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This is some of Jimmy’s best work tbh.

While I agree that MM melts people with his pace if you go and watch the match they were in a wrestling position and then Hamiti turned the wrong way (was cruising and taking it to MM up to this point) and it seemed like something was just off after that.

I think Hamiti is in this tier. People forget that Hamiti was undefeated going into Big 10’s last year and was winning against Mesenbrink before it looked like something happened in the match and he proceeded to lose 13-11.

Levi is back next year and will hold down 174 presumably. Ryder is not small at 79kg and could surely grow to be a good sized 184 pounder. Ryder has performed better in age level tournaments than Mirasola has.

KOT gets the win. Very evenly matched.

Perhaps Ryder/Barr will be a better option than Barr/Mirasola.

For the past 20 years who are the best wrestlers to never win a title? Fix and Gilman come to mind.

Noto needs to head down to 125

Agreed. Not sure what the deal was there.

He is a space mountain nominee. He beats Berge (SDSU starter) and then loses to Fettig (SDSU backup) who is not even close to Berge.

Kind of a weird trajectory for Sealy. I wonder why he has not wrestled at all this year?

Strawman argument. Not one person said they would take Ferrari over CS.

I’d go for that

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%.