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That is a good question. If we are all about our wrestlers growing and not pulling a ton of weight then having college weight classes slightly below international standards would be the way to go. Where we are getting into some strange scenarios is that we have 24/25 year old athletes in college right now.

For one, as stated, I don't think that college wrestling needs three weight classes above 200lbs. The upper weights in high school are generally the weakest and least filled weight classes.

I am just not convinced wrestling the college season at 143 vs 141/149 would have this astronomical advantage that you all are saying it would. Zain grew into a nice sized 70kg wrestler (154lb). As he matured, 143lbs just was not the right size for him. James Green walked around at 160 (according to nhs) so he was too small to be a true 74kg (163 lbs) and too big to be a 65kg (143lbs) based on how lean he was. We have had great success at 97kg without have a college weight class at 214lbs. Your doctrine is being developed based on a few tweeners for weight classes. Wrestling the college season at 141 should allow for a young man that is maturing to grow into 143 lbs for senior level competition. I also admit that I would have no problem with aligning the weight classes for NCAA to fit the international standards better but it is true that there are more wrestlers in those middle weights than the upper weights. I do not think that college wrestling needs three weight classes above 200lbs.

That is a possibility. Could also just be that 65kg is one of the deepest weight classes internationally and we have not had a guy break through. I thought I read that Yianna walked around at 165-170 so the pull to 143 was probably tough. He may have just outgrown that weight class like Zain. Do you think that if the college weight was 143/144 and then the next weight was like 154 that Yianni and Zain would have not had the same issues that they had?

What if we left the first 7 weight classes alone and then adjusted 184 to 190 and 197 to 214. That matches up with 86kg and 97kg and doesn't mess with the lower weights where there are more participants. 125 133 141 149 157 165 174 190 214 285

Carter will be the bigger wrestler. I think Angelo was 165 for Ironman last year and then finished the year as a 175 pound state champ. Carter finished the year as a 174 pound national champ.

The fact that they sent Ferrari out in a must win match in a tight dual tells me that he is the better wrestler. They say that he holds his own against Buchanan in the room.

So SDSU. Train with Berge

Just looking through those matchups on wrestlestat all of those duals would be super close, especially without Teemer. The UNI dual has some interesting predictions.

I think the rumor is that he wanted to go at 174 this year

OKSt, VT, Rutgers have seniors at 174.

A gigantic youth soccer tournament can break a city. Does that mean that youth soccer has more "fans" than the English Premiere League? If you go to an EPL soccer game, there might be 500 people out of the 100,000 that are at the event that are friends / family of the athletes competing. If you go to a youth soccer tournament the family / friends percentage probably eclipses 95%.

What event are you referencing that broke a city?

I think he is saying that college wrestling has more USA domestic wrestling fans than FS/GR.

It should be a great match. With O'Toole's crackdown position and scrambling/leg pass ability, this could look like an entirely different match than a freestyle match.

125 - Sprately tech Peterson (5-0 OSU) 133- Ayala mdec Witcraft (5-4 OSU) 141- Jamison dec Block (8-4 OSU) 149- Parco dec Young (8-7 OSU) 157- Teemer dec Fish (10-8 Iowa) 165- Caliendo dec Amine (13-8 Iowa) 174- Hamiti dec Kennedy (13-11 Iowa) 184- Ferrari dec Plott (16-11 Iowa) 197- Buchanan dec Surber (19-11 Iowa) HWT- Hendrickson dec Kueter (19-14 Iowa)

I’ll give a shout out to Drake Rhodes.

Eli Griffin (Cal Baptist) Dec Jordan Titus (WVU) 5-0

Now Mineo is saying that it’s rumored Rocky Elam may join Surtin and medically retire from the sport.

Actually the rule is addressed in a way that a headgear tossed toward a coaches bench, tossed to a coach or toward the edge of the mat is not a penalty.

Catka brothers went to different schools and wrestled each other. Hunter to VT and Ryan to Virginia. The Stout brothers went to different schools. Mac to Pitt, Luke to Princeton. They are in the same weight class but have not wrestled to my knowledge. The Gioffre family has two kids at Virginia (Jack and Michael) and one at Mizzou by way of Cal Poly (Logan). Jack and Logan compete in the same weight class but have not wrestled.

I imagine that Paddy is better than Sasso at this point in time and Sasso is at 165 to make the lineup.

I think OKST floor guys should also include Surber and Fish. Surber looks tough so far this year but he has three NCAA wins in three trips. I am going to need to see it before I lock him in as a R12/AA type. Fish had nice wins over Paniro and Saldate but has losses to Chumbley, Brock Herman and Johnny Lovett on the year. For Reece, I am going to need to see some more consistent wins to but him in the R12 conversation. I am interesting to see how it plays out with him and Hughes. Is the cut just too much for Hughes? The other factor to consider is that Jamison fell off a cliff trying to hold 141 for an entire season last year. He had great wins to start the year last year and then was about .500 to finish the season including 0-2 at NCAA's. On the flip side, it is possible that Hamiti is a true title threat. Carter Young has looked better with each outing so perhaps he keeps improving. If Cael Hughes can figure out his weight cut or whatever issues he is dealing with the point potential of 133 goes up significantly in my opinion.

Duke did not look like an overly big 70kg guy. I think he’s a 157 pounder now that will grow into 165. So he would have to contend with Kasak for the spot as of now. I think he could give Kasak a run for his money right now. I don’t see a guy like Duke wanting to sit two years to wrestle but maybe he will.

Gotta imagine Duke is ready to go win a title right now. Hard to shelf a guy like that for two years.