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Hipolito has an interesting style

What's up with this one minute break?

Dual starts at 149. Right into the fire!

Do you have anyone that lives near you that has ESPN and you could go over their house? Or else maybe call up a couple local bars and see if they have the network? It looks like a couple of sites may offer a free trial for a week to give you access to that network (including YouTubeTV)

I appreciate the heads up from Brian Smith. It's being blindsided that sucks as a fan

@MPhillips thanks for providing that. What does "Mentor District" mean? Also - do you have any ideas about how it got so strong? When it started - what the catalysts could be? Thanks brother!

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.

@Jeffkern126

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