TylerDurden

22 votes as of this post and 19 picked Lee. He's for sure getting decked.

Nor does he need to.

Let's implement a promotion and relegation system!

Hot take sure to go wrong: JB doesn't make it to Dake. Father time is undefeated.

Just give him another year in OSU's room. He'll be at 184.

I kinda hope the opposite, mainly because I'd rather do anything than watch Warner wrestle.

Or he doesn't want his phone blowing up with every DI coach. He very well could have made the decision to transfer before the NCAA tournament, but that doesn't mean he's been talking to coaches at other schools.

Hamiti to Michigan. Confirmed.

Penn State just set the NCAA record for total points and margin, his team won the B1G tournament and dual title. I get why Erisman won the NWCA award, but Cael is the Coach of the Year. PSU just made history...but their coach isn't the best one this year? It's silly.

Why should a kid not be able to go wherever he wants? If you think you can improve your situation, you do it. I have zero problems with the transfer portal.

125 - Figueroa - Ayala is far too high a seed to win at 125 this year. The No. 8 seed winning makes more sense. 133 - Vito - This is March Matness Vito. Sorry, Fix. 141 - Mendez - I think Bartlett plays this too conservatively and Mendez gets two takedowns. 149 - Henson - Henson wrestles a positionally sound match and stays away from the upper body ties. 157 - Haines - Teemer strikes first, but Haines grinds him down and pulls away late 165 - Mesenbrink - The pace ultimately cracks Carr, who will be in the lead for all but a short time in this one. 174 - Starocci - The score will be close, the contest will not be. 184 - Keckeisen - Closer than the Big 12 final, but not that close 197 - Brooks - Hidlay can't find the underhook and Brooks controls the action, winning 5-2. HWT - Kerkvliet - Davison's great run comes to an end, but no bonus.

OW is interesting. Brooks, Vito, Haines, Mesenbrink, Staocci, Keckeisen, and Davison could all make a case if they win.

Push, IMO. These guys are awesome and I'm grateful that they wrestled at the same time. They've made each other better.

Kassk pulling a Nick Lee.

You forgot to double my score for being the first to make my picks.

Mostly COVID, but depending on the timing, a guy could conceivably have two Olympic RS seasons, a regular RS, and four years of competition. There's also medical RS, potentially.

Starocci clearly isn't 100%, but is Mekhi brave enough to attack? I'm thinking this plays out a bit like Starocci's first couple of matches where he gives up an early takedown, then rallies. I'm going 6-4, Starocci. TD - Mekhi | E - Starocci | TD - Starocci | E - Mekhi | E - Starocci | RT - Starocci

They do have the truck in their ears. But it's unlikely the director (or anyone in the truck) knows wrestling to that level. In football there are spotters next to the announcers to help identify players who make tackles, for instance, but it's hard to feed real-time, detailed information because while they can hear the broadcasters, the spotters/talent stats guys can't talk directly to them. If they gave it to him, it was via a written note. ESPN does more elaborate productions than just about anyone else, but the on-air talent needs to be prepared. In a former life, I was involved in many live sports broadcasts. To me, DC seemed a bit disorganized and unprepared/uninformed about the basics of the event names, brackets, etc., but his strategic commentary, energy and insights were decent-to-good. He doesn't do this a lot, so that would explain some of it. Rock really helped guide him along, IMO. All of that said, ESPN probably doesn't care about any of the DC's professional broadcaster shortcomings. DC isn't really there for anything other than cross-promotion, to be a hype man. Rock Harrison is the guy for the more refined commentary. IMO all of the analysts have their quirks, but Harrison is the best of that group since he stopped sounding like a referee training seminar and quit the, "a takedown is felt" stuff. Seems to me that he now simply describes what he saw and, when necessary, goes into the rule book to explain. ESPN (and CBS, FOX, NBC, etc.) goes into their events with a storyline and they don't often deviate from it. They discuss it in pre-production meetings and are trying to thread it together with each element of the broadcast: intros, players to watch, interviews, etc. It all serves to tell the story. This year, ESPN is hyping their MMA coverage as part of that, it seems. This is why the game/event productions are pretty darn good, even if the storylines are annoying to some fanbases. If it seems like they're talking more favorably about one team or wrestler, they probably are because they've prepared features and segments of the broadcast around those ideas. It's not because they hate your favorite school.

Kennedy is going to win that match. Conigliaro had no business being the No. 5 seed.

Damn. Did him dirty. Walmart version.

Michigan had a nice first round with 8/9 winning. DeAugustino lost at the buzzer.

My guys have some work to do. 6/10 in the consis after round one.

Iowa gonna finish 15th

I agree with this. Starocci isn't close to 100%. He's not working his way through the backside if he loses.

Kennedy goes down