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Does it have to be folk? If not, for pure entertainment value it is hard to beat the complete meltdown by Musukaev in this one. He looks exhausted 120 seconds into this match. I am guessing he closed the bars in Instanbul the night before. From 9-0 to DQ'd. Priceless.

Vincenzo Joseph vs Alex Marinelli 3 Hostile environment. One point dual with PSU needing this one for a chance (they lost anyway). Marinelli leads the series 2-0 at this point. Two guys who love the upper body ties. Many upper body ties. Blood. Lots and lots of blood.

As good as it gets

I checked with my joints and they concur

I'm not even sure how old I am. I was too young to remember when I was born.

That is a function of the intersection of the raw data with the fitting process. In the 33 seed era several seeds below 18 have as many or more AAs than the 18 seed. The 26 seed is actually the most with 4 AAs to just 1 for the 18 seed. But because the 27, 28 and 33 seeds also have an AA the fitting process pulls the hump a little to the right of where it is in the raw data while also filling in some holes. This is partly to satisfy the two conditions that the number of AAs always equals 8 per weight and the sum of all possibilities per seed always equals 1. The numbers differ slightly every year.

Again with the never ending Twitter post?

I guess I am too focused on the end of the year. I went back and checked 2024 rankings. They had 9 ranked guys in the pre-season. It was down to 7 by the turn of the year. And dropped to 5 in March. 2023 started at 10 and dropped to 8 by the turn of the year, then stayed there the tournament.

Sadly, with Maximo Renteria's revenge win over Brendan McCrone on Sunday Lilledahl drops to #12.

Kish is a pretty good answer. Oklahoma has 8 guys ranked in the top 33. Granted only Willie McDougald and Gaven Sax are in the top 16, but I cannot recall OU having this many ranked guys recently.

Good news @ILLINIWrestlingBlog, PSU's chances of 10 top 5 wrestlers after January 17 took a modest hit this past week. Nebraska's Caleb Smith lost to Northern Iowa's Trever Anderson knocking Smith down two pegs to #7 in this week's Intermat rankings. On the other hand, Smith has a chance to redeem himself, and reclaim the #5 spot on January 11, when Nebraska duels Minnesota in a dual. The Gopher's Cooper Flynn now occupies the #5 slot that both Smith and Lilledahl look at so covetously. A Smith win over Flynn followed by a Lilledahl win over Smith should get the job done. Author's Note: The sig bet is open up to, including, and after February 16 Also PSU's chances of 10 AAs dropped to 5.9% this week.

After saying that you are suddenly enamored of proof? This is another favorite technique of these off topic threads. The demands for proof even though no matter what is said in response will never be accepted as proof, and in spite of the fact that you do not burden yourself with the same standard.

I will give you the Civil War, but not a plot that was only ever discussed and never attempted.

Your go to move is an attempt to change the subject. Not interested.

I have re-read the thread. And I do not change my position. And I cannot remove my emotional feelings. That too is an attempt to minimize. That is what I have a problem with.

A couple of thoughts: I never said insurrection. I have not misrepresented the facts. All you have said is what you think did not happen. Just another attempt at minimization. That is what I railed against, and will continue to rail against. That is the lie that keeps getting repeated.

Reason number .... I lost count .... that I am not on social media.

I do not recall that. I rarely, very rarely, and only occasionally at the margin, agree with him, but I am unwilling to go the 100% certified trash route. There was one guy who used to be on this board that was certified trash. I reserve that category for him.

I always struggle with this argument. The underlying assumption is those quality HS wrestlers do not already have the option to wrestle somewhere else where they might actually make the starting line-up and have a chance to compete. They do already have this option.

What a terrible thing to say with absolutely no evidence. And as for statements like @Bigbrog's COMPLETELY overblown and @Ohio Elite's overblown joke, those are absurd. Something like this had never happened before. Not even remotely close. People invaded the capital with the expressed intent to interrupt the peaceful transition of power - an absolute hallmark of our freedom, legislators were forced to barricade the doors and ultimately seek more secure locations, rioters chanted "hang Mike Pence" while invading the capitol, legislators private offices were invaded and documents stolen, someone took a shiit on one of their desks. And yes, several people died as a direct result according to @Caveira's own linked article. The many, many, many attempts to portray that as just another day in the life, peaceful protest, overblown, blah, blah, blah, are mind boggling to me. Just keep repeating the lie.

We are down to 8 teams with 10 ranked wrestlers in at least one of Intermat, Flo, and WrestleStat. Of those only 6 are consensus. As a bonus included the teams with 9, 8, or 7 ranked wrestlers in at least one service. The color is based on expected AAs. So while PSU has 10 ranked, they are only expected to have 8 AAs (bright green). And while Army has between 5 and 7 ranked wrestlers they are only expected to have between 0.2 and 0.4 AAs (dark red). The sort is based on number of ranked wrestlers. So while Rutgers is above Iowa with their 9 or 10 ranked wrestlers to Iowa's 7 to 9, Iowa's wrestlers are expected to produce many more AAs (6 to Rutgers 1, plus or minus).

I think this was a thread on the old board, but I figured I would bring the story full circle. The wrestling angle was due to the fact that the deli at the heart of the fraud had been owned by longtime wrestling coach, Paul Morina. Morina had nothing to do with the fraud. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/19/father-son-plead-guilty-in-100-million-new-jersey-deli-stock-scheme.html

Meh

Yes

If he weighed 184 at Soldier Salute then it takes 26 days. Which would get him there for the OSU dual. Assuming he doesn't weigh in at 184 again.