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Minnesota 125 Troy Spratley 133 Aaron Nagao 141 Vance Vombaur 149 Tagen Jamison 157 Drew Roberts 165 Cael Carlson/Hunter Lyden 174 Andrew Sparks/Sam Skillings 184 Isaiah Salazar 197 True Freshman Gavin Nelson or Transfer HWT Bennett Tabor That’s if none of McKee, Brayton, Blockhus or Joles come back. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Probably Michigan, yes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Truax in the portal has Penn State written all over it. Smaller programs losing their guys to the big ten sucks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The long term plan is for McEnelly and Nelson to be 184 and 197. They anticipate making that work fairly easily. I think Hopke’s decision is coming down to Wisconsin or Minnesota but you can never rule out Cael. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The gophers… ugh. Heavily impacted by injuries this year after losing Gable. Brayton Lee was a shell of his former self, Patrick McKee and Bailee O’Reilly wrestling with 10 pound knee braces, etc. There were a couple bright spots in Aaron Nagao and Isaiah Salazar (who I’m still shocked didn’t AA). This team has been heavily impacted the last few years by getting next to no production out of the classes of 2016, 2017 and 2019 while other teams like Michigan and Iowa had all stars going at their 6th and 7th year. The 2018 class of Gable, Brayton, and McKee was the only thing keeping the team afloat. I think this current gopher staff is proven to be good at developing kids to a high potential, Jakob Bergeland and Bailee O’Reilly being as good as they are without being ranked in the top 150 as recruits is a good indicator of that. HOWEVER, the issue for the years following the Xanax scandal was clearly recruiting. It seems that they’ve gotten a little bit out from under the shade of that by landing top 15 recruit Troy Spratley, Cadet world team members in Max McEnelly and Gavin Nelson, Fargo champ Tagen Jamison, and are heavy in the mix for double style world champ Koy Hopke. They need to keep the momentum going on that front and try to land some transfers as well. They’re also now running the risk of bottlenecking the program with guys like McKee, Blockhus and Brayton coming back for 6th years and taking spots from recruits of the classes of 2021 and 2022 they’ve spent a lot of time and money on that could transfer if they have to sit again. COVID year could strike again on that front. End of rant Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Vance Vombaur, 141 Minnesota. He’ll technically be a redshirt sophomore because Bergeland came back for his COVID year. Had a nice win against AA Clay Carlson at the SDSU dual in December. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

AJ Nevills graduates, insert Seth at SDSU Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Are we really doing the Carr to Penn State thing again lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Heavyweight U needs a heavyweight. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Eggum ain’t going anywhere Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Switching from Folk to freestyle would solve all these problems Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Double leg rides need to be called a stalemate sooner. I have no problem with Nagao’s neutral style tho. He’s just good. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah maybe a little overzealous on my part lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Shayne Van Ness 99% chance today. He’s going to whoop Rooks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My totally un-biased non-Homer upset pick for this morning is Salazar over Keckeisen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fair. You would certainly know better than I. It’s likely him and O’Reilly meet in the blood round, and I don’t think he has it either. It’ll be the ultimate lack-of-it off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ethan Smith has about as easy a path through the blood round as you can get, imo. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Minnesota COULD have 5 AA, likely only 2-3. McKee could do what he does on the back side again, but DeAugustino is a really tough start. The boneheaded loss against Ventresca could haunt him. Could end up with Noto in the blood round. Nagao will lose to RBY and have Cannon to AA, lost to him in the dual on a last second nearside. Bergeland has MFF out. Great career for him. Blockhus has SIUE kid and then winner of Demas/Realbuto. He’s had troubles with both of those. If he can get past them, has Rooks from Indiana who he’s majored twice Sparks did well winning a match but will not AA. O’Reilly will lose to Starocci and could have Ethan Smith in the blood round. Bad match up for him. Salazar has a small chance against Keckeisen, a loss could give him Pinto in the blood round, which scares me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nagao has a significant BJJ background. I’m sure those tendencies are hard to erase. Is what he’s doing in those pictures illegal? I feel like no one will actually answer that question and I don’t know. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is the way he’s doing it illegal? Serious question as idk. Don’t think he’s ever been called for it, and if he does it so much and it’s illegal you’d think it would’ve happened at least once. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pinto’s fire got extinguished early wow Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He couldn’t even lift his right arm after the match with Lewan. I was shocked he went out for a second match. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Allred probably takes 4th if he’s in the big 12 championships, which is tougher than the big tens at a couple weights this year imo. I don’t think he’s an NCAA finalist. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

5 finalists at NCAA’s..? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This sucks. Hate to see someone’s last year end this way. I feel for Malik. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk