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Someone did a few years ago and I believe we were all rather shocked that it was ~30%+ more popular than MFS internationally.

This discussion happens at least a few times a year, it seems. It is difficult for our US gents to comprehend that MFS is not as popular worldwide. Someone even gathered data from most UWW events as well as Russian age level nationals over a few year span in one and once you go down the other UWW events that take place not only in Europe but Asia as well, the disparity between the two gets worse. MGR is far superior worldwide insofar as popularity. It was even broken down to not include 'local' athletes (meaning no Polish gents if in Poland). You have to consider that to go to Poland, even if from another European country, it isn't exactly cheap. You need hotel(s), transportation, entry fees, etc. So for it to be roughly ~30% or more insofar as entries go, that is saying something. I am of the mind that if we were to transition to MGR and MFS in college it would help both styles tremendously. Have the coinflip dictate who gets choice, like football. In football when you choose to kick or receive, the other guy gets to choose which side. So in wrestling, you can pick whether you start at MGR or MFS, the other guy can choose what weight to start at - or if someone chooses the weight, the other guy can choose MGR or MFS, with the weights alternating. There would be an interesting dynamic for individual tournaments. If a school does one individual tournament (Midlands) they can choose MFS, but if they do a second, they must participate in a MGR one as the second one.

Akors?

I think he meant make Travis go down from 157 to 149lbs.

I want to be on your team here. I truly do. The fact that this is what you get when you search Ohio State... it is what kills you. Also, Oklahoma State has a massive trump card (no pun intended)...

Any smoke as to where they started? Or why?

There is only one OSU by my count as well as any other reasonable count. OSU = Oklahoma State OSUW = Oregon State tOSU = Ohio State

Where is his farewell to Penn, Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma State?

So those totally dogging on OSU and DT might not know the intricacies of what was happening behind the scene? You don't say?

Arizona State was the best place last year. Princeton the year before.

I can't stress enough how little the rest of the world cares about Folkstyle wreslting and the weight classes that they use.

Isn't he supposed to be going 197lbs in a few months? Why would he drop to 174lbs? He either sits or goes 92 KG, right?

Why would anyone leave anywhere? Suriano left Rutgers after winning a NC there.

I would assume Spratley at 125, Ayala at 133, and Hughes at 141 with Jamison at 149 and Teague at 157.

Honestly, how badass would it be to see him go 79 KG then give 86 KG a go on his last go?

Same. Wrestling 134, I regularly weighed 143-145lbs and was still very lean. I heard stories of the Brands bros weighing north of 150lbs come B1Gs. I never saw it (them being 150+), but I tell you what, your hands hurt after handfighting them.

I would be okay with 95 instead of 55. On Olympic years we get rid of the weights ending in '5' for our six weights.

Ten weights for both styles: 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 100, 130 Our NCAA weight classes then need to be adjust to follow suit.

Got you for bangin' hookers, too?

If you figure between Wyoming, Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma there are approximately 100 wrestlers and only one has been dismissed from their team due to excessive alcohol consumption (this year), then his number is actually pretty spot on. I used those three for no reason at all.

I don't know... I came up in a time where weight cutting was extremely bad, unhealthy, and rampant. I was one of the few cutting a lot of weight and even to this day as a man closer to 60 than 50 my weight isn't much more than my walk around weight was then. Good genetics, better food, and a lot of rum. These guys on the right? Hopefully they have had their expectations tempered and don't cause themselves too much bodily harm on the way. Student comes before athlete. For ~99% of these guys mind, body, and soul health leads to success more so than pain and suffering does.

No, it was changed for all winter sports to be a one time thing just this last year. @flyingcementdo you have the info on that? We talked about it more in-depth on the TP thread.

Meanwhile he could have gone to Tarleton and saved a boatload of money on his car insurance... https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/compare/rutgers-university-new-brunswick-vs-university-of-wisconsin-madison-vs-rider-university-vs-tarleton-state-university

Neither are Top 100 institutions. His tuition is fixing to skyrocket, though. https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/compare/rutgers-university-new-brunswick-vs-university-of-wisconsin-madison

So because he had been in the portal before he is technically still in? I am having trouble understanding how this is a go. Grad transfers are beholden to the same window now, are they not?