Truzzcat

My sentiment on this is... who cares. Anthony was going to bonus his way to the title, he is going to do incredible things in wrestling in the future this will not define him. It certainly sucks that he can not be the fifth four timer in NJ history but I do not think he would have been remembered for just that anyway.

Things to note: Real lead amouzad at the break with +2kg I think amouzad is the best in the world at 67kg. Real came back to take bronze and frankly looked really good he beat japan for bronze 9-1. Will lewan beats James green. Not great for Green but more so relevant to me because PJ duke has beaten Lewan pretty badly twice now. Chance wins without giving up a point. He did get teched by zahid a few weeks ago, will be interesting if he goes 79 or 86. Snyder loses to Yoshida, only notable to me because yoshida is probably the least credentialed guy he has lost to Zahid teched him at worlds in 2023. However Snyder traveled the day prior and wrestled two days prior I am not entirely concerned I do think given the guys at the weight though Snyder is competing more for bronze now than gold.

I may be miss remembering but I think he walks around at like 63-64kg, I would assume once he gets close to a competition he barely cuts anything for 61kg.

Forrest,Herringx2,rodriguez,O'farrill I believe are all out of state kids

You are an impressive human being.

Tanabe looked very good at the ranking series. The depth of Japan right now is extremely impressive. Thats a large reason I don't pay much mind to the PSU faithful speculating that Ono will come here. It's likely worse than his current training environment at least for his size.

I interpreted his tweet as he will not be competing at all this year maybe not until 2028?

Do you think he will stay there if ono drops down? Beating Kiyooka would be a tall task.

Rei primarily competes at 61kg during none olympic years so if anything I think this may keep ono at 61 this year. Japans best team would have ono at 57 though. Nishiuchi who he beat for the spot last year 3-2 is probably the second best guy in the world at the weight. He's a 2x junior world champ and beat Aman,Richards and cruz in 2023 at the zagreb when he was 19.

I do think it's worth noting Ono does the same snap to low ankle series that Haji aliyev does just with a bit different head positioning. I would argue ono is even faster and stronger than Haji and Haji won 3 straight 61kg world titles.

Some really awesome videos have been posted the last week. Both guys are so easy to root for. I thought the bit with Desanto and Otoguro was really cool seems like he has grown a lot mentally.

Schwab, Pat pop, Brian Smith, Erisman, Ryan, Santoro would be my list in no order.

I don't really even mind if PSU wins 10 more in a row I would just like to be able to convince myself of paths other teams could do it.

Looking for more opinions on this match. I think Nolf giving his thoughts that spencer wins easily has changed a lot of people's perspectives. I feel foolish questioning nolf in the slightest, the guy is a genius. However, one of his main points of contention was that people had not seen Ono before so now that he can be scouted spencer can shut him down. I just dont think Ono is as one dimensional as Nolf made him out to be. He does work a lot out of over collar snaps to a low ankle attack, but he also hit Marcus with a nasty ankle pick, and head pinched just about everyone at senior worlds. I also think it will be interesting that ono despite shooting a lot of low ankle attacks, shoots primarily head outside. Spencer may be the best I have ever seen at defending head inside singles. Ono also shoots into his underhook similarly to Hidlay and was able to get pushouts on blaze and uguaev who are both super stingy. None of those guys are spencer lee though so maybe he can shut all that down. Where spencer can do really well here, I believe is if he can re-attack off of Ono snap low level series. If he can hold his ties and keep his feet moving, I think he is going to have opportunities there, and obviously it just takes one chance on top for Spencer. For me I am leaning Ono, but I do not think the match is close. I think spencer either can shut down ono and he strings together some counterattacks and turns him and wins pretty decisively, or he cannot and ono runs away with it.

I thought that was a cool thread I could have posted this in there but thought it warranted a new one. An argument was made that NIL has helped parity in football which I agree with. @Husker_Du just put out new rankings and I was taking a look at the p4p list. Of the top 20 p4p guys 7 schools are represented with one wrestler not committed (Melvin Miller) PSU- 1,2,11 Iowa- 3,10 OKST- 4,5,9,13,15,19 Cornell- 6,7 Missouri- 8 V-TECH- 12,16,18 NCST - 14,20 Michigan is not on here and they are very active in the portal for the big guys, and obviously ohio state generally has very strong recruiting classes just not as strong as of yet in 2025,2026. Just something I noticed to me if you consider it from a football perspective these guys would probably all be considered 5stars. It is not very representative of to me of Parity if you have 7 of 77 schools landing every 5 star. If you add in Ohio state and Michigan because of portal ability or recent historical recruiting you would have 9 of 77 or 11.7%.