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He was stopped for out-of-state tags that were expired. I was once stopped for expired tags but this was in-state in Virginia. My car wasn't searched. Maybe PA is tougher on this, or maybe it was the OOS thing that did it. The best non-paywalled article I've found is here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mma_ufc/nazareth-wrestling-legend-who-survived-shooting-now-faces-gun-thc-vape-charges/ar-AA1INzHj Lehigh announced his hiring on June 30th and his name still appears on the list of coaches, but no photo yet. A lot happened there in a short period of time and we're going to have to wait to see how it plays out. Gun laws vary all over the country -- I heard a while ago that the only document you need to carry in Missouri is a driver's license -- but the loaded gun within reach of the driver sounds really bad to me. That's how police are killed during routine traffic stops.

Joel Sharratt departed Navy unexpectedly in 2020. Lost too many times to Army, I guess.

Looking at my Lehigh files that go back more than 50 years now (somehow I don't look any different than I did back then) -- these are guys with no state or prep titles who placed at NCAAs. Some were blue chip recruits anyway, most weren't. Mike Lieberman, 2x Natl Preps 2nd, NCAA 1st, 3rd in 1975-76 (the last collegian to beat Chris Campbell). Tihamer Toth-Fejel, California 3rd one time, NCAA 5th in 1976. Denny Reed, PA A 4th and 2nd, NCAA 7th in 1980 (pinned A/A's to start and finish in his only NCAA tournament); I don't know that he was considered the team's starter at 142 until tournaments. Chris Ayres, 69-25 in NJ, 19-7 with Blair, no places, NCAA 6th in 1999. Mark Dufresne, NJ 4th once, 6-17 as a freshman at Lehigh, once wrestled both JV and varsity on the same afternoon at Army, NCAA 6th in 2000 as a senior. John Van Doren, NJ 2nd and 3rd, NCAA 3rd and 5th. Dave Esposito, NJ 3rd, 2nd, 3rd, NCAA 3rd and 2nd. Chris Vitale, PA AAA 5th and 2nd, NCAA 7th. Mario Stuart, PA AAA 3rd and 2nd, NCAA 5th and 4th. Current Lehigh Associate Head Coach Brad Dillon, PA AAA 5th and 3rd, NCAA 5th (after the worst OT screwing in NCAA history) and 4th. Derek Zinck, PA AAA 5th, 5th, 2nd, NCAA 8th and 5th. Honorable mention to Robert Hamlin, 4x VT 1st, 2x New England 1st, NCAA 2nd, 4th, 2nd -- I believe he's the only A/A in Vermont's history. Nicknamed The Vermontster (a few years later Connor McGonagle of New Hampshire wisely passed on the proposed nickname of The New Hampster). Scott Parker, PA AAA 4th, 3rd, 2nd, NCAA 8th and 7th. Ryan Preisch, 2x PA AA 3rd, NCAA 4th.

HC at Penn State?

I can think of a few others (Henson twins from Nebraska to Penn, Matt Greenberg from Columbia to Cornell, Rost Aizenberg from a JC to Cornell, I think Corey Anderson started somewhere else) but not recent. As you say, rare.

The important thing to remember is that both persona were just acts.

Maybe the B team wrestles for one of Penn State's other campuses? Hey, Formula 1 racing actually has that setup, in a major sport. Red Bull has been one of the dominant teams over the past 15 years; their second team changes names but is currently known as AlphaTauri. They just demoted a driver from Red Bull and promoted one of the AlphaTauri drivers into the car. Why can't Cael do the same thing?

And got closer each time!

Peritore, Trenge, and Vice Admiral Kilrain (ret.) was my list.

The coaches would all like it to be a spring-only sport; the NCAA vows that it's under consideration. That's what I heard from the EIWA coaches three years ago, that's where we are today. So I figure Cael opposes it.

When did we become the Mustard Yellow & White?

Just like my wife's Accord.

Look at the Ivies and you'll find lots of 2019 HS graduates who greyshirted; their NCAA calendar hadn't started but time still marched on.

That was Cornell College of Iowa, not Cornell University. Campbell's pre-NCAA press release referred to Wyatt Henson out of Lehigh, so I think that should disqualify them from consideration. Besides, any school foolish enough to drop wrestling doesn't deserve to win the big prize. My choice would be Lehigh, but I'm slightly biased.

That's just because Texas was too cheap to buy new mats! 71. I'm told I look a lot younger, but it evens out because I feel a lot older.

I predict lots of angst and gnashing of teeth.

A document you really need to see is this one, beginning with Pg 13: https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/championships/sports/wrestling/d1/men/2024-25D1MWR_PreChampsManual.pdf In the PreChampionships Manual, the Subjective Criteria section (pg 13) has this sentence: "The committee may also consider the following subjective measures to supplement established selection and seeding criteria:" So yes, it's not just seeding. I see the split in the Quality Wins criterion, and I agree they can be split. But they don't show what's needed for the split. Regardless, if the two wrestlers tie then they split the points, otherwise the guy who gets more QW points get more comparison points. One table that's definitely worth looking at is on Pg. 6 of the Slideshow. This is the only place I've ever seen the actual RPI calculation results shown. Normally all we see are the rankings. It's from the 125 class in, I think, 2016. The RPI column shows the results, which range from about 0.55 to 0.699, rounded to five decimals. The result is 0.55167 for the 27th rank, 0.55162 for the 28th rank. That's a difference of 0.00005; if an error is made anywhere in the data entry, a match that should have been included wasn't (like if a default in a November tournament is instead entered as a forfeit), the change in an RPI will be as much as 0.005. I ran some trial hand calculations a few years ago and found I could easily shift the guy ranked 8th to 4th, or vice versa. It probably doesn't matter much for the top 10; but how about for the guy ranked 29th, the guy who didn't make the field?

Also, beating a quality wrestler multiple times counts as just a single QW, your source is correct. I never understood that. If you beat the same guy twice you get credit for two wins, right? So why not ....

Page 7 lists the criteria just to get into the at-large pool. That's the starting point and it's absolute. With Page 8, it's more involved than just the criteria shown. It works the same way as seeding. Wrestler A is compared to Wrestler B using those seven criteria. Win a criteria, earn points. If A and B haven't wrestled, then no one gets the 25 H-H points. Whoever has the most quality wins gets 20 points. Whoever has the higher CP ranking gets 15 points. And so on, then total up the points. The wrestler with the most points in that comparison earns a point against the whole field. Then move on to Wrestler A vs Wrestler C; repeat the process, winner earns a point. A vs D, winner gets a point. When Wrestler A has been compared against all the others, move on to Wrestler B and compare him to C. Continue until all the wrestlers have been compared, one at a time, to all the others. At no time are all the wrestlers compared as a group. It's all one guy against another guy. If there are four available at-large berths, the four wrestlers with the most points receive them and the guy in 5th place is the alternate. A couple of years ago the NCAA came out with subjective criteria, and I believe they just apply to the at-large process. Here they are (they're not in the slideshow): SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA The committee may also consider the following subjective measures to supplement established selection and seeding criteria: ● Bad Losses ● Outside the top 30 CR and/or 30 RPI ● Conference Champion ● Performance in last five matches ● Number of Injury default or medical forfeits wins/losses ● Best quality win ● Wrestler availability (injured or medically unable to compete) I particularly like the "bad losses" criterion. Years ago when I was sifting through this stuff for the EIWA, it struck me that they rewarded quality wins but didn't penalize clunker losses. Now they can. These apply to both at-large selection and seeding criteria (Obviously. Conference champs aren't in the at-large pool.). I hope this helps.

Army had three. On the other hand, Drexel had two EIWA runners-up who didn't get at-larges.

Diego Sotelo of Harvard, alternate at 125, is in the Ivy League.

Maybe they're actually checking their numbers this year, before releasing ....

Correct. Seeds tomorrow evening. Where the full list of 330 shows up is anyone's guess. The pre-allocated spots were announced on the NWCA site, not the NCAA's.

Eight bouts are needed for a winning percentage.

The EIWA uses an algorithm for seeding. Crookham will not be seeded in the top few due to lack of points in the algorithm.