I didn't say he didn't get better throughout the year last year. Just saying it doesn't appear he's made any type of developmental jump over the offseason despite the fact he's working with DT every day
Does he not get to wrestle with DT? I'm confused...he was marginally better than Little last year and he hasn't widened the gap. If fact, you could say Little is slightly better now. Merrill's no better on the mat, in fact Little had more riding time.
I mean isn't that what everyone was saying?? All these guys with a chance to work & wrestle with DT on a daily basis were going to jump levels in their wrestling?? Wouldn't you expect that to happen?
Imagine being Norman and leaving a Stanford education to be...a backup at a bad academic school. I thought DT was going to have a huge impact on Berge, Norman, Lockett, and Merrill. No jumps by any of those guys or any of the Okie State holdovers from the prior regime.
The win at the US Open was definitely fluky but he lost 7-1 & 8-4 at WTT so he's within reach and he's just turned 21. I could definitely see him making a jump and figuring some stuff out. Knox just graduated HS & took Spencer down. Idk, I could see those two passing Spencer up but yes, I would also not be surprised to see Spencer hold off these two like JB was able to do to Dake and Taylor for so long.
57- LL. Dark horse is Knox. I wonder what Devino will look like down at 57kg..
65- Bassett. Definitely the most fun weight. Wouldn't be surprised to see Blaze, Jax, Seidel, maybe Valencia? as our reps either.
74- Mesenbrink. Dark horse is PJ Duke
86- Levi
97- Snyder. Will Brooks be cleared by OTT?
125- Trumble. Excited to see how Ross & Coby Merrill develop by '28
"Would love to see PSU go against top teams every week" Buddy what are you even talking about?? I just showed you they faced 5 of the top 7 teams in the country during the season.
I'm not sure if you know what a straw man argument is....it was stated Cael wrestles the easiest schedule possible and I simply showed facts/evidence why that is incorrect.
Imagine a college football team plays 5 of the top 7 teams in the country, barely breaks a sweat, and idiots still ran their mouth saying "tHeY dIDnT pLaY anYOne!!!!" just because they didn't play the #2 team during the regular season.
It's wild to read that PSU somehow wrestles an easy schedule. That's some next level propaganda that you PSU haters like to spew.
Here were their dual opponents last year.
#3 beatdown 26-12
#4 beatdown 32-3
#5 beatdown 36-5 (these were the NDI champs btw)
#6 beatdown 42-0
#7 beatdown 38-3
Then they proceeded to enter a tournament with ALL of those teams minus Stanford & beat the 2nd place team by 36 points.
Would wrestling 1 more tough team REALLY prepare them any better for NCAA's??