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Meh, I think Ferrari would need 120+ wins and to beat some studs to get in the conversation. This all very premature of course considering he has 0 titles.

Another interesting tidbit, multiple posters claiming that the reason Arnold left the bench before 184 is because there was heckling from PSU fans. One poster said it included “vulgar” remarks and that some fans were kicked out

Yes and that their guys “never get tired”

I think he thought Ferrari had a better chance of beating Starocci

Hawkeye report in panic mode Multiple comments in match thread accusing PSU of “strength training,” which for some apparently even includes something illegal to help their conditioning Comments from people wanting to move on from the Brands bros, but that doesn’t seem super uncommon on there People (rightfully) afraid that OSU will pass Iowa One guy in literally the same post that he listed one of Cael’s accomplishments being an Olympic Gold medal, said he was a “nobody on the world stage” (to be fair other posters are saying that post was dumb) Thread: “how much will it cost to keep Ferrari,” includes comments that Kueter is getting $500k and was allegedly offered $800k to quit football completely and declined

Yup, plus for PSU Starocci coming back forced Cochran to the bench who probably could have been a mid to low AA at 197.

Sounds like this was a good dual that came down to the last match. I thought I had access to it on ESPN+ but apparently not. And don’t see it posted by any of the YT accounts from India yet

To be fair, according to the numbers floating around, Iowa spent slightly more on Buchanan + Teemer + Parco combined than PSU spent to bring Starocci back. Iowa probably got a better bang for their buck TBH

I think one of Amine or Barraclough can stop the streak if they make it to him

In the 7:40 one he even lifted him up for a fraction of a second. Considering this was his second ever match against a D1 starter, I think if he was the guy at 184 and got more matches under his belt that I wouldn’t be surprised if he took Starocci down. But alas, it appears it is not to be.

I know I will never predict no bonus points from PSU again

Pretty sure he posted from it this week, so would be interesting timing. Not to mention you can change your handle and searches for the old handle will still return the new one, which was not the case here (I found this out when I was 98% certain that I found the drunk NLWC Burroughs hater). Although I certainly wouldn’t blame Gabe for getting off of x. Definitely lots of toxicity on there and I’m sure many of the posts directed at him last night were not pleasant, and not much good can come from middle aged men trash talking teenagers.

Tom disagrees. The comment that Arnold will be the 184 and “we’re going to use Ferrari’s 5 dates and not against cupcakes” makes it even more odd that he wrestled attached at the Soldier Salute. Unless that still counted as first semester?

Cael wasn’t surprised to see Ferrari

Did Arnold delete his x account yesterday? Here is the Iowa wrestling account tagging it (evidence it was his handle), and several folks tagged it last night criticizing him, but it no longer exists. IIRC I believe he did quote one of the clips of his comments earlier in the week and wrote “see you soon”

The comments on these are kinda funny (they were Iowa wrestling’s x account’s only posts on any individual matches)

Kinda makes sense TBH, he has a tough match Sunday with Smith, assuming he wrestles that one of course. And here was Cael’s response on Davis:

As I said earlier he still had a ways to go, but 7:40 and 1:45 were probably closer than almost anyone has gotten to taking down Starocci, and both were off of Ferrari’s own shots.

I think there’s a path, particularly if Ferrari stays in redshirt. Ungar Dec Cruz 3-0 Cornell Ayala maj Ferrera 4-3 Iowa Saunders Dec Block 6-4 Cornell Parco Dec Fernandez 7-6 Iowa Shapiro Dec Teemer 9-7 Cornell Ramirez dec Caliendo 12-7 Ruiz Dec Kennedy 15-7 Foca Dec Arnold 18-7 Buchanan maj Dellagata 18-11 Kueter maj Davis 18-15

IMO the only guy that looked better than I expected was Ferrari, and he didn’t even get a takedown, and might not be the starter. Buchanan looked good but he’s the #1 guy in the country and I’d fear the dreaded PSU adjustment and avenging of the loss at NCAA’s. Parco and Teemer were both disappointing IMO. Probably Caliendo and Cruz too.

He was in decently on a leg at one point. Still had a ways to go but I thought he had a good showing.

He’s the first 4x champ to wrestle a true freshman while being a 4x champ at the time

I want to complain about the Starocci ankle ride. But the “let the guy stand up then double him out of bounds” from Angelo’s brother is probably worse

Man Vegas is good