this time thru.

No worries. Although many people afterward expressed regret at not participating last year!

Typically I prefer the evening after my kids go to sleep, lol, so like 9ish EST. Otherwise, during a workday is...workable for me.

We did it via a thread on the old board (maybe it was PM, I don't totally remember), I would imagine we would start one on the Fantasy Wrestling board here. I think it took us like 1.5 hours total. Honestly, it went pretty smoothly.

Here's who I have participating so far: @VakAttack @nhs67 @MizzouFan01 @lu_alum @Idaho @MPhillips I believe we have one direct request to join from @Wrestleknownothing, if he confirms, I'll add him to the list of participants. We have a couple of guys chiming in, but I'm not sure if they want to join, so i'll need them to confirm: @Offthemat @bnwtwg Finally, we need to see if some of last year's participants who haven't chimed in want to play: ShakaAloha (Last year's champ, I don't believe he migrated here, but if he sees this, join in!) @flyingcement @Jerry Callo I think we actually ended up with 9 participants last year after starting with 10, Hank disappeared on us (and I haven't heard anything from him since, hope he's ok). Let me know!

We'll Venmo me.

I think we ended up at 11, somebody didn't show up for the draft.

I believe @MizzouFan01maybe?

No, because they're in different weight classes.

It Van Ness is wrestling AOC in the finals, something crazy has happened.

Nothing Facundo or Van Ness have shown this year indicates they have anything like that in them yet. Still a bunch of time to develop, but they're both very limited offensively. Facundo, in particular, is at a bear of a weight and I would have him as underdog to place. Van Ness is at an easier weight, but so far has shown to be more limited wrestler than Facundo (which is disappointing as a fan, since I think he has the most upside of any of the PSU young guys), and was recently relatively easily controlled by a guy I think most of think of as a bloodround guy in Max Murin. Haines, combining his ability with the weakness of the weight, is most poised to have one of those "PSU Freshman" runs, but I think O'Connor is a bear and will beat everybody, plus you have Andonian who is incredibly difficult to wrestle, especially the first time, and Robb. I would think Haines has a decent shot to mid-to-high AA, but out of Bartlett, Van Ness, and Facundo, I think your more likely to get one AA than three high AAs; they're just too limited offensively. PSU guys have great records at NCAAs, but it's typically on the back of their superstuds, and I see that trend continuing (as they cruise to another title, so I'm sure they won't be complaining).

This is not true. You might find a guy or two, but that's it. 6 Champs is 120 points. None of their guys are huge bonus guys (although RBY is better this year). Bartlett is more likely go lose in the quarters than make the finals, he just doesn't have any offense. Honestly, I would be shocked if Penn State threatened their own team record, let alone the NCAA team record. That said, I think I read somewhere that the record is slightly inflated based on the current scoring system.

Lee's reaction time is incredible.

Sal Jones and Sammy Sasso about to go for the third straight match.

Shane Sparks, the announcers, is unsure of the score. Amazing.

I'm guessing that was the $65 VIP package.

My understanding is that this is a Spartan Combat/Cornell deal, not Flo. @Husker_Duwould know way better, but when i was trying to but tickets, it was thru some weird vendor, all the stuff indicated it was a non-Flo entity.