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By my count MSU had 5 qualifiers last year. The aforementioned Lujan, Malczewski who graduated, Fish/Saldate who transferred out, and Jordan Hamdan. Hamdan had one more year of eligibility but was there for 5 years so guessing he graduated and moved on

Looks like they also didn’t use Tristan Lujan at 133 who was a NQ at 125 last year, although he already has some bad losses, including 14-1 to a guy he beat last year. But he actually lost to Davis twice by decision last season

Is Henson injured?

Well he also claimed on that episode that his podcast was the “#1 podcast in combat sports”… On that note, I’ve tried to watch his podcast a few times and he’s pretty boring. This one even had the always entertaining Chael Sonnen on and I still couldn’t watch until the end

Where did he say this?

FWIW, Minnow appears to be doubling down (as opposed to deleting the tweet like would usually happen).

He does live in the Lehigh Valley though so I probably would have given him better odds than usual at being accurate with this

Yeah I think they’d have a pretty good shot at 3 AA’s. Ohio State could have an outside shot at 3 AA’s with Welsh and maybe 2 out of Davino, Cannon, Kilkeary, Hepner, Geog/Shumate Iowa could do decent in a tournament format if Ferrari + Brands or Kennedy place high, but that’s probably about it except for maybe a point or 2 from Rathjen OK State: potential shot at 2 AA’s out of Merrill, Doucet, Hughes, Thompson

And if the rumor of Bastida getting a medical year is true, maybe Carroll goes on the move again?

Jantzen was one of the other guys on the ASU team I believe I think IMDb might have the wrong Shane Sparks credited… https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1468535/?ref_=m_ttfcd_cl19

Yeah but would he be favored against Hamiti?

Agree, that would be my thought. Although it’s weird OP said he “finally” cracked a lineup but this is his first actual year of attached competition. Although wasn’t there talk Bastida could be out for the year? If so, any chance Carroll bumps up?

Maybe a little picky, but this was probably a fair review. Good, but not great. However for me that might still put it as my second favorite wrestling movie, far behind Win/Win but ahead of Foxcatcher and Vision Quest IMO. The wrestling scenes were OK. They did do a bunch of weird zooming into their hands and stuff. Maybe it was because they used Robles for some of the wrestling scenes, but I thought the guy that played him may have been the best non-wrestler that I’ve seen in a movie. There was a Q&A after it was over and he said he trained five days a week two hours a day for seven months with Robles. I know they said some actual D1 wrestlers were used as extras, but I didn’t recognize any. I don’t really recall Charles, so I don’t know how accurately Cheadle portrayed him. My biggest complaint was the guy that played Tom Brands. I know Brands is one of a kind lol, but that guy wasn’t even close to an accurate portrayal. Yes it was similar to a lot of cliche sports movies, but at least it was mostly a true story. I am also not super familiar with the specifics so not quite sure what was changed. I honestly didn’t remember that they announced ASU as being cut. Although the movie makes it seem like that caused the team to miss a season when I don’t believe it did. They also ripped off a scene from Rudy which if I had to guess didn’t actually happen (and IIRC didn’t even really happen in Rudy). Overall definitely worth the free tickets though! My wife even said she liked it even though she says she “doesn’t like JLo.” They even gave out free popcorn and drinks, might have to check out more of these Amazon screenings…

Made it to one by me, starts in 10 mins. Theater is about half full

Cool story, but to be fair the guy from Bucknell (Hartman) he beat as a senior AA’d the prior year. At first I thought maybe you were referencing the infamous Todrank (Buffalo) match, but looks like that was in February

That result was from the Olympic Trials

Interesting that Nelson wouldn’t be an “or”

@Wrestleknownothing I saw you post the chart of odds to AA by seed on BWI or whatever they’re calling it these days. So the 31 seed has better odds to AA than the 18 seed?

Correct. The cut 220 pounder can often beat the fat 285 pounder. I would bet that even if 197 was increased to 210-220 that you would still see a lot of guys wrestling heavyweight weighing 220-230. Because heavyweight is easier.

They usually don’t though. Weren’t you just suggesting to change 184/197 to 190/213? I’m on board with that. But we don’t need 197 + another weight before heavyweight. The competition would be extremely watered down

There probably isn’t, but even though most 275+ pound guys could stand to lose a few pounds, we shouldn’t be encouraging weight cutting. If guys are concerned about people leaving the sport, lowering 285 would probably cause people to leave the sport. And considering most of the recent heavyweight champs are in the 250ish range, they don’t seem to mind having to beat up on a few fat dudes to do it.

I don’t really agree with lowering 285, but am good with the others

Evidence of what? Cassioppi was a 3x AA in 3 NCAA tournaments at heavyweight and lost in the first round of the trials against someone that hadn’t even won a college match at that point and is currently 5-5 at 197 this season. If anything he helps prove how much easier heavyweight is than 197.

So between this and your Jacob Warner comment, your entire argument is that if there was also a ~220 class, some guys might place a couple spots higher. Oh and btw Rowlands weighed 220 (source -

Yes they are