The team that isn’t paying out the most money (probably second though).
There has always been not a lot of parity in D1 wrestling. I truly don’t think NIL (and the portal) has made it any worse. If anything it’s helped as @Wrestleknownothing graph shows IMO.
AA’s that transferred from better teams to “worse” ones, and I may be missing some:
Ramos
Poulin
McGonagle went to a “better” team but transferred because he couldn’t beat Crookham
Alvarez
Barraclaugh
Ferrari (I guess he counts)
Cardenas (yeah I said it @nhs67 )
Trephan
And that’s not counting guys who didn’t AA this year but have in the past like Beard and Noto
That’s quite a few Rider guys, although mostly Graduates. Dean, Szuba and Washleski have all been NQ’s.
Will be interesting to see how David Evans from PSU does. He’s had some good wins in his career, but had zero matches this year.
Probably true. And good for Cardenas. He may be the first Michigan grad transfer to not be enrolled in a masters of Social Work or getting a Real Estate development certificate. Heindselman went from a biology undergrad to a Social Work masters, very diverse fields!
Cormier and Chael talked about the finals on their show yesterday:
But apparently the channel also put out a bunch of videos leading up to NCAA’s. I thought they were well done. The Penn State one features Shane Sparks talking maybe the most calm I’ve ever heard him
The only one I can think of off the top of my head was when he thought he beat Nick Lee but then they changed the result after the match was over (and people want to change college to freestyle…), I think it was 10-10 but don’t remember the specifics of the match