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I love the fact that Hendrickson scored more (21.5) than two champs (O'Connor and Bonaccorsi, 21) and all of the runners up. It would be a shame to change a rule on what I assume is a rare occurrence. (It happened in 2021 also with Mason Parris outscoring 7 champs and Jaydin Eierman outscoring 3, but both were runners up and did all their damage on the front side). Which raises the question, what is the actual proposed change? Do you know? I do not.

I can't just leave well enough alone. Apparently, this is a common law thing dating back to the 1600's. Royalty was chosen because they tended to have longer life expectancy than peasants due to things like access to better healthcare. Additionally, commoners were less likely to have a complete and unquestioned family tree causing problems determining when the final person died. That this would be used as a dry corporate law/political joke tickles me to no end.

Unfortunately, no. I had to go through all of the brackets by hand. I started out just looking at round 1, but then went back to add the placement matches as it seemed like there were a lot of forfeits there (there were). Then it was like "oh, well, might as well do the rest". But by then I got a little lazy and did the rest as a group rather than by round. I will say that forfeits in the placement matches might need to be addressed. It seems like a lot of points are gained there. And if I recall correctly I think there was one or two situations where it affected the team race at 2nd through 4th, but not for first.

Why are we not talking about the funniest part? The new contract is valid in perpetuity or, if that is considered unlawful, until "21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III, King of England." What lawyer came up with that jab? And how did it make it past all the other lawyers?

I always assumed that wrestlers fattened up on bonus points in the consolation brackets. I took a look at 2010 - 2022 to see if my assumption was correct. That first round of consolations is slightly less bonus heavy than the first round of the championship bracket on a per match basis. And with half the matches, it is much less important for overall bonus already. And across all matches, consolations are slightly less bonus heavy than championships. That said, it could be that that separation is still not enough. But without knowing the motivation for change or the nature of the change (I did not listen to FRL, so not sure if they discussed that), it is very hard to know.

To re-emphasize champions? Over the years, first place points have been shrinking as a percent of total points. Perhaps they want to reverse that trend.

Great topic. Great list. As a PSU fan I favor the 2018 version of Martin v Nickal, though.

Discretion is the better part of valor. Besides, he might not want it getting out that I am related to him.

If you want to get overly precise, I think it goes like this:

Now you got me thinking of the Dominos Cinnamon and Sugar shakers I grew up with. Butter, cinnamon and sugar on toast. I wonder why I have handlebars?

Jimmy Cinna-tiger?

Let's not lose focus on the fact that this post is dumb on a whole other level, too. As much as I HATE the lazy, copycat, way over used "I enjoyed the ____era", the point of this hackneyed bit is to take a shot at something or someone you feel was over-hyped who then failed to live up to the perceived hype. Dragging out this fantastically unoriginal trope right after your target just achieved massive success is deliciously stupid.

I was worried someone might ask that, but I can't remember. I even went through old emails to see if I could find it. Nothing.

UW Fieldhouse in Madison. Very good old school venue. U of I Huff Hall. Very poor old school venue. This has to make recruiting difficult. NU Welsh-Ryan Arena. I wound up buying enough tickets that is was easier buying a group package than individual tickets even though there was nearly twice as many in the group package as what I needed. This prompted someone from the athletic department to reach out to me. They assumed I was bringing a team. Who was I to correct them. They asked if I wanted my team name up on the video screen. Sure. So I made up a name that was really a coded message to one of the participating wrestlers. We watched the entire match and our "team name" never came up. Someone must have figured it out. The next day the athletic department reached out to make sure we had a good time. I told them we did, but were a little sad to not see our name on the board. As a way to make it up to my "team" they offered to send NU merchandise to my kids, all they needed were sizes. Having taken this way too far, I politely declined the offer. That was 5 years ago (?). I still get emails from them. Iowa Carver Hawkeye. The noise the home crowd made when they thought their man had secured a last second takedown actually made me dizzy. Never experienced anything like that before.

Those look like knock offs. I was thinking more like this: Interestingly, I went to the Iowa Style website and was unable to find this line.

I am one who could care less why Lee decided to MFF. He owes me nothing. But I can also understand anyone who bought one of his "excuses are for wusses" SL branded items of apparel might feel owed an explanation.

35 for Spencer.

The last four years it has been 8, 6, 8, and 10. And in 2020 there were even three non-finalists who garnered votes, so eleven wrestlers received votes that year. Not looking good for 4 to 5 anymore.

That is a bad look.

True, but there has also never been a two lose finalist, and Brooks polled below him. I find that surprising.

Not nearly long enough.

No surprise that Mason Parris was number 1 in both the fan vote and the committee vote, but I am very surprised that Aaron Brooks was last in the fan vote and got zero committee votes.

Was this the first year the fan vote was worth 5 votes?

I am only copying the top 30 for display purposes, but I have anyone who has scored at least 59 total points based on current scoring methods (226 total). New entrants to the list this year were Austin O'Connor (60.5), Carter Starocci (67), Aaron Brooks (68), and Roman Bravo-Young (68).

Here are the top 30 by per match average. You can see how low those early match counts were (only three tournaments and small brackets).