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125 - Sprately dec Terk 3-0 133- Fix mdec Frost 7-0 141- Ech dec Jamison 7-3 149- Swiderski dec Alvarez 7-6 157- Chittum dec Travis 9-7 165- Carr dec Olejnik 10-9 174- Thompson dec Gaitan 13-9 184- Plott dec Feldkamp 17-9 197- Surber mdec Broderson 21-9 HWT- Bastida dec Doucet 21-12

I have not seen the Intermat streaming guide for this week come out yet. Here is what I have from the platforms that I subscribe to. All in CST. Friday 1/26 Michigan at Ohio State 6pm BTN NC State at Pitt 6pm ACCN Ohio at Cleveland State 6pm Flowrestling Air Force at SDSU 6pm Flowrestling Columbia vs Princeton 6pm ESPN+ Lock Haven vs Rider 6pm ESPN+ Virginia vs Duke 6pm ACCN+ UNC vs Virginia Tech 6pm ACCN+ Wyoming vs Northern Colorado 7pm Flowrestling Mizz vs West Virginia 7pm ESPN+ ISU vs OU 7pm ESPN+ UNO vs OK State 7pm ESPN+ Iowa at Illinois 8pm BTN Saturday 1/27 Harvard by Cornell 11am ESPN+ Brown vs Cornell 1pm ESPN+ Harvard vs Binghamton 430pm ESPN+ ISU vs OK State 6pm ESPN+ Brown bs Binghamton 630pm ESPN+ UNI vs OU 7 pm ESPN+ Sunday 1/28 Penn Stat at Maryland 11am BTN Bucknell vs Drexel 12pm Flowrestling Clarion vs Edinboro 12pm Flowrestling Columbia vs Penn 12pm ESPN+ Nebraska at Wisconsin 1pm BTN Arkansas Little Rock at Stanford 5 pm PAC12 Network

It’s a different level of commitment and competition in the practice room also at D2-D3-NAIA. I’m sure if you took those top guys and stuck them in a room with the same level of athletes you find at a D1 institute the D2-D3-NAIA top level guys would get a lot better. Iron sharpens iron.

We all expected for Levi to make the Penn State leap in year two. The facts of reality are that he is still a VERY good wrestler.. he is just pretty much the same guy that he was last year. Whether its the weight cut or injury that has stopped him from making the leap is unknown to me but we typically expect PSU guys to go from being very good to separating themselves from the pack. Last year he lost to Zerban in OT and then wrestled OT or 1 point matches with Lewan, Robb, Seibricht, Kendal Coleman & Barraclough.

Idk man. He lost to Swenson last year and conveniently misses the dual this year…

Well he also lost to Marcus Colman. Beat Coleman and he is the 1 seed.

I still think the comp is Metcalf. Straight forward, in your face, great hand fight and never even considers taking a step backward

He didn’t want to lose to Swenson again

If Dake only took losses in his true freshman season he would have a bigger argument. Since two of his losses came after his freshman year, Cael is the obvious pick.

All the matches in the Randy Lewis vs John Smith series from the 1988 olympic trials and qualifiers.

Wow, 9 pm start time is confirmed! Maybe I am just forgetting but I cannot remember a dual starting that late...

Are they doing a delayed viewing of the Minnesota Nebraska dual or something? No way, it actually starts at 9 CST...

Yeah I see a lot of the stalemate positions being called as positions where one wrestler is in a clear advantage position and the other wrestler is just holding on to force a stalemate and get a fresh start. I think we could do away with 90% of stalemate calls in matches.

Honest question: would it be better if there were no stalemates whatsoever?

I would say that Iowa is the 2nd best team right now. I do not see Ohio State in the mix for 2nd with the other teams that you listed unless something drastic changes. They just do not have the horses to rise up and challege for 2nd without Sasso, Kharchala being hurt and their young guys (outside of Mendez) stagnating. I do think that Michigan and OK State should be mentioned.

I have always appreciated McKee's grit and toughness. I also find his mat wrestling fun to watch. His bottom arsenal is mostly switches and rolls.. which you do not see a lot of today. His bottom game is akin to how heavyweights wrestle so it is cool to see a 125lber using similar techniques with great success. Shows how wrestling is such a diverse sport and individuals can have success with a variety of techniques.

I forgot 197, yes that is a toss-up also. 125 the gap could be widening but it is definitely still a toss-up when Drake is 1-5 against McKee.

125, 133, 149 and HWT are toss-ups in my opinion.

125 - Ayala #5 vs McKee #18 133- Teske #7 vs Wells #29 141- Woods #1 vs Vombaur #19 149- Rathjen #12 vs Roberts #13 157- Franek #2 vs Blockhus #11 165- Caliendo #7 vs Brenner #30 174- Kennedy vs Sparks #33 184- Riggins vs Salazar #10 197- Glazier #16 vs Joles #34 HWT- Hill vs Tabor #29

I’ll take ‘88 John Smith

Cam Amine beat Alex Marinelli, who beat Vincenzo Joseph, who beat Isaiah Martinez, who beat Jason Nolf, who beat Georgios Kougioumtsidis, who beat Kadimagomedov, who beat Kyle Dake, who beat Jordan Burroughs... Therefore Cam Amine USA GOAT.

Down goes Olejnik

There were a lot of good scrambles in that match. Jamison could get to the leg at will.

Surprised to see Doucet beating Pitzer.

Give Carlson some time. He was our first semester with an injury and is not back in shape yet. He wins a lot of matches by grinding down his opponents. He will be in the mix come conference tourney time.