Jason Bryant

According to US News & World Report - this is just looking up what you've got listed and the six D1 schools. I know the rankings are always up for debate, but Iowa probably a strong #2 when it comes to its academic profile. Others for discussion National Universities 46. Lehigh 98. Iowa 209. Chatham 220. Pacific (Ore.) 231. Sacred Heart 244. Grand Valley State 244. Misericordia 259. D'Youville 273. Aurora 273. Western New England 288. Marymount 288. Wilkes 296. Oklahoma City (NAIA) National Liberal Arts Colleges 83. Ursinus 90. Washington & Jefferson 100. Augustana (Ill.) 108. Linfield 108. Luther 126. Albion 126. Central 132. Cornell College 145. Emmanuel (Mass.) 147. Presbyterian 158. Albright Regional Universities (I just listed the ones you had above) 23. Mount Union - Midwest 84. York (Pa.) - North 115. Delaware State - North 124. Lindenwood - Midwest

Hasn't been discussed here, but this officially came down the pipe this morning. https://lehighsports.com/news/2025/5/27/lehigh-university-adds-womens-wrestling-as-26th-varsity-sport Sixth D1 to add the sport, joining Iowa, Presbyterian, Sacred Heart, Lindenwood and Delaware State. Among NCAA schools, that's now 116 teams. As of this moment, there's 37 Division II schools with the sport and 74 Division III. Definitely a plus since the academic profile of Lehigh is a draw.

Sat a little too long since we had some late arrivals. Tasted fine but wasn’t super creamy. It might melt well reheated in the oven 9 on taste 6.5 on execution.

This is the spicy one. Forgot to take a picture of both of them finished. About 90 mins in. the finishing layer.

Trying a smoked mac and cheese for Monday. One will have some spice and jalapeño… the other tempered for the Dutch lineage on the wife’s side that doesn’t do heat.

On occasion. I typically stick with the IOC preferences - I never say North Korea, for example. I may drop a Nippon in a celebratory call, but medals podiums and mat calls/win calls are all by the book. Turkiye, Czechia, Côte d'Ivoire ... Germany.

I'm not disagreeing with the origin or the entomology of the name. I introduce it "Cabo Verde" when they show up on the mat ... but every single map I ever saw until 2013 (and many after that) say "Cape Verde" - I'm a bit of a geography and map nerd. I think it might be a reach to assume that even if the country name itself hasn't changed since 1444, the general public would know this, and even less likely fans of wrestling.

“In 2013, the country's delegation informed the United Nations that only Cabo Verde and not other translations should be used for official purposes.”

It’s why I built my own for world and continental events.

Also, the programmer of that database is German and he translates things into German, so you have different spellings of the same athlete in numerous cases and extra letters added to names as well (like the Turks).

Approximately 560 high schools comprise the Southern Section of the CIF, which for those who don’t know, is the HS state association for California.

My bad. I forgot where I was for a moment.

I didn’t read this as a kids wrestling club, I interpreted this as a kids indoor play area.

DT didn’t get hurt outside, he got hurt inside the Hulu Theater next to MSG.

Maybe I misread what you'd meant. For clarity, we start at 7 Eastern, 6 Central, 5 Mountain (5 here in Mexico)

Same time as MOUNTAIN time.

They never have.

My vantage point is less than ideal, but I'm making it work. I was watching for Lockett's action to score there and couldn't see where the OOB was, which led to me calling the action vs. knowing when the spike occurred. When I could finally see a replay, along with everyone else, I then saw what the situation was. I didn't call it correctly as it happened, since I was still going with the action was in the zone. I felt like I talked the viewer through the process pretty well, but the fact it was OOB and I was unaware of that as it happened, definitely complicated things.

I didn’t think supporting a duel championship was a thing in PSU threads …. oh wait. D-U-E-L. My bad.

I’ve got an Everblades puck around here somewhere from their expansion season.

Christiansburg didn't start to become a factor until 1999 (Dresser's third year when they were second behind my alma mater in Group AA). Cburg didn't win its first state championship until 2002. They did have quite the run from 2002 until 2018, so that's the era I'd equate with the Blue Demons vs. the 80s and 90s. There was a lot more than Great Bridge and Grundy making national waves back then too. Cox, and Western Branch were consistently nationally ranked and good ol' Poquoson (the aforementioned alma mater) had some good runs in the 80s and 90s. Numerous "Fargo" AA's and D1 wrestlers. Up north, there were some pretty good Robinson teams too, although my knowledge of NOVA wrestling prior to jumping into the sport in 1995 was pretty sketchy.

There’s always exceptions in both directions - so I feel the hometown distinction BY THE ATHLETE will balance out - for every Bartlett, there’s a counter so it’ll all be a wash in the long run anyway. i’ve lived in my current house longer than any other place. I’m a Minnesota resident but I will always claim Virginia as where I’m from. And I don’t think there’s a solution that can be easily deduced. Unless my time gets paid for to go year by year, athlete by athlete - and even then, that decision can come under added scrutiny.

I take what the athlete lists as their hometown on their school bio. I can also do “by high school state” … that could sway more to PA (Sem) and NJ (Blair) given they are boarding schools that have a lot of out-of-state students. HS state is trickier in the cases where wrestlers transfer across state lines - i’ve typically used the last place they wrestled (non-PG) as the high school. I don’t do per capita, because it assumes every person in highly populated states have the same access to the sport as they do in places like Iowa. If I were to compare this to a state’s population, it would be to NFHS participation numbers - the prospective college wrestlers, in my estimation, come from who is wrestling in high school, not a general population count.

I didn’t want to put 40+ states of text on a social graphic, so I went with approx the top 15 (with ties)

He calls a damn good match.