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Why would other schools go dumpster diving when there's a perfectly good grocery store open? The only young talent Iowa has is Ferrari and most schools don't want to touch that name.

Unfortunately for Penn State, being in the BIG means they are forced to wrestle patsies like Iowa and Nebraska, teams that can only win a couple of matches at most.

At one time, the arena would erupt if an Iowa wrestler lost. Now Penn State has that mantle. When an Oklahoma St wrestler lost in the early rounds, Iowa fans didn't even react. The same way that most neutrals are ambivalent towards Iowa now. At one point it was love them or hate them, now they only really matter to neutrals if they are trying to poach a wrestler.

Hendrickson won via the fan vote as he lost the other vote. Two large fan bases in Ok State and Iowa went all in on him. One wanted him, the other hated Starocci.

Spencer Lee is balding, has bacne and took more than 4 years off of USADA testing. Weird.

You are right, Sanderson would never leave Iowa State for a better option.

Incentives for NIL are illegal.

There are terrible ways to improve and then there's Iowa idea. Bailey makes Lewan look like an offensive juggernaut and it's probably a terrific idea to give someone like Williams, with a partying issue, hundreds of thousands of dollars. I wonder what he'll spend that on.

Now that Sasso is done wrestling, can we finally admit that it was a drug deal gone bad?

NCAA testing is sort of a joke. USADA will test most competitors since most of the high end college wrestlers will take part in freestyle season. Mesenbrink was subject to additional testing due to making the US National team for example. The only way to avoid PED testing is to be like Spencer Lee and suspicously skip four years of freestyle.

McHenry is a 4 time champ if there was a 112 weight class. Great wrestler who is just too small and just doesn't belong on a list with the likes of Teasdale or Garret Scott who threw away their talent.

Olympic and World Championship bronzes are all about the draw.

Remember the violation for sleeping on someone's couch? Or how about a coach driving a player to his grandfather's funeral... good times.

PS3, the new Penn State conference can forfeit to each other in conference duels for the ones who need wins. Since they don't have to travel to those pesky BIG matches, they never have to leave Pennsylvania. They aren't going to lose many matches against Clarion, Edinboro, Bloomsburg... super high win % and they'll be seeded even higher, leading to their demise even sooner.

Your chart does show how over seeded everyone is compared to the BIG. A lot of that is thanks to conference placement being a factor. With the rosters being set to 30, Penn State could only field 3 teams so the worst conference placement would be 3rd, leading Penn State to be over seeded. Penn State might win three team trophies but would be performing worse than seed so Penn State would be a disappointment causing fewer blue chips to want to go there, leading to Penn State winning the team title by only 30 points or so most years. Penn State only conference = the eventual downfall of Penn State wrestling.