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Salt, wine, and butter are the three ingredients necessary to make any dish a delight.

French onion soup to start then beef tenderloin in the dutch oven with a red wine sauce. Sides are lemon burrata gnocchi, smashed parmesan brussel sprouts, and baked parm asparagus. I make it every year and will continue to do so until the day we have any leftovers.

Hendrickson is a better technician, but Steveson is quicker, stronger, faster and has a snap down go behind from hell. Hendrickson is legitimately a top 20 in the US, at any level, technician. It just so happens he can't execute that technique against opponents who are the (formerly and hopefully still) best in the world or a big ass oak tree. Don't forget that right before Parris won a world medal Hendrickson darn near broke his ribs. Levels and such, just giving him his proper respect on the way to another 3rd place medal.

If you are asking larger athletes to give up a disparity of weight then why can you not do the same if smaller athletes? Why, other than tradition, is there such pushback against matching works championship weights? And again, if you give more opportunities then more athletes will follow. It's like some of you have never created a new line of business because you want to waste time figuring out if you can marginally increase a fully saturated market and it shows.

People bitch about 8 pounds being too much. Do the same thing they tell bigger guys - hit the gym and shut up.

Can you name some examples of guys who didn't wrestle but had AA potential because they didn't want to make an 88 pound decision?

We are not talking about high school. We are talking about high level wrestling at the collegiate level. 103 or whatever it is nowadays is also often forfeited. Don't lose the forest for the trees.

Okay so let's take a step back for a second because everyone seems to consistently miss the point. There are limited opportunities due to lack of weight classes. If you give more weight classes then naturally the participant pool will grow. When your options are 1) Bulk up as much as possible to get up to 240-250 and lose what made you special in the first place 2) Cut harder than anyone else on the team to shrink down to 197 and lose what made you special in the first place 3) Do neither and enjoy college but give up wrestling as the cost Then you are only presented with miserable choices. Everyone else gets a weight class for their body why can't the people taller than 5'7 who hit the gym?

What are you talking about that is ridiculous to even joke about. It was obviously Chris Gaines.

There aren't enough competitors or there aren't enough opportunities?

Lots of D1 programs struggle to find career 125s because it's primarily an underclass weight but I don't see anyone trying to get rid of it.

I have but the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. I also made my own sodium bicarb a couple times for 5K's with expected results immediately after crossing the finish line and I'll never make that mistake again. Some things are better left to the experts lol

hahahahaha sure and the next day it's -15 wind chill followed by a warmup to allow 4" of snow. March and April are notoriously fickle with all the fake first summer days, especially as autumn is continuously pushed further back each year.

Stop making sense. Why would we want to increase numbers when our sport is at a critical point domestically?!

Lucas Davison did it at NCAAs after Steveson was already an olympic gold medalist. It's not impossible but it will certainly piss him off to the point he initiates offense.

2 oz of tailwind mandarin orange every other mile, Ucan strawberry banana at 10k, Maurten caf 100 at 20k and 30k, Ucan again at 35k Easiest marathon you will ever run. For the tri, if it is olympic or a sprint it's Maurten 100 caf fifteen minutes before I dive in then chugging Maurten 320 caf with water and a Nuun tab thrown in. If it's a half or full then I have a whole seperate thread to get you to Kona/Nice. ETA: Always, ALWAYS, a beer and slice of cheese pizza after. Carbs and carbonation are the lifeblood of recovery.

"The Nightmare Before Christmas Tournament" is a script being shopped around Hollywood. Last I heard, the names attached are Timothy Chalamet as our underdog lead, Zendaya as the quirky neighbor who believes when no one else does, The Rock as the football coach who has a DUI and as part of his community service is placed as team coach but learns all the life lessons that wrestling brings along the way, and Meryl Streep as the quick-witted team grandmother. No one has ever believed in Jimmy's wrestling ability so now he's on a mission to prove everyone wrong. The local Christmas tournament is the toughest in the area and Jimmy looks to dethrone the all-county champ. But St. Nick has other plans when Jimmy's Christmas Wish is to just be able to eat an extra bite while cutting weight. Santa's magic Christmas dust turns Jimmy's appetite into overdrive and he eats all the townsfolk's cookies and drinks too many glasses of milk that they left out for Santa as he delivers presents to all the boys and girls. Will he make weight tomorrow morning?! Check out this modern Christmas classic Tuesday... only on the CW!

Find a couple ladies while you're at it then you got yourself 2 girls, 1 cup

I prefer my 90s sports drinks to be carbonated

The Maple Leaf Menaces should get an opportunity for a few WFS mailbags during the college season and surrounding the senior circuit events. WFS is an explosion happening in front of everyone and there is nothing out there to support it. They are really funny as long as you're not the kind of guy who plays "My Girl" on repeat because you can't take a joke. In business terms, I hope someone exploits the WFS market very soon and gets a leg up on the competition before it saturates.

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He closed the gap very well last year against NCAA champ Kerk from 12-0 major down to 1-0 @ NCAAs, but that does not mean a match against a very differently built Ghadiali this year is apples to apples. He will always be undersized and Kyle Snyder is the exception not the rule for short brickhouses at heavyweight dominating the landscape. That said, I'll take Feldman over pretty much anyone not named Stevenson or Kirkfleet come March. Hopefully he hits a good slate of competition this weekend no matter where he lands at the end.

Impounded. Got towed for parking in a handicap spot - he thought he qualified when someone called him the Shane Gillis R word. Can't believe @Idaho missed it in the days without incident thread.

It would be a bigger shock if KOT didn't improve from last year's 3rd place. But that's the rub when you participate in a historic bracket.