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Greyson Clark takes down Chris Cannon 13-9

165: Church major Carrigan 4-0 174: Ogunsanya dec Wolak 4-3 184: Kane fall Stewart 4-9 197: Smith dec Lautt 7-9 285: Mullen major Neves 11-9 125: Moore dec Ventresca 11-12 133: Oakley dec Campbell 11-15 141: Latona dec Scott 14-15 149: McNeil tech Mason 14-20 157: Hipolito dec Santiago 17-20 Tarheels win 20-17 No Henson tonight.

Out of frustration from holiday tournaments, I actually canceled BTN+ but the subscription is still valid for a few more days and I get to watch tonight's dual. 125: Brendan McCrone major Caelen Riley 4-0 133: Lucas Byrd dec Nik Bouzakis 4-3 141: Jesses Mendez dec Danny Pucino 7-3 149: Kannon Webster dec Dylan D'Emilio 7-6 157: Paddy Gallagher dec Jason Kraisser 10-6 165: Braeden Scoles dec Bryce Hepner 10-9 174: Carson Kharchla dec Dan Braunagel 13-9 184: Edmond Ruth dec Ryder Rogotzke 13-12 197: Zack Braunagel dec Seth Shumate 13-15 285: Nick Feldman dec Luke Luffman 16-15 Buckeyes

I only saw this little replay, but it offers some context at least:

actually guys out for the year: 125: Jore Volk, Noah Surtin, Nico Provo 133: Dylan Ragusin, Aaron Nagao 141: Casey Swiderski 149: Ty Watters, Alek Martin 157: Cael Swenson 165: Matthew Olguin, Connor Euton 174: None (knock on wood) 184: Tomas Brooker 197: Rocky Elam, Martin Cosgrove 285: Nathan Taylor

I'm sticking with my preseason selection of Lucas Byrd, but Romney has been incredible once again. He was under the radar good last year as well.

What a whirlwind! I'm glad it isn't true.

Listed as someone on WS.

But what were you doing on his lawn? That's his property.

we have the exact same preference in wrestlers it seems.

Doug Schwab

Final standings (only top ten shown):

Much higher level wrestling in this dual than in the Scuffle finals...

Bobby Weaver would be proud

Sasso vs Mirasola would be a fun finals for 197

Blake Boarman and Scott Johnson put up a football score in the second round as Boarman won 20-17.

I'll pick two unneeded guys to win their weight class. Beric Jordan and Connor Mirasola

I feel my excitement level as being lower than it usually is at this time of year. Not sure why exactly. It could be my fault entirely.

thanks for confirming

He's done four duals and the soldier salute. Although I'm not sure if he was attached or not at the tournament. So he either has one or zero starts left while maintaining the ability to RS

By tomorrow morning the only thing I'll remember from this dual is that Harry Houdini is from Appleton, Wisconsin

1. I've never taken any sociology class, not even as a sophomore. 2. Anecdotes aren't the crux of an argument that I was making. I did defend @bnwtwg's sentiments, but my acknowledgement of his concerns doesn't mean that I'm using anecdotes to prop up my beliefs. 3. The number of participants in a given weight class is an indicator of weight distribution of the population. But what other point is being made there? That you think we should tolerate a setup where we create lots of mini weight classes to overly accomodate for the distribution? To me that's the same philosophy of trying to find a way to give everyone a trophy. So those totals by weight class are completely beside the point.

I don't think it will have too much of an impact on NIL and drawing away from football - for those that wanted to play football to begin with. I know too many people that start to grow into that 210-225 zone as a freshman in college - which makes it even more bizarre in a way that we have 215 in high school - where the weight is much less common - compared to in college where it is far more common. I think shifting 184 and 197 upward is one way of going about it, and that would be an improvement on what we have now, but I would not be opposed to rethinking all of the weight classes if it makes sense to do so. 125 seems pretty small, but I think for now there is still some relevance. I could also see an argument for bumping it up to 130 and setting weights upward from there. I think 285 is fine to cast a wider net in college and they can cut ten lbs for the olympics. I am curious about the basis of your argument - regarding the rarity of light heavyweights having success. I think most (90%) if heavyweights this year were between 235 and 270 from what I've seen. So the assertion isn't that there are guys being outweighed by 90 lbs each time, but that the very large gap leaves for a disproportionate amount of weight mismatches in the HWT class. Not just in terms of lbs, but in terms of percentage of body weight giving up.