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Won't be able to attend for a couple more years so watching from afar. But at least I have lots of "meetings" booked Thursday and Friday during the middle of the day. 65" x 3 screens side by side jumping mat to mat on mute. Laptop set to octobox and Shane Sparks is the only audio which is pushed to my surround system showing Scott Hanson how it's done. That's what I use to determine which mats to watch. Saturday night everything moves to the 120" projector screen. I randomly shout. I yell "THAT'S TWOOOO!" My wife texts me to shut the hell up or I will wake up the kids and also reminds me that it's THREEE and nearfalls are worth four points now so why don't I grow up and get with the times. I take another sip of my scotch and don't make a sound the rest of the evening. Life is amazing.

The OG blast double. One train wreck of a tournament from being a legend

You people are in freakin bananas land. Snyder is definitively one of the four greatest US wrestlers of all time, a 4 time world champ with three happening DURING college over silver and bronze medalists at NCAAs (right after, but still) who beat up J'Den in the OTC room when he took home bronze. And you think a U23 champ who couldn't place at the real deal would beat him or a guy who got 4th at OTTs one time when at the same age Snyder was already onto his fifth world champs. Yall need to lay off the sauce.

College: Nolf. Folkstyle savant. I always said he was a freestyle enigma but probably would have medaled at least once if he could have bypassed JB/Dake/Imar at the right weight right year. Senior: Nickal. He should have been given a fair shake in 2019 at 86kg. I truly believe he would have won worlds. He was that good and it's a shame he (and we) didn't get to see it through

In case you think I'm disparaging him, I didn't say he's a snooze, I said it will hold him back at the senior level. Big difference.

Can't chain wrestle to save his life. It will always haunt him at the senior level from taking The Leap. Even Taylor said as much and he's much sharper than my keyboard warrior "eye test"

Kerk's comp is closer to Medberry, King Cole, Coon. Tall, limited elite offense, absolute bull elephant of a human being

Hendrickson's comp 1:1 is Gwiz. And we all know what happened there.

It could be argued that Snyder accomplished more with 60 pounds less

"But we don't need UWW weight classes"

Wyatt Farva Hendrickson reporting for duty

Almost correct but you forgot a couple: 1A) Session 2.1 going out Thursday night immediately after and running into folks you haven't seen for a year or decade 8,483) Pre-Session 5 when your alarm goes off after two days of destroying your body and regretting everything so you decide to "show up after a late breakfast" aka skip the medal match session

The general idealogy is that "they transferred for NIL money" so in that essence it is a work analogy.

Like setting up the beginning of your adult life with a financial windfall in return for doing something you have trained your entire life for and in all likelihood will come to an immediate end the fourth weekend of March? Oh the humanity. Clutching my pearls thinking of all the young adults who simply want the ability to pay off their student loans and save for home prices that are completely out of reach for an entire generation entering a workforce that is wholly not hiring recent graduates with no work experience. /insert right hand wanking motion and dismissive eye roll

FTP

I'm sure you have never left one organization for another and certainly did not accept a higher salary along with it.

Ahh my fault, thought you just hadn't heard the news. Yes it is very weird not having the two at anything. And knowing Zare has Masoumi nipping at his heels leading to a potential fully new guard is very weird indeed.

Taha retired after the olympics. Geno is probably still enjoying that gold medal life - he isn't exactly known for being an offseason grinder.

You are being intentionally obtuse. Snyder won his first worlds in college by beating the defending gold medalist. Then he won the Olympics. Then he won worlds again. Then he beat world silver Coon for the 2018 NCAA tourney. Threw golds in college including a college win over a returning world medalist. Steveson won an Olympic title his third year of college by defeating 2019 world champ Geno. He did not beat any world medalists during the NCAA season, unlike Snyder.

What gold medalist did Steveson beat at NCAAs? If you are referring to reigning world champion then Snyder did that AND defended his title while in college while Steveson did not make a team until his olympic debut. So again, logical advantage = Snyder but like I said it's picking nits. They share the title.

Snyder has to win by default because he beat Coon who was already a world silver medalist when they met the final time. The logic is that this is strictly NCAA, not what someone became after such as Gwiz or Parris and their respective bronzes post-collegiately. It's a very thin argument though because really Snyder and Steveson are co-goat... a COAT if you will.

Random Forest or gtfo

For third? Sure. No way he beats Keck and Starocci. Shoot, he doesn't beat Keck OR Starocci. But he wins at least 2 of the next 3 years.

Ah ye$, we all know that old adage: the lord giveth and the lord taketh away from he who doe$ not uphold his end of the bargain