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At some point I would think they will lose some of the outstanding talent they have to the portal. If I was a top 10 wrestler, I would have a hard time sitting on the bench for a year or 2. With all of the NIL money floating around you would think it would start happening. It's great to be wrestling for a phenomenal team with great coaches, but if you can't make the line-up, ( because you have an NCAA Champion in front you) and you could start on just about any other team. I wouldn't blame them for going into the portal. It's a good problem to have if you are Penn State.

Figueroa was injured and did not wrestle much/well for a large part of the season.  In the last month of action, he took down all of the following:

Two Gable records Cael won't touch. Winning the Conference 21 straight years  he coached and nine straight NCAA Titles.
Most others are within reach if he stays as head coach.
 

For wrestling the Pac-12 will still have WSU, Oregon State, CSUB, Cal Poly, and UALR - for now. ASU will have a new home in the Big12, but maybe Stanford will re-affiliate for wrestling? There was talk of the non-revenue sports staying out West to save on travel but I don't recall if it was Stanford/ACC. 
Cal Bap, AFA, NoCo, UVU would be a nice geographical fit if they wanted to reaffiliate with the "new" Pac. Saves the Big12 schools a little bit on treks out to and from the likes of CA, WV, ND.

What weight does Lilledahl go and does he redshirt? If he wrestles right away either Davis or Nagao are likely out of the lineup.

I was pretty adamant on a couple of posts that I thought Nick Feldman would come in and win a title on day 1. I will eat crow on that. Hindsight 20/20 kind of a silly prediction haha.


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This was just my "tongue in check" reply to Illini about his comment about Seth Mendoza rumor of flipping to Illinois from Mizzou.  Hell, at this point, nothing surprises me! 

Rumor has it that Smith is stepping down at Mizzou and Askren is taking over as HC.  But, you know how rumors go!  As easy to start as a grass fire during a drought.

I'm hearing Iowa.  Along with TJ Stewart.

I think the US Open is in April that’s usually pretty fun


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the portal is terrible and needs to go away now.

As a Gopher fan it was a pretty embarrassing year. My wife as a casual fan said “We are in only 22nd place? is the coach gonna get fired?”
 
They are going after guys who are poor program fits. Remember Chittum was committed for a year as well. We haven’t been able to keep guys from outside the region here. Here is what I would do for next year
 
125-Morvari Fr
133-Wells-So
141-Vombaur-Jr
149-Roberts-Jr
157-Brenner-Jr
165-Millard True Fr
174-Wester True Fr
184-McEnelly Fr
197-Salazar Sr or Nelson Fr
Hwt-Hopke True Fr
 
As based on recent history, you get NOTHING from redshirting guys,  they just leave anyways. Wrestle your best team every season.

Absolutely, if Reader takes the Central Michigan job I would assume it’s a done deal. Michigan at 174 makes sense. I would actually like to see him go wrestle for his fellow Italian Mike Poeta at 165 for Illinois as well.

Why are so many guys leaving?  Personality clashes with the coaching staff?  That is a startling number of starter-level talent.

This is a neat statistic, but I would’ve traded this for just five qualifiers if all five actually did anything. Disappointing season for the gophers for sure.


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Not sure if this is true. but it's pretty amazing if it is. wonder if anyone else did this?
the announcers said a couple different times that Minnesota lost like 5 starters to the portal/wwe
and still qualified 10 wrestlers for NCAA tourney.

So he commits to a school and they train and develop  him for  four years and then he realizes they don’t have his program.
 
 Look at programs and tell we what Iowa has compared to NdSU 

Most of these guys would not be wrestling. I think Brock Hardy still would be.


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Love to be on a fly on wall for this, like the Guys going to Iowa or Olenjik from OSU.
 
Sorry smaller program u developed me and trained me along with investing money in me.   But these bigger programs now are interested in me even though they never recruited me four years ago.

Wonder if Clayton Whiting from Missouri doesn’t hit the portal. Lost his 184 spot to Hawks and O’Toole is bumping to 174. Whiting was a highly ranked recruit out of Wisconsin AWA guy with some nice wins in his first two years.


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wait just to clarify - did Willie confirm that it was a rumor or that he was definitely going to transfer?

The hawks are going to be circling Bailey and Little from Little Rock. I hope they both stay and help Erisman build that program. 

I heard him say Wyatt Hendrickson to Mizzou.  Anyone else I missed?  
Sounds like they believe Cardenas to Michigan has a good chance. 

McGonagle from Lehigh entered the portal the other day 

Edmond got royally f’ed.