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I gotta stand up for my guys Sloan here. He has wins over Buchanan, Cardenas, Elam, Allred, Surber, Bockman, Joles.. Put some respect on his name. Those are as quality of wins as anyone in the weight class.

8. Beat the 1 seed marinelli

The 7 seed has made the finals 12 times since 01 and has faced the #1 seed every time and lost. Thus, the 7 seed needs someone on the top side to knock off the 1 seed so they can beat a lower seed in the finals.

It must be there 12 combined losses as a team that makes you think that. Or maybe their 6 guys that are still undefeated. I want PSU to lose as bad as the next guy but we need to be realistic here. They are juggernauts.

My lowest ranked (intermat rankings) guys at each weight with a decent shot at making the finals: 125- #19 Richie Figueroa 133- #3 Daton Fix 141- #14 Cole Matthews 149- #6 Casey Swiderski 157- #15 Brayton Lee 165- #5 Mitchell Mesenbrink 174- #11 Rocco Welsh 184- #8 Bennett Berge 197- #11 Zach Glazier HWT- #6 Lucas Davison

He looked very physically strong in that match with Fishbach. He is going to be a tough out for anyone that runs into him.

My guy Cael Swensen beat him last time they wrestled. Zerban has a really nice win over Cardenas and a solid win over Saldate this year but that is pretty much it. The wrestlestat algorithm has 3 Big 12 guys in front of him: Chittum, Downey, Mauller.

Don't forget about Pinto... kids on

And hypothermia

Yes. Very similar to how David Carr and Keegan O'Toole act. All seem like fine young men with their priorities in check. Obviously they want to win wrestling matches but it is not life or death for them every time they toe the line.

South Dakota- Randy Lewis followed closely by Lincoln McIlravy

Committing somewhere and then never attending the school or wrestling for the program is definitely not loyalty and commitment to the program lol.

Sounds like a fun experience! Yes, Cook pretty much has one move - that gator bacon/elevator/cement job whatever you want to call it.

Sloan has that pancake headlock that he hit today but not a mixer that I’m aware of. Clay Carlson has a mixer that he hits a lot. Tanner Cook has the gator bacon he hits all the time.

I see Rocky Elam warming up like he will be wrestling.

Mauller gets a takedown with about 5 seconds left to beat Swenson 4-1. 10-7 Mizzou at break

They just introduced him and the backup at face offs. We will see. Hopefully!

Go Jacks! Fans are still filtering in.

On a single year basis, they have had seasons where they have been as good or better than Iowa or OK State. If you look over the last 15 years Iowa and OK State have consistently been at or near the top 5. OK State has had a couple of down years in the past 15 but has had 6 top 3 finishes. Iowa has had a about a dozen top 3 finishes. Mizzou had a third place finish in 2007.

A big part of that is the fact that Mizzou has never been at the level of Iowa or OK State.

I also cannot figure out Picko. He seems to be very athletic, stong and flexible with solid baseline positioning and technique. Then sometimes he just gets throttled by guys that are good not great. Look at his two matches to start the year against Alex Cramer as evidence. A 16-5 loss and a 7-2 win. He did start off his career as a 184 pounder and looks big at 174, so perhaps it is a tough cut and he has not figured out how to properly manage it?

If he took a head coaching job somewhere he would have access to the hammers that his brother, coach Mesenbrink and the other AWA coaches are putting out. That pipeline would certainly help out. I think he would be a successful college coach as long as he could play nice with the administration on things. As a wrestling mind, he is one of the best.

You need any help ridding the deer on that ranch?

What you are describing is part of what the Apostle Paul calls the mystery of iniquity in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. It is Satan's counterfeit religious system that takes the emphasis off of the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did and puts the emphasis on man and what man can do to curry favor with God through works of the flesh (which is a futile effort). Satan is the great deceiver and counterfeiter, so unfortunately most of Christendom at large is taking part in the mystery of iniquity without even realizing it. This is in stark contrast to what the Apostle Paul calls the mystery of godliness in 1 Tim chapter 3. The mystery of godliness is how that when believers are placed into the body of Christ upon trusting on the Lord Jesus Christ they are made godly by their spiritual union with Christ. It is all about Christ and what He did, not about us and what we did or could ever do on our own.

His duck unders are so slick. Sometimes it looks like he is slightly surprised with just how deep he is getting on his shots.