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Curious to know how others think Endene will do at heavyweight this next college wrestling season? The move to heavyweight at Little Rock makes sense with Stephen Little at 197 and as a training partner. Also, I know Endene has competed in freestyle at 97kg and won Pan Ams and was a U23 world team member. I suspect he plans to compete in freestyle at 97kg post college, which makes the move to heavyweight a good plan for the future. Also, heavyweight seems to have cleared out quite a bit with graduations.

Curious to know what Sammy Sasso’s freestyle aspirations are as a current RTC athlete at Rutgers? Does this mean Sammy will be coaching at Rutgers in the near future as well? Any insider info?

It seems most wrestling fans and sports fans as a whole are most interested and excited in high stakes and built up events like NCAA D1 wrestling championships, with the tournament being only once a year and the typical four years of eligibility only to compete. Also, the Olympics occurring only once every four years. On the other hand there are the many one off, low stakes matches that RAF has been doing. I want to but just can’t seem to get excited about some of these low stakes, one off matches in RAF Do others feel the same?

I will start with Jesse Mendez as a future bantamweight (135) UFC champion

This is the rumor at the moment. The timing makes sense as Yianni might have had a career ending injury recently and Iowa seems like they need at least some change in their coaching staff. Any truth to Yianni coaching at Iowa?

What teams did NOT have at least one qualifier to NCAAs this year? Long Island University is one. Others?