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OKST had already (IMO unwisely) used their brick.

What does hammering them into the mud look like? I haven't seen any predictions what would be a "hammering."

Well, that makes things interesting.

To be fair, before the knee injury he had bonus wins in 10/11 matches.

Oof. I thought it was close but the right call live. Looks like 3 to me.

He didn't pursue a bonus, he really fell into one when Thompsen was recklessly pursuing him because he needed a takedown. Good for Cam, but he still chooses to stare at his opponent for the first 3 minutes of nearly every match. He was boring at Michigan, and he's boring at Oklahoma State. I'll root for him in March because I want to see the pokes do well, but it doesn't change how I feel about watching him wrestle.

Where? I don't recall feeling this way during the match.

I said it might take an amputation or two.

I was in the bathroom when the intermission ended, and came out with 5 seconds left in the first. My first thought was "at least I didn't have to watch another 0-0 first from Cam Amine."

I was so confused. For a second it looked like down just completely stopped wrestling at the end and ended up on his back. Gave up two takedowns going to a headlock when Fish got to the body lock. Looks like Schwab knows where to focus before their next matchup.

I'm generally an OKST guy, but I find myself in the same boat.

Class of 2019 #3 Andrew Alirez didn't AA until his fourth year when he won nationals. Class of 2020 #1 Braxton Amos hasn't AA'd. #3 Patrick Kennedy has not AA'd Class of 2021 #2 Alex Facundo hasn't AA'd #3 Paddy Gallagher hasn't AA'd Class of 2022 is the only class in the last four where the top three have achieved AA status with Feldman, Swiderski, and Mendez. (Bouzakis was #4)

Seeding implications aren't what I was thinking. It's the increased risk of injury wrestling up a weight class. Imagine Mendez getting hurt by wrestling up to win an essentially meaningless dual.

To be fair, how many NFL fans take pride when their team wins despite having literally no direct involvement with the teams success. Of course if you wrestle at a school, your are going to be happy and proud to be involved. You spend time with these people every day and grow strong bonds through the grind of a wrestling season. It's interesting to me that some people would choose to be a weak spot in a championship line-up rather than earn the title of D1 All-American. Every time I look at a wrestler's profile and it mentions, "member of 3 high school state championship teams," my first thought is "oof, they had to bring in team success to fluff up the resume."

Yeah, it feels slimy when the top guys is clinging to a leg to prevent a reversal. But when the bottom guy initiates the scramble situation and the top wrestler ends up on a leg to prevent a reversal, they don't call the top wrestler for stalling because the bottom guy put himself into that position. It's different than actively going to a leg to prevent an escape. That being said, it seems a little arbitrary at times.

I didn't see it that way. No one did anything in the first. Beau decided to roll around and get into time wasting scrambles just to get ridden out in the second. Got a reversal early in the third, and took the shot that created the final scramble where he ended up on top. I wouldn't say he was stalling, but he ended up in situations where he was clinging to a leg to prevent an escape/takedown during scrambles multiple times which made it feel kind of dirty. Do you agree?

If the outcome of this dual had any real importance, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw them take their shot and do it. Unfortunately, the dual is for nothing but pride.

Double stall call should have gone up in the first. Yawn.

So.. the Ivies are just going to be club teams?

No, several starters. I was just saying in this hypothetical anyone of us could have been the starter at 125 for PSU and won four team titles. It just might have taken an amputation or two to make the weight.

It will not be relevant to this year. We're finding out which teams have benefited the most through use of the transfer portal through the 2024 season, and it can be updated to include through 2025 after NCAAs results are determined. Don't be perturbed by @MPhillips condescension.

It's a hypothetical. But FWIW, Penn State hasn't had an AA at 125 since Nico Megaludis in 2016.

The current rule is based on events. It doesn't matter if it is one or two days, or if there is a single match or multiple. So this event would be one of the allowed five.

We're talking about Bouzakis' 5th college match in his true freshman year as evidence for how he'd do over 2 years later? I'd favor Bouzakis to win against Block, and I think Mendez vs Parco is a toss-up as well. I don't see Mendez getting bullied in the hand fight, and he's such an efficient finisher I don't think he's likely to get stuck underneath. Either way, it would make for an even more interesting dual.

Spratley and Jamison Parco, Buchanon, Suriano