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Are you assuming PSU’s floor is a lineup that does not include Starocci?

Who do you think are the title contenders?

“what has he done to make you believe he could put together the five consecutive matches that it will take to win the NCAA title?” You could say this about pretty much everyone at 125 except Ramos and McKee, who I believe are the only guys in the field to wrestle an NCAA tournament and lose less than twice, and Provo because of the gauntlet he ran at CKLV. And those guys have a combined 13 NCAA losses this year. That’s why Smith and like 20 other guys have a chance. This year alone, he’s beaten: Ramos, DeAugustino, Spratley, Kaylor and Davis. Among others in the current field he’s also beaten McKee and Poulin. He’s certainly capable of winning it all.

Ok him I meant to add but forgot lol

Good point. I did

Yes, I had originally asked what he was on probation for. But edited it after I found a similar article

IMO, in order, and who I think has a non-negligible chance to win. (Edit: I guess I’m still assuming Starocci wins, for the purpose of this exercise are we assuming he’s out? That’s really the only chance another team would have of winning, and of course quite a few of the teams below would still have no chance, but it was fun to see who I thought could have a shot at 2 champs) Cornell: Vito, Shapiro, maybe throw in Foca Nebraska: Lovett, Robb, Smith, Pinto OK State: Fix, Plott, Spratley Lehigh: Crookham, Stanich, maybe throw in Beard Arizona State: Parco, Figueroa, Teemer Iowa State: Carr, Bastida, maybe throw in Echemendia, Chittum, and Swiderski Missouri: O’Toole, Surtin, Mauller if he doesn’t wrestle Shapiro Michigan: DeAugustino, Gomez, Ragusin, Lewan (please God I hope Lewan doesn’t make the finals but he could), maybe throw in Lemley Iowa: Woods, Ayala Minnesota: Blockhus, McKee, Salazar NC State: Camacho, Jack, Arrington, Hidlay, Scott Virginia Tech: Henson, Flynn Oregon State: Munoz, Kaylor Stanford: Cardenas, Provo Lock Haven: Noto, Henson

Tyler Wells?

No one is a dark horse at 125 (particularly the guy who went undefeated in redshirt last year including a win over the current #1), but kinda to @ionel’s point, while Figueroa is probably the lowest ranked guy with the best chance of winning, I wouldn’t say he has the highest potential. Among guys ranked below him on both Intermat & Flo, I’d give all of the below a shot to win: Peterson (22/20) Sotelo (23/26) Molton (20/29) Palmer (25/UR)

125 should be excluded

Thanks for sharing @ionel. Did he wrestle at Cal Poly?

Just saw a Dresser interview where he addressed it and sounds like he is still on the team. Also found this: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/iowa-state/wrestling/2024/02/22/iowa-state-wrestling-kysen-terukina-violates-probation-may-wrestle-against-missouri/72696938007/

Saw this tongue twister recently: “He knew he was in trouble. When you get in trouble, when you’re in trouble is when you don’t know you’re in trouble, and so when you get in trouble and if you know you’re in trouble then you always end up on top”

The rulebook disagrees with you

Does anyone else find it odd that Pyle will “thank” the guys in India that post these illegal streams, while FloKaren will get parents posting their kids matches to YouTube taken down?

Gotta say I love this rule. I think it should apply to more than just true freshmen. These matches count on their official career record right?

I wouldn’t have hated if they called that, but gun to my head I’d say that TD was not imminent

Does this mean he’s healthier? If so, then why the neck brace?

I would think it’d be more likely to be a younger or scrawnier guy, like Davis, Stanich, or Ayala

I don’t see him making the semis, but I could certainly see him knocking off someone that many people would pick to do so

I think the official explanation for Bartlett/Hardy was technically that the ref thought Bartlett was indicating he was injured… Different situations of course but I believe Askren’s argument was potentially dangerous shouldn’t exist at all. Starocci kinda just proved it should. Edit: but you should be called for stalling if you put yourself in a potentially dangerous situation more than once.

I believe Willie said that Larkin was “getting really big,” but not sure exactly how big…

If he wins Pac 12’s he should get a top 10 seed, probably even better. Of course would still be a good value there if he wins

Yeah watching that a few times, Starocci definitely did that to himself

Wasn’t that Joey Silva, representing Puerto Rico?