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Is there anyone still in college in D1 wrestling that would have entered college before the transfer portal existed? I guess Iowa could argue they didn’t need the portal to get Teemer and Buchanan… (IIRC, Parco did actually go in the portal. Sorry forgot him in my list of point scorers earlier)

I suppose Teemer+Buchanan+Caliendo could have a shot to top OK State if Teemer and Buchanan win and Caliendo gets 2nd

Are we just talking total points from transfers this year? If so, it’s probably OK State (Hendrickson, Hamiti, Amine, Spratley, Jamison, Fish).

Yes it counts. He was enrolled at Ohio State and transferred via the transfer portal

Cardenas and Saldate are their big ones this year. I forgot them on my list. They have actually lost a few as well: McHenry, Amine, Lamer

https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/6588186-breaking-greg-kerkvliet-has-entered-the-transfer-portal

J’Den Cox could play Robles in the musical

The Jonas Brothers? 2 can be the Brands and one McD

Bakersfield also got 9house but he is doing bad this year. PSU - Kerk, Mesenbrink Minnesota - Flynn, Askey, Whiting Lock Haven - Noto, Henson Northern Colorado - Poulin, Serrano, Ulrey South Dakota State - Tagg, Rhodes, Glazier, Siebrecht Lehigh - Beard, Trephan Little Rock - Williams, Delsignore Utah Valley - Barraclaugh Oklahoma - Sax, Belton, Lorenzo, Schwartz Proof that it’s not just the big schools benefitting

Like a prequel or a musical version? I was honestly surprised they didn’t show much about Robles’ early years in wrestling. They basically started when he was a HS national champion. Showing him lose every match or whatever in his first year wrestling might’ve added to the story IMO.

Even in PA having a lot of schools not being able to field a competitive team is not new. According to @Jason Bryant’s list (https://almanac.mattalkonline.com/dropped-college-wrestling-teams/), there have been 5 D1 teams dropped since 2015 (6 if you count Lindenwood but I wouldn’t - Queens, Boise State, EMU, that school in Norfolk, and Fresno State). Well I guess there will be 6 if CSU happens. During the same time 3 new schools have been added (Little Rock, Presbyterian and Morgan State). Not an ideal situation, but not exactly doomsday (yet at least).

I thought DiJulius as McD was fine. I was not a fan of the guy playing Brands but it was such a small part of the movie. I do kinda agree though that some of the things they changed probably didn’t really add much to the movie. If anything some of them detracted from it, like where they ripped off the Rudy movie by having guys give up their scholarships which I assume didn’t actually happen. My wife actually asked a question that might’ve added a cool twist. They should have had McD be the guy in the beginning who gets the scholarship to Iowa after Senior Nationals or whatever that high school tournament was

You don’t have to like it, but I don’t know why any wrestling fan wouldn’t at least watch it to support the fact that it was made. It’s not like there are a lot of wrestling movies being made, and especially not with actors that people have actually heard of. And there were of course a lot of wrestling people involved/in the movie, Johnni DiJulius, Shane Sparks, Angel Rivera among others. Robles himself (and his mom) was heavily involved with the movie. He was in the movie in some of the wrestling scenes, he trained the lead actor, and has been involved with the promotion. If he was okay with the changes then we probably should be too.

Says he definitely won’t commit until after NCAA’s, probably over the summer Also that his favorite wrestler is Spencer Lee

As @BruceyB said, I think the conversation is being conflated between the recently announced event in Oklahoma and a legitimate dual championship. Of course a legitimate championship would need to be the end of the season. But it seems there’s a general consensus that that isn’t likely, so this is the next best thing (and who knows, if it’s successful maybe one day it could lead to an actual championship). So doing this far apart from NCAA’s makes sense so that the focus for wrestlers and teams will still be on NCAA’s

Interesting. If I’m not mistaken, haven’t they also been having both an individual and team tournament for awhile?

Those vaccines also weren’t launched during national outbreaks of those diseases, or the first ever outbreak of those diseases. I have a feeling if they were then those vaccines might not really be 100% effective either. The Covid vaccine worked pretty well. But it shouldn’t have been mandated especially for young folks. Older people in particular really benefitted from it.

Well we already have high schoolers beating current day NCAA champions, so not sure this is even a knock on “the old days”

Theoretically yeah my thought was maybe it hurt his feelings which impacted this year. But based on Dresser’s comments sounds like my thought was wrong and this decision was based on matters outside of wrestling.

Do people on HR think he might go back to also playing football?

Not sure about Kueter, but Feldman weighed in for B10’s last year at 232

Starocci liked the Strickenberger celebration

Pure speculation, but wondering if he wanted to move up to heavyweight next year and Bastida getting a medical redshirt put a damper on that

Is Perry going somewhere?

$200k gives them some incentive…