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Do we have any Little Rock fans in the house? I want to see Dutton and Nassir Bailey both starting this year. Their bigs did well in world team trials this year also. Seems to be a team on the rise

Okay last one for today and thanks for humoring me so far - We are facing a local rival and a teammate of mine (our 145 lber) forgot his wrestling shoes for the dual. Luckily we are the same size shoe, I was the 125 lber, and we were starting the dual at 145, which gave us enough time to switch up. Unfortunately, what I had not foreseen, was that this particular teammate, who had wrestled since he was a kid, was about to complete his last ever match. He was a hot tempered kid - down a point in the third period, and could not get off bottom. Got ridden like a pony and the coach let him have it and yelled at him "you gave up" - the kid says "f*ck you - I quit" and storms out of the gym". Problem was, he was still wearing my shoes. I ran out of the gym to half give him consolation, but mostly to get my shoes back (these were Adidas Mat Wizards in white black and gold). Got them back and then won via spladle

I always kinda thought Gaitan would move down to 165 when Carr was done, but maybe you guys are right and it's actually Chittum who moves up - given the logjam.

Twin brothers on our high school team were Italian kids from South Philly that had never wrestled before. For some reason they didn't like to wear our team warmups over the singlet and both brothers wore matching black leather jackets over their singlet on the way to and from matches

This is a good call. I'm curious how it all shakes out in the following season between Paniro, Chittum, and Swiderski

We had a kid who couldn't make HWT because he was too big. The boy was just shy of three biscuits. One practice coach tells him instead of joining us in practice, he wanted the kid to go upstairs in the large gym and just run and don't stop until two hours are done and then we'll see how much weight he lost. We all resumed our practice. Big Tony comes down and tries to avoid weighing in. Coach insists on it and he is a couple lbs heavier than when he started. Instead of running he spent the two hours by the vending machine.

In hindsight maybe I shouldn't have shared. Bad stuff for sure

I was one of three 8th graders on the team for the first year of camp. Highlights included: 1) Being forced to do chewing tobacco (skoal) 2) lots of bathroom-themed hazing. The three 8th graders were due to face the harshest penalties. My roommate had it worst. Our 215 lber dropped a deuce in the toilet, and they gave my poor roommate a dirty swirly. For me, they had something similar in mind. I resisted in such an extreme manner. I was trying to punch and kick anyone who tried. They had me up in the air. I kicked our 112 lber in the head, they all dropped me on my hip and got a nasty contusion. Anyway I avoided something worse. 3. Kids from Brick Memorial bragged about doing far worse to a freshman on their team. I won't go into details but it was something that if true, would justify murder as a response. And it involved a Snapple bottle.

Anyone here ever attend the TCNJ wrestling camps in the late 90s/early 2000s held by Dave Icenhower (RIP)? I have some stories from those camps - mostly NSFW

sort of unrelated, but the "Greek Parfait" has no place on the Chik Fil A menu. a little self-awareness please

I typically rotate my house beer between Coors heavy and Bud Heavy. Since this whole ordeal, I've noticed price discounts for Bud and as a result, I stopped my rotation and focused on Bud heavy only. I will resume drinking Coors if the price point becomes the same once again. I'm not paying extra for Coors, but I'm thankful that there are idiots out there who would - so I can continue to enjoy this delicious discount.

California Baptist with wrestlestat rankings alongside - A tale of transfers and their brothers 125: Eli Griffin (13) 133: Hunter Leake (84) 141: Darren Green (82) - transfer from Wyoming 149: Dayne Morton (69) - transfer from Nebraska 157: Drayden Morton (23) - brother of Dayne 165: Frank Almaguer (60) / Carter Schubert (186) - incoming freshman who is highly rated 174: Justin Phillips (74) - transfer from Virginia 184: Peter Acciardi (82) - transfer from Buffalo 197: Eli Sheeran (61) - transfer from Buffalo 285: Chris Island (106) or Max Acciardi (152) - brother of Peter

Yes that's him. Wonder if he is just taking some classes while at Cyclone RTC or if he plans on wrestling for the clones

https://www.info.iastate.edu/individuals/info/346652/Andreu-Ortega-Reineri

149 in the Pitt room will be contested between three and any one of them can take it: Tyler Badgett, Brock McMillen, Finn Solomon

Copied over from the Pitt forum:

125: Anthony Noto - AA 133: Gable Strickland- NQ 141: Wyatt Henson - NQ 149: Nick Stonecheck - NQ 157: Eric Alderfer 165: Avery Bassett- NQ 174: Tyler Stoltzfus - NQ 184: Colin Fegley 197: Brad Morrison 285: Isaac Reid - NQ This is my Lock Haven prediction which includes one AA and seven NQs

Good for him. I hear Corvallis is beautiful

Gable Strickland stays at 133 and Henson fills the hole at 141? Lock Haven had a solid team.

Thanks bruv

He has a chance to become a starter this year - what do you reckon?

per WS as of 6/5/2023 125: None 133: None 141: Jesse Mendez, Carter Young, Joey Olivieri 149: None 157: Andrew Clark 165: None 174: None 184: Deanthony Parker 197: Isaac Trumble 285: None

Jacob Kaminksy (who went to Wyoming Seminary) was originally in the portal from Indiana as a heavyweight. He is no longer listed as being on the roster nor in the portal. He used his redshirt last year so he has four years of eligibility left. Wonder if he could end up somewhere like Northwestern

For Ohio State, I prefer the lineup which includes Mendez wrestling, everyone bumping up, and Paddy to the bench. If Kharchlas injury is serious, Welsh is tough enough to start as a freshman

I think Tagen Jamison may have something to say about that