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Yes I was agreeing with your overall point that it seems Iowa fans shouldn’t expect any bonus from Franek at NCAA’s. But would’ve thought he could’ve had a couple already

None against a D1 opponent this year. Last year he did.

He had several bonus victories last season. But looks like probably only one against someone that qualified for NCAA’s. I was mostly just shocked he had a close match even with someone that Lewan teched, as Lewan has mostly close matches too.

https://hawkeyesports.com/news/2023/12/08/hawkeyes-cruise-past-columbia-38-3/ I like how BTN has been doing the “highlight” videos this year by mostly showing scoring sequences (as opposed to last year they would just pick the 4 or 5 best matches and show their entirety). Ayala looked pretty good teching Babin. Franek continues to have relatively close wins over guys that other people have bonused. The Columbia guy was actually teched by low scoring Will Lewan. Franek does not yet have a bonus victory this season over a D1 opponent. Highlight for Iowa was probably Schriever with a SV win over Angelo Rini. 133 starter probably not yet decided. Schriever did also confirm he had been suspended for gambling.

He didn’t look that aggressive to me…

2 stall calls on Rogers in the final 15 seconds to give Plott the major

Spratley 4-2 over Stanich. 1st period TD/escape then traded escapes in the 2nd and 3rd

Announcers say no Fix

Just realized Intermat put Olejnik at #2. Seems a bit inconsistent with not putting Crookham at 1 or 2 after he beat Vito

That’s why I said depends on your definition of “wrong.” Maybe not “wrong,” but hypocritical if he got mad at Willie for criticizing a team but then does it himself

Depends on your definition of “wrong” I guess. It’s a little ironic since apparently Willie got in trouble for saying “what’s going on in Columbus” and supposedly CP was mad because they didn’t want the coaches to be mad at them and give them less access. Which may be the reason why some on x/twitter thought his response to Borrelli meant he didn’t care about American…

Clarion. Well “I” didn’t lol, I wasn’t a starter

This was ~15 years ago, but I wrestled for a D3 team that was usually ranked in the teens and we beat a bottom rung D1 school one year.

Is that much of an upset? They’ve already lost to Duke, VMI, Buffalo and Gardner Webb this year.

To be fair the 2 Ferraris + Kueter are looking pretty likely at this point. One of Kueter’s football coaches basically said he’s expecting to start at heavyweight. But I’d agree AJ is likely the only one bringing a significant # of points. I’m not too concerned with him making 197 though, but not sure where he stacks up in the current 197 field. Still, those moves + a Brooks or Starocci injury (and definitely not wishing injury on anyone) does make it a conversation I’d think. Are you factoring any points for Iowa at 174? And even if the Ferraris and Kueter don’t meet the point totals you listed, there are other potential albeit maybe not likely scenarios such as Franek or Ayala winning it all.

He did nothing wrong when?

I’m sure it is, I’m just not sure it will work. I think guys will either risk further injury when they otherwise wouldn’t, and coaches will try to find the minimum amount of time that would constitute “wrestling occurring.”

IIRC but could be wrong, I don’t believe he was kicked out of Bergen Catholic, and I believe the rumor about Blair was more due to Anthony (although of course he’s in IC as well)

Bartachek writes for IAWrestle, and the other is a screenshot of AJ’s instagram

Still not sure if I like this, I feel like this will encourage guys with non-serious injuries to do some “actual wrestling” when they wouldn’t have otherwise. I didn’t think there was a problem with the 1 second injury defaults to begin with since they counted as a loss. The issue seemed to be when coaches would do it in extra matches (are any schools still even doing extra matches?) or against a teammate which they already corrected by making matches against teammates not count.

Thanks. I remember forgetting something about that. Seems kinda silly though, would 5 seconds constitute “actual wrestling”?