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How old is Bo Bassett? This question is reserved for Greenwave only. I want to know how old a Junior in college is supposed to be.

Iowa vs Minnesota on Feb 14 will be a good one. After what he did to Allred today, he could be closer to Keck/Starocci than any would have thought. I'm definitely more interested in see him against the top 2 now than I was this morning.

I agree that 125-157 will be fun.

By far the most entertaining match I've seen this year. A ton of attacks, action-filled scrambles, points being scored, back and forth leads, that was a ton of fun. Quick recap.. 157: Taylor over Askey in OT 165: Minto over Sparks in a 174: Pinto in a dominant win over Whiting 184: McEnelly (spelling?) dominant major over Allred. I think he scored 5 takedowns? 197: Salazar dominated McDanel 285: Quick tech from Gable over Harley 125: Cooper Flynn should have been hit for stalling multiple times. He did nothing but disengage in the first, got rode out in the second without ever really threatening to escape, and then in the third, if you didn't know the score, you would have thought Flynn was winning because he still didn't do anything as Smith continued to push the action. 133: Pretty boring. Van Dee ends up with a late TD to win. 141: As I said above, most exciting match of the year. Hardy edges out Vombaur in a wild back and forth match 12-10 149: Ridge wins easily over Roberts

Sorry Mr. Durden, you said "ceiling" not his ceiling for this year. If you're talking about this year alone, sure there are 3 absolute monsters in Gable, Kerk, and Wyatt that would limit many, many, of the 285 NCAA champs from the past to mid-AA ceilings. This is by far the most talented top 3 at heavyweight that I can recall over the last 15 or so years.

I agree, it both makes me shake my head and laugh. I don't know how many casual/non-wrestling fans are tuning in to a B1G+ wrestling dual to begin with, my guess is less than a few. It doesn't really bother me, like it's been said, it's a chance for young hopeful sports announcers to get some experience to put on their resume.

Lol I rewatched it twice.. Whiting called for locked hands while his right hand was on the mat the entire time. I'm guessing he grabbed Pinto's wrist and the ref must have thought it was his own. Pinto looked good this match though.

Rock and Kenney are also very good. FWIW I don't think Sparks calls headlocks "head throws," or at least I haven't heard it. Has he done this multiple times, or was it maybe just a mashup of words in his mind at the moment?

What an idiotic post. I'm sure the Drexel wrestler didn't appreciate the gesture. Let's see him hold up his opponents hand after he loses.

You're in luck pal. In this fictitious sportsbook you are getting 5 to 1 odds for PK! That is.. if we were to discuss gambling on sports.

Garner enough ratings to where multiple platforms are airing wrestling simultaneously and the highest viewership aligns with the best broadcasting team. Until then, they can trot whoever they want out there and we can be satisfied that we at least have video coverage. Ratings and money drive the product, and wrestling doesn't provide much in those regards.

Who hurt you?

If you're offering those odds, I'd gladly take you on as my bookie.

To be fair, the best school they've wrestled has been what.. Little Rock?

100%. That's why after almost every "bad blood" fight, you see guys hug it out and likely apologize for the public insults that were only directed to promote the fight. I would imagine that 99% of fighters respect the hell out of each other, and the trash talk is just necessary to promote the PPV money. I wouldn't want to see it, but I'm sure if NCAA wrestlers starting talking massive trash about one another prior to NCAA's and the promos were cut on TV, it would undoubtedly raise viewership by at least a small margin. Storylines are as important as anything when it comes to casual fans.

What do you guys feel the odds are of Keckeisen pulling the upset of Starocci in the finals? I would probably make Starocci about an 80% favorite if they matchup in the NCAA finals. For the gamblers out there, if Vegas has Starocci at -125 and Keckeisen at +500, where are you putting you money? I'd soon put 1 unit on Keckeisen to win 5 units than I would put ~10 units on Starocci to win 1.25. Sorry for anyone who doesn't understand the degenerate jargon. Do you think 80% favorite for Starocci is fair? Should it be closer? Would you still pick Starocci given the odds? Love to hear some input from the more avid sports betters.

That is a huge, huge difference. I feel like a real donkey. I just hate when people disparage lower level D1 wrestlers like they weren't also at one time very good high school wrestlers. On a message board where we spend most of the time talking about the elite of the D1 ranks, it's easy to forget that being a D1 NQ, as I previously mentioned, is something than less than 1/1000 high school wrestlers accomplish.

Sparks and JD have a good rapport. Sparks has enough knowledge, and is willing to defer to JD as the color guy often enough that I feel like you get the most relevant duo of announcers in wrestling right now. I despise a lot of Shane Sparks wrestling takes, but I do think he does the best job as a professional broadcaster that the sport has right now. I like guys like Jim Gibbons, but even he at times seems like it's more of an annual gig where he is fed reader cards to make him seem more in the know than he is actually watching throughout the season.

I've always assumed that pretty much every full sized 125 would be in that weight range in the offseason, no? Walk around 140-145, pre-season follow a strict diet to hopefully close to 130-135 and cut whatever you necessary to make the weight? I don't have any recent first hand knowledge of what people are cutting at the D1 level, I know it's less than the old days, but even around 10 pounds seems probable for most 125s.

The assertation that their room would be worse than "many" high school rooms is absolutely, sorry to say, idiotic. Less than 1% of high school wrestlers go D1.. how many high schools boast a room where the majority of athletes are in the top 1%? You could say that there are a handful of high school rooms that may be better than MSU, but out of the thousands upon thousands of high school programs, there are a handful of wrestling factories that would have a better room. "Many" is obviously subjective, but I would say it's much more fair to say that their are a few elite high school programs with better quality in the room. Relatively speaking, most "bad" D1 starters are state champion caliber wrestlers in most states, and more often than not, better. If everyone on a high school team is an average state champion, they still aren't going to compete with MSU. People forget that being a D1 NQ still puts an athlete in the top .001% of all high school wrestlers. They may be a bad starter in D1, but they're still going to wreck an average high school state champion.

I thought FRL said Geog was injured, and might not be coming back. But not positive.

Yes, the K is silent. Although, I don't think Carson corrected anyone until after his freshman year.

My boy Tony Fararo on the call keeps referring to scoring sequences as nice "plays." I know it's not fun for us, but it has to be brutal to be pretending like you have a real knowledge of a sport that you're just learning so you can get on a broadcast.

He looked good. I didn't know who he was before they announced him.

I assume that he's the one that sounds professional? The other guy seems to need a lot of corrections after making incorrect comments.