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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%.

Snyder I think compares to Bruce very well.

Football has a lot more money across the board, for wrestling I think it's much more consolidated to the top programs. I could see someone like Burroughs going to a "smaller" program and getting a big financial backing something similar to what Deion got for going to Colorado obviously on a much smaller scale. Ultimately it comes down to finding people to back your program and I am just not sure that more than 8-10 programs can do that to a scale in which they can put together podium caliber teams. Especially when you look at the inflation we are already seeing. Lock haven raises 3.5 million, but you have Bo Bassett reportedly getting 5 himself.

That position is great in freestyle because worst case scenario you can kind of bail and go for a push out or just ground yourself. I think it's hard to take a ton away from the match other than he's talented and competes hard. Other than match days in the room that was likely his first folk match ever and I doubt he's ever wrestled in front of more than a few thousand people let alone 20'000 all focused on a single mat with the vast majority screaming at you and you don't know what they are saying. I think it's being missed a bit too that he competes at 57kg internationally, so he is probably a bit undersized as well. My biggest overall takeaway was that he was very active on bottom and at least in the first and second was able to build his base and get to a quad pod quite a few times. I remember when Ech came over and for 2 years it was tummy time whenever he was under someone no matter the level of the guy. Hughes, I doubt see's 133 again so it will definitely be a fun roster battle between Mccomas and Rin although him getting the start in this dual leads me to believe he is likely getting the better of those goes in the room right now.

I think he is probably a 174-184 the bigger likely the better for him, he's kind of slow but he is super savvy and has pretty crazy timing and feel. I don't know that he ever fits in that lineup though he and Henckel will probably be the same weight, and I project Henckel a bit better in college. Both of those guys have a Ryder,Barr,Mirasola,Duke problem for at least two years though. Maybe not as much Duke he probably settles at 165 maybe 174 at the biggest. I'm pretty excited about yiannis brother I think he could be very good. I assume he will be a 197 I think lou cherico is there 184 for the future.

Looked like in some clips Ono was training with Rodriguez and Nick lee. Spencer is training with Otoguru 2021 olympic champ, sounds like that started prior to the olympics but he went to the same school ono does. If spencer is dialed mentally, I think it's a great match that if he can get going on top, he can win although I would favor Ono. If his mental is similar to what it was in the Olympic finals, I think ono may push for a tech he is just that good. As to the weight I think it is probably a none factor or if anything hurts ono a bit.

These are just my thoughts never being very high level at anything but if Ben were this perennial draft pick superstar football player I just don't think he would have forgone this season to wrestle. Those are just my thoughts though and maybe putting on weight will put him back in the mix for both.

immediately the shocking ones to me are McNelly and Little. Every match I have watched of them I think has gone to OT aside from McNelly and Allred. Cannon is a pretty incredible story with what he went through in high school. Alirez's bonus rate is actually down from his national title season and his SOS is not even close, not sure if that's any indicator of his wrestling level right now just something I noticed.

I think that is a very real possibility, I just don't want to speak it into existence. Okie state is the only place I could cheer for him I think.

Really like Sinclairs offense, His baseline defense seems a bit shotty though. I feel like Angelo,McNelly,Welsh are very bad matchups for him. I have admittedly watch zero Zack Ryder outside of the scuffle in folkstlye. I think Welsh holds down 174 unless kharchla applies for like his third medical.

putting out Angelo would what make them lose by 92-95?

I think its Mark Perry, Mitch Clark, Ethan lizak HM: chris perry, james fleming