Wrestleknownothing

great to see you back on FRL

Not necessarily. From the NCAA selection criteria grid: A wrestler needs 8-matches to trigger winning percentage standard. A wrestler with less than 8 matches would not be eligible for the winning percentage and RPI which means they could not meet 2 of the 3 standards. A wrestler DOES NOT need 15 matches to earn an pre-allocated spot for the conference, if the wrestler meets the threshold in winning percentage and coaches rank.

You know I love some word play, so I am ok either way. One thing I said above needs to be corrected. RPI is also one possible criteria in the at-large qualification process.

just starting now. No spoilers.

Yes, Surber too. I was looking at the Intermat rankings which have him 11-3, but 4 of those were against non-D1 and won't count for RPI. So I am sure there are others.

The 2020 season counted against eligibility even though there was no tournament. As a result the seniors in 2020 got screwed. By making 2021 the free year, the NCAA effectively took the 2020 seniors' eligibility and transferred it to high school seniors. Thus you have Starocci with the chance to win five NCAA titles instead of four. Which is bad enough, but it also means that, in spite of not having wrestled for the past two years AJ Ferrari still has a chance to be a four time winner, even though he is an all-time loser. I can see why you would assume this would not be the case. It was one of the all-time worst decisions made by the NCAA, and there is a lot of competition for the title.

The conference tournaments do not matter for RPI purposes as the pre-allocation spots are determined prior to the tournaments. Then the tournaments can be used to fill the spots. It is only dual and tournies prior to 2/26 that count. So anyone sitting on 12 or fewer matches will probably need to pick up a tournie somewhere to get to 15. Scanning I see: DeAugustino, Figueroa, and Trombley at 125, Arujau, Fix, Schriever, Rini, and Madrigal at 133, Vasquez, and Carlson at 141, Gomez, and Gioffre at 149 Lewan, and Lee at 157 no one at 165 Starocci, Lewis, Mocco, Turley, Wolak, Eischens, and Sparks at 174 Truax, and Howard at 184 Brooks, and Elam at 197 Kerkvliet, Schultz, Pitzer, Luffman, Gordon, and Tinker at 285

Smith, too.

Ranked 285 without an RPI

Ranked 197 without an RPI

Ranked 184 without an RPI

Ranked 174 without an RPI

Ranked 165 without an RPI

Ranked 157 without an RPI

Ranked 149 without an RPI

Ranked 141 without an RPI

Ranked 133 without an RPI

Ranked 125 without an RPI

2021 was the year that did not count against the eligibility clock. So Bartlett has one more year of eligibility left. His scenario is identical to Carter Starocci's in that they were unaffected by the Covid year, but got the benefit that some who were affected did not (Luke Pletcher, Vincenzo Joseph, Kollin Moore, Mark Hall, etc.)

As I recall it, which may be imperfect, they asked him if he decided who got first round byes and he said he arranged it so his guys got enough matches. The rule I think he broke is this: Tournaments may use alternate methods for assigning byes in the first round of a tournament, as long as byes and/or resulting first-round pigtail matches are distributed randomly and no institution is unfairly helped or harmed by the resulting assignment.

That last part was the illegal part that he admitted to on FRL. There is nothing in the rule about coaches agreeing making it peemissable.

Certainly 22 and 23 were legit. I aasume that is as a result of the blowback Dresser received after 20. He even went on FRL to answer questions about it.

Oops.

@forkemaz, to understand just how cynical The Last Chance Open has been, you only need to look at Coleman Scott circa 2020. He was 5-5 on the season at 184 prior to Last Chance Open. He then "won" the 184 title by going 4-0 after "wrestling" for 5 seconds. He also had one dual left to get him to the 15 bout minimum. At 184 there were 15 bouts scheduled, but only 6 were wrestled. Four were forfeits and five were injury defaults. Coleman was the beneficiary of four of those five injury defaults. Three of the four injury defaults were received from his teammates. Two of those teammates wrestled the entire year at 174, but bumped up to 184 in time to injury default to Coleman. Dresser also admitted that he arranged the brackets so that Coleman would be guaranteed four injury defaults (an NCAA rule violation). Dresser held a total of five starters out of the Missouri dual so that they could "wrestle" at this open instead. Carr wrestled one match at The Last Chance (against a teammate) so that he could satisfy the one match in the last 30 days requirement. It was the most cynical abuse of the rules anyone had ever seen.