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Looks like he just turned his hand while holding the 3 fingers out. Pretty cool little optical illusion, actually. I knew Brands was magic!

I didn't know that! My bad. Still, I say take the money when you can take it.

If he can't afford to pay. College isn't free.

I say make hay while the sun is shining. Those boys could have a career ending injury well before finishing an IVY degree, then where would they be without an education OR money? Take the money and concentrate on your education at whatever school you go to. Much respect to the Ivy league for it's principled stance and I understand the value of an education, but from what I understand the NIL money some of the wrestlers get is truly lifechanging. Imagine 4 years of getting good NIL money, you could graduate and go to any school in the Ivy league.

Man was I wrong. OSU showed up to wrestle. Why didn't Ayala wrestle?

When did he do that? I didn't see it.

He's on the way up.

Good call, but don't you think Alirez sitting out last year might make him a little rusty?

Who do you think will beat him?

The Brands do great work with the little guys as everybody here knows. I think it finally "clicked" for Cruz. He may only be 7-5, but I think he'll be a tough out the rest of the year and I think he AAs this year.

Nope.

I think Kasak will win the NCAA title this year, so Harer did pretty well only losing 4-0. I had no idea his HS record was so ridiculously impressive.

Can't remember, sorry.

And the guy who WILL go to Harvard will in all likelihood be a lot worse than anybody who turned them down because they aren't getting paid. I can't see the Ivies being a competitive D1 conference with the "rules" listed in this thread. They will severely decline over the next few years.

The only wrestling team champion I wrestled on was my elementary school team winning a conference title in 1976. Then after most of the boys quit the wrestling team and went into bball during Jr High I was just wrestling for individual glory since the team was so rotten after that (we'd occasionally pick up team trophies in minor tournaments). The funny thing was those guys who went into bball (to impress the girls) all rode the bench for 3 years before crawling back to the wrestling team in HS. They'd lost 3 years development and got hammered on the mat on their return. Ooopsy! None of them placed at state.

I'll be rooting for Ohio State, but let's face the fact that Iowa is going to hammer them into the mud. It would be cool seeing Davino wrestle.

or they are worn out from too MUCH mat time IN the room. Cael should give 'em the weekend off to recover and go semi-easy on them next week.

That's what I thought too. PSU looked flat to me. Hey, at least they aren't Oklahoma, Michigan, or Wisconsin!

PSU was pretty flat last night. Kasak had a semi-tough match against a guy he probably should've majored, Kerk barely beating his opponent 2-0. Maybe Carl is working the boys too hard?

I nearly jumped out of my Lazyboy in excitement when he got the takedown near the end!

If they'd gone to Okie State or Iowa they wouldn't have to worry about things like "studying"!!!

Well, criminal conmen of a feather stick together!

Clear takedown. Some serious homecooking by NIU.