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Five for five is going to be the law of the land in a few weeks, barring something absolutely crazy happening. I think Mesenbrink not wrestling at trials points to him moving to 174. He can let himself grow without having to focus on conditioning and making 74kg in late October. Right now, the guy to beat at 174 is Minto, who Mesenbrink likely techs. It’s quite possible I really don’t see James not being in the lineup, nor does anyone who watched him wrestle last weekend. He was light at WTT, and he looks like he could make 157, which lets Duke move to 165. Both are title contenders, if not outright favorites, at those respective weights. Kasak takes the year to get his head straight with a med redshirt and comes back at 157 in 2027-28, letting James go up to 165 and Duke continue to grow into 174 (or take an Olympic Redshirt). If there was ever a year where PSU’s bench could win the NCAAs, it will be this year.

125- LL 133- Blaze 141- Desmond 149- Van Ness 157- James 165- Duke 174- Mesenbrink 184- Welsh 197- Barr 285- Mirasola I’d take the over on an O/U of 6.5 NCAA Finalists.

Tim McCall announced as the new head coach at The Citadel. https://citadelsports.com/news/2026/5/20/the-citadel-announces-tim-mccall-as-wrestling-head-coach.aspx

The world let Germany host the Olympics a couple decades after they were gassing Jews by the trainload.

Fewer periods = fewer ring girls.. they need to earn a paycheck, too. Personally, I’d pay to watch Dillon Danis get embarrassed like he did daily.

With some tribal wings…

NIL and revenue sharing are completely different things. NIL is not paid by the school, not part of the budget, and you’re not likely to ever find any accurate numbers. Coaches can’t offer kids “NIL”. NIL is outside money and/or from collectives and has to go through the clearinghouse. It is the dark money of college sports that’s sort of getting cleaned up. Revenue sharing is $20.5mm for the entire athletic department, paid by the athletic department, sometimes part of the sport’s budget, sometimes part of the overall athletic budget in a separate section, and it’s split up between sports in different ways at different schools. Revenue sharing is the money coaches can offer kids. Quite a few schools (Michigan, VaTech) have a 75-15-5-5 split (FB-MBB-WBB-All other sports). Some schools prioritize different sports, some give an even smaller percentage to the “other sports” (Rutgers splits 2% amongst other sports), some give nothing to “other sports”. Ohio State and Nebraska only give rev share to FB, MBB, WBB and VB. However, (some) athletic departments fund the full 30 scholarships instead of paying wrestlers. PSU’s revenue sharing was $1.45mm… word is PSU splits theirs evenly amongst the 30-man roster.. ~$50k/ea. Iowa and Iowa State”s rev shares were just shy of $1mm. OKState has rev share for wrestling, but I haven’t seen their split anywhere (I think seven sports get a cut… obviously the vast majority to football). I haven’t come across any other teams getting a significant rev share allocation.

For reference 2025 open records: Tom Brands $710k Terry Brands $237 Ryan Morningstar $127k Bobby Telford (must’ve been paid by outside) Mark Manning $293k. Bryan Snyder $132k Tervel Dlagnev $152k James Green $93k

My thought is if you wouldn’t pick Robideau over Nolf, it’s tough to pick him over Izzy… had Nolf been the 2016 champ and part of this hypothetical match, I’d probably have said Nolf by major (89% bonus rate in 2016).

Sort of like Chica.. err.. Hammond Bears fans after one decent season…

Definitely didn’t look like he landed in danger. Surprised no brick, but the coaches couldn’t have had any sort of vantage point. That match was crazy… almost quick tech.. almost pinned.. maybe some biting?

I was hoping that’d be the case. The Pan Ams have been excellent.

Where’s this pearl clutcher been? RAF is the best thing to happen to wrestling since Hulk Hogan slamming Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania III. (I can’t think of any real wrestling comparisons.)

It’s troll level, but I don’t think it’s considered trolling if one is being sincere. I’d be more surprised if Nebraska won the dual than if OKST won by 24+.

I have 174 flipped and a 16-16 tie. Crazy they had so many more matches in ‘16… and they weren’t even getting paid!

Kids these days get all the cool things…

Depends… did the tennis player design the escape capsule, too?

Nobody on here. Yet.

I never understood the Olympic redshirt for wrestling… heck, the NCAA women’s hockey teams just played three weeks without their best players who were at the Olympics.

Perhaps they are going all in to land Ferrari…

Let’s try something new on here and not trash the guy over proposing… Has there been any concrete word on his eligibility remaining and/or transfer?

Yeah… not sure of the particulars, just the AI-ish, generally accepted answer of 1968 (72 for football and basketball). I know Dick Hutton was a 4x finalist/3x champ from 47-50 (losing to Verne Gagne in 49), which goes against that.

Have to go with the “first year wrestler” qualification, since freshmen couldn’t compete on the varsity team until 1968.

Some may need to get their grades/credits in order at their current (or another) school before being able to be accepted and commit to their new one. Quite a few universities have local colleges with no real admissions policies that have direct transfer credits to the university.