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RIP seemed like a really great dude and great supporter. Rest easy we will cheer for the orange.

is that who the koontz boys train with now?

to add to the Illinois steam. Jordyn has two age level medals in greco gold and bronze. Thats going to be the best place for him to develop in greco if he wishes to out of the programs mentioned.

Was not around/watching wrestling when he was active but watching old tape easily my favorite wrestler to ever do it and the GOAT hands down in my opinion.

I believe Saito gave him issues on top this season and then both Cardenas matches but those both have head injury implications.

I don't think anybody can go with him on his feet. He hunts reversals and gasses himself on bottom a lot though and his head is always looming. I think he gets a little overly emotional as well. Skill for skill though I think he's better than anyone at 157, maybe anyone in college.

Is he really going to want to do another 3 years of school/season especially with his injury history? I thought I heard he was an engineering major, and even if he continues wrestling for a while I think the freestyle circuit and managing himself and his weight would be much easier than the rigor of a full college season.

I think the package deal aspect makes them more sought after than any of those guys individually. Say the other 3 win a national title that's what 20 points before bonus? Even if neither of them wins a title if you get a high AA out of both of them you are probably netting more overall points. I think you can potentially bank in more upside for them as well given their current training environment is each other and whenever they can get to Illinois. I think PSU and Okie state are probably out on them just because of lineup issues. They probably project at 133/141 or 141/149 and both of those schools are going to have some serious overlap so I would think Iowa or Illinois are the two likeliest landing spots? Perhaps V-tech or missouri throw their hat in the ring.

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%.

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.