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My guess is Pac. Great news

From a conference standpoint, the SoCon is getting pounded in the portal. So far they have 38 outgoing and 1 incoming. Which is even worse than the 11-0 from the Ivy. Big 12 is doing the best so far with 20 incoming and 36 outgoing

I take a different angle on holding kids back in 8th grade for competitive advantage. To me, it can drift away from the wrestling ethos, which traditionally values earning advantage through effort, discipline, and courage in the moment you’re placed in. Less about restructuring the starting line. I also think it can unintentionally overshadow the athletes who don’t optimize in that way but still compete with real courage against older or more physically developed opponents. Wrestling, at its core, has always felt less about engineered advantage and more about what you do with the circumstances you’re given. If people approach wrestling with an idea of trying to attain perfection, from my standpoint, they're missing the point about what wrestling really offers.

https://virginiatech.sportswar.com/article/2026/05/05/virginia-tech-wrestling-million-donation/

Thanks WKN! Interesting to see that WrestleStat which is just an equation without any individual stock picking - performs better than coaches. I guess coaches have more on their mind than rating the other teams. Intermat looking good and Flo not too shabby. Of course these are relatively short period of results, so it would be more telling of the quality of judgment for each service, by looking at the statistics over a longer period of time. On the other hand, change in staff can distort the image if you look at across periods of times which are attributed to various different people. Lots of information to digest here.

There are still about 2/3 of the portal entrants that have not yet made a decision (out of 265+) Lots of portal excitement left to be had.

Swawbomb:

These DI teams have not participated in the portal at all this year: American Brown Cal Poly Davidson Franklin & Marshall George Mason Lock Haven Northwestern

Non-D1 teams involved in the D1 portal so far: Team Outgoing Incoming Net Gross Central Oklahoma (DII) 0 2 2 2 Indian Hills (NJCAA) 1 1 0 2 Western Wyoming (NJCAA) 2 0 -2 2 Wisconsin-Parkside (DII) 0 1 1 1 Wisconsin-La Crosse (DII) 0 1 1 1 Vanguard (DII) 0 1 1 1 Southeastern (NAIA) 0 1 1 1 Providence (NAIA) 0 1 1 1 Oklahoma City (NAIA) 0 1 1 1 Northern State (DII) 0 1 1 1 New College of Florida (NAIA) 0 1 1 1 Montevallo (DII) 0 1 1 1 Minnesota State-Mankato (DII) 0 1 1 1 Iowa Western (NJCAA) 0 1 1 1 Gannon (DII) 0 1 1 1 Central Methodist (NAIA) 0 1 1 1 Brockport (DIII) 0 1 1 1

Thanks for the tip. I just locked in the 20 for the year. Cheers

You may be crazy, but you are not wrong here. He had previously committed to SIUE and then switched to Rider.

So I admit that I fibbed. I didn't get it from the Premium Board here - but "a" premium board somewhere out there - which is also known as the Iowa State Cyclones Forum. Those guys had the info about Drake first