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He's pretty college ready now. Great hand fighter and had a pretty big advantage in physicality and technique over other Minnesota high schoolers. I remember only two fairly close matches (Alex Braun, Cooper Rowe) last season. My only concern would be that his "improvement curve" has already peaked more than others in his class. I think he would do better at 149 than 157 based on his style.

The lowest weight class will always have the issue of some being too small and others cutting their arse off, so I don't know that raising it would change anything. It's probably the hardest weight to recruit for this reason, and you just don't know who's going to keep growing.

40 years later I vividly remember not being able to move off my back after he threw me. I was a freshman and my senior captain came up to me after the match and gave me a titty-twister and said, "what's your excuse, you have two of these". (Lewis was born without one pectoralis muscle).

I wrestled Lewis a couple years before this. It was in a folkstyle collegiate open, he had moved up to 142 and planted me in a similar way. I had never felt more pinned in my life.

Has Cannon to tOSU been announced, or just speculation?

Top 8 teams in the Gold pool: 1. Wisconsin 2. Ohio 3. Pennsylvania 4. Minnesota 5. Illinois 6. Iowa 7. California 8. Oklahoma The final was Wisconsin over Ohio 33-32. Kellen Wolbert (138) scored a pin in the last bout to give Wisconsin the 1 pt win. In the match before that though (132) Lucas Peters had to score a point and/or not get pinned against #1 Marcus Blaze for them to have a chance. Box score of finals match: Match SummaryWIOH-R144Tyson Peach (Wisconsin) over Adam Butler (Ohio Blue) Dec 12-6 3.01150Jaxon Joy (Ohio Blue) over Daniel Heiser (Wisconsin) Dec 8-5 13.0157Brogan Tucker (Ohio Blue) over Jacob Herm (Wisconsin) Fall 0:58 05.0165Charlie Millard (Wisconsin) over Luke James (Ohio Blue) TF 10-0 4.00175Jake Stoffel (Wisconsin) over Aiden Peterson (Ohio Blue) Dec 6-3 3.01190Aeoden Sinclair (Wisconsin) over Carson Thomas (Ohio Blue) TF 10-0 4.00215Cole Mirasola (Wisconsin) over Max Shulaw (Ohio Blue) TF 10-0 4.00285Koy Hopke (Wisconsin) over Aidan Fockler (Ohio Blue) TF 12-2 4.01100Braedyn Tammarine (Ohio Blue) over Bryson Busler (Wisconsin) Fall 1:11 05.0106Ayden Dodd (Ohio Blue) over Camden Rugg (Wisconsin) TF 10-0 04.0113Grey Burnett (Ohio Blue) over Shane Rochon (Wisconsin) TF 10-0 04.0120Co`ji Campbell (Wisconsin) over Adam Mattin (Ohio Blue) Dec 14-8 3.01126Karson Brown (Ohio Blue) over Liam Neitzel (Wisconsin) Dec 12-3 13.0132Marcus Blaze (Ohio Blue) over Lucas Peters (Wisconsin) TF 12-2 14.0138Kellen Wolbert (Wisconsin) over Khimari Manns (Ohio Blue) Fall 0:52 Dual Meet Score33.0-32.0

They've won like 5 of the last 10 NCAA D2 championships, so are doing very well in their classification.

My muscle and fat are marbled, like a fine steak.

Taking the Matt McDonough route.

I like it. I think just having a criteria that is visible on the scoreboard (ex: 2-2) like they do in international styles would also increase action. I wonder which would be the best criteria in folkstyle, the first takedown or last score?

True, but as the risk/reward of either getting a takedown on your shot or getting countered approaches 50/50 both wrestlers will naturally become more conservative in their shot taking no matter how many points a takedown is worth. I think the key is to somehow reward the wrestler that initiates action.

I wonder what percent of takedowns in NCAA wrestling are scored by the guy initiating the shot vs. the counter/reattack scores? Are we at 70/30, 60/40?

I wasn't strongly opposed to or in favor of the 3 pt change, but the whole thing seemed a lot like the Spinal Tap "this one goes to 11" bit.

ISU already has a pretty good tweener coming in next year in Flo #1 @215, Sawyer Bartelt.

Why you have to interrupt an argument about beaches with transfer news in the transfer portal thread?