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Is Peterson to Iowa confirmed? They didn’t seem to think so on FRL IIRC they also said him being mad about the coaches not throwing a brick might be part of the reason why he’s leaving?

He’s probably not even the best Iowa 157-174 pounder from the last 5 years

They do have Merrill at 197

I kinda feel bad for Carter because I think most of the Twitter stuff was an act and he was just doing it to get people talking, and it worked. Yet it might have cost him the Hodge. Oh and I totally forgot it was Welsh’s graveyard that he pissed on, lol…

Was he injured any more at the end of the season? He was also right with Haines this year too, and beat Kennedy twice who got 4th at NCAA’s. Seemed to me like he just had a bad postseason.

…is the only person that beat Michael Caliendo in an attached match, that hasn’t won a NCAA title? Looked into Kharchla’s wrestlestat after Rocco Welsh claimed he needed better partners. In 2023 he beat Michael Caliendo at NCAA’s, although Kharchla only finished R12 and Caliendo got 7th. But I noticed that since his redshirt year, Caliendo has had 14 losses. They were to: Mitchell Mesenbrink 6x Keegan O’Toole 3x Shane Griffith 2x Dean Hamiti David Carr and Carson Kharchla. That’s got to be some sort of record for most # + highest % of total losses to eventual National Champs right?

Interesting that he’d rather be on the bench at OSU than PSU, although I suppose he could join the battle for 133.

Ok then it sounds like the most likely answer to my question is that maybe he did actually “fall out of love” with tOSU after he made that post

Well if Minnow is to be believed (maybe not), allegedly Welsh was in Stillwater around when the earlier rumors started. So it’s possible OSU didn’t really wait until he officially went in the portal either

I mean to be fair you literally asked someone earlier “why do you think Welsh is lying” (and that person never even accused him of lying) And my question was serious. It’s certainly possible he didn’t “fall out of love with tOSU” until after he made that post. But it’s also possible actions by PSU influenced those feelings

Are you saying that Welsh lied when he made the xpost saying “The Ohio State University is home”? Or that he only “fell out of love with tOSU” after that?

I believe the 3 of them were all from the same club no?

Bo Nickal is pro-Trump? No way!

I was honestly curious, not saying any of them were against Trump. I’ll put Starocci in the pro column. But I wouldn’t say simply taking a picture with him means they’re “pro-Trump,” I would expect most of them to not try to get too political, such as Mesenbrink’s in the link you shared. I also thought we were talking about this year’s Champions, so so far I’m seeing Hendrickson and Starocci.

Here was the article from when the initial rumors started. According to Ryan, he could wrestle off for 174 but not until December because Kharchla was injured. https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/13272402-tom-ryan-clears-the-air-on-rocco-welsh-transfer-speculation

Ha true

I wonder if the 3 Mesenbrink voters were PSU guys, I guess they didn’t get the memo that the PSU vote should go to Starocci

Do you get 2 votes if you win twice?

Who of the champs besides Hendrickson?

You’re assuming Ryder doesn’t beat out Welsh?

Well apparently he’s not there (Columbus) at all, although may have just been for the weekend. I believe he did say that he’d probably be in State College in a few weeks though (not sure if “a few” is ~6 or so when most semesters are over, or less than that).

If we are to assume Barr is staying at 197, it’s been mentioned that the smaller Mirasola is going to have a tough time getting in the lineup for a few years. So if there is any chatter about that causing them both to leave, that’s where a guy like Feldman would make sense.

Yes he is a huge PSU homer. But even as not a PSU fan, I particularly enjoy his podcasts with Willie (and Cenzo before that), you just have to ignore his predictions because he will pick PSU guys in every tossup, but he doesn’t pretend to be an expert. He also loves to name drop his marketing clients (I believe that was how he first became a fan, he was working with a bunch of wrestling people particularly from PSU with his marketing company then started following them, so I wouldn’t say he was necessarily a “bandwagon” fan, and I think you can never have enough people making wrestling content). The interviews are hit or miss though, and he’s now done a few live commitments but pretty sure every single one has been to PSU.

He seems to be implying he doesn’t think it was so voluntary. Don’t know the whole story