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That's interesting, I disagree. Even though PSU is obviously the gold standard right now, Iowa is still the most hated, at least partially because they seem to strive for it, lol.

I've never been to any of the three, so I can't say. I just know the difference in the other stadiums I've been too, lol.

Being the big dog is definitely fun. But in your heart of hearts, while you enjoy seeing your team win, I can't imagine you truly enjoy watching most of the actual wrestling matches last night. If you do, more power to you. I know how I feel watching certain Iowa wrestlers. Warner, last year, while I celebrated his accomplishment...brutal to watch.

I feel like a lot of stadiums get designed w/ seriously poor acoustics, which is so odd, since there's so may architects who know what they're doing, ad we can see in sports where there is a serious home advantage to the fans going nuts WITH the good acoustics.

Cstar wrestles like Ryan Morningstar, which is frustrating because he has SO MUCH TALENT. That said, Nelson was doing a fairly effective job of appearing to do something without doing anything. To be further fair to Nelson, though, what I just described Nelson doing from neutral is exactly what Starocci does from top. For whatever reason, the powers that be have decided that is ok for the sport. It reminds me of the way some people talk about Joe Williams. I wasn't watching back then, so I can't really comment.

I think this is essentially the best way forward, bummer as it may be. Folkstyle has been gamed into submission. We can yell "just call stalling!" all we want, but it appears to be not happening, so lets make that as little of a focus as we can

With Kerk I was talking about neutral in the 3rd. Kerk backed up and blocked while Cass repeatedly took (bad) shots. I have resigned myself to the idea they're not going to call stalling on top, no matter how little the guys do while there. That's not even directed at PSU, it's a collegiate-wide epidemic.

Sometimes I start drifting to the idea of moving college to freestyle.

Meant to add: the dual, unfortunately, was essentially over at the moment RBY stuck Teske. Iowa needed to thread a bit of a needle to win this, and that result made the eye of said needle incredibly small.

Man. No stall calls on Kerk given how they called other matches is brutal. Dean managed to do less than Warner (which is hard to do) and win (to be clear, I don't think there should have been stalling calls on Dean, unless the ref was going to call double stalling, because that was awful). Starocci has more in him than he shows, which makes it frustrating to watch him. He's so much better than Nelson Brands. Teske nearly stalled his way to a decision, but karma caught up to him. Bartlett, Van Ness, and Facundo had jo discernible offense, same with Siebrecht (fun match, but Cobe only barely avoided a couple of more Haines TDs) and Brands (nice try to pretend like you're active without taking committed shots. All the wrestlers on both teams were disappointing to me in the second half of the dual except for Brooks.

Man, Teske with the bone head move of the year there, lol.

Uhhh, Amine's hand was clearly down with Kharchla in rear standing.

Hopefully when Kharchla moves up next year that helps him make gains.

I would agree that he doesn't have a whole lot of different techniques from top position, but the ones he does have are very technically sound in how he performs them. In neutral, he is very varied, capable in finishing multiple ways, and (in an unusual turn from an Iowa wrestler) is very proficient in scrambling situations.

All good additions, big oversight on my part not including Hendrickson. Also, blanked on Alirez, who is a TON of fun to watch from neutral.

That depends on what you're talking about when you say issue. I think anybody would agree that he doesn't have the same pop in the 3rd as he does in the first. However, he's never really "gassed out" where he's giving up multiple TDs, as we've seen gassed/broken wrestlers do. He's just tired, probably from the amount of energy he expends in the first. The most tired he looks is typically in the beginning of his last two full seasons (the Iowa State dual this year, and...I want to say it was a dual against UTC two seasons ago). He literally just pinned a top 6 wrestler late in the second period. Like in his last match.

Skirmishes would be a more appropriate term. Mild, mild skirmishes.

Oh that was nasty all the way around. I'm grateful they didn't stop that pinning combo from Gomez, too.

For me, my favorite two wrestlers to watch are Bryce Andonian and Austin Gomez (and yes, I'm including Hawkeyes in my analysis). Keegan O'Toole seems to have taken a slight step back in his dynamism, IMO, or else he would be up there, too. I've also enjoyed Real Woods, Spencer, Swiderski, and Yianni. Kerkvleit and Brooks from PSU has all the tools, but aren't quite putting if all together (from aesthetic perspective; results are great!)

What is it you think I would find irksome if he was wrestling in a different singlet?

Examples that run counter to what you're claiming are being provided and you're just like "...nah, doesn't count."

Yes, and the cardio issues are being way overblown here. He's tired late in matches, after wrestling much harder than most in the first period, but he's rarely "gassed", except his first match this year, and the first match two seasons ago. There's a difference between being tired and gassing out.

Why not stop being weird and just say what you're trying to insinuate?