Boring

I think Nebraska got rid of all the blackshirts when they realized that not only does their defense truly suck balls, but has for decades. You know what the "N" on Nebraska's helmets stand for? Nawledge.

Yeah, but Hamiti wasn't an NCAA champ at the time, and neither was Mesenbrink.

Oh. My bad then.

You've never heard of a guy named Keckeisen, eh? Didn't he win 2?

Those guys were naturally jacked. I remember a story about how Schultz was shocked at how successful he was as a wrestler because he had mediocre VO2 lung capacity scores. Personally I always whipped up on the jacked guys, they were never as quick as I was (and rarely as strong, actually), it was the tall lean guys like Hamiti that gave me problems, provided they were as strong as mules and had good technique. Of course all wrestlers know guys don't have to be jacked to be uberstrong. Bo Nickal never looked that strong, but he routinely threw guys around like that gorilla in the suitcase commercial.

They know what they are doing. Cael figured out the right number of matches for his guys during the regular season: about 20-25, and the closer to the bottom of that range the better. He figured out that wrestling is hard and guys bodies start breaking down after awhile (duh!). I don't think we'll see the days of 2 guys with 35-0 type records battling in the finals again. Stands to logic that the same reasoning would apply on the Sr level, maybe even more so.

Nope, 100% female. When she stood up she kept going, and going, and going! I asked her "am I imagining things, or are you as tall as you look? Do you have a raised floor on that side of the counter or something?", said as I leaned over the counter to look at the floor on the other side. She tiredly responded, as if she hears that all the time, "You aren't imagining things". I straight up asked how tall she was, and she said 6'5". She was broad too, one of those thick women you see sometimes (like college softball players sometimes). Big, big girl.

Speaking of, I stayed in Sand Springs a few days ago at a fleabag motel (I didn't know it was a fleabag motel when I booked online). Sand Springs is the hometown of Okie State's favorite also-ran, Daton Fix. But that's not the interesting thing, the interesting thing is the woman running the front desk when I checked in was 6'5" tall and I bet she was every pound of 3 bills, no kidding. The biggest woman by far I've ever seen in my life. She was bigger than Kerkvliet, think about that. I couldn't help but think she probably played college bball somewhere.

Thanks, forgot about Griffith.

That seems insane after decades of 9.9 scholarships, doesn't it? Seems like there will be a lot of guys who didn't even win state getting schollies if so many are being offered.

He beat a guy who won 2 titles, not 2 guys who won titles.

He started at 112 pounds. Can you believe MMA has 112 pounders fighting each other? It's like a chickenfight.

I'm not sure how Bastida did "worse" at HWT. True, he didn't place at NCAAs at HWT and did place at 197, but he was undefeated until the NCAA quarterfinals the year he wrestled HWT. He was banged up from what I understand, so I'm willing to give him a pass on "only" finishing R12. He straight up dominated Zach Elam, beat Wyatt Hendrickson, Davison, Schultz during the regular season. I think if he hadn't gotten banged up he probably would've made the finals, at least, at NCAAs.

It's pretty small for a full grown man, that's for sure. I can't imagine there are many 125 pound men walking around in the USA, home of fried chicken and collard greens. But I don't mind having a 125 pound weight class because there ARE little guys that size running around. Here's a sad story, I knew a guy who was a superb 101 pounder in HS, wrestled 101 pounds all 4 years. Now I don't usually respect seniors in HS winning state titles at 101 because they are wrestling nothing but Fr and Sophomores, even 8th graders, but my friend is a really tiny little dude. He just didn't grow. He got to a college room, poof, his career was essentially over. Although he was a great wrestler, he was too small even for the 118 pound weight class (which existed at the time) and he got crushed by EVERY other kid in the room he wrestled. So there are already little guys that the sport passes over from HS to college. By the way, the guy I'm referring to is 55 years old now and a whole whopping 123 pounds! What a butterball!

Wow, great memory, especially for somebody your age!

I can't argue against that statement.

I tell people all the time that wrestling is a sport for little guys. Realistically 174 pounds is pretty small for a normal adult male, no offense meant to little guys. 184 and 197 are just normal adult weights for a guy 5'10-6' tall. So the vast majority of weights are smaller than the average guy on the street. The "average" American male is 5'9" and 199 pounds.

My understanding is the 220 pound weight class in HS is pathetically weak. There just aren't that many HS boys in that weight range and the competition is pretty damned weak. Plus 220 makes HWT weaker as well. College wrestling definitely doesn't need a 220 pound class.

Howdy all, been on a long trip to a 3rd world country (Oklahoma). While traveling I started wondering: are Dean Hamiti and Wyatt Hendrickson the only guys in NCAA history to have beaten 2 previous NCAA champions on the way to winning NCAA tournament titles?

Clearly the ball was dropped. Or maybe Team Treason Republicans are right, and it was just another happy day at the Capital and no laws were broken??

That kid could be a beast if somebody would teach him some technique.

That doesn't tell the entire story.

Isn't he about 50 years old now?

The Attorney General works for the President, unfortunately. Especially now that we have an actual criminal in the White House.

I think some were, come to think of it. I think that one fat neo-nazi Stuart Rhodes, and that KKK latino Fuentes were charged with insurrection?