Pish

I’ll always be a fan of Beard. Hope he takes it to Hidlay AB gonna make a lot of people look like train wrecks. Only guy athletic and fast enough to give Brooks a challenge is AJ if he comes back

Most likely because Haines sees Teemer in a couple weeks at ASC as well as Van Ness/Parco Brooks/Beard meet in a few weeks as well vs Lehigh

I like your optimism. That being said.. If Messenbrink and Nagao wrestle, I see it 8-2 or 9-1 PSU. Could be shut out if BB takes out Woods (Cass beat Kerk first few times as well) if no Nagao or Messenbrink it’s still 6-4 PSU (that’s giving Iowa tossup up at 125, 133,141 and 165) At tournament it won’t be close

If Nagao out, Iowa is a tossup at 125 and lean Iowa at 133 and 141. Where else they gonna win? 165 if Messenbrink don’t go?

As a PSU fan, not happy because I like this event. I have read somewhere that there maybe "senior nationals or some sort of Olympic qualifier around those dates" so I'm guessing a lot of the PSU guys will be there

NQ guy? Iowa fans were penciling him in finals before the move. IMO. CC much better than VV.

Excellent squad coming back with additions of Loew, Fernandez and Shapiro

No chance in hell Starocci goes up to 184. He’s focused on making Olympic team at 74kg. He either takes Olympic redshirt and doesn’t wrestle next year or you see him and Brooks in very limited action. You may be right about Brooks going up since I assume he’s looking to compete at 86kg for Olympics. My guess.. 125 Howard 133..Davis 141..Bartlett 149..Van Ness 156..Haines 165..Facundo 174..Starocci (limited) 184..Brooks (limited) 197..Cochran 285.. Kerk If Brooks goes up insert Barr at 184. Davis and/Howard could flip depending on size

Does Loew and Fernandez have eligibility left? If so, and with the addition of Shapiro who will be a bona fide stud I can see Cornell at #2 next year. how does Vito have eligibility left? He was a 2017 graduate never redshirted, assuming he didn’t enroll in 2021 like Yianni (same class). Did he greyshirt out of HS?

Agree. Just don’t understand why they didn’t just give everyone in 2020 an extra year since they missed a year. Then just give an extra redshirt year for any kids who were redshirting in 2020. But under no circumstance should they have the seniors in 2020 lose one of their 4 and to make it worse they gave an extra year for anyone in 2021 to make 5. Under no circumstance should people be wrestling in 5 tournaments

Would LOVE to see O'Toole move up..maybe it will motivate Star to come back if someone calls him out like that. Star would be major problems for KOT..we saw what happens to guys that like to roll around

They all had one thing in common. They wrestled in 4 tournaments not 5

How would Starocci be a three timer? He is 3 for 3. Otoole is 2 for 3. Not trying to diminish Otoole but to say you’re a 4 timer if you had 5 cracks at it isn’t the same as being a 4 timer with 4 cracks it. Of the four timers currently, they only had 4 tournaments to compete in not 5 bottom line. No one should have 5 tournaments to compete in

He’s going into his 4th tournament next year. Took 3rd, 1st, 1st. If it wasn’t for the free year he could only be a 3 timer. He was same year as Starocci except Starocci is 3 for 3. Ferrari was the only guy like Starocci that could have went for 5 titles but we all know that story.. personally I don’t see Starocci coming back for his 5th and based on his interview who knows if he even comes back for 4 still doesn’t make sense why NCAA is giving people 5 tournaments to compete in while screwing guys like Joseph, Hall, Kolodzik, etc who only got 3

As a PSU fan, RBY losing stings but Vito did his thing and beat him. Stings because it was his last match. Haines and Kerk losing doesn’t hurt at all. Haines had an amazing freshman year and Kerk lost to the better wrestler. Team trophy is awesome and the way the team performed as a whole was awesome. 7 guys in top 3 and 2 NCs..nothing like Iowa a few years ago

Well..happy they agree now. I just don't get people don't know what they're watching until the end. You can watch certain kids and just know they have "IT" I dont have to wait till NCAA's to know I was right, but glad it worked out

Thanks for finding this..how do you look up old posts? I didnt remember thread title so I didnt even know what i was searching for

Just checked ..in 2021 top 10 Big Board only 2 AA'd as freshman (Hamiti/Van Ness). on 2022 Big Board only 3 that AA'd are Haines/Mendez/Henson So 5 guys out of 2021/2022 top 10 final rankings AA'd as freshman..not that easy not matter where you were coming in. I wish people would give more credit to these kids rather than say..oh they were great coming in...no easy feet to AA.

That’s the point of my post today. I got laughed at the time..

I claimed he’d be top 4 this year and he’s right where I stated he’d be in November? Where’s your prediction of a freshman to AA this year? so in your opinion every top 10 recruit is an AA their freshman year?? Nope..only the special ones

People are clueless. I didn’t hold my tongue back after his first match of the year and got attacked. Anyone that know what they’re watching new the potential this kid has

Why critical? Has had some tough matches early but definetly learned from them. Believe it or not the one guy I didn’t want to see in this tournament was Murin. Had a good feeling he’d handle Johnson and Henson

Yeah. I’m not savvy enough to go back and find it. The guys who doubted me know who they were..maybe someone can dig it up

Wish I knew how to search thread from November where I said Van Ness will be a beast and everyone told me he hasn’t beaten anyone and hold my horses.. the eyes don’t lie..

So basically every decent matchup, someone’s out?? What a joke of a dual