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I’m not an NFL scout, but if he had “no chance to ever be an NFL DT,” he probably wouldn’t have lasted as long as he did. For example last year Coon was cut about 2 weeks earlier in the preseason. Hopefully future wrestlers still get a shot even if Gable doesn’t work out. The fact that he never played football before made him even more of a longshot. But I could see someone like Parris having more NFL potential as he was actually a good football player in high school.

Walker “wrestled Wolak tough” in 2023 by losing 5-2 in a year Wolak went 1-2 at NCAA’s. Arnold beat Wolak in the year he took 6th. I’d favor Ragusin over Ayala at 133 TBH. Parris probably owes Gable a thank you for retiring and enabling him to be an Olympian and getting a world medal, I doubt there are hard feelings. What is Coon’s potential beef with Steveson?

Whoops guess I am slow on the Siebrechts and hadn’t seen that Cobe had already announced to SDSU

Walker over Arnold would be a “NEHVUR” to me. Walker lost to Riggins last year. Saldate over Teemer, Bullock over Brands, and Steveson wrestling in the NCAA would all be very surprising to me. But that’d still be a 16-15 Michigan win if all of those were flipped to decision losses.

I don’t think anyone was really expecting him to make the roster. If he doesn’t make a practice squad then your point could be true.

The Siebrechts are also off the roster

So does anyone know if all these guys transferring that aren’t in the portal can wrestle at their new school in the first semester? I saw Buchanan is on Iowa’s roster, but that doesn’t mean he’s actually eligible first semester

Yeah I think the overall point is that as far as transfers into PSU go, for the most part they stay as pretty much the same guy they were before. And to the subject of the thread, I’d say that’s mostly true for Iowa too. Off the top of my head Michigan may have the best argument for transfers actually improving. They've had a couple do worse, but several do better such as Davison 5th to 2nd, Gomez 4th to 2nd, and Finesilver R16 to R12. Cael may have some secret sauce, but seems like guys may need to be there for their whole career to see the benefit of it. Getting off topic but an interesting comparison to Hildebrandt IMO is Caleb Smith. Hildebrandt seems to have been hurt by moving from the MAC to the B10 schedule, whereas Caleb Smith was helped by going from the SOCON to the B10. Smith was the 5 seed in 2023 and went 0-2, but was the 15 seed in 2024 and finished 6th, including beating one of the guys that beat him in 2023.

I agree with your overall point here (Hildebrandt was basically the same guy at PSU and CMU), but there is some serious cherry-picking going on in your post. McKee was 2 places worse in 2022 than 2021. Courtney was 3 places worse in 2022 than 2021 (and finished only 1 place worse in 2023 than 2021). Latona went from 6th in 2021 to R12 in 2022 (and finished 7th in 2023 at 133). Basically the difference between 2021 and 2022 was the presence of Glory and Vito. 125 was the bracket most impacted by the Ivies not being able to compete in 2021. So in theory most guys should have just slid down a couple places which all the above guys did. But Hildebrandt went from 4th to going 1-2. Which I’d honestly chalk up to just the overall parity at 125 the last few years. To that point, interesting that your “getting worse” comment was specific to placers, as there were multiple guys that DNP’d in 2021 but AA’d in 2022: DeAugustino R12 in 2021, 4th in 2022 Kaylor 0-2 in 2021, 8th in 2022 Plus Barnett who went from 8th in 2021 to 7th in 2022 Also, lol at including Spencer Lee in the list of “getting worse.” That’s a comment I’d expect from Cinnabon.

I don’t think they should do it since 4 years of Kueter is worth more than 1 of Gable IMO. But, they could have if they were smart and wrestled Kueter last season. Which likely also would have got them 4th place ahead of ISU if not higher.

RAE token must be down

Nolf podcast where he announced it. Thought him talking about his favorite matches was interesting (spoiler: I believe he put a junior league match ahead of beating Jordan Burroughs at OTT).

Agree with this

Maybe he can work remotely and avoid all the douchey Wall Street dudes and drugs.

If we’re just talking about “upgrading the spot,” they’ve done it plenty in the past including AA’s, but it’s often been from within or guys transferring in allegedly without being recruited (Dean over Beard, Kerk over Nevills being the two most recent transfer examples, you could maybe add Mesenbrink over Facundo although Facundo technically hasn’t lost any eligibility by being on the bench yet)

They have, but I agree with the overall sentiment that we shouldn’t feel bad for Glazier. Going 1-2 is definitely not going to secure a starting spot. He’ll also be going into his 6th year so if not for the Covid year he wouldn’t even have any more eligibility (although of course neither would Buchanan)

No

No, I don’t think the wrestling staff is racist, although some of their fans may be a different story.

The university also paid $4 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged racism by the football staff

Of course, just saying he probably didn’t already have one at the time of that post.

They’ll also have at least 3 black guys in their starting lineup, which I know shouldn’t matter but I think is notable given some of the past allegations against their fans (and Iowa’s football team staff)

Or if he gets accused of a crime against a woman they could drop the program.

He does have over 30k x followers, but not sure how much $ that makes. Hate to add to a Jimmy thread, but Mineo did delete the post that Teemer called false. @VakAttack shared it previously, and it said Teemer had already been “given” an apartment. So may have just been an incorrect choice of words (and possibly another instance of Mineo being “mostly” but not 100% accurate), I’m guessing that he was just offered it at that point.

Russia isn’t that good at Greco right?