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I don't know that I'd necessarily count him out against Ech or Paniro. He didn't lost to a single non AA last season and seems to be getting better and better.

PSU athletes wrestle 20 matches a year without a modified schedule.. One would think a modified schedule would be easiest to make happen at PSU. @The Kid just can't help but find a way to have a cynical opinion about any and every topic.

Barr is 21 as a RS freshman. Most redshirt freshman are 20. Oh no, he's a year older than normal for his grade.

Until the last line I thought you were suggesting that could be their potential line-up.

My parents didn't feel that my youngest brother was emotionally mature enough to start kindergarten when he was 5, so he started school a year later than most. The same happened with one of my closest friends. Also, high school wrestling was the most fun I ever had as an athlete. My child would likely be undersized for 106 as a freshman seeing as I was very undersized for 103. I would strongly consider starting them a year late in school so they have a chance to enjoy 4 years of high school sports. And if I didn't start them late, and going into 9th grade my child was undersized and wanted to repeat a grade to maximize their high school wrestling experience, I would gladly let them.

I have no problem with a 1 year hold back. There are reasons for it that I agree with. I do agree with you that double holdbacks and PG years that aren't a "greyshirt" are ridiculous.

Name one wrestler that graduated high school at 21. You're exaggerating what is taking place in high school sports. Bo Bassett is the most criticized hold-back and he will be 19 when he graduates high school, and turn 20 in August as he begins his true freshman year. He is one year older than typical for his grade. People create way too much drama around a kid being a year old for his grade. Who cares. Once you get to college you have guys in the 6th and 7th years now with RS, Olympic RS, free medical RS. Being 1 year older than your peers entering college has literally never mattered less than it does now.

Worst team in a while? 2024 2025 57kg Spencer Lee (silver) Spencer Lee 61kg Vito Arujau (silver) Vito/Forrest 65kg Zain Retherford (no medal) Real Woods 70kg James Green (no medal) PJ Duke 74kg Kyle Dake (bronze) David Carr 79kg Jordan Burroughs (no medal) Levi Haines 86kg Aaron Brooks (bronze) Zahid Valencia 92kg David Taylor (bronze) Trent Hidlay 97kg Kyle Snyder (no medal) Kyle Snyder 125kg Parris (no medal) Hendrickson Last year we had 0 golds, and 5 total medals. This team may not have the big names of last years team, but I'd argue this team brings home more hardware than last year's.

wut?

WHAT?!

They're coming up now.

Same amount of team members this year as national champions since 2017. Coincidentally, one of each was a grad transfer that spent most of their career somewhere else, leaving Spencer Lee the lone homegrown bright spot.

He did not look good at the end of match two.. I'll be curious what he has left after a short turnaround.

lol Burroughs throwing strays at TnT saying most of their wrestlers have a knee brace or shoulder brace because they train too hard.

This aged well.

Iowa fans taking credit for Real Woods who spent 2 of his 6 years in college at Iowa and then leaving to train in Michigan is so classic.

In nearly ever match wrestled, regardless of style, both wrestlers go to the middle, and the ref raises the winning wrestler's hand. Again, I'm not going to make it into a bigger deal than it is, but I'm also not going to make an excuse for Barr running off the mat when he should have went to the middle and taken his loss.

A light handslap after the match isn't how wrestling works and Barr knows that.. especially in freestyle where you also shake the refs hand before and after. It's not that big of a deal, but it was poor sport behavior.

Like you said about Haines.. Hillger realistically is probably behind Steveson, Parris, Gwiz, and Kerkvliet on the US ladder if they were all active? Although, after match one, it's possible that Wyatt came out expecting a fairly easy win and had trouble adjusting when all of the sudden he was in a dog fight.

I don't know the backstory for this one, but have seen it mentioned several times now.

Nothing really. There was really one exchange on the edge where there was some whistle confusion. This match was pretty tame when it comes to Mesenbrink antics.

When David Carr was young, his grandmother sewed him a teddy bear. He has had the teddy in his wrestling bag for every event he has ever wrestled. Recently though, Metcalf brought his dog to practice, and the dog got a hold of the teddy bear and shredded it. Metcalf felt bad so he got the shoes custom made for David. Awesome to see that David won the tournament without his safety blanket in his bag. I like to think that when he pointed towards the sky after the match, he was pointing to that teddy bear.

He always looks tired, he just keeps going. He just couldn't get to his offense today. Carr wrestled a great match where he didn't let MM really get his handfight going. It was great wrestling by Carr. It'll be fun to watch these two guys battle for years to come.