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11 weights? I’m in!

Very high chance those 7 will all be top 3 seeds. Taking a quick look at last year’s brackets, of the 30 1-3 seeds, I only see 4 that did not AA (Braeden Davis, Jackson Arrington, Julian Ramirez, and Yonger Bastida). So 87% of 1-3 seeds AA’d. There’s a small chance one of the 7 doesn’t AA, but IMO that chance is lower than 2 of the other 3 AA’ing

I use one and it’s hit or miss, but yeah that’s the most annoying thing about using an ad blocker. For this particular article and I believe NY Post most of the time it just gives me a message to say “continue without supporting us.”

Interesting development: 20 year old California man detained for allegedly plotting to commit a coordinated attack with Rupnow https://nypost.com/2024/12/19/us-news/california-man-detained-after-allegedly-plotting-coordinated-attack-with-wisconsin-school-shooter-natalie-samantha-rupnow/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Who was paying for the private schooling?

My understanding was this ruling only applies to Pavia…for now at least

Agree. Although on the subject of X and this shooting, they are blocking searches for Rupnow or Samantha Rupnow. Did the same with Colt Gray (edit: who was also initially accused of being trans only for later evidence to come out suggesting that he was actually anti-trans)

Both. They “wrestled” twice at CKLV. One 5-1 win for Schultz and one MFF for Schultz

What’s the word on McGonagle and Wolak? With them our (particularly McGonagle as having a better chance of winning), 3.5 feels high

A new product doesn’t automatically create new buyers, there has to be a demand for it. Just like creating a new weight class won’t automatically result in more participants. The two scenarios aren’t comparable anyway unless you’re talking about adding weights in total. As I said earlier, if anything you probably lose participants by losing a middle weight. Forget the official numbers but I think they’ve been posted previously showing that depth charts are pretty shallow at 197. I could certainly see guys who are 2nd string at 141/149 now become third string and then don’t think they’ll see much action so they quit. What’s your opinion on simply increasing 184 and 197? Seems like that would solve both issues of shrinking the gap to heavyweight as well as better aligning with the Olympic weights.

Sorry but this is silly IMO. 1) A lot of the top heavyweights are “only” about 250, so a guy weighing even 198 is rarely giving up more than 50 pounds. 2) A guy weighing 198 is a 197. Basically the only people who have a decision to make are those walking around at about 225-230. Maybe 215-220 too but to your earlier post that would not be “the hardest cut on the team.” But going back to point 1 they’re rarely going to be giving up more than about 25 pounds. 3. There have been numerous numerous examples of guys bumping from 197 to heavyweight and doing even better than they did at 197. This is evidence we don’t need an additional upperweight. I’m on board with @Gus’s suggestion to shift both 184 and 197 upwards though.

I’d do a sig bet on Mullen not getting pinned

Interestingly wrestlestat only gives Hendrickson a 12-6 decision. In his 33 career matches including his RS, Mullen has only allowed more than 6 points once (12 in a MD loss to Trumble last year. And yes I know Hendrickson pinned Trumble)

Barring injury they’re definitely getting at least 8 IMO. They have 7 locks as @okokzach mentions, and surely at least one of the other 3 AA’s

Barr also talked about the presence of PSU’s “NIL Director.” And people think PSU guys aren’t getting good money…

Option 4: Wrestle heavyweight weighing ~230-235 and do just fine as many do. (If they walked around at 220 then 197 shouldn’t be a bad cut) Can you name some examples of guys who had AA potential but did not wrestle in college because there isn’t a weight class between 197 and 285?

125 Ventresca Dec Spratley 3-0 VT 133 Wittcraft/Hughes maj backup 4-3 OSU 141 Latona Dec Jamison 6-4 VT 149 Henson Dec Young 9-4 157 Fish Dec Hipolito 9-7 165 Amine Dec Church 10-9 OSU 174 Hamiti pin backup 16-9 184 Plott Dec Stewart 19-9 197 Smith/Sasso Dec Surber 19-12 285 Hendrickson maj Mullen 23-12 edit: messed up the math

I was assuming you were talking the score when they wrestled at CKLV…. But Schultz also lost to Luffman who I’d take Mullen over

Doesn’t this more maybe just mean Yianni outgrew 65kg as opposed to wrestling 149 in college having anything to do with it? We’ve also seen guys like Micic make major cuts from where they wrestled in college and have success, so I don’t think having 141/149 as the college weights really has anything to do with our lack of success at 65

No

He only beat Schultz 11-5 and I feel like Mullen is probably in a similar boat. I think it’s a major but not more than that. Could get proven wrong of course

I like this idea

This is not true. 220 in high school is often forfeited too, as @Gus says below

Big Jim Mullen not getting much respect. I don’t think he gets teched or pinned

Per year? Or total? This seems like peanuts compared to the slumlord’s offers