SetonHallPirate

More allocated spots doesn't mean it's easier to make it to nationals. On the other hand, more allocated spots means it's a tougher road to get to nationals. (it's really meant to be neutral in that regard...as in, you aren't benefiting more or less by going to another conference) The only caveat to that is, if a conference has nobody within threshold, they'll get an automatic bid to nationals anyway. (as we're reminded every year at the Convention, only the conference champion receives an automatic bid. The rest of the bids given to each conference prior to the conference championships are allocated spots)

My experience is that it always populates for me with Florida tournaments first…maybe that ought to be selectable (and maybe it is and I haven’t noticed it yet), because I don’t pay a large amount of attention to what goes on within the state at the Youth level (and barely know what goes on at the HS level here)…

A two-and-a-half hour drive away. Bear in mind Tarleton is in the absolute middle of nowhere.

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I assume Track is going to eventually be phased out as well, but since the OPC is based there, it was impossible to completely shutter it.

My understanding was that it was going to the electric chair. In all seriousness, FloWrestling is shutting down Arena and only supporting the TrackWrestling software.

First confirmed elsewhere by @BobDole.

And Georgia Tech is a very male-heavy institution as well (mentioning for Title IX reasons)

Would need one more program, but wonder if the United Athletic Conference (would be Bellarmine, California Baptist, Queens, Tarleton State, and Utah Valley, plus one more program) could expand to wrestling...just a thought. (also wouldn't be eligible for a bid until 2026-27, due to Queens being in transition until that time)

No tech falls are worth four anymore. This rule was changed in 2015.

My understanding for conference placements is that for at-large selection, wrestlers are either one-spot away or not, and the only other time the 15% comes into play is between conference foes. For seeding, conference champions are above everybody else, and otherwise, they are only compared, again, between conference foes. Am curious as to how concussions or skin check failures would affect the minimum matches at conference tournaments. As far as the two-second injury default, that's still in-play, but the wrestler will now need to do it twice, and take both losses. The bumping of the allocation criteria wouldn't really affect the balance between larger conferences and smaller conferences that badly, but what it would do is bring A LOT more of those bids to the at-large pool instead of being pre-allocated.

The minimum number of matches for the CR hasn’t changed. This was the minimum participation requirement at the conference championships to be eligible for an at-large.

CR was also 5% more than anything else other than head-to-head or quality wins. (when CR was initially bumped from 10% to 15%, it totally replaced "match count")

Wouldn’t say that…if that were the case, the coaches’ ranking would be eliminated entirely. It’s more them trying to make the conference championships more important, to reduce the medical forfeits and defaults that often take place there.

I do have to laugh that you referred to the former upperweight wrestler as "Focus".

I actually keep it in an Excel file on my computer. As far as the site, it's not mine, it's @Jason Bryant's.

https://almanac.mattalkonline.com/2022-23-division-i-individual-results/ (note: this was not updated with conference or NCAA Championships results)

https://soonersports.com/staff-directory/jason-leonard/80 "Jason Leonard became the executive director of athletics compliance in December 2006."

Leonard was actually hired in 2006, during the Jack Spates era. You are correct, though, that the decline in Oklahoma's wrestling fortunes dovetails exactly with his hiring.

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Bellarmine as well. They aren't eligible yet, though, so they really are "sleeping" in terms of postseason eligibility.

FIFY.

Not to toot my own horn, but I really don’t think anybody can say it any better than this:

The modern Olympics had their first edition in 1896. The National League predates that by 21 years, and that’s just that I can think of at 4:30 in the morning… That said, I don’t suspect Oklahoma’s wrestling is in any bit of danger of being dropped.