TampaRyley

Likewise. I’ve gone to 9 straight NCAAs with my group of wrestling friends and we plan on continuing that trend. The one we were going to skip was Minneapolis thinking it wouldn’t be a great venue for spectators so we planned for the Olympic Trials at PSU instead that year. Covid had other plans… I still have the tickets for trials in a cabinet as a keepsake, maybe a prop for a younger generation to tell a story for how crazy that time was and we couldn’t even watch wrestling. I will be getting my eyes checked before NCAAs in Minneapolis for sure.

Good point, saw the date but not the year.

Possible mixup of names? https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-teacher-held-child-seduction-152500083.html

Palacio tweeted about it if you want to check there.

Haha been in the DC area for the last 15 years myself, but did go to high school there with one of Vak’s favorite wrestlers.

5/5 so far Vak, good picks!

I thought CStar would take him to it, first stall was warranted, second was a weird one. Would’ve won with riding time without the stalling point but yikes against a freshman versus a 4x champ to win like that.

I think Cody Brewer was a similar case in 2015, I believe it was injury that caused him not to get many matches, before going on a tear and winning as the 13 seed.

Wine is the choice of the night over here, looking forward to some great action tonight!

That NF at the end was a bit questionable IMO, but good win for Sprat. He looks good.

It does seem like a simple idea to just keep it all together and think why even do that, but I can understand that in the moment the adrenaline is going and emotions are high. I once tossed my mouthpiece of all things to my coach after state finals one year, he probably would’ve preferred the headgear.

This is a ridiculous and wrong call by the ref.

I really thought that looked like at least 2 back points for Downey before the reversal, but must be wrong as the refs reviewed and the flo guys didn’t think it was either.

They showed a few different angles of it where I at a point thought that’s clearly JBs points or, then on another view, yeah Chance stopped the momentum and took him over for his points. I have the same qualms with international where so much can be open to interpretation based on how you see it. I believe the challenge ref in this case was Sammy Julian; one of the best US refs, who I trust to get the call right.

In some degree to my understanding. Big donors, alumni, personal connections with the coaches etc.. My group got the same deal for upper/lower going through an old teammate/friend that’s coaching at one of the schools. Will likely end up in the upper as they (understandably) try to save the lower tickets for parents.