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The smile on Vito's face and stoic RBY looking like his mind is elsewhere, as usual (Photo is Tony Rotundo's, more on his website: https://tonyrotundo.smugmug.com/WRESTLERS-ARE-WARRIORS/NCAA-Wrestling/Div-1-National-CShips-All-Years/23-NCAA-D1-CSHIPS)

It was interesting how Starocci minimized college wrestling in his post-match interview, like oh another NCAA title is cool and all but I'm interested in bigger things. He's said before that he wasn't interested in becoming a 5x champ but I think he'll eventually go after it too, especially when he really considers how much it'll raise his stock going into MMA. If he decides to do a light schedule next year (or after), I hope he learns a lesson from RBY. I have a lot of respect for RBY's wrestling but it just looked like he phoned it in all season. Wrestled when he wanted, cruised through matches, did some MMA training on the side, got cocky. He didn't really push himself to improve his wrestling and ended up paying for it in the finals last night. Cave quid volunt for Starocci.

It always stings a tiny bit more when the shade comes from Jimmy..

Yes, that probably explains why it was a good choice for Lee to take top in the 2nd period. Normally one could count on him getting out from bottom and reversing or taking his opponent down and putting up some points before working his tilt series.

Lmao the NCAA really put that up on its Twitter feed

Yianni wrestled a great match and achieved a huge milestone with 4 titles, but I think Vito stole the show. KOT, Parris, and Glory also wrestled tough but Vito just took it to the next level and then some.

Reversal?

Sasso is a real life Houdini

Such a chess match

I feel like he and Quint kind of bonded over that

You mean G-Town

The announcers giggling during that interview

Post-match Alirez is cracking me up

Crazy! Way to go Alirez. Strong effort by Woods.

FFS...

These reviews...

OH DAMN THAT COUNTER

Alirez needs to move

Winner of this match gets dibs on short inseam singlets next season

Bandage?

Another "either guy" match for me. Head says Alirez, heart says Woods.

Exactly what I've been saying throughout the regular season. He didn't improve, just did enough to get his matches over with.

Solid take. While RBY was resetting his offense, Vito kept attacking. Just unstoppable.

Vito owned RBY, just pure domination

I really enjoyed the RBY screwing around during the season era