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I don't think he ever enrolled. Just signed.

Can you link the police report? I've only seen a couple news articles, which don't ever tell the whole story initially. I have no experience in police activity, but if it is increasingly harder to find ads on the open due to newish laws, wouldn't a lot of people turn to the darkweb, whether it is a prostitute or worse?

Not if it was on their schedule as such. If he went unattached it might not count. But I have no idea if that was the case.

I’ve read a couple times that it was a message on the darkweb and not just some random online ad. It’s pretty easy to get there, but it still takes some learning and setup to do it. And there would be a lot more seedier circles traveling around there.

Got you. You are correct. He didn’t wrestle the 2nd half of the year. I misread your post earlier and thought you said he did wrestle past the cutoff. My original statement was accurate. 2024 he wrestled the 2nd half. 2023 he wrestled too many dates.

I haven't read this whole thing deep enough, so apologies if this doesn't hit right. Trafficking doesn't necessarily mean going across state lines. It is all about coercion by one to force another to perform a sex act. This is the US Justice Departments definition: "Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age." It sounds like this isn't his first time and it has probably been happening for a while. So while this time he wasn't paying someone that was being trafficked, chances are very high that he has done this with someone who has, intentional or not.

Who are you referring to? Alvarez never wrestled for Bloomsburg and I don't see those 2 matches on his Wrestlestat profile.

A full competition counts as a date. So Southern Scuffle is a single date. National Duals is a single date. It's hard for me to see 2023 as even in consideration since he wrestled in the 2nd half and more than the allotted dates. You've got a better argument for 2024.

2024 he wrestled after the midpoint of the year. 2023 he wrestled more than the allotted dates. For Sparks, he didn't wrestle past the midpoint of the season with the MN schedule. Calendar dates have nothing to do with the hardship waiver. The link WKN provided only talks about competition dates. Wrestling operates off of a 17 competition date schedule. Over 6 competitions is considered too many and after the 9th competition (10+) is considered the midpoint in the season.

And that's a completely separate eligibility issue. Oklahoma State is D1. JCs are not. JUCO still needs a final ruling. All they have now is a pause on enforcement of that rule for a year. That could be ruled against and still count. Or none of it could count. Who knows. No one has a court case, to my knowledge, that would address his situation. Maybe they are planning to. But for now he doesn't fit the criteria mentioned as the reason for another year.

He competed during the 2nd half of the year. That rules out a hardship waiver.

@Husker_Du What's your read on the Raney's? Do you see them as Iowa leans too?

As of this moment, he doesn't. But with all the lawsuits and whatnot with regards to eligibility right now you are seeing people put their name in the portal with no eligibility so they can move if they end up more. Lack of eligibility doesn't prevent you from putting your name in the portal.

Looks like you have your next data project. Time to get researching on the heights off all past Olympic/World Champs at each weight.

Oh. I misread. I thought he was posting the qualifiers with weights. Not actual listed entries. My bad.

There won't be any new entries. This is qualifiers only. The last chance to qualify is Sr. Pan-Am and everyone going has qualified.

Actually, yes. They would be cheering for the PSU/NLWC dude over the American. As someone that has been to world's a few times, many USA "fans" go for their college team reps and not the USA rep. That's not to say they don't root for USA, but if it's USA vs Iowa or USA vs PSU, they would root for their team the majority of the time.

He didn't get out-wrestled. But there was very little wrestling. Bo got the only TD. RdR tried some upper body stuff that Bo stopped easily. He did get reversed and spent more time on bottom though. I'm not a MMA person, but I don't know that I would attribute that to wrestling. Can't say I've seen someone go down that "easily" before at that level.

125: Spencer Moore (R16) 133: Lucas Byrd (Champ, 3X AA, 4X NQ) 141: Danny Pucino (R16, 2X NQ) 149: Michael Gioffre 157: Kannon Webster (R12) 165: Braeden Scoles (R12) 174: Chris Kelly (RFR) 184: Ruth (AA, 3x NQ) 197: Chris Moore (True freshman NQ @ 165) 285: Luke Luffman (R12, 3X NQ) ----- Connell is just as likely to not even qualify as he is to qualify. There is no way Ruth isn't qualifying. I don't think Connell is in the lineup next year unless he can get to 174. Moore wrestled 86KG at the open instead of 79. That tells me 174 is a bit too far away. He won't be Ruth out. 197 is the spot, especially with no one else there. Though it sounds like Lautt might be on his way there soon, but Moore would beat him, even if under-sized.

The thought process is that the mouthpiece can absorb some of the energy that goes through the jaw to the brain from impact. I think headgear padding works minimally, as well. But it's really impossible to know because it may not prevent concussions, but it may prevent some of the consistent banging the head gets that builds up.

I’d say that the idea is to help prevent concussions even though there is no true evidence that it either helps or doesn’t yet. I can say from personal experience, I used to get 1-2 concussions a year for a few years in HS/College. I started to wear a mouthpiece and have never had one since. I’d never wrestle without one again.

USA Wrestling doesn't have him on their list as qualifiers. It seems the Non-Olympic weights only had 1 national team member in 2024.

This is from the NCAA from a case where a Wisconsin FB player wanted to enter the portal and Wisconsin wouldn't allow it. So he went to Miami anyway. The NCAA issued a statement Friday saying that "NCAA rules do not prevent a student-athlete from unenrolling from an institution, enrolling at a new institution and competing immediately." The key is are they recruited by the staff. That would be illegal. (No, i'm not going to get into the debate about back channeling and all that.)

Yep

Cael would certainly have a pretty good idea on that. He was enrolled in college in Japan. No idea how long he was there. The other factor would be if he was paid above typical expenses to participate in events and thus considered a professional. Each year he was would be a year of eligibility. Anyone know when he graduated HS in Japan and when he was enrolled in college? That would be a great starting point.