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During his final and after his second takedown in particular, my phone started lighting up with texts and calls with friends saying they couldn't believe how quick he was. It was such a fun match to watch him just work over someone who has ran the table for the past couple of years. something I noticed especially in the start of the match was all the soft touching he was doing almost to set up his speed and attacks. He would barely touch RBY and his arms and hands were moving in an almost hypnotizing way then all of the sudden you would get a fast burst. Very much obvious the Eastern European/Russian type influence in his wrestling style. He described almost exactly how the match would go prior to his final in his post semi interview.

This is hilarious.... for the people arguing "yeah but there are other factors like luck of the draw for 4xers...." are we forgetting Covid is playing a huge role in PSU possibly getting 4xers? An entire conference had to sit out a year that NCAAs took place... another comment- "Yianni took 2 years off" unbelievable... yeah he was just sitting around for two years. The guy was taking Olympic redshirts and couldn't control a once in a century pandemic and the Ivys choice not to participate. Yianni has spent more time than probably any other champ the last 2 years working on a completely different style of wrestling and took home a world silver at an Olympic weight. Some on here are very much talking out of both sides of their mouth which completey undermines the points they are trying to make. in 30 years no one is going to give a shit that Nolf had a lot of bonus points or that Yianni didn't have quite as many, but fans will always know who won 4... Most sports fans don't know Jordan's stats but they remember he rattled off 6 championships...

You can have your opinions but since you bring up luck and draws etc... I distinctly remember a questionable call going Nolfs way to make it back to the finals against I believe Hidlay... yes he was dominant but he couldn't and didn't win 4.... and for what it's worth, Yianni and Dake did it as actual true freshman without a redshirt. Not sure why you would want to diminish that accomplishment:..

I think it's worth noting how impressive it is for an Ivy school to have 2 4xers out of the 5 given the difficulty of recruiting top talent vs non Ivy. We can talk about the school of agriculture all we want but the lack of redshirting amongst other aspects make this really quite unbelievable... especially with all the success Iowa has had historically and PSU more recently, the fact that Mike Grey has a 4 timer before Cael is pretty wild and I hope they get a lot more looks from blue chip recruits around the country. They've more than proven they can take athletes and develop them and get them over the top with what I would view as less resources. Hats off to Cornell and can't wait for them to win a team trophy hopefully not in the too distant future.