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That’s an oversimplification IMO, as it will also be impacted by the strategy you employ earlier in the match, and not all 2OT matches will have 0-0 first periods, so I still think it’s better than winning by 1 second of RT. I’m open to other ideas. Maybe shorten the UTB to 20 seconds so an escape is more difficult? Keep alternating sets of 2 30 second periods until 1 person actually has a higher score?

Lol I am by no means a PSU fan and like I said this call was “trash,” and I usually try to defend the refs. A youth referee may get rattled by being yelled at, but D1 refs won’t. Again, I wouldn’t necessarily say that Cael is “getting” calls, it’s that other coaches may be “losing” them by acting like idiots. Although Ryan usually isn’t too bad so I don’t think that applies in this instance.

I had to google what this means, but I disagree

Anyone else think this needs to be changed? Winning on 1 second of riding time seems silly to me, I’d much rather see the high school version of the ultimate tiebreaker with just 1 30 second period. I’d also entertain an unlimited time on your feet or something but Michael DeAugustino, Will Lewan, and 30% of heavyweight matches would never end.

I usually like Tim Johnson, but he was pretty horrible with the name pronunciations

All glory to God. Hopefully he doesn’t transfer to PSU

I don’t think his wrestling accomplishments have anything to do with it. Does John Smith get a lot of trash calls too? I wouldn’t say Cael being relatively quiet on the bench necessarily helps him, but I could understand if acting like an idiot like guys like Brands, Manning and Bono do might make refs NOT want to give them 50/50 calls. Can you provide some examples of other “trash” calls? A couple that come to mind for me are Hidlay/Nolf and Max Dean the year he won. But those are things you can probably count on one hand over a period of like 5 years.

Thinking he has both weight cut issues and not the frame for 141 seems a bit contradictory IMO

I wouldn’t say they get a lot of “trash” calls, although I’d put this one in that category. I’d agree they do seem to get a lot of calls that could go either way that end up going their way though. The interesting part to me about that is that Cael rarely even argues. Maybe some of the other coaches should take note…

Especially with Angel as the assistant I thought for sure it would get overturned. He usually likes to make his presence known. At the latest (probably earlier), it’s a TD when Davis goes into the bridge. TV clock was still showing 2 seconds at that point, there’s really no argument for it not to be a TD unless the match clock was more than 2 seconds off, and even that is a weak argument.

Official PSU wrestling x/twitter account just trolling us all…

I thought his style wouldn’t translate to top tier D1 wrestling. But I was wrong. Yeah he’s taken some losses this year particularly early in the season, but he looked really good against Nagao. He also appears to be a great teammate, for example he’s often the first guy congratulating other guys after a win. Not sure what happened with the handshake snub from the PSU bench. I’m gonna guess they weren’t looking or something but I laughed.

That’s why I said I can understand not calling it in real time. But with instant replay and 2 refs, there is no excuse for not calling that a TD. It wasn’t a danger takedown, it was a regular takedown, and probably nearfall.

Not really. I can understand not calling it in real time. But there’s no way that shouldn’t have been overturned on replay.

I enjoyed the Braeden Davis is legitimately undefeated era

5% may be generous, but with O’Toole being taken to the brink by Hall, Carr losing to Ramirez, and Mesenbrink being a freshman, I think it’s at least 2 or 3%.

I think everyone gets this. “Sub 50%” would still make him the biggest favorite, even if it’s something like O’Toole 45% Carr 30% Mesenbrink 20% The field 5%

After pinning Latona and leading against Vito, he doesn’t seem like much of a dark horse, especially with 133 being fairly shallow after the top few guys IMO.

I don’t remember exactly either but I’d agree. Dake/Taylor seemed to be more hyped than Dean/Nickal, but that may have been in part because Dean was expected to win. Nickal was just a sophomore with no titles yet. O’Toole going for his 4th vs Starocci going for his 5th would absolutely be the most anticipated NCAA match of all-time, easily.

He did not look gassed against Mauller. He did look gassed against Brignola

Ah whoops, yeah meant to include them on initial list

Cannon not really relevant this year. Minnesota looks like the answer to me with some of the additional guys @MNRodent listed

If PSU can’t count their own transfers (Nagao, Mesenbrink, Truax, Kerk), a transfer team would win 125: Ramos/Noto 133: Nagao 141: Woods 149: Gomez 157: Franek/Blockhus 165: Mesenbrink/Caliendo/Olejnik 174: Griffith 184: Truax 197: Beard/Buchanan 285: Kerk

Does Echemendia count?