TampaRyley

Haha, as a proud GMU alum, coach Beasley would be the last person to take in AJ. The man runs a tight ship.

Great to see you post again @Wrestleknownothing! And great to hear all is nice on your end. I love the analysis. As an often time statistical graph creator myself by profession, this was a fun read.

Having wrestled there in the 2000's, I don't recall anyone on the team proclaiming that and certainly none of the guys on the team were beating their chest in pride about a dual meet streak, let alone using it as proof that it somehow made us a better team. Maybe some overzealous parents or fans thought so on keyboards back then. We had teams go to Beast, Ironman, and a good portion of the team went to Fargo each year. I think our teams national rankings in those years mirrored the results we achieved from those and other large tournaments. Would all 14 guys start at the top teams in the country? Yeah, of course not. We had a lot more self awareness than you are projecting.

I can't remember the last time we had so many top tier matches this early in the season! What a kick off and entertaining beginning of the season for us fans. At the same time, I wonder how much stock we have in the results we are seeing the past couple weeks versus where everyone is peaking for in March. For example, I remember Metcalf teching Caldwell at the all star classic and then Caldwell coming back to win NCAAs. I am curios if anyone has some picks of matches that they think will flip in the next 12-14 weeks.

Plays a mean game of FIFA, I remember being at his house back in high school when someone beat him at it. It was late and we were ready to go home. I’ll never forget his response: “We play until we get this right.”

I agree Vito did not look like the top tier contender that he is, and I agree it is a bright spot for the future for the US internationally. I do disagree that it doesn't show how good Jax is.

I’ll be happy with/for either, both are really exceptional individuals.

Streaks is a triggering word for some of us that went to high school in Brandon Florida.

A lot of great ones 1-2 punches, but throwing some love to a smaller program in Edinboro, Aaron Schopp and Mitchell Port were pretty dang good.

Dan Gable qualifies as one!

2,2,3,2 so close.

Most likely not me looking up 50+ years of NCAA brackets! I'll say it is pretty cool to see dozens of names pop up again over and over through the decades and continuing today, whether it be brothers, cousins and nephews. There really are some "wrestling royalty" families out there.

Gary McCall - 1990 1rst rd - Steve Martin (8) QFs - Doug Wyland (1) Cons Semis - Jeff Prescott (7) 3rd Place - Doug Wyland (1) This was fun to figure out while the better half evoked executive power over the TV to binge an 1800's based British drama.

I think he beat 4: R16 - (1) Reggie Wright Consi Qrts - (6) Eric Schmiesing Consi Semis - (2) Jared Lawerence 3rd place - (8) Jared Frayer - who previously beat him in the quarters

Mike Zadick in 2001 I believe is one of them.

Tariq Wilson was close as well with 3 wins the year when he almost beat Seth Gross in the Semis. Same year as Conel's run, that was a super fun NCAAs.

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!