RawDog

Well for the looks category it has to be Caliendo... Red hair, Built like a Greek god And most surprisingly... Somehow has zero cauliflower ear

Can alirez even make the weight? He lost to Mendez at a 150 catch weight. Mendez is a lock to win it.

Bumping Mendez is their only shot at winning the dual. I think DDE got majored by parco last time they wrestled. As good as parco is, Mendez is next level. Dude beat yanni and was right there with Zain to make the Olympic team. Zain and yianni are two of the best 149 pounders of all time. Mendez will be just fine up a weight. I think they should use bouzakis at 133 and Davino at 141.

Yeah... Let's see if he can get a win over a topped 5 ranked opponent first. Too many Penn State fans

Super gritty, super fun to watch! What a great dual. UNI really needed Downey to pull out that win. I think if he wins that match with all the momentum they had going they would have found a way to win that dual.

Ohio State should roll out Davino, bump up Mendez to take out parco.

Well I don't know if these celebrations are good or not but they are definitely fun to watch. I hope some starts a thread where we get to see all the good celebrations.

You are correct, I shouldn't have phrased my point like that. Caleb smith is good but Lilledahl hasn't beating any of the top guys to make me think he can win a championship yet.

I'm not saying smith is not good just that he's overrated. I also suspect Ramos might have had something going on last year. How often does a wrestler go from runner up to dnp without being injured?

I think caliendo has an outside shot of beating messenbrink. He had multiple takedowns against him last year, he just melted under messenbrink's crazy pace. I think caliendo will be better prepared this year. 125 is not as wide open as people tend to think. Ramos hasn't given up a takedown and was leading NCAAs in tech falls going into this weekend. Not sure if he still is. I'm not sold on Lilledahl yet. He hasn't beaten anyone good. Caleb smith is overrated. If crookham is out for the year, 133 is wide open.

I don't understand why people are complaining about Iowa and Ohio State coaching. Those are the only two teams to win a title outside of Penn State in over a decade. They consistently put out competitive teams every year. We should be complaining about Michigan State and Wisconsin coaching. These are big ten schools with big ten budgets and they can't seem to coach a single competitive wrestler.

The crazy thing is that even if everything went Nebraska's way and they won the first 5 matches they still have no shot at winning the dual.

He likely AAs this year then goes to a major program next year. With good training partners he will be a title threat next year.

I believe this has been the plan all along

He already has the #3 #5 and #6 recruits coming in next year. They are going to be scary good in a couple years.

Sasso at 157 is interesting

Escobedo wins easily

He does look good. Too bad he didn't attend the soldier salute.

That would be starting at 118 I believe. Very salty indeed though. They combined for 5 NCAA titles. I think Davino, Bouzakis Mendez could match or even top that. Davino would probably have to find a way to make 125 for it to be possible.

There were signs that Spencer was vulnerable. As much as I would like to see Hendricksons blitzkrieg work on Gable I just don't see any vulnerability from Gable.

I saw that, he hit a nice cradle.

Maybe Andrew Howe, didn't he win a title for Wisconsin? I believe he is currently an assistant with northwestern so he has some experience. Tyler graff could also be an option. Ben Askren is the obvious choice and Wisconsin needs to find a way to make that happen.

Exactly this! Perfectly said.

Well that's a problem in itself. How does a big ten school have 1 barely ranked wrestler. That program needs a complete overhaul

Sad, MSU is a big ten school and they couldn't have a single competitive match?