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To get a high seed you should have to earn it, in very large part in THIS season. You need to wrestle a good number of matches, have good quality wins, few loses, and do very well at your qualifying tournament. Carter simply didn’t deliver on many of these. I get why people feel differently …. But I do believe this seeding system is very reasonable.

Hyperbole much? LOL.

Hoping Shapiro / Haines happens. I wonder if Haines is too fundamentally sound to succumb to Shapiro’s wizardry. Also hope Shapiro is and stays healthy so that this happens.

Few seem to think Carter is actually, meaningfully, hurt. Seems like he is. I think Lewis wins it.

All the ‘other’ wrestlers in the top half of the 174 bracket think they got f’d. Bottom bracket guys have to be pretty happy. Brutal disparity when considering past results.

Cool. Good to hear. Didn’t show through but it is a tough situation.

I just wasted a lot of time trying to find what you are talking about. What was fascinating about that thread?

Someone tell Feldman he is losing.

Brooks is next next level. So good. I think USA 86kg dominance will continue post Taylor.

Salazar has a built in visor above his eyes.

Penn State needs some PR training for their 125. LOL.

Edmond Ruth - another great interview. Congrats to him.

Messenbrink - great interview. Gotta like the guy.

Wow. What a match. Hamiti is so good. Surprised each time he loses. Crazy scramble at end to give Messenbrink those backs. Hamiti seemed to run out of gas on bottom there. 13-11 Mess.

Two good upper body guys going for it upper body. The arena erupts as the position becomes apparent and both guys go for it. Love it. Seeing Lovett and Gomez do this near end of B1G finals … fireworks. (and yet, Greco sucks, huh)

Huh? Fire company?

Nagao nearly got that with 3 seconds and Ragusin RUNNING away. Wow. Needed another second.

He freaking did fool you. Big time. Guy has skills. Who else did he convince that he did an amazing job at Columbia? Maybe just you. haha. You’ll figure it out. Playing with you.

Very very cool. Thanks for posting. Can you describe more what you did to ‘fit’ the data? Not sure what that means. Did it somehow modify the data to give smoother probability distributions?

Thanks from all that didn’t see the dual!!

If you were a head coach and the team is approaching post season, and you have a dual where half the other team is sick … so sick many have to sit, do you consider cancelling the dual so as to avoid giving it to your own team right before and into post season?

Gray gets teched 0-10. After becoming a mom, she has lost a step or two. Who can blame her. Becoming a mom is a huge deal mentally and physically.

Taylor was simply destroying people - all the time. He seemed like the unstoppable force. Had this huge aura about him. Neither KOT nor Star have that. Dake was a riddle. Often won by a little. But was doing the 4 weight class thing with no redshirt. Still - didn’t have the hype that DT had. Then two super close matches leading up to NCAAs where it seemed so many had predicted DT wins but Dake had found a way each time. Then Taylor destroys to the finals — seemed to be on A game, Dake not so much. All came together for a some real excitement.

Watching Mesenbrink with a freaking awesome TD off a Caliendo front headlock. Very cool. Shapiro seems to know what to do almost always. Clever TDs and escapes. Who would you put up on a pedestal for having a good toolbox of slick techniques? The kind that make people say … what the heck was that?!

Someone relay to the announcer that when in danger the match doesn’t stop in SV, wrestler gets a chance to pin the opponent.