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Where in Western Europe out of curiosity? Many of those countries do have issues that stem from alcohol, but its so culturally ingrained that it tends to be defended as an institution. Many of the people that came to the US for religious freedom when the country was being stolen from the native Americans were the weirdo types that were teetotalers .

This is his fourth year as a student so he may be graduating. I'm not really sure.

Looks like Gavin Hoffman to Lock Haven has been approved (?) since he has been added to their roster

He was originally included among Wisconsin's registered wrestlers. Since that time, Wisconsin seems to have removed their registered wrestlers on Track (unless it was a mistake). Some folks on the Wisconsin board mentioned that Amos is going to be wrestling unattached in Midlands while the rest of the Wisconsin squad does not attend.

I was lucky enough to call Trenge a teammate my very first year of wrestling in 1992. This is one of his most famous matches. Here is an old highlight video:

This isn't the same thing, but in a similar vein:

Not a bad way to start life - a Stanford undergrad degree - a graduate degree from another school, a couple hundred thousand in the bank, and all American wrestler on your resume.

Few guys that are registered but have not wrestled this year: Braxton Amos Marc Anthony McGowan Ohio State has a selection of backups/redshirts: Davino, Kilkeary, Birden, Cannon, Bell, Gonzales

I was hoping we could see Crookham vs Byrd, but neither are registered for their respective team

Could be that absolutely. Could also be financial if he sees himself getting his Stanford degree with another year left of eligibility for the highest bidder. Could also be health related even if not a true medical redshirt. Saying weird reason from me was the wrong way of me phrasing it. I was noting that it was an unexpected outcome, but the reasoning may actually be sound.

It was Cardenas from Stanford in a 5-4 match. He got revenge in the consolation finals when Shapiro beat him 10-4 for third place. Cardenas is redshirting this year for some weird reason.

They also chose to use Rokin, which is mostly home to crypto scammers and an extreme political fringe. Which is sort of beside the point because they flubbed important pieces of the broadcast on Days 1 and 2.

I thought he had at least two go-behinds against Ed Scott. The one that @BigRedFan had posted where he started on bottom, escaped and then went right into the go-behind was the one I was talking about. It made Scott look like a fool (which I don't think he is)

I kept rewatching that to try and see what was the secret sauce. Part of it is his insane quickness, but I think there is something there in the setups as well

Andrew Blackburn-Forst by fall over Michael Wolfgram

I don't know enough about whether he would want to make his own stamp or not. I'm not asserting he is grinding guys, but I'd like to see how it plays out if he is also high effective at preparing guys for the actual tournament. Grinding guys was one of first things that came to mind as a possibility, but there are other ways of not peaking at the right time. We haven't seen him ever coach at this level before, so I was just reiterating that all signs are good so far, but certainly a lot left to prove

I'm not as well versed in the history of NCAA coaches, but I am thinking of an NBA coach Tom Thibodeau who grinds everything he can out of his guys throughout the season, and they tend to be injured come playoff time. Those are the types of things I'm hopeful to see are not an issue, because doing well through December is just too small of a sample size for me to weigh so heavily. Interesting point on the Hendrickson piece. I think Kerk could be surmountable based on that kind of self-belief. I would be gobsmacked if he defeated Steveson.

buddy (not Rich) shared this with me this morning: "At that conference I went to, they told us that ChatGPT is like an Ivy League intern. Very very smart, but will exaggerate and is prone to stretch facts and lie occasionally"

A rematch would be interesting because they both had major takeaways: 1) Fish needs to stop going to his own back and generally thinking more about risk management when he is wrestling 2) Hipolito needs more conditioning because he died about halfway through the third period

I agree. I think he is off to a promising start. I'm not one of those people who will say "well let's see how his entire life plays out before we make any educated guesses" but I genuinely do want to see how his coach style translates throughout the course of a season after the original adrenaline bump is gone. And to what extent can he sustain that going forward is the second question. But all positive signs so far.

the last part was a poorly executed joke

out of curiosity what types of things were they looking to change? if you can't share it, I understand

I wondered the same thing. I think it could be a case of once that levee breaks between two schools, and there is a major underlying cause (the loss of RTC and less promising financial situation of ASU), the original transfers become a link to refer and help convince their former teammates to join them. That's my guess, but no clue. Another outside theory is that they identified wrestlers that insist on being taller than their head coach.

And then he went ahead and beat Jaxon Smith this morning as well. haha