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If "Ty" is short for "Tyler", as I suspect it is in some cases, that would bump the lead even bigger.

I would like to see a list like the on the OP but done per capita by state. I think that would demote CA and promote IA in the rankings a bit.

It is also the male form of a duck. Rooster:hen Drake:duck

Did he actually weigh 138 as a senior or was it more like 133 and he just didn't want to cut? How big was Yianni? They were in high school during overlapping years (at least many, not sure if they lined up perfectly) but I'm sure Vito didn't want to be in the same weight class as Yianni.

Exactly. He is boring as shit to watch actually wrestle. The Flo Bros like him because he is a perfect heel and generates strong emotions from the fans of the sport.

In our panopticon techno society it would be pretty straightforward to put some real teeth into a law that penalizes employers for hiring illegal immigrants. Making it really hurt for businesses to cheat the system by hiring people without papers would do more to stem the flow of migrants than all the wall and militarized DHS BS at the border.

And a Dailey Bacon Fry is even better.

Yes, the numbers helped.

You convinced me. A few extra tech falls is not worth the trade-off for a vastly higher number of single takedown matches.

Sorry if this is dense of me, but this means TF were not included in the 6.9 vs 7.9%, correct? I imagine TF are now more common than they were previously, and if they are included that would push the numbers even closer, or into favoring the 3 pt takedown if viewer excitement is the goal. I applaud looking critically at rule changes to make sure they have the desired effect, and to be open to changing other rules in order to keep the sport interesting. Thanks for your contribution to this effort.

Getting a little off-topic here, but doesn't Bill Gates own some North Dakota farmland? I don't know how strong those laws banning "corporate farms" are if this is the case... Bill Gates’ North Dakota Farmland Purchase Approved by the Attorney General - AgWeb I guess it is something that the purchase of land by out of state LLCs has to be approved by the state attorney general. How often does the AG nix a deal?

Is it also morally bankrupt to hold a boy back in elementary school to allow for cognitive and emotional development? The data are very clear being "old" for the grade results in better academic success. I don't see how holding back for athletics is any different than holding back for academics, and many, many parents choose to slow their boy's passage through elementary school for academic reasons. Heck, there is a movement afoot to make it standard practice to start boys a year later than girls. Why Boys Should Start School a Year Later Than Girls - The Atlantic

Will someone explain what the "ballgrab" was? I am new to wrestling and am not familiar with that past part of Freestyle.

On another recent thread that revolves around weigh-in timing, weight management, and cutting I got to wondering if anyone knows of GLP-1s being used for weight management? I thought it better to put on its own thread rather than muddy the other discussion with talk of drugs. It seems like turning appetite down a few notches would make losing weight easier (duh!). But maybe there are side-effects to those drugs that make them undesirable as adjuncts to weight loss when physical performance is the higher level goal (as opposed to fat loss for weight/health reasons being the driving factor). My big picture take is that the fewer pharmacological agents in all sports, not just wrestling, the better. I don't love the idea of ozempic being used to drop pounds for sport, but I have less of a charge around that than I do, say, PEDs.

Re: scale shopping and limited number of referees - the one tournament I volunteered to work a table at this past season filled the gym full, but there would have been space for a "weigh station" at one end of the mats. The referees walked back and forth from the individual mat tables to the official tabulation table every match with slips of paper for recording all the scoring. I think in that situation it would have worked smoothly to have a scale or two next to the officials' table. The two competitors could have met the ref there, weighed-in, and then walked to the mat together. But that is just one tournament in one state. Maybe there are other places such a set-up would be a nightmare? One venue that hosted a tournament had a single mat down the hall in a smaller gym space away from the main scene. Running weigh-ins the way I propose here would have made the matches down the hall take longer as the ref would spend time hiking back and forth from mat to weigh station. It would not have risen to the level of "nightmare" but it would add gaps in the action out on that isolated mat. Or in more computerized score keeping scenarios refs just stay on the same mat without going to the officials' table very often?