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I think you probably know the answer to this; what substance were two members of the Greco team popped for?

...and his involvement in wrestling?

HUGE sample size of thousands of wrestlers! The only four timers from middle and upper weights!

Yeah... Suriano outgrew 125 until Lee had two torn ACLS then he mysteriously dropped a weight!

He's not even the best on his high school team!

Must've been Alberto Salazar, Mark Kerr, Mark Coleman and the rest of the American Olympic Doping Illuminati that he was conspiring with!

And Mark Hall is only a one-timer! Crazy!

Obviously not his error, but you can see why a mega conference with their own network gets more national attention than the EIWA. I still have not watched EIWA tournament matches despite the fact that an athlete I have worked with in the past qualified through the conference.

Or even the Big 10 championships.

Bonus rate is no myth. You are correct about the Covid year making weight classes deeper, however you now get five shots to win. This skews "all-time" stats a bit. However, I think we (as a nation) have been getting deeper anyway. For example: heavyweight has not been hugely affected by these extra covid year guys, but in recent years is probably the deepest weight we have ever had as far as international age group accomplishments.

Also, perhaps the more historically dominant program with the largest fanbase playing a role. Not to mention the "excuses are for wusses" clip may have been more mainstream than the "nuts" soundbite.

Zain was pretty good, too! DT is an all-time great but "only" won twice, so I think he's out of the conversation. If they get four (five), Brooks and Starocci are both all-timers on anyone's list, but lack of bonus, greyshirting and Covid years have kinda muddied things up a bit. I may even like Ed Ruth over the two for these reasons.

This makes sense. I've never seen a seatbelt or bodylock throw in freestyle.

Shane Sparks and Robert Urich? Who knew?

"fellar" Ummm... probably the best translation for the Plato quote is "Ignorance is the root of MISFORTUNE.' You are trying to school me, but end up using an adjective instead of a noun. Real brainiac! I guess you are ignorant, making you misfortunate! The "keggers' guy! I was just pointing out the hypocrisy, and you gave me more hypocrisy! There was literally an article in the local PSU paper saying injuries were probably going to cost them the title. Their solution to plug these holes was going to be a guy coming off an ACL surgery. This was only back in 2020, when many of the current PSU bunch were in school. 2020! PSU guys are injured at a fairly high rate. It just hasn't cause them to miss a lot of time since covid. Recency bias

At no point did I say that I was invoking irony. Indeed, I am sincere. I am sincerely focusing on the double standard.

(Anytime a guy with a black and gold singlet gets hurt, it is blamed on "1970s training techniques, " "load management," etc.; even if the guy arrived in Iowa City with previous injuries. I'm just (tongue in cheek) applying the same logic to PSU, who also has had plenty of injuries)

One guy took 4th at the other school and then injured himself again at PSU. "Improperly managed injuries.' Another guy chose to wrestle freestyle during the season. "Improperly managed athlete who had multiple seasons lost to injuries at PSU." But this has quickly been forgotten about. I think PSU probably needs to dial back the "1970s style training methods."

Because voting to ignore past results got his 125 the #1 seed over Glory. Thus, he didn't mind Yianni at #1. It is not what is best for the sport, it is about what is best for his team.

Like this? https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/sports/college/psu/football/2020/01/08/penn-state-suffers-two-wrestling-injuries-could-derail-title-hopes/2842535001/

Yeah... now Iowa is responsible for Covid!

Yianni's coach voted to keep the seeds the way they were at EIWA!

Despite what PSU says, I find it hard to say that Brooks won B1G as a true freshman. He was a greyshirt and focused on training for a year after high school,

I thought he retired? https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2020/03/126-pound-final-bergen-catholics-robert-howard-leaves-legacy-for-all-to-see.html