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I would certainly rather have Barr at 184 than Cochran at 197. I know Cochran got a ton of hype for the slav win but he lost to Beard 20-6 and Cardenas 13-6. The argument you could probably make is that 184 is going to be the more difficult weight so you put Carter there and while im not willing to write off PK I think you guarantee top 2 and Cochran could sneak on the podium. In terms of upside I think you bank on barrs development and hope he can low to mid AA and Carter wins 197 which I think he probably does without much opposition barring AJ coming back and being the same guy he was when he left in 2021.

I thought sadulaev looked rather pedestrian by his standards in the finals against zhabrailov.

very good points, with the injury I'm not sure it mattered which weight he went. I would have probably given him potentially as much of a chance as everyone else at given the question mark about Zains weight and not know Jesse was that guy at that point.

Just an interesting result at Russian nationals that made me think.

No I get that 100% especially given who we are talking about. However given the word was he was working out at a high school and did not even have 3 minute cardio I think there is a lot of room for him to improve without even being in good shape.

for about 60 seconds it looked like Pat was better than Carter. Now thats about 16% of a match but assuming his training was shit going in if he could somehow keep his head on straight I'd love to see him try for the 92kg spot for worlds. As of right now I think you'd probably pencil in Zahid as the prohibited favorite and then some combination of Hidlay,Moore,Jackson,Mike mach I think PD3 could throw his name in that mix with decent cardio and actually training with high level wrestlers.

I think he has to be the favorite on paper until they meet. I certainly think Luke could win it all as a true freshman but its kind of just a prove it situation since its folk and not free.

he got granted his last year of eligibility and then will resume his service duties after.

I would love to see him against PK.

@Husker_Du @lu_alum any clarity on the bobby weaver

would not be shocked if ryder beats out barr at 184, Levi red shirting also feels like it could be on the table.

oh wow I thought he had competed in some ranking series events.

Tallmadge was a stud in NJ hope he does well, Babin is very good on top but rather lackluster everywhere else.

Funny that Dingashvilli is in this bracket, Spencer teched him the last time he wrestled internationally 8 years ago. could be perhaps the only guy internationally that has felt Spencer.

Is sarlak not entered for Iran at 57?

Building a fictional Iowa lineup for next season 125: Ayala 133: Chris Cannon 141: Alirez 149: Parco 157: PK/Caliendo 165: PK/Caliendo 174: Arnold/Ferrari 184: Arnold/Ferrari 197: Ferrari 285: Keuter

from purely the perspective of bringing eyes to the sport the prospect of Carter Vs AJ 3 times in one year sounds absolutely glorious.

you have to wonder if these Michigan donors are going to continue to shell out this kind of money after doing all that last season to get third and miss first by 100 points.

I guess my point more so was that in their first two meetings he scored 12 and 7 points and then never scored another offensive point against him. While Roman certainly jumped levels in watching their matches after their first meetings it was like watching the same match over and over again with Austin failing to make any adjustments.

I think to the topic of Iowa not developing guys or making them worse I dont think either is inherently true. I do think they are very bad at developing guys in certain aspects of wrestling. For instance when RBY took away Austins ability to get inside control they did not seem to be able to figure out another attack for Austin to go to or even another way for him to force rby into a position where he could then regain inside control. He did go leftie single but roman was constantly grabbing ankles and either scoring or that position would get stalemated but that seemed like a position they could have improved upon as well. Where they are very good I would say is guys do not seem to get ridden very often there. Austin was very bad on bottom his true freshman year and even his first year there but improved upon that a ton. Across the board they are also incredibly sound positionally and in their head hands defense. My biggest gripe would probably be their inability to scramble past one or two sequences. Aside from Dpencer, Eiermen, Siebrecht, Kemerer who I all believe had that ability going into the program s/o mike eirmen, young guns and whoever siebrecht trained with in HS.

that's really awesome for bekzod I was not sure he was even going to get down to 74 but figured zhamolov would handle him, I wonder if he competed.

That was my thinking as well I feel like the most points the one guy could score at NCAAs for his career is around 100? With the Rayney brothers I feel like not only do you bring in two very good wrestlers but a workout partner for each guy to help them not stall out in progress. so even if they both low AA you're probably getting 100 points from them with the upside of a high AA or national title which could push that up to like 120-140 points and a better dual team.

They should spend some of this money on some new coaches so in the future they don't have to go out of their way to buy guys due to a lack of development in room. not meant to be a jab at them buying guys I'm hoping they get all of them simply so we have a competitive team race.

65 and 74 are always the most difficult weights internationally in my opinion. The Kadi match feels like more of a one off and Kadi at his best is absolutely phenomenal I remember their were rumors that Dake was not 100% for that olympics as well. I think Kadi also just gave him a very weird feel and alternatively Dake seemed to feed right into that metzger kadi wanted to hit. As for Sidakov with DT losing hes probably the #1 p4p wrestler in the world now when you think about it hes 3-0 against arguably the United States best p4p wrestler at the times he beat them. Hes beaten salkazonov twice who's won the last 4 European championships and beat zhamolov who a lot of people penciled in as the guy to overthrow Sidakov (hes gonna be at the olympics as well this year for Uzbekistan which just makes an already insanely deep weight that much deeper.

Are we talking about Alex nini or the other one? I think Alex nini could be very good not sure if hes a 157 probably a 141/149 but I think he has upside.