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In related news Boise State dropped wrestling, added baseball, dropped baseball before it even started, then added an E-Sports team.

Why do pro sports have salary caps, revenue sharing and competitive balance? If you want to be treated like a pro athlete by earning money and being able to unionize, be prepared for what comes with that.

Every recruiting site is a little different, but Schunke is in the ESPN 300 and a 4* with 7 offers according to ESPN. The elite camps this summer along with this fall season will probably determine his direction. NIL could play a factor, but he may play the long ball with his chance of bigger paydays down the road. Who is the greco coach at Sunkist?

"Previous U17, U20, U23 World Medalist (UWW)" That could end up being quite a stretch from a U17 world medalist to Olympic redshirt year. An athlete who graduates at 19... redshirt... free COVID year... 3 years of wrestling.... you end up at the end of a second Olympic cycle since you won a world medal... add in a mission and you are in the 3rd Olympic cycle from when you medaled. There will be no free year for some kids, but you still add in a late graduation at 19 or 20, church mission, gray shirt, redshirt, medical shirt, 3 years of competition and then an Olympic redshirt, you end up pretty far removed from that U17 medal.

"non-big" schools are having to get creative in staying competitive. Obviously they have to be good at developing the talent they bring in as recruits. They have to find those non-starters on bigger teams that can come in and start and be developed as well. They also have to figure out how to bring in a grad guy who can improve your team (i.e. a returning NQ) that isn't going to cost a lot of money. It's definitely a lot harder work for 90% of the teams to stay in the picture than it is for the top 10% teams.

Good little wrestler.... was he hurt this past season? Kind of lanky kid...is he projected at 125 or 133?

I'm not sure, but it would make sense that a qualification from a previous olympic cycle would not be used. If a wrestler won an event prior to the last Olympics to qualify them, but did not win that same event or maybe did not place at the same event, then I don't think they should qualify for the current olympic cycle. That makes sense to me, but I am not sure that's accurate in reality.

At "top schools" yes - At other schools, no. A known struggle for many sports programs has and will be larger donors redirecting funds to NIL rather to the program in general. It will also be interesting to see how the tax aspect will play a part in how a donor will donate.

I would be curious to see the numbers of guys per program that have an NIL that covers the amount of a full-ride scholarship (and above). I doubt this information is accessible, but it would provide a number of "extra scholarships" per team as a result of NIL.

Still important to mid-lower level teams, but not as important to programs with a lot of money to hand out in NIL.

He was bumped up to 152 but a majority of his matches for HS were 138 and a few at 145. He just wrestled at 63kg. Seems he will be a 141/149.

90% would say yes... because the kids they have developed are getting plucked away by bigger schools. 10% will say no... because they are the teams plucking the talent away from the smaller schools to fill out their roster. Whatever the case, there aren't too many people arguing against some way to regulate NIL in all college sports. What that looks like is the tough part. Of course, teams with big money are fine with it because they can make their teams stronger by filling roster holes with kids from mid and lower level teams. It's happening in all sports... Men's basketball has seen a lot of guys moving around as well.

Northern Colorado quietly putting together a decent roster.

Nice get for ASU. They have a lot of depth from 133-157 and very thin after that. Didn't Negron have one more year left?

How od you know it's old people who don't like it....I'm old... just leave me alone and let me watch my informercials and Matlock.

He's staying at OSU.

Oregon State Beavers coming in at #15! That's the highest rank we have had in a while... several top 100 guys on there and a few fly under the radar types.

I think it's cool Willie promotes his own stuff on the very forum that he saved from the trash heap at themat.com so we all could have a place to continue to discuss and banter. I'm guessing about 99% of us are okay with it.

One of his 6 years was a redshirt. He was finished in 2019 before COVID so that does not factor in. It does show 5 years of wrestling though. The only thing I can think of is that maybe he got a medical year it's not showing. Liberty is a D1 school, but wrestling was downgraded to club status in 2011 or 2012. So I am not sure if there are stipulations with the school being D1 but the program being club NWCA. Also, I am not sure if 2015 rules were different than today. https://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/40240/diehl-ryan/profile

Thanks for the update... that's interesting. NCSA is usually pretty good with info. I had no clue some of those schools had wrestling. Some only have a handful on their roster. Well... 8 it is for Kansas.

I think those are member colleges. I believe 4 have wrestling programs https://www.ncsasports.org/mens-wrestling/junior-colleges

Don’t forget an oly redshirt….

I am with you man.... As another mid-tier team fan, it sucks.

My daughter ran track for the first time this year. I gave her the best coaching advice.... run faster. The most important ability for a wrestler is to wrestle really, really good.

Good point... I was looking at the other side of the spectrum at JC schools. I was surprised that Iowa had more JC schools with wrestling than any other state. Iowa has 6, Minnesota 5 and Kansas 4. This is outside of California of course, which has there own system of JC schools. Way more opportunities for kids in those states to wrestle and for D1 talent that needs a year to get grades and scores up in order to transfer (along with a myriad of other reasons).