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That's awfully pessimistic from my perspective considering you are a Mizzou guy. I don't have a horse in the race and consider O'Toole to be almost 60/40 favorite over Carr which is a decent margin. Starocci hasn't lost a match since Michael Kemerer as far as I can remember - so I think it would just be cool to see him face stiffer competition

The summer between my freshman and sophomore year of high school, a teammate's father who was a doctor- helped several team members get hooked up with HGH over the summer and came back huge.

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Thursday, February 22: Presbyterian at The Citadel 3:00 PM ESPN+ Cleveland State at Kent State 7:00 PM Boxcast Rider at Pittsburgh 7:00 PM ESPN+ Friday, February 23: Rider at Cleveland State 2:00 PM FloWrestling Queens at Davidson 5:00 PM FloWrestling Central Michigan at Michigan State 6:30 PM B1G+ Harvard at Brown 7:00 PM ESPN+ Presbyterian at Davidson 7:00 PM Chattanooga at Indiana 7:00 PM B1G+ Drexel at Maryland 7:00 PM B1G+ Virginia Tech at NC State 7:00 PM ACC Network Duke at North Carolina 7:00 PM ACC Network Extra Morgan State at Penn 7:00 PM ESPN+ Virginia at Pittsburgh 7:00 PM ACC Network Extra Bucknell at Princeton 7:00 PM ESPN+ SIU Edwardsville at Northern Illinois 8:00 PM ESPN+ Missouri at Northern Iowa 8:00 PM FloWrestling Saturday, February 24: California Baptist at Utah Valley 1:00 PM GoUVU YouTube Franklin & Marshall, Maryland at F&M Scramble 2:00 PM Centennial Digital Network Sacred Heart at Brown 3:00 PM ESPN+ Hofstra at Drexel 4:00 PM FloWrestling Campbell at VMI 5:00 PM Buffalo at Ohio 7:00 PM ESPN+ Lehigh at Arizona State 9:00 PM Pac-12 Arizona Sunday, February 25: Davidson at Wildcat Open 10:00 AM George Mason, Indiana at Patriot Last Chance Open 10:00 AM Queens, Utah Valley at National Collegiate Open, Smyrna, DE 10:00 AM American at Columbia 12:00 PM ESPN+ Chattanooga at Bellarmine 1:00 PM ESPN+ Binghamton at Cornell 1:00 PM ESPN+ Little Rock at Lindenwood 1:00 PM ESPN+ Gardner-Webb at Appalachian State 2:00 PM AppState YouTube Michigan at Central Michigan 2:00 PM ESPN+ Wisconsin at Northern Iowa 2:00 PM FloWrestling Edinboro at Penn State 2:00 PM B1G+ Nebraska at Arizona State 3:00 PM Pac-12 Insider Missouri at Iowa State 3:00 PM ESPN+ Iowa at Oklahoma State 3:00 PM FS1 North Dakota State at South Dakota State 3:00 PM FloWrestling American at Army West Point 5:00 PM Army West Point Athletics YouTube

next year it will be Cory Land

I wrestled from age 7 through 18 on a very regular basis and I did not mess around with that stuff. If it was my choice first - I always deferred. And for the third period I would always choose bottom. I never chose top or neutral in my life.

Just in case it wasn't clear - I wasn't being facetious. You should be interviewed by MatScouts or Flo for these insights

We need a way to start formally downloading all of the knowledge from gimp's brain. For the sake of future generations. I would hate to think about so much of this information being passed on by mouth only.

@Southend - any idea as to who will man 125 for the Hoosiers going forward? Wrestlestat just switched the designated starter from Blaine Frazier to Michael Spangler. That may prove to be wise, but wasn't sure what prompted them to change it

Another guy that has a funny sense of humor about his own matches is Cael Happel. When he got tossed feet to back by Echemendia, he replied to the tweet saying "wow looked liked that one hurt!"

sounds like he has a lot of wisdom for a college kid. you don't hear stuff like that from young 20s in my experience. lots of testosterone flowing and everyone wants to be the man.

Askren tried to explain his rationale in that 1000th episode. It didn't make sense to me because it wasn't consistent. Shame Pyle couldn't put a stop to it

The point of showing all of that is to highlight that this isn't the result of a couple of good coaches or programs - or a result of a couple of good relationships with college programs. It's very widespread and varied, because this area benefits from having a strong wrestling ecosystem.

33% of schools in the region have a former athlete wrestling Division 1 High School Bethlehem Catholic Central Catholic Dieruff Easton Emmaus Nazareth Northampton Notre Dame - Green Pond Palisades Parkland Pocono Mountain East Saucon Valley Stroudsburg Wilson 56% of Valley Elementary Programs have a guy in Division 1 VEWL Program Bangor Bethlehem Catholic East Penn East Stroudsburg Forks Township Lehigh Township Nazareth Northampton Palisades Palmer Township Pocono Mountain Pocono Summit Stroudsburg Whitehall Wilson

36% of all division 1 wresting colleges and 100% of conferences have a guy from the Lehigh Valley

Here are the colleges represented by the region right now: Conference College ACC Duke ACC Virginia Tech Big 12 Air Force Big Ten Nebraska Big Ten Ohio State Big Ten Penn State Big Ten Rutgers EIWA American EIWA Binghamton EIWA Columbia EIWA Cornell EIWA Drexel EIWA Franklin & Marshall EIWA Harvard EIWA Lehigh EIWA Morgan State EIWA Navy EIWA Pennsylvania EIWA Princeton MAC Bloomsburg MAC Clarion MAC George Mason MAC Lock Haven MAC Rider PAC 12 Arizona State PAC 12 Oregon State SoCon Campbell SoCon Citadel SoCon VMI

To put out the best possible starting lineup for a dual among these lads, I might go like this: 125: Brett Ungar 133: Ryan Crookham 141: Julian Chlebove 149: Tyler Kasak 157: Sammy Sasso (Evan Maag as replacement if you won't allow me to choose an injured wrestler) 165: Andrew Cerniglia 174: Connor Herceg 184: Lenny Pinto 197: Sonny Sasso 285: Matthew Cruise Other than heavyweight, 174, and perhaps 157 (depending on how you view it), you have seven guys that are good enough to qualify for nationals. After that you figure you'd have Sammy Sasso and Crookham as title threats, guaranteed AA. Kasak, and Pinto as likely AA. And then Cerniglia, Chlebove, Sonny Sasso and Ungar capable of making a little noise. It's not a team per se, but I would be rooting for these guys individually

it's a classic depth vs breadth trade-off. I think if you stay in one place longer, you could achieve deeper and more meaningful relationships with people. If you go around a lot, you can see lots of different types of things and meet different types of people - at a more superficial level though.

Funny enough - two the four times I have been detained were not in states of my residence. This was a chart with time-weighted percent of my life lived in each of these places. In many of them I moved around within a neighborhood, and just kept it to the overall metro area. I move every 18 months or so over the course of my life so far

it's nice to see a guy win with humility like this. he doesn't even care if the other guy gets the credit for something he didn't earn

Just in case you guys didn't know about this, you can search the following database to see which people have donated to which politicians over time (and how much and when, etc). Tom Brands has donated nothing, while Terry has made two donations shown below: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/

Dan Gable - Iowa Gable Steveson - Indiana, Minnesota Robert Louis Stevenson - Scotland

While I may not have a bias toward any particular team, I do tend to root for guys who came through the Lehigh Valley. From my experience, the strength of the youth system in the region is spread throughout mostly public schools with just a handful of private schools. It's generally accessible to everyone. And the culture and history are rich, boosted by Lehigh University and their success in NCAA wrestling. This is a pocket of land with 131 mile circumference and a population of just over 861,000. As a percentage of the US population it makes up 0.26%. As a percentage of division 1 wrestlers, the region supplies 2.04% of the overall pool. This translates into this region below having a 7.95 times greater conversion rate from resident to division one wrestler. Weight Wrestler College High School WS Rank Status NQ AA VEWL Program 125 Brett Ungar Cornell Notre Dame - Green Pond 21 Starter 1 0 N/A 125 Ryan Milller Pennsylvania Blair Academy 33 Backup 2 0 Stroudsburg 125 Carson Wagner Binghamton Northampton 93 Starter 0 0 Pocono Summit 125 Brandan Chletsos Rutgers Notre Dame - Green Pond 120 Backup 0 0 Palmer Township 125 Braxton Appello Ohio State Easton 187 Backup 0 0 Palmer Township 133 Ryan Crookham Lehigh Saucon Valley 3 Starter 0 0 N/A 133 Julian Chlebove Arizona State Northampton 34 Starter 0 0 Northampton 133 Sean Pierson Princeton Nazareth 46 Starter 0 0 Nazareth 133 Devon Britton Rutgers Northampton 112 Backup 0 0 Northampton 133 Charlie Bunting George Mason Nazareth 167 Redshirt 0 0 Bangor 133 Ashton Campbell Bloomsburg Bethlehem Catholic 216 Redshirt 0 0 Palisades 141 Dante Frinzi Harvard Bethlehem Catholic 147 Backup 0 0 N/A 141 Cael McIntyre American Bethlehem Catholic 184 Starter 0 0 Forks Township 141 David Kreidler Navy Central Catholic 218 Backup 0 0 N/A 149 Tyler Kasak Penn State Bethlehem Catholic 11 Starter 0 0 N/A 149 DaShawn Farber Lock Haven Nazareth 109 Backup 1 0 East Stroudsburg 149 Drew Munch Lehigh Wyoming Seminary 119 Backup 0 0 East Stroudsburg 149 Cole Handlovic Cornell Bethlehem Catholic 134 Backup 0 0 Wilson 149 Kenny Herrmann Harvard Bethlehem Catholic 136 Backup 0 0 Palisades 149 Jarred Papcsy Duke Bethlehem Catholic 150 Starter 0 0 Nazareth 149 Steven Storm Lehigh Pocono Mountain East 154 Backup 0 0 Pocono Mountain 149 Ethan Szerenscits American Northampton 168 Starter 0 0 Northampton 149 Matthew Arciuolo Columbia Saucon Valley 202 Backup 0 0 N/A 149 Oliver Fairchild Campbell Easton 249 Redshirt 0 0 Forks Township 149 CJ Fritz Bloomsburg Northampton 254 Backup 0 0 Lehigh Township 149 Jonathan Miers Princeton Easton 264 Backup 0 0 Forks Township 149 Jake Doone Air Force Nazareth 286 Backup 0 0 Nazareth 157 Sammy Sasso Ohio State Nazareth 3 Injured 4 2, 5, 2 Nazareth 157 Nathan Haubert Lehigh Palisades 84 Backup 0 0 Palisades 157 Luca Frinzi Lehigh Bethlehem Catholic 97 Backup 1 0 N/A 157 Dominic Wheatley Franklin & Marshall Nazareth 234 Starter 0 0 Nazareth 157 Dagen Condomitti Oregon State Northampton 259 Redshirt 0 0 Northampton 157 Marco Albenese Binghamton Emmaus 288 Redshirt 0 0 East Penn 157 Christopher Arciuolo Franklin & Marshall Saucon Valley 290 Backup 0 0 N/A 157 Anthon Micci Franklin & Marshall Wilson 293 Backup 0 0 Wilson 165 Andrew Cerniglia Navy Notre Dame - Green Pond 19 Starter 2 0 Nazareth 165 Liam Scrivanich Rider Saucon Valley 62 Redshirt 0 0 N/A 165 Evan Maag George Mason Notre Dame - Green Pond 67 Starter 0 0 Bethlehem Catholic 165 Holden Garcia Princeton Notre Dame - Green Pond 72 Backup 0 0 N/A 165 Benjamin Haubert Citadel Palisades 75 Starter 0 0 Palisades 165 Evan Gleason Harvard Easton 129 Backup 0 0 Forks Township 165 Jagger Condomitti Nebraska Northampton 146 Backup 0 0 Northampton 165 Landon Muth VMI Bethlehem Catholic 254 Redshirt 0 0 Lehigh Township 165 Riley Hughes Bloomsburg Bethlehem Catholic 267 Redshirt 0 0 N/A 174 Darrien Roberts Morgan State Wyoming Seminary 76 Redshirt 0 0 East Stroudsburg 174 Connor Herceg Lehigh Nazareth 80 Starter 0 0 Nazareth 174 Nick Foster George Mason Nazareth 202 Backup 0 0 N/A 174 Anthony DeRosa Bloomsburg Bethlehem Catholic 217 Backup 0 0 N/A 174 Luke Thomas Bloomsburg Bethlehem Catholic 238 Backup 0 0 Whitehall 174 Nathan Stefanik Princeton Nazareth 278 Backup 0 0 Nazareth 184 Lenny Pinto Nebraska Stroudsburg 5 Starter 1 0 East Stroudsburg 184 Adrian Gacek Clarion Parkland 109 Redshirt 0 0 N/A 197 Sonny Sasso Virginia Tech Nazareth 22 Redshirt 0 0 Nazareth 197 Kolby Flank Bloomsburg Wilson 114 Backup 0 0 Wilson 197 Caden Wright Lehigh Emmaus 156 Backup 0 0 East Penn 197 Chase Levey Drexel Nazareth 168 Backup 0 0 Nazareth 285 Matthew Cruise Pennsylvania Easton 165 Backup 0 0 N/A 285 Karam Chakif Lehigh Dieruff 186 Backup 0 0 N/A

Who would it be for New Jersey? Jordan Burroughs right?