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hmm I was quite young for both of them but at least for me personally I remember watching kyle beat david at WTT and that setting up there all star match and from there it was like the talk of the season I dont recall dean vs Nickal having quite the same hype that could have been because dean took losses and nickal lost to myles at that big 10 I believe but I was not present enough on socials to know how hyped up that was.

they absolutely should but they won't

that would be far and away the biggest match since dake vs taylor and with the prevalence of social media now likely bigger.

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I think if they hit at the trials and Keegan were to beat him that may fuel the fire but I personally don't think collegiate wrestling has anything left to offer him although NIL can change that a bit.

I absolutely do not disagree it was just a result I did not see discussed at all and found it interesting so wanted to see peoples thoughts.

I know wrestling math does not always work but coming off a dominant u23 world title and taking third at the zegreb only losing to Azarpira 8-7 who went on to beat snyder 6-3 do we give trumble a chance here. He took off this collegiate season to focus specifically on freestyle as well as i think to grow he wrestled 285 at midlands and looked considerably bigger.

aside from the scramble with vito where he got 3 and 3 I was super impressed with moores movement he looks really sharp right now. Nobody is catching PSU but im a sucker for convincing myself of a team race to make things more interesting so ill be rooting for all the mizzou guys because i think they have the highest chance of putting up a big score.

his two wins over kade Moore have aged very well he is looking really good. Definitely could see well pushing for the blood round.

Willie did a write up predicting 1 seeds and this is pretty much what he said as well

Shane lost to a true freshman and was competitive with another true freshman and a backup 157lber hes not that guy anymore and mehki has long since been the guy that was a b2b finalist and national champ imo. the weight itself only has 4 AA's. The hall match is somewhat of a concern but hes always wrestled Keegan well and is having a great year Julian took the lead on Keegan but ended up getting blown out. Im not trying to take away from Carter hes outstanding and has definitely distanced himself from everyone but foca and plott moving up to 184 whitlake and kharchla getting hurt brands suspension and labs graduating definitely thinned this weight out a ton from last year.

id go 133 (vito at his best is the best guy in the world and I think daton poses a very tricky stylistic matchup for crookham) 157 (Meyer has been my pick all year and after the mauller match I am feeling better about it wrting cklv off to the concussion although a tournament setting still scares me for him) 149 (I personally think henson and gomez are as good if not better than ridge) 165 (I think keegan may be the best wrestler in college right now besides brooks but this weight is absolutely insane) 141 (real is great but he leaves it within the margins sometimes could see someone like beau or mendez beating him or even a guy like happle when hes hot) 197 (Trent is wrestling absolutely unreal dont give him a high probability but a chance against brooks) 184 (keck beat plott in a tight but fairly convincing fashion and I think hes the second-best guy aside from potentially foca 285 (yonger and wyatt can make it interesting if healthy) 174 (weakest weight in the country + t3 p4p guy imo)

a 20- and 21-year-old that still made one team and lost to JO on criteria.

im still very interested to see if carter can make 163 and if he can how he performs at that weight especially in a multi weigh in setting.

I've got Yianni in 2 after his first year of being able to have his soul focus on freestyle what's everyone's predictions?

she looks smaller in her Ig posts but not terribly sucked out

id be fine with mitchell being high end tier 3 or moving hamiti,ramirez,olejnik up to tier 2 with him but I dont think you can put MM on tier island for albeit destroying a seemingly not in form amine and fish when ramirez has beaten carr and quincy twice last year and hamiti has bonused 3 guys in the same tier as him (ramirez,fish,hall)

Has ridge ever beaten Austin I feel like he has a decided lead in the head to head. I personally think Caleb is the best guy in the country despite losing once to ridge.

it'd be nice if cox finds his way to actually compete at trials this year! Not being a hater I love watching him wrestle the circumstances since hes decided to officially move up to 97 have just been insane.

in regards to the seeding of Keegan if he splits with Carr. I would personally still seed him 1 if Mitchell runs the table and put Carr Mitchell at the 2,3. Assuming he goes into nationals with one loss and he wrestles everyone left on his schedule he will have likely beat hall 2x or olejnik 2x Ramirez and Carr on top of being a 2 time defending national champ. Mitchell would have Amine,fish,caliendo,hamiti as wins which are all great but given the landscape of this season does not quite compare. these wins could shape up to look differently by then, their are so many variables left still to account for but I personally would have a 1 loss Keegan at 1 however would understand Mitchell being there. selfishly I want to see Keegan against either Mitchell or Carr in the finals rather than the semis too.

thats a very fair point he did 100% look out of shape he was blessed to beat goleji and looked terribly gassed in that match.

Sad did not look stellar in his finals match against an albeit good but not great Russian. Granted hes not looked great there in years past and stormed through worlds but I think this years worlds may have been more of Sad regressing and less of a neck issue.

by this criteria Meyer would have been ranked top 5 before the season started and then people would have complained he was overhyped after CKLV (he's my pick to win 157 and has been but just a comparison). Yes, we know these guys are good, but they have the opportunity to prove that and then they will be ranked accordingly.

interesting to see rashidov seemingly back in form its been a while. Uhkmanov losing is a bit of a shock he looked dominant at worlds.

I feel like they have to account for margin of victory which imo is not a great metric for ranking criteria but thats the only thing i can think of that would rationalize him being 1 given his bonus victories over guys they have highly ranked at the time. this is just me head cannoning it though they have pat mckee at 8 which I think is almost equally as shocking given hes 9-4 with one ranked win.