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There are 100% children that are undergoing sex change operations. What those operations are is castration, either physical or chemical.

All states takes great pride in their colleges and like to see their college athletic teams succeed. I would doubt we see states lining up to start investigating students betting but rather use Iowa as a cautionary tale to look the other way. Furthermore, there are now lawyers on the defensive side that are saying what the state of Iowa did as far as geo-tracking the betting and such was not legal or constitutional. Should be interesting to see how it all plays out. An overzealous prosecutor might have gotten out a bit over his skis on the whole matter.

So, Ban, do you honestly think that as a society, we should allow children to be castrated?

I listed Trephan in the original group but stands to reason that Boone McDermott is not a threat to AA was the whole point. Unless of course he makes a huge offseason jump

Perhaps the difference in build has something to do with the fact that Dake wrestles 74kg and Snyder wrestles 97kg?? I knows it’s an out there thought but just throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks…

Would you be pretty surprised if those last 3 AA spots were not filled by Elam, Slav, Feldman, Carrol, Kueter, Trephan, Bastida, Pitzer ?

Not sure if this has already been mentioned but Braxton Amos is taking an Olympic Redshirt.

If you do not think it is wrong to permanently change a young child's gender than you are part of the problem. A child cannot vote or drink alcohol, etc because they are not mental and physically developed enough but they can hack off their body parts? The people pushing this agenda want our young people to hate themselves and want to change themselves. God made each person unique just the way that they are and loves them just the way that they are.

On the flip side Cleveland Belton has shown that he has the ability to beat AA level wrestlers such as Parker Fillius (7th) and Malyke Hines (R12). If he can get more consistent he could make the jump to an AA threat.

McDermott is not an AA threat in my estimation. He has never beaten anyone that has sniffed the podium.

Snyder does look like he needs to pack on some more muscle and get some more horsepower. That is surely something that has been lacking in his game.

Snyder is the man and seems to have 97kg locked down for the foreseeable future. Some USA guys that was had age level success are Rocky Elam (Jr Workd champ at 92kg) and Tanner Sloan (U20 and U23 silver).

Starocci would be my pick for highest level of confidence based on his dominance and the field of competition. Brooks will be a big favorite as well but there are some hammers at 197 to deal with in Sloan, Hidlay, Elam..

Or maybe Chance just has hit number. He took a match off JB when JB was the world champ.

57 - Vito 65 - Alirez 74 - Dake 86 - DT 97 - Snyder 125 - Gable

I very much believe that he is enjoying it and is looking forward to reaping the benefits of what he has built at SDSU in his time there. He spent much of his previous years in a fundraiser role trying to finance the new wrestling facility. The new facility is built (its great, by the way - one of the best college facilities in the country) and now he can get back to spending his time focusing more on wrestling and less on financing, which he has stated that he is looking forward to. I hope that he makes SDSU his home and builds his legacy there!

Hahn is going to be linked to every job opening that comes up. Stressful for us Jackrabbits.

His seeding will likely depend on the Bill Farrell and the Senior Nationals resutls.

I suppose that Lee had no part in the decision as he is a robot. I also suppose that it has nothing to do with him being injury prone from a young age and that it has to be Iowa that destroyed his body and not anything genetic..

Don't forget Andrew Alirez who just beat Aliyev 8-0 a couple months back. He will definitely be a factor.

He's a good sized 174 but 86 kg is another 15 pounds up.

Agreed 100%. Taz is already big at 97kg because of his height and weight. Looked like he has plenty of horsepower through the combo of strength and leverage. I suspect he stays at 97kg and doesn't ever look to "fill out his frame".

And did Snyder then skip 4 years of college?

Yeah I was thinking of the Dake loss more as in JB’s prime. Unless I am not recalling properly I believe that the Lewis loss for John Smith was when John was in his prime. He already had a world title when he lost to Randy I think. But you are correct that he went in to beat him best two of three to win the spot.

JB to Dake, Smith to Randy Lewis