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Switzerland came in as the 33 seed with a record of 0-0 but everyone knew they were the absolute best when choosing neutral

Focus has been waiting

Gable Stevenson revels in embarrassing Mason Parris at every stop, and therefore will be announcing he is coming out of retirement and burning his covid-shirt. Twitter melts down, Tulsa rejoices, Vince McMahon pushes for him to be the first to simultaneously hold the Olympic-NCAA-WWE heavyweight belts.

Real Chicagoans eat tavern style (thin crust) pizza. Only tourists and business clients go for deep dish. Vito & Nicks and Barnaby's come to mind. But if you do make the decision to ruin your waistline, Lou Malnati's is the best deep dish.

McKee dominates the championship bracket in the greatest plot twist since The Sixth Sense

I remember why I didn't participate last year - this is always a crunch time of year for me and the time cost especially after work is just too much. If I can send a queue of picks and hop into the google sheet from my mobile as time allows then count me in, otherwise I'm jealous and will eventually join when life slows down.

I made the mistake of saying “what’s wrong?” last night and now I’m in overseeing weight management of the lightest weight. Joke’s on her because there is no better bro-love relationship than the lightest dude and the heavyweight! (if you unwrap the above then that means I’m in charge of meal time of our toddler and me & little dude both have stupid fun which just gets me into infinitely more trouble)

I'm not around many wrestling friends anymore so whenever I say this phrase they just stare at me like a fool (so does my wife). Oh well what can you do. Wrestlers have them, other sports play with them...

About as crappy as my karma 'round these parts

Am I too late for the Last Chance qualifier?

They will also look at ESPN+ membership spikes for people who enroll for a free trial, renew a lapsed membership, upgrade the Disney/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle around tourney time too. The Mouse House is very, very, very digitally forward and data-driven.

Luckily ESPN can do analytics of things like Unique IDs watching, Unique devices watching, etc. to get a quick and easy understanding. Cable viewership is the outlier with outdated methodologies due to inherent analog ideologies forced into digital devices. I'm sure that ESPN has taken notice that wrestling is the #3 most viewed sport on Big Ten Network behind football and men's basketball. I don't know ACC or Pac12 network stats. Whether those info and sport v sport rankings means much to ESPN or not is the other question...

125 Lee goes out with the season grand slam of Hodge, Most Dominant, Gorarrian, and OW 133 RBY. My heart says Fix breaks through, but my heart really wants to see him stay in college for 8 years just to be runner-up every year. 141 Matthews. It will probably be Woods or Barlett but where is the fun in that pick when you can go for the dude who just happened to run into both of last year's cinderella stories (Willits and Clarke) 149 Yianni. And I'm calling it now: he hits a lat drop at some point in the tournament. 157 Andonian. Fun! (sorry AOC/Illinois ) 165 Depends on seeds for the Saturday night matchup. Carr over Griffith over O'Toole over Carr 174 Starocci. This will be the bracket that blows up. 184 Brooks. Terminator. Next. 197 Dean over Beard in the finals. The entire arena is rooting for Beard and is deflated. Life sucks. Sunday's hangover will be twice as brutal knowing the bad guys won. 285 "Dark horse" Cassioppi. The bracket gods are going to shine over the weekend by giving us the two least top-tier heavyweights, Cassioppi and Schultz, go to SV2. No amount of cold spray can save the lungs in this match. Or if you want to be boring, Parris is back and will wreck the field without his big brother around to beat him up anymore.

Humble mindset, superior technique, willingness to fully dedicate yourself. About as secret as Big Mac sauce lol.

Why should someone cancel a credit card in order to cancel a subscription? How is that personal accountability?

That’s not really how business operations works in the legal or customer experiences realms though. I’m going to get a bit personal when I say that I get your tough guy schtick and applaud the consistency no matter how many ellipses must be sacrificed, but maybe just once don’t mash the send button before thinking “does this help our niche sport’s bigger picture?”

Quick sidebar... Morgan Turner is currently in the IL boys semis @ 106 and guaranteed to place. That may not mean much in about 40 other states, but that is a HUGE rare accomplishment in Illinois.

So again, if you are ready to compete against seniors whether you win the spot, make the team, or be competitive then it is time to not compete at age level. If a competitor and their camp decides that the better experience will be going after the age group spot and world tourney exposure then that is also fine. But seniors is seniors and if you want to run with the best of the best then that is a definitive declaration that you feel you are above your peers. Put the above paragraph another way: would your 17 year old go to Fargo? Or is that, for all intents and purposes, beneath the talent level at this point? Is a U20 Pan Ams tourney more important, at this current time, than competing for a spot on the senior national team? Does that desire align with the talent level?

@Husker_Du lurking and laughing maniacally knowing that he sent Waste Management to that big pinfall in the sky and has wrought international political strife throughout the board

You're either ready or you're not, and most juniors know/have been informed if they are ready to take the step up.

Oh you mean like how freestyle awards a point to the other person if you lose your challenge? Granted those challenges also take approximately seven years to complete but at least there is a risk/reward anytime you throw the brick.

Totally agree. Should be absolutely no more than 90 seconds from whistle to whistle for stop/review/restart. Buzzer goes off at 80 seconds regardless if sufficient evidence is found/not found, get back to center because ref has 10 seconds to announce what they saw and start action. This isn't the NFL we aren't selling commercials throughout 3 hours of television and these long breaks are killing the flow of a match. It's an anaerobic sport - you don't see NCAA 10K races constantly stopping for review to check if someone spiked another runner thus giving everyone a break and ruining the natural flow of the race and race strategy.

Unfortunately the bean counters did not approve procurement of additional armor when budgets accounted for the Larry Lee $lush Fund drying up at 11pm March 18th

For the masses who are curious: to be a participant in Final X for MFS 1) Winner US Open (what I think you're referring to as "Senior Nationals") which is a one-match winner take all final. This will take place April 25-30 in Las Vegas 2.1) Any returning medalist goes directly to Final X if they stay at the same weight. or 2.2) Win the WTT tourney which is a one-match winner take all final. May 20-21 in Colorado Springs Weight classes that will not qualify for 2.1 and move onto 2.2 criteria are anticipated to be: 61kg, 92kg, 125kg. Gross (61) and Zillmer (125) did not medal last year, Cox has announced he is attempting to move up and miss weight at 97kg again. Final X for all 3 Senior styles/30 weights takes place on what's going to be a very, very, very long June 10 at a site to be determined. MFS selection criteria can be found here Full U15 through Seniors for MFS, WFS, and Greco team selection criteria can be found here

NFL draft is in Kansas City this year so not sure why Vegas would be packed to the gills in April?