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Fun REO Speedwagon tidbit for you peeps... When my sister and I were kids, we did the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, and my sister's mentor was the mother of REO's bassist Bruce Hall.

Athletics has raised $37,017 from 749 gifts! Wrestling had 84 donors. I did some math (they have a leaderboard that shows the percentages each team was behind the 1st) to calculate that they raised $3650 or 43.50/donor.

Those numbers @Idaho is quoting seem to be for all of Cal-Bakersfield and not just wrestling.

FR/SO - 103 JR - 112 SR - 125 College 133 until semester and then I would move up to 141.

Post-College - Kyle Ruschell (Wisconsin) beat me in my first ever FS match at Sunkist. I was helping coach our women's team that went and someone got sick, but they wouldn't refund the spot, so I used it. Never wrestled or trained FS before. My 2nd one I lost 1-0 to David Jauregui (WV) and called my FS career to a close. College - Terrance Almond - Dana (4x NAIA AA) HS - Mark Moos at NHSCA Open Best I ever beat would probably be Julian Gunnels of Briar Cliff (2x NAIA 3rd). Majored him in a dual.

Ahhh. I missed that when I was looking at the scoring. Good thing I haven't done it yet. Ha

Yep. Part of why I haven't done it yet. More of a fun feature than anything. But, prior to 1955 there was no scoring except for placement, so that helps quite a bit. I think I'll end up doing % of max points available. Anyone that was a 3x national champ prior to freshman or 4x national champ after will max out the points until 1972 when bonus points were added to scoring.

Yep. Hoping to get it updated this week. Been working on the backend. One of the things I am hoping to do this year is calculate each wrestler's team points for each "era" of rules and help compare the differences and wrestlers from each era. It'd be cool to know how many point Taylor would score if he was wrestling in 1929, 1970, 1985, etc...

Kentucky had the same thing happen last year after their coach left. I think almost all of Iowa's team is in the portal too. Some of those guys could come back if they like their new coach. Illinois had only one player return after last season, and their coach didn't leave. This is now very common in basketball with smaller rosters and bigger money.

The full list of Cael's to be a NQ in college: Cael Bartels - Rochester Tech (MN) Cael Carlson - Minnesota Cael Happel - Northern Iowa Cael Jordan - Doane Cael Larson - Augustana (SD) Cael McCormick - Army Cael McLaren - Cornell (IA) Cael Smith - Northeastern/Snow Cael Swenson - South Dakota State Cael Valencia - Arizona State

I have 92' & 97' Iowa with 46. 01' MN & 24' PSU with 45, 83' IA with 44 as the top-5. 92' Iowa: Brands & Steiner bros had 5 each, Chelesvig - 6, Fiser - 4, Oostendorp - 5, Reiland - 2, Ryan - 5, Zaputil - 4. You'll want to double-check that i mathed right on those too. Ha

Don't have the time right now, unfortunately. This page can answer #1 & 2. This page can answer #3.

You can find the answers to 1-3 on my website, wrestling.guru. I'm working on making it more user friendly to get all the information on each wrestler right now instead of searching multiple webpages/databases. I'm actively getting the answers to #4-5. #6,7,9,10 will be partially answered by some of that for a select few. #8 would be able to be answered with a little bit of research after I can do 4-5.

That's 26/80 AAs this year. I don't know about any others, but Byrd could come back next year if he pursues a med shirt for last year. So this may not be his actual Covid year. I don't ever apply those until they use it though because not everyone does it.

i have 89 using a covid year this year. AAs 125 - Smith 133 - Byrd, McGonagle 141 - Bartlett 149 - Lovett, Alvarez, D'Emilio 157 - Chumbley, Fish 165 - Amine, Hall 174 - O'Toole, Devos 184 - Keckeisen, Plott, Starocci, Foca, Washington 197 - Buchanan, Cardenas, 285 - Hendrickson, Kerkvliet, Schultz, Trephan, Heindselman, Steveson

Nick Soto went 4-8 total. Bryce Andonian went 14-8 total.

I don't have since the tourney started or this year but here are 2 with 5 as well: Bernard Futrell Illinois Nick Soto Chattanooga Aaron 'A.J.' Schopp Edinboro Nick Soto Chattanooga Jarrod Garnett Virginia Tech Nick Soto Chattanooga Rosario Bruno Michigan Nick Soto Chattanooga Mark Grey Cornell (NY) Nick Soto Chattanooga Ed Scott North Carolina State Bryce Andonian Levi Haines Penn State Bryce Andonian Peyten Kellar Ohio Bryce Andonian Meyer Shapiro Cornell (NY) Bryce Andonian Levi Haines Penn State Bryce Andonian

Don't know how accurate this is... https://unabated.com/articles/college-betting-rules-by-state

I don't see any lines for wrestling. Did they take them down or does NY not allow them?

He didn't have the pedigree to get one. He was 1-2 at nationals last year. During the season, he had only wrestled two guys who were in the bracket, Waters & Betancur (won). Then at regionals, he lost to the #5, Cooley.

It comes down to the finals for the title. It doesn't get more intense and exciting than this! J&W - 75.5 Wartburg - 74.5 Augsburg - 74 They each have 2 in the finals. None of them wrestle each other. ----- J&W: #1 Fry at 125 vs. #2 (Fry has won the 2 matches, at nationals in 2023 and 2024, by TF and MD.) #1 Brown at 149 vs. #2 (no matches) ---- Wartburg: #1 Endene at 197 vs. #2 (no matches) NS Williamson at 285 vs. #8 (no matches) ----- Augsburg: #3 Willis at 165 vs. #1 (no matches) #3 Bombard at 184 vs. #5 (split matches this year)

Beckner ended up losing in the semis.

For D3. Posted all this (and more) on Bluesky. Unseeded wrestlers to AA at each weight: 125 - Parke of Coe & Shaw of Alvernia replacing #7 Bradley of Castleton & #8 Dunson of Whitewater 133 - Kidd of Luther & Suddeth of Augsburg replacing #2 Ellis of J&W & #6 Paulino of Roanoke. 141 - Conway of Chicago {SEMIs}, Thongseng of Wartburg, & Rosen of North Central replacing #2 Reed of Ohio Northern, #6 Lorenz of La Crosse, & #7 Eckerle of J&W 149 - Conklin of TCNJ & Glynn of RIT replacing #7 Uribe of Wabash & #8 Sato of Eau Claire 157 - All placers are seeded. 165 - Sacco of TCNJ & Deguire of Springfield replacing #6 Richardson of J&W & #8 Bohren of Loras 174 - All placers are seeded. 184 - Ganon Smith of Elizabethtown {SEMIs} replaces #8 Williams of Adrian 197 - Pepple of Eau Claire & Punzel of Wheaton replacing #4 Venz of Augsburg & #8 Henry of TCNJ 285 - Williams of Wartburg {SEMIs}, Betancur of J&W, & Bates of North Central replacing #1 Douglas of La Crosse, #4 West of Luther, & #7 Garrison of Merchant Marine

Just wait until the NCAA goes to 5 years and eliminates redshirting...

Only wrestlers who competed in 2021 were given a free year and those wrestlers are the only ones allowed to wrestle in 5 postseason tournaments. Brennan wrestled in 2020, 2022, 2023, & 2024. That uses his 4 years of eligibility. He didn't compete during 2021, he redshirted, so he didn't get the free year. Even if he did compete during 2021, 2024 would've been his last year of eligibility unless he redshirted in any of 2022, 2023, 2024. He wasn't allowed to wrestle in 2025, but a few people (coaches, little rock compliance/athletic department, PAC 10 conference) messed up his eligibility checks. There is a world where people would just assume that EVERYONE got the free year no matter what if they were enrolled in 2021. Not at that level or this far out though. Hope that makes more sense.