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Regarding MFS, 2024 will be a changing of the guard that has not been seen in a very long time and while I have high hopes for the next class, the experience and leadership (likely) exiting after this quad cannot be overstated. World teamers: JB, Taylor unless he doesn't make the team OR gets silver, Gilman if he doesn't make the team, Cox, Gwiz, Retherford. I do not think Dake retires. Notable ladder & contenders level: Dom Bradley, Nashon Garret, Dieringer, Evan Henderson, Lugo, Pletcher Not anticipated but wouldn't surprise me: Suriano, Zane Richards, Seth Gross, Mr. Moriah Marinelli, Starocci, Nate Jackson, Nolf

For all the non-runners, this is like skipping worlds the year before and Pan Ams that year and hoping to qualify at global last chance even though you had 4 years to plan.

Not third but close behind. If Korir doesn't get to say he's an Olympian because of this stupid decision then that's a travesty.

While we are all bitching, I'm here to complain that my buddy again narrowly missed making the olympic team yesterday because Team USA and their stupid goddamn blatant money grab known as the olympic team trials decided to put on a marathon in FLORIDA that didn't end until after NOON. Everyone dropped like flies and now we may only send two reps on the men's side because of the complex and difficult global selection process that was blatantly ***ducking** ignored and the women's side produced unexpected results to say the least via picking terrible race conditions. The athlete's issues were straight up ignored because they wanted some sweet money from NBC/Peacock. It would be the equivalent of having to weigh in at 65kg in order to compete at 74kg. ***ducking** travesty. End rant but I needed to complain outside my running bubble, please resume complaining about the Pan Am $ham.

Aaron Pico never lost to Kyle Dake. Pico>Taylor

They lay off entire departments if they don't hit overinflated quarterly goals

Piss off. This is the last engagement you get from me you wannabe bot.

What are you talking about? He holds center and controls the action like an eastern euro begging for a cold spray!! Wait, is this not the freestyle board? Oh. Welp, then maybe you should check out Lewan's training center and maybe you haters can stfu.

I have said it before and I will say it again: Death to the NCAA. But that means death to olympic sports as we know them. All will become so small and niche such as men's gymnastics that collegiate sports will eventually just... go away. And it will be a linger, brutal death. And don't think for one moment that this won't trickle down to high school and younger as school administrations have to look under the couch for every penny they can get. All it takes is one superintendent emboldened by the NCAA's eventual decision to make the same move and you will see rapid emulation.

Does Kueter get a shot at Davison considering his current cardio? Related: If Brands doesn't send him out are we calling this a duck no matter what, or only if Keuter burns the redshirt?

Oklahoma is more likely to cut wrestling than the other SEC schools to add it. I don't like saying that out loud nor am I saying it is going to happen, but it is a true statement when taken at surface level.

Then we have the answer to our question.

I disagree but only because I believe Team USA should not be the gatekeeper for rankings tournies entries. I quite enjoyed Yianni/Retherford at Dogu as an example because it spoke to the Team USA "may the best ahtlete win" mantra. Only the highest ladder entry should be comped, but if someone wants to pay their way then let them enter. Also, not everyone goes to rankings events or they only attend a limited quantity so it is unfortunately a conundrum.

Beats the old process of no challenge, and to be honest I'm not sure how I feel about it. You won the spot then in my eyes you have earned the right through the entirety of the season. The season begins the moment you win the spot and does not conclude until Olympic Team Trials scales open. It's both a perk and a heavy responsibility, nay duty, of being the world team rep. Makes more sense to have them on weight a few weeks prior to the event they are challenging so they can decide to ramp up or taper down and adjust their OTT training schedule accordingly.

I highly doubt it would be limited to "just" football as I bet that MBB would also be part of the B1G/SEC package. But we shall see and this will take years to fully shake out.

If Kerk doesn't return, I could 100% see Carl recruiting Beard to come back at heavy. He's ruthless like that.

Is he dropping to 125?

I expect @cowcards will be updating this wiki table with school and classification after someone finally figures this out. Right? Right.....? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_Wrestling_Championships

Was it Davis and Zalesky?

FIFY, and this is being generous to the field

Trumble is the people's champion (Blue Dragons excluded)

I am such an idiot. I confused Trumble with Aiello at senior nats because I was in too much of a hurry to fire off a joke about eating Cox.

Pepperidge Farm remembers when Illinois was a strong program with hammers top to bottom.

Trumble had a great showing at senior nats last month to put himself on the radar but I don't see any scenario where he gets past Jackson, Moore, or Cox. Actually on second thought it will be tough but he can beat Cox if he sneaks into his room to mess with his alarm clock and leaves a complimentary ticket to the breakfast buffet.