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Teaching gym class isn't a fringe benefit there its the main job responsibility. It's a full time gig. Very few high school coaching positions in wrestling even for head coach pay $35k. The additional pay over a normal teacher with no coaching responsibilities rarely approaches $35k. This is also a problem not unique to wrestling. I am sure assistants in other non-revenue sports at this institution are similarly compensated.

I don’t know about most Olympic hosts - I’ve only been to the Olympics once before and that was definitely cheaper. We are paying a little more for worse seats to fewer sessions, but I am still going to get to see nearly all of the men’s freestyle for roughly what I paid the last time. I thought famously the IOC and FiFA do not pay any costs and keep all the money for events like this. The host agrees to pay for the costs and exempts the IOC/FIFA from all taxes as part of the bid/host agreement. As such I wouldn’t think recouping costs would factor into ticket prices.

Wow those are decent time slots pretty early for both. I am pretty sure 7/29 13PT was the second time slot in the presale. A friend of mine had the same time slot and couldn’t get wrestling tickets. He said only wheelchair tickets were left. The friends with 10PT were able to cat B and C tickets to men’s freestyle. Your main drop two time slot was also pretty good. I think it might have been the 3rd time slot behind 10PT and 13pt on 8/10. I had a friend buy men’s freestyle tickets with a 8/10 10PT time slot. I don’t know anyone that had 8/10 13PT. I think there is some value in the hospitality package. There is admission to the hospitality pavilion before or after the session. Presumably this includes food and drink, which is expensive at events like this. I don’t think it’s good value for money as they add $400 to the ticket price. If it was more like $50 extra it would be a compelling option. $400 is crazy.

Here is the quote "I didn't make weight for the US Open after my... '96 I missed weight at the US Open. I just didn't. I made 34. 34 was killing me and then two weeks later I had to make the US Open and I'm like I got out there and I'm like I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. It's the only time I ever missed weight in my life, but I was so burnt. And um I went to 49 and I remember adding up and I think I counted 41 individual NCAA titles in the weight class. Santoro, me, Nate Carr. I mean just and not counting Townsend Saunders who didn't have an NCAA title. It was like 40. It was so ridiculous." I took it to mean 41 at 68kg (149lbs) in the 1996 Open. I don't know that it's possible. I confirmed 13 titles, but maybe he looked back at the bracket later and counted two for him and three for McIlravy which would be 15. That's still 26 short. I think there were more than 13, but even counting future titles and lower divisions it's hard to imagine 41. I'd be interested to see the bracket.

Is this a problem? and if so for whom? Some buyers will be price insensitive. Whatever it costs they are buying. Creating false scarcity will filter these individuals to higher price tiers. So bad for the price insensitive group. For someone like me if I had to pay $700 plus for the finals and $400+ for the prelims I wouldn't be going. I live across the country and to get a flight, lodging, easting out, and tickets it's to go its going to cost ~$1500+/day to attend and to attend enough sessions to make the trip worth the effort I'd want to attend multiple days. It's going to be expensive and then finding other people to go with that are willing to pay the same will be difficult. For me the 2027 world championships would provide far more value for money and I'd have more friends interested in going. So for someone like me doesn't this false scarcity help? By filtering big spenders like Voice of the Quakers up to hospitality packages doesn't that leave more tickets for people like you and me?

Where in the Visa Presale and Draw 2 were your time slots? I had friends that got the first available timeslot in both the Visa Presale (7/29 10PT) and the main drop 2 (8/10 10PT) and both were able to get tickets. Everyone I know with later time slots in either the presale or the main drop 2 were not able to get wrestling tickets at any price point. Hospitality packages remain available.

Last week Cary Kolat was on the Full Tilt podcast and one topic they discussed was the depth of the Senior Freestyle team with Kolat having the opinion that there was greater depth in the 1990s because guys stuck around longer. To back up his claim he said the wrestlers in his bracket at the Open in 1996 had won a combined 41 NCAA titles. That number sounds absurdly high. Does anyone have a copy of this bracket? Is this the most ever? Is it even possible? I have some doubts. Even if all the wrestlers that won every NCAA title from the past 10 NCAA championships at 4 different weights entered that wouldn’t be enough to get 41 in a bracket. In the podcast Kolat said that after winning NCAAs at 134lbs in 1996 he was burnt out making weight and went up to 68kg (149lbs) for the open instead of wrestling his usual 62kg (136lbs). The only names he mentioned in his bracket of 41 NCAA champs were Townsend Saunders (0 NCAA titles) who won the open, Nate Carr (3 NCAA titles), Pat Santoro (2 NCAA titles) and Kolat (1 NCAA title at that point) which totals 6 NCAA titles. I haven't been able to find a bracket, but some of the participants in the bracket are in the wrestlingrecords.com database. Using that I have been able to find and additional 7 NCAA titles : Lincoln McIlravy (lost to Saunders in the final, 2 NCAA titles), Matt DeMaray (2 NCAA titles), Brian Dolph (1 NCAA title), Terry Steiner (1 NCAA title), and Alan Fried (1 NCAA title). That makes 13 and even if you count the titles Kolat and McIlravy would win in the future that's only 15. Could there really be another 16-18 titles in the rest of the field? Even if there aren't that doesn't take away from his point as 13 is already a lot. Here are the number of NCAA titles in each weight at the 2026 US Open. 57KG (4), 61kg (3), 65kg (5), 70kg (2), 74kg (2), 79kg (2), 86kg (5), 92kg (2), 97kg (1), 125kg (3) 86 and 65 kg had the most with 5 in each weight though it was spread across more wrestlers at 65kg. But the format is a little different than in 1996. I don't think returning world medalists had the option of a bye to the best of three so all open champs got byes making it more likely that people would enter it than wait for the WTTs and no one would have been waiting at Final X. It was also an Olympic year prompting some wrestlers to unretire and give it one more try, like Nate Carr. Here are the total NCAA titles won by wrestlers that entered either the Open, the WTTs, or Final X in 2026. 86kg had the most with Kyle Dake (4), Zahid Valencia (2), and Parker Keckeisen (1). 70kg only had 6 titles but they were spread across 4 wrestlers Retherford (3), Robideau (1), Lovett (1), and Henson (1). Totaling up all the NCAA titles across all ten weights from all three events Open, WTTs, and Final X only yields 41 NCAA titles what Kolat said his weight had in 1996. 57KG (4), 61kg (3), 65kg (5), 70kg (6), 74kg (2), 79kg (4), 86kg (7), 92kg (2), 97kg (4), 125kg (4). Link to the Kolat interview starting at this section.

Prices were the same as drop 1, but lower category tickets (B-D) were available. At least for the visa presale and early in drop 2. I don’t expect the price to change.

4pm EST? The start times for the windows I’ve seen in drop 2 are all 10 Pacific Time which is 1 PM EDT. I had some friends that were able to buy wrestling tickets during the pre-sale. Those guys had a 10 PT window in the presale and another friend with a presale window of 16 PT the same day was not able to buy. No regular wrestling tickets were available only wheelchair tickets by 16:00 PT. During the main drop 2 a couple friends with the window on the first day were able to buy wrestling tickets as well, so they refreshed the ticket inventory between the presale and the main drop. Both friends had a 10 PT window on the 10th. Your window should be for 48 hrs. It might be worth it for you to log on at 1 EDT (about 45min from now) and see if anything is available in case they release additional tickets each day. I’m hoping they do that as the window I was drawn isn’t for a couple more days.

When was your buying window? Might mean no tickets were available for that event given your filters.

Has anyone been able to get tickets during Drop 2?

That decision is temporary not final. TRO=Temporary Restraining Order. Final decision has been rendered and he is ineligible. No state title just like Brands, Scott, etc.

Well Brands didn't get the decision that Knox did. He sued and wasn't granted the temporary restraining order he wanted. Knox got a TRO, but as someone pointed out one of the criteria for granting a TRO is the likelihood that the party will prevail. Clearly Knox did not prevail so perhaps the court was wrong to grant the TRO. Or perhaps the court thought that irreparable harm would happen to Knox if he wasn't allowed to wrestle and somehow prevailed later, but if they grant the order then the NJSIAA could simply strip him of the title/any placement/points should be not prevail and remedy the situation. Either way Brands, Knox, and Scott were all good enough to win state titles as seniors but ultimately did not because of off the mat issues. https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/671/627/2595177/

I am not a NJSIAA historian. To me Knox is a 3xer. A 3xer that was good enough to be a 4xer, but off the mat issues prevented it. He should not have been allowed to wrestle. This is like how Tom Brands wasn't allowed to wrestle in the post season his senior year of high school or how Garrett Scott wasn't allowed to wrestle and attempt to win a 4th state title in PA. Both good enough to win but off the mat issues prevented it. The court ordered Knox be allowed to wrestle in this case and it appears they should not have since Knox did not ultimately prevail.

Tsarni made the 92kg final today meaning he has at least a silver. He of course wont receive a medal until tomorrow because he could still make it a gold.

Is this how you normally have conversations? Tell everyone they are wrong and insult them? You employ unusual methods for more than just privacy. You are the one that took this from the basic question of preventing a cashier from scanning your ID when buying beer to cameras in the ceiling using OCR and AI to harvest the data from the front of the license. You then used the new threat to claim my painters tape isn’t doing anything when the strategy you described would do no better in that situation. That was moving the goalposts. Judging my painters tape against something your strategy would be equally ineffective against. Now you say “I don't give them my license.” This is not something you previously explained, this is new information. What form of ID do you give? State ID, Passport, etc? I had previously recommended using a passport because nearly 100% of the age verification systems I see in use are designed to scan the 2D barcode on the back of a license/state ID and cannot scan a passport. No OCR. Or are you saying you use your drivers license for age verification but don’t hand it to the cashier? This would also be new information you had not previously explained. It also would not stop OCR from being used on the front of the license. If the cashier’s handheld scanner was really using OCR like you described earlier they could just scan the front of it in your hand. Asking firmly might prevent this, but it will not work for the shifted goalposts of AI powered cameras around the checkout area using OCR. If the cashier can read the dob so can a nearby camera. If this is your strategy it might be slightly more effective than my painters tape as you could limit the view angle of the camera, but this depends on you identifying cameras ahead of time and retaining control of your license. The reason I moved away from not handing my license over was because I find it obnoxious to not hand the document to the cashier to examine and it creates unnecessary conflict. The painters tape has yet to create conflict. Given how you talk to people on the internet maybe you see being obnoxious and creating conflict as a benefit? You are the one that took the conversation past purchasing beer to more serious questions of privacy like AI cameras in the ceiling and asked “what do you think the rush to AI is really about?” I am not an expert just a person that values his privacy. Going back to buying beer and drivers licenses. I consider the most private piece of information on my license to be the address. For this reason the address on my license is not my home address which I consider even more private still. I don’t give my home address out to any businesses or anyone besides friends and family. My employer doesn’t have it. The government doesn’t have it. No place I have ever purchased beer has if one has fully scanned the front and back of my drivers license. Privacy is something you must think about long before you need it. It takes time and money to acquire and that investment must be maintained. It will always be easier and cheaper to give it up, but then in the future if you need it, you may find it impossible to obtain at any price. If your home address is on the ID you use to purchase beer I could understand you being more cautious than I am in this transaction. If you want to maintain the highest level of privacy I’d recommend you find a place willing to sell you beer without age verification and pay with cash. You probably look old enough that it won’t be too difficult to find a place to sell you beer without providing ID. Alternatively you could make your own beer at home. It isn’t that difficult and gives a sense of satisfaction that store bought beer cannot. If privacy is not your goal feel free to continue being obnoxious to cashiers.

Okay if you move the goalposts to AI powered cameras in the ceiling and all over the store using OCR the painters tape doesn’t protect against that, but neither does your strategy of firmly asking the clerk to manually enter your DOB. You take out your license to hand it to the cashier and the cameras zoom in on what’s in your hand. You firmly ask the clerk to manually enter your DOB and your voice is being recorded and analyzed by the AI. You hand your drivers license to the cashier and the cameras zoom in on it in the clerks hand. OCR could be used by the AI to pull your information from the front of the license and match it with a picture of your face from the video. How does your strategy prevent this? It doesn’t. You still have to take your license out for the cashier to read the DOB from it and if it’s out for the clerk to read the AI powered cameras system could be reading it just the same. Do you firmly asking the cameras to manually enter the DOB too? What’s the strategy there? My point wasn’t that the painters tape was a perfect solution or prevented scanning in all situations, but I find it superior to the strategy you presented and what I had been doing. It avoids the conflict of either not handing the ID to the cashier or firmly asking anything followed by an eye roll. There is also nothing for me to remember to do. I don’t have to remember that this store scans or to ask them not to do it. I just hand it over. I forget the painters tape is on there. I handed my license to two different police officers when reporting/tracking down my stolen motorcycle and neither mentioned the painters tape. I didn’t think of the painters tape being on there until well after doing it.

Probably, but all the information on the front except your photo in contained in the QR codes on the back. If they manually enter that info then I am more certain only that info is being entered and potentially retained.

Scanners have been taking images and processing them for over 20 years. What you speak of isn't new technology. The gas stations, super markets, bars that I go to aren't taking photos or scanning the front and using OCR. They scan the QR codes on the back. Whether its a really old bar bode scanner or taking an image of a QR code if the code is covered by painters tape the scanner will not read it and the image will be of painters tape. Its effective against either style of scanner. You shouldn't underestimate the ability of something so simple to render a modern expensive high tech system useless. The thief that stole my motorcycle was able to prevent detection by the ALPR camera system in my city with a sticker over my tag number. Some painters tape would have bene equally effective. If I notice establishments scanning the front of the license I might go back to either not handing it over and/or asking them not to scan it when I do. Another effective method I have found to avoid scanning of your ID is to use your passport. There is a single barcode in the back of the passport book, but this is a regular barcode and not a QR code so it contains far less info than the back of your drivers license or state issued ID. Also most POS systems are not even programed to read that so it will be manual entry nearly 100% of the time. On the bottom of the page with your photo most of the info printed on it is contained in a short form code. At the airport;? seen scanners capable of reading that, but I have never seen one in use outside of an airport. Using passport as ID is great because the are universally accepted, but rarely anticipated. Using a passport has the upside of not having your address information in it. There is a section in it where the passport holder can write their address, but I don't do that and many people do not. On the other hand a passport is bulky to carry, more difficult to replace, and has your place of birth on it though that is only the state of birth on mine. I consider state of birth to be less sensitive than my current address.

If its a place I know that scans I will ask them not to scan it. If I didn't know I used to keep the license in my hand and show it to them and then if they tried to take ask if they were fixing to scan it. I have since put a piece of painters tape on the back of my license where the bar codes are. Now I just hand it to the person without saying anything. I have yet to be asked about the painters tape. Usually when it doesn't scan they just enter it. Less confrontation. I don't think people that didn't fully grasp mass surveillance capabilities of these cameras are morons. They get marketed as finding stolen cars and essential law enforcement tools. This thread also started over a year ago and attention on flock cameras has certainly increased since then. There have been some high profile fumbles by flock since that and that superbowl add where Ring showed off their search party feature. It's raised questions about mass surveillance and whether the government should have access to this information especially without a warrant. Hopefully more people realize.

My motorcycle was stolen out of a storage unit I rent last week. I asked the police officer who took the initial report if they ever recover stolen motorcycles. He said cars sometimes motorcycles not really. Maybe if they park it or it hits on one their ALPRs (Automated License Plate Readers), but they aren't allowed to chase them. ALPR is the generic term of the Flock branded ones used in Denver. Ultimately my motorcycle was recovered 3 days later using a Bluetooth tracker I had hidden in it. ALPRs played no role in the recovery. The thief did not bother to even remove my license plate they simply put a sticker on it to cover the plate number. ALPRs are probably more useful for cars than motorbikes as a sticker on the license plate would be more likely to get you pulled over and the police would be more likely to pursue if the vehicle attempts to flee. I still think they are minimally effective. When the police recovered my motorbike they also recovered a stolen car which had avoided the ALPRs until my tracker sent them to these guys.

Okay so after some searching to find out when the engagement happened and when stories appeared that the engagement post was deleted along with time info from the victim's social media post (dues in December, sonogram at 12 weeks, currently 15 weeks, etc.), I think the timeline is as follows. Late March victim gets pregnant - maybe the week after NCAAs. (15 weeks at victims social media post referencing assault/due in December) Around May 6 - Successful proposal from Ferrari. Around May 20 - stories appear stating the proposal post had been deleted. I am not sure your plot twist works with that timeline. If they started dating after she got pregnant it would have been too soon for her to be showing. AJ proposed when she was 6-7 weeks pregnant. She probably didn't know for long at that point herself and he only would have known if she told him. Then they seemingly broke up two weeks later. If he likes dating pregnant ladies it would seem odd for him to end it then when there is a lot of pregnancy left. I suppose the plot twist that it's not his kid is possible. I more think your explanation of how that would have happened is implausible given the apparent timeline. I think it's more likely the kid is Ferrari's.

Yes that can be the case. I don't know how it works in NE. At a minimum someone affiliated with AJ would have to pay $20,000 cash to the court, but they may have to pay $20,000 to a bail bondsman and put up up the house as collateral against the $180,000. I recall Pat Downey's family had to use real estate as collateral to get him out of jail when he was arrested in high school. Not sure if that was with the court or a bail bondsman that paid cash to the court. I don't know how it works in MD either. "My father's brother, Mickey, put up his house as a bond for $100,000 to bail out Pat for the fight at the Turkey Bowl [in 2009]. The bail for the fight with the midshipmen [in 2010] was $50,000 and my friend Rich Mitchell put up his house," said Patrick Downey Jr. "The bail in the third incident and the one which led to him being placed into home-school status was originally set at $500,000," said Patrick Downey Jr. "But that was subsequently lowered to $50,000 at the bail review, and my same friend again put up his house. For the case in Anne Arundel County, my parents paid for his representation, which has been their contribution towards the legal fees." https://patch.com/maryland/glenburnie/despite-troubled-past-north-county-athlete-seeks-a-fresh-start

Not what I meant. Reconciliation would be a bad idea, but it happens a lot in DV cases

I don't really follow his social life. I'm not sure how long ago the proposal happened, but from what I recall at the time it was taken down almost as quickly as it went up so I never saw it. Before the arguments about greco started in elijedi06 posted some screenshots that were supposed to be from the pregnant lady's social media. That seems to confirm that she is the ex-fiancée and her baby is due in December. Because I kind of missed the brief engagement I don't know how that timeline matches with the proposal, but it seems plausible that it could be his kid. Analyzing his chances of getting a long jail term here the pregnancy may be a factor one way or the other. DV cases often fall apart because the couple reconciles and the victim becomes uncooperative. If she is pregnant with his kid even if she is not open to reconciling, which is a bad idea, she might not think it is in the best interest of her child to have his/her father serve a long prison sentence. Conversely she could look at this as an opportunity to keep him away from her child for a loong time. This is of course assuming she is pregnant with his kid.