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I wasn't an athlete, turned 17 in January of my senior year in high school. From what I can tell, someone in my situation can take two greyshirt years and still get 5 for 5.

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Probably depends on whether your future is with a Wall Street investment firm or as a high school coach.

The comings and goings of the freres Ferrari aren't even news anymore.

Lehigh hasn't added a 3rd assistant yet.

I'd like to say no way, but there's always a team with no scruples and a roster spot to fill. Is anybody else impressed that Douglas County (county seat: Omaha) has streets numbered up through 204?

Freshman eligibility for sports other than basketball and football began in 1970. Pat Smith won his fourth NCAA title in 1994. It took 21 years, not 35. Your point is still valid -- 21 years for the first, six in the 32 years since. Kind of like Triple Crown winners in horse racing -- none for 30 years, then a cluster, then another long gap.

I've had long waits for the website to load.

Leyte Gulf. The full message was "turkey trots to water gg where repeat where is task force 34 rr the world wonders". The first and last parts were filler to make it harder for the enemy to intercept and decode.

Maybe one more thing to add -- 1: Dual win over Cael Sanderson-coached Penn State squad. Not many coaches can claim that.

Brackets: https://www.wrestlingstats.com/ncaa/pdf/brackets/NCAA 1937.pdf

Much depends on the child's birthday. Most states have school cutoff dates in the fall; in Virginia it's Sept 30th. Children normally need to have their birth date before Sept 30, 2021 in order to begin kindergarten in 2026. Those born on or after October 1, 2021 wait until 2027. A child born on 9/30/2021 would graduate HS in May 2039, four months short of 18. Born on 10/1/2021, graduation is in May 2040, eight months after 18th birthday. In reality, at least where I live, many parents hold their children back a year if they're born in the second half of that window; not all kids are ready to begin school when the rules say they should. My son was born in early July and was almost always the youngest child in his class, and occasionally the youngest in his grade. In kindergarten he had a couple of classmates who were 18 months older; they'd flunked kindergarten the first time through. The youngest college wrestler I can remember hearing about was Cornell's Jerry Rinaldi, who supposedly was still 17 when he first suited up for the varsity. Colleges don't post birthdates anymore, a good idea to protect privacy.

Do tattoos on arms count against the two-patch limit? And do the wrestlers get lifetime supplies of the product if it's tattooed into their flesh?

Odd .... the only three transfers in the portal who chose to stay at their old school (so far) are Stanford wrestlers. Can you spell $NIL?

I agree. My son was always the youngest child in his grade. Bummed me out to see kids 18 months older then him getting varsity spots. But he was also always able to handle the coursework.

I still see lots of legal challenges. Plenty of parents hold their kids out of school for a year, or hold them back a grade after they began school, solely in order to improve their chances of landing that all-important college scholarship. This was all based on the NCAA rules currently in place. HS grads take gap years to boost their grades and/or improve their athletic skills in order to land spots in desirable colleges or to land that all-important college scholarship. All that is in place because of the NCAA rules. Now the NCAA is suddenly going to reverse course and sink all those plans? I don't see it happening quietly. The only ones who benefit from the 5x5 rule are those who can get into their preferred college right out of HS, are able to compete well immediately, and stay healthy for five consecutive years. I'm guessing there aren't as many as we'd like to think.

A lot of Ivy guys take greyshirt years, then spread their college years over five years, taking fall semesters off in order to preserve eligibility. Doesn't sound like that will be allowed anymore. Those gap years after high school (Penn State does that some too) are just lost years now. Thinking about it some more, I don't know that the Ivies limit guys to just four seasons to compete. They limit their students to eight semesters in school, which don't have to be consecutive; the NCAA has been limiting to four post-seasons. So they may well be able to compete in five Ivy and NCAA tournaments; they just won't be able to stash at Spartan or an RTC before matriculating.

Sounds like it depends on when he turns 19. I read it to mean that the eligibility clock starts on a guy's 19th birthday, if he's still in high school. When I mentioned the guys looking for loopholes in an earlier post, I was thinking about the problems created by starting the clock regardless of when a kid begins college. There are going to be kids who miss years of school due to medical or family issues and graduate late, those who don't get scholarships and need to work after high school to earn money for college, not to mention a few who might be incarcerated. Do we really take years of eligibility away from them because they don't fit into the cookie cutter? There will be litigation!

If this ever passes, which I highly doubt, we'll immediately see efforts to skirt the rules. Only the lawyers will get rich.

His matches as a freshman were either in opens or in extra countable matches. His Ivy eligibility is probably gone, but the NCAA may allow him to compete next year.

Crookham was injured pretty late in the season; there's a pretty good chance he misses all of 26-27, leaving the weight open for Lopes.

Max Dean the exception that proves the rule.

Wask won three dominant bouts at EIWAs but lost his semis bout to Carter Baer in the tiebreaks; it cost him in the NCAA seedings. Looking for a rebound for sure.

Seems to me that Oklahoma wrestling fans used to apply the expression "Black Friday" to NCAAs. That was the day in bad years when their championship hopes disappeared. To have a ready-made expression handy for when things went south ....

And Cornell's roster listed Darmstadt at 6' 3" for years. I took a photo of him at Roanoke during his first post-HS bout; he threw his opponent and you could see their feet, and I wondered how big their shoes were. Any all-skinny team has to include Jack Spates and Darryl Burley.