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Cassidy (149) lost Fernandez 10-6 in the finals of the Patriot Open.

Cornella 141 undefeated as well i believe

They just need someone from NJ to transfer in and go 149 and they’ll get an AA haha. Thinking of Kinner and Alvarez

Agreed. I was thinking andre gonzalez too.

Just a list as I pick them. Anyone is free to put their thoughts here. First pick: Sam Ewing (Buffalo). Donny Vinson has a good track record getting 149 pounders to qualify. Ewing also showing rapid improvement. Heard it here first.

Probably accurate. 149 is his ideal weight. Wonder if anyone is considering Joy for 157 in a scenario where Meyer doesn’t go. Would be a much more natural weight for him, and may be inevitable if sustaining 149 is too much over the course of 4-5 months (he’s taller than Foca!). His scenario reminds a bit of Ty Watters 2 seasons ago. Clearly had a mission to be a monster 149 and AA before filling out to a more natural weight. I bet Grey sees Joy as a being in a similar boat.

Not sure if they have the depth at every weight to make that match up interesting at this point. They do have decent depth from 125- 149 though, which is fitting for a top 10 type of team. Without ivy transfer rules being what they are, we’d likely see the transfer portal fill up with some of that depth, which is what happens in other conferences.

*Van Ness has 2 notable wins (Watters and Fedalen)

Now that would be something! Talk about the moral that would bring Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Would be cool to see Babin and the Santaniello bros start the first 3 weights being they’re all from NJ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You make good points there. Although I think Wasilewski was at penn already just in the RTC program. Either way still a loss to a much younger opponent, albeit a tough one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Been thinking about this predicament for the past couple seasons. Hard to imagine a wrestler like Saunders not starting in college. Especially now that he’s made a world team and shown he can beat AA/NQ types (albeit in FS). His performance in the dual against Jack who AA’d only a few weeks later is only evidence I can think of right now that he can do it in folk. On the other hand, without the ability to take a RS or wrestle as a grad, it’s even harder to see Cornella on the bench in his JR season. Especially if he comes back healthy enough to still be an AA threat. So I think Vince gets the nod even if he loses a wrestle-off… as you mentioned, he beat Fernandez in OT during an early season open but didn’t start, likely due to whatever the room dynamic was and Grey’s sense that Fernandez would be better against common opponents. UNLESS Cornella is too far from 100% yet AND Saunders proves himself to be the better option against other competition; a tall task considering how proven Cornella is against this 141 field. Fernandez has also grown into the weight at 149 after making the jump from 133. So size may be a factor in an attempt to unseat Fernandez, and even more so if he first tries to take the spot at 141, which makes sense after getting used to being down at 65 kg. Also interesting in the sense that it’s probably not an outcome Big Red fans were expecting, is how similar the resumes are becoming between Cornella and Fernandez, who wasn’t nearly the recruit Cornella was coming out of HS. I think he just made the big board at #296 while Cornella was top 100 maybe even top 50. Both became EIWA champs with almost identical win/loss records after 2 seasons and very similar NCAA tournament runs (defeated qualifers from the MAC, lost to high AA’s, and lost winnable matches to Swiderski). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk