PacMan

Heard he was having internal medical issues this season. Hoping the guy gets healthy and can contribute regardless of weight class. Although if he stays at Stanford, not sure he can move up with Knox right there at 133.

Nothing would surprise me anymore when it comes to 20 year olds and large bags of money, but I think this is a stretch. Hope I'm right.

The very young but dangerous Stanford: 125: Nico Provo 133: Tyler Knox 141: Aden Valencia/ Jack Consiglio 149: Aden Valencia/EJ Parco 157: Dan Cardenas 165: Hunter Garvin 174: Lorenzo Norman 184: Tye Monteiro/Luke Duthie 197: Brokton Borrelli/Brook Byers 285: Angelo Posada

He already redshirted. But it remains a mystery why he hasn't wrestled this season and now looks to be missing Vegas as well.

My guess is that they will RS a few of their hammers. Loading up for podium runs in 2025-26 and beyond.

So two incoming heavyweights that are going to duke it out for 4-5 years? Man, the rich get richer. (Unless one of them could actually cut to 197?)

I did not wade through the 10 pages here so apologies if this was covered, but do we know if he'd be academically admissible at a Princetion/Stanford type of school? Guess those would be the next to be eliminated if he isn't....

Stanford has two returning AA's, and a wealth of young guns. Feels like a top 12 team.

Assuming he'll start and not RS, I'll go with Aden Valencia at Stanford.

Valencia is indeed ready to roll out of the gate, but I do agree that he's a 149 pounder, and Abas is likely coming back for another year. RS feels inevitable, but we've seen stranger things. A lot of these freshman hammers coming in for Stanford (Consiglio, Mara, Parco, Guffey, Cholakyan, Han Lindemeyer) I have to think will RS.

Duke and Bakersfield seem to be extremely vulnerable due to indifferent administrations.

Totally hear what you're saying, but not sure I'd judge a coach solely on his worst wrestler ever. Seems to me he still has quite a few redeeming qualities. But yes, maybe it wouldn't take as much money as I'd thought.

What about throwing a bag of money at Nickerson, get him closer to home?

This is a pretty solid lineup. Would be nice if Stanford could pick up a 197/HWT in the portal, esp. if Stemmet is done. They've recovered awfully well for having missed a year of recruiting when the program was tentatively dropped a few years back.

Does Teemer really still have another year left? Holy smokes.