Jason Bryant

Here's how I came to my conclusion. I didn't include the raw numbers because, well, it's not as pretty.

He was a senior, so he had exhausted his eligibility at the end of that season. That school in Norfolk can eat sh*t.

NAIA already has their own. After an invitational for the last few years, this year was their first official women's wrestling national championship event.

It's happened eight times in history of the tournament.

It's from National Preps, so it's New York Military Academy

... and let's add one more log to the fire. Once I saw Harlow's name, I researched the National Preps (I've got the placers in a separate database) and sure enough, this is the 168-pound bracket at the National Prep Championships in 1962. 1. Bill Harlow (St. Andrew's, Tenn.) 2. Roger Oleson (Hill School, Pa.) 3. Marshall Taylor (Norfolk Academy, Va.) 4. John Logan (Friends, Pa.)

That's also future NCAA champion and NWHOF Distinguished Member Bill Harlow in the bracket.

Definitely a Preps tournament based on all the schools represented there. I’m assuming this may have been an event “hosted” by Horace Mann School or a bracket given to the NYAC from the event.

I don’t know whether to post the bracket or the clip from Family Guy about Kevin Bacon not being in Footloose. I was also traveling yesterday, so my humblest apologies in not instantly providing proof. I hate politics, and there’s a lot of people in our sport I wish wouldn’t identify themselves as part of our community. But here’s the pic my friend took when he was at the NYAC not that long ago.

Rock was a multiple time National Preps place winner in HS (might have been a champ / I don’t have it in front of me) and he went on to wrestle at Virginia.

There’s a bracket at the NYAC with the Donald getting pinned in a tournament. I saw the screen shot on a friends phone this weekend. Like it or not, he did wrestle.

No predictions… haven’t filled out the brackets yet. But it is now live!

Demas is in.

Pushed to Monday since I’m still at the airport 10 hours after I was supposed to leave. Have to reconfigure 133 with the scratch. Link is in the OP.

Will be released tonight! (Sunday)

I will have a full list in my preview guide (available maybe as early as Sunday) - i have some extensive stats on the bloodround wins and losses. Never has there been a 4x R12 finisher and as was noted earlier, Murin and Phillippi are 3x R12. 13 wrestlers all time have been R12 3x and never placed. Of note, only one wrestler has ever been 4-0 in the bloodround since the tournament went to 8 places in 1979. Zach Sanders …

I "should" have a version ready to go this weekend. I'm well ahead of schedule. It usually drops on Tuesday before the NCAAs, but I got the hard part done in record time. Now I'm just tweaking layouts - but I'm announcing at D3's, so have to get the "real job" area stuff done before farming it out. I'd love to have it ready Saturday, but I want to get it proofed in some respects and I'm still kinda waiting to hear if anyone pulls out.

I watched most of them, but I think Woods' post-match was the best. I missed the last three since I had to hop on a plane.

Having done this multiple times in my career, it's the spot that TV wants but it doesn't work great for wrestling given the immediacy of the interviews. You never get good answers, but you always want the emotional response. For every "work hard and get better" response from a "what do you need to do" question, you get the "I just want some ice cream." The networks will gamble to get that ice cream line every time. A few years ago, they did Sparks with breakaways, which gave us the Sam Brooks mullet moment, but that's very rare in television these days. Ray Flores is a professional, but he's got a no-win position there. You have to ask quick question, realizing these are NOT for the die-hard. Everyone watching knows more than Ray does. You will never get that kind of insight from a post-match interview. He's good apparently at boxing (I don't watch boxing anymore), and he's a good broadcaster, but sometimes good broadcasters get stuck in gigs they do a decent enough job at for the networks but will always be reviled by the die-hards. Quint, for example. That role deserves a little grace.

What is your main browser you use? Do you use any ad-blockers/tracking blockers, etc?

If you’ve got an ad blocker/tracking blocker, turn it off. Then try a different browser. Annoying, yes, but that will usually solve it if you’ve got a blank screen.

Everyone knows mine.

I couldn’t find 8 forfeits in the brackets. I wasn’t looking that hard but I did peruse the R64 and R32 briefly looking for confirmation of 8. Edit: I count 8 first round matches in 13/14 weights. The only weight where there wasn’t a first round match was Valencia’s weight.

Fair point. Perhaps a better explanation would be 1-2-3 full stop vs schools that are 1-2-3-4-5 … with their commitment to sports

Not exactly. For example, Penn State and Ohio State have over 30 sports and show an actual appreciation for non-revenue and Olympic sports. It's easy to spot the difference - P5's cutting sports like cross country and tennis and golf due to "expense" is the biggest farce.