Wrestej

Just my opinion. We will see how the year goes.

O’Toole will not lose this year and quite possibly not another college match, barring injury. This kid is special. I’ve watched him wrestle a lot and he is always in control. He went through a gauntlet last years Championships with a broke ankle. Nobody is going to stop him and to be honest I don’t even think it is close. If he put his mind to it I think he could bonus everyone this year including Carr. O’Toole will go down as an all timer. I think the only thing that keeps him from going up to 174 and taking on Starocci is staying in closer range to 74kg for Olympic weight.

Zero chance Mocco ever sees 157. Hell two years ago he was at 165 and O’Toole was 157 for less than a month and both bumped up to where they are now. I think he has grown into the weight pretty well. He never looks undersized in comparison to his competition. I thought he beat Lewis last year but they didn’t award 2 at end of regulation. Ended up losing in sudden victory. Tells me he’s right there with the top in the weight class. He hasn’t seen 157 since 3 years ago and that year ended in November for him, tore up his knee in route to his victory over Carr. Happened right in front of me. Felt awful for him but he gutted out the rest of the match and held on to win. If all goes right at Championships I think he can AA.

Zero chance Mocco ever sees 157. Hell two years ago he was at 165 and O’Toole was 157 for less than a month and both bumped up to where they are now.

I meant all schools are back in person. So athletics are back to normal or before 2019.

Why no more rankings? I thought it was just because of Covid they stopped but high school is full swing again and nothing. Are they going to return?

The way you keep posting this to Cinnabon makes me remember a movie from my teenage years. A newspaper boy follows a guy all throughout the movie wanting his two dollars.

Ya I think this is wrong. He might be the best at 149 but you can’t hold the #1 spot when you have more losses than wins.

Did I go into a coma and miss some years? When did Schults win a ncaa title?

You aren’t that far off with just Brooks

I apologize, I didn’t realize ncaa changed the rules to allow athletes to wrestle in duals while in redshirt year. Odd.

Red shirt wins and losses don’t count toward your record

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – University of Missouri Head Wrestling Coach Brian Smith was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Sunday, Nov. 20. Beginning his career as Missouri's seventh head wrestling coach, Smith sat down with his team and made a list of goals that he hoped would help the 1998 squad and future Tiger teams. Over the past 24 years, he and the many men that have come through the Mizzou wrestling program have slowly but surely checked items off that original list. Individual Big 12 and MAC Conference Champions, improved grade-point averages, record-setting attendances, a No. 1 national ranking and Missouri's first-ever NCAA National Champion in wrestling were all on Smith's "to-do" list. His unique "Tiger Style" training program has molded today's team into a national powerhouse that continues to pursue the program's first team NCAA title. Since being introduced as Missouri's Head Wrestling Coach on May 5, 1998, Smith owns 21 consecutive seasons with a dual record at or above .500, beginning with the 2001-02 season, and has coached 29 All-Americans to 60 top-eight performances and six Tigers to nine national championships. The winningest coach in program history, Smith has compiled a 319-114-4 record at Missouri over his 24-plus season tenure. He became Missouri's first 300-win coach in program history, eclipsing the milestone, Jan. 8, 2021, in a 30-6 triumph over No. 21 Central Michigan. With a .737 career winning percentage, Smith holds the highest winning percentage in Mizzou wrestling history. He earned six consecutive conference Coach of the Year honors from 2012-17, including five straight awards by the MAC league office. Additionally, he has been honored as the top wrestling coach in the NCAA twice in his career, first being named the Dan Gable Coach of the Year by W.I.N. Magazine in 2007, then Smith was named the National Wrestling Coaches Association Coach of the Year in 2017. Six Tiger wrestlers have reached the pinnacle of collegiate wrestling, collecting nine NCAA Championships under Smith's tenure, beginning with Ben Askren. During Askren's Tiger career, Smith guided the 174-pound grappler to the program's first back-to-back National Championship titles (2006 and 2007). On March 21, 2009, Mark Ellis became the second Missouri wrestler in program history to collect top honors. In 2010, Max Askren became the third national champion in the history of the program, as he dominated the No. 1 seed in the 184-pound weight class by a 10-3 score. After a four-year drought, true freshman J'den Cox claimed the program's fifth national title in 2013-14 after defeating Ohio State's Nick Heflin, 2-1. A year later, redshirt senior Drake Houdashelt concluded his historical Tiger Style career with a 149-pound National Championship at the 2015 NCAA's. In 2016, Cox returned to the top of the podium at Madison Square Garden, becoming the second two-time NCAA Champ in program history. Cox then became the program's first ever three-time national champion when he defended his title in 2017, to finish his incredible Tiger career. In 2022, freshman Keegan O'Toole became the Tigers' first national champion at 165 pounds while completing the fourth undefeated individual season in program history, joining B. Askren (2006-07) and Cox (2017). Additionally, Smith has helped guide two wrestlers to the Olympics. B. Askren was the first wrestler in program history to compete in the summer games with an appearance in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, followed by Cox, who won bronze at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. A native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where his father coached football, Smith was a two-time wrestling state champion in 1984 with Oviedo High School and 1985 while competing at St. Thomas Aquinas High School. The Florida native graduated from Michigan State with a degree in education and married the former Denise Dean in 1993. Brian and Denise, have three children, Quinn, Kylie and Braden. In the spring of 2009, Smith received his Master's Degree in Athletic Administration from William Woods University.

Ya. Might be a little merit in their argument with the elite claim. Ivy degree still superior. I would of like to had either one I went to HKU.

Penn State people can argue all they want but an Ivy degree has far more value, but to each their own. As for if you care about a degree, why else would you go to University. That is exactly what it is for, higher learning. If you just want to wrestle how about any RTC or OTC. Worked for Cejudo.

Just another reason war sucks. Pretty far down on the list but still there

Spell check. I didn’t put one in. And yes I didn't know if possibly weren’t accepted. Given the choice between both degrees I would think Cornell carries a bit more weight.

Academic’s??

Money.

Seemed to work pretty good for them Thursday night

It’s obvious that they are trying to get everyone to wrestle like they are in T-shirts

I tried to explain, guess I didn’t do an adequate job.

This happens more than you probably think. A coach usually will go with the wrestler that gives the team the best shot at winning. That doesn’t always equate to who wins in your room. I know it sounds odd but when you wrestle guys for hours a day, every day, you get very familiar with each other and matches can become very tight. Wrestlers evolve and learn to shut down each other’s move and the game continues each evolving learning to overcome counters to counters and so on. Not to mention some guys just got your number and sometimes they are in the same room but overall maybe the style, competitiveness, gas tank, etc… of the guy who loses in wrestle offs will translate into more wins in regular competition. Doesn’t me this is right, wrong, or anything else, just that it is and should be the coaches decision of what is best.

Two years away so it’s almost impossible to say, but if he stays at 197 Rocky’s senior year will be Sinclair’s true freshmen year.

Nice pick up. #5 overall junior.