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Is JRent still a bad word around here? What could have been...

Gold U17/U20/U23 medalists (MM, Shapiro, Blaze, etc.) qualify for MFS trials. I think it's different for WFS since Kennedy Blades, Audrey Jimenez, and some others are qualified.

I think the point people are missing is that Manning needs to update his Twitter profile pic

Idk about that. Fix get more than his fair share of hate, but if he loses this week it won't be anywhere near the shade that Spencer got. Fix has been killin it this season but he's been flying a little bit under the radar (in terms of buzz, I mean). Part of it is also the fans. The Hawkeye fanbase, myself included, had Spencer anointed as the chosen one and assumed he'd cruise his way to 4 titles. My jaw was on the floor when he lost to Ramos. OTOH, Fix could finally win a title or finish without one, either outcome wouldn't be very shocking to anyone. So, not much fuel for haters to burn him at the stake.

Hopefully Vito doesn't jeopardize his chances at making the Olympic team by competing at Nationals. Not a ton of time to get healthy and refocus on FS and descend to 57.

Thanks for the update. I Googled around and it looks like she dislocated her elbow and is planning on getting surgery to repair torn ligaments. She'll rehab next month and get back to training starting in May. Wow! https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240315/p2g/00m/0sp/046000c

"The Submissiony Lion" He hasn't been doing it since transferring though, at least I don't think

3/25 is the deadline for wrestlers to declare that they will be competing at OTTs along with their weight class, but I believe they can redeclare their weight anytime before weigh-ins, even if they want to compete at a different weight than they qualified. Everyone who qualifies for trials will have a reasonable chance of making a run, and it will also depend on their challenge tournament draw. There are a lot of guys who could win NCAAs and aren't yet qualified. Starocci, Kerk, Keck, Ramos (would he go Greco?), Woods, Haines, Lovett, Mendez, Croo(k)ham, Figs, and Beard come to mind. I think we'll know more about the LCQ after NCAAs if non-champs want to give it a shot but I'm also curious to see who comes out of the woodwork for this like Ashnault, Deakin, Cenzo, IMar, MyMar, Lizak, Gadson, Lujan, and Kollln Moore. Idk if some of these guys are retired. Like Tomasello, any chance he gives it a go? Odds are slim though, I think only the champions of each weight advance to trials.

Agree with all of this. Hamiti was getting to MM's legs and finishing, and he's the better scrambler due to his length. I think he got injured during the match. People saw him hobbling his way back to the locker room. You can also see him limping after the handshake in the Big Ten videos on Youtube. I'll be rooting for Hamiti over Carr because I think a match with KOT would be more interesting than seeing Carr-KOT again. MM is super fun though and I'd like to see him win it all next week.

This is might blow your mind, but upward pressure on the underside of the neck can be enhanced with downward pressure using your own head, shoulder, chest, or hand as seen below

Wait, is that Davis or Dake?

It's also easy to tell that you don't have a background in combat sports outside of wrestling. With hand on shoulder or traps you can easily choke someone across the windpipe with downward pressure on the opponent's head, or on the carotid artery with what you describe as "elbow away" movement. As seen in the pictures on the first page. This might all be moot at this point though. I haven't seen Nagao resort to it this season. He's been cutting guys more and scoring from his feet, as many PSU guys like to do.

149 when it was Metcalf, Burroughs, Schlatter, Churella, Bubba, Caldwell, Palmer, JPOC, Lang, Adam Hall, Will Rowe, Mitch Mueller, etc.

The day after NCAAs, some all you can eat buffet owner in Bethlehem, PA is going to be seriously reevaluating their business model

How exactly are those simulations run? Need to see the methodology. Also welcome, great name. Coincidentally Bar Series is also what I want to call my drinking establishment review podcast.

Good point, but Davis is 14 and still growing so who knows. Idk what kind of expectations ppl had for Nagao. His offense looks much better this year but before he transferred he was the double boots and across the throat defense guy, and that didn't tell us much about his ceiling.

Well, that sucks. Was it an alignment thing with the ASUN's portfolio of sports, or did they want to pour more money into basketball or something?

Agree. It looks like it might have been due to injury. You see him limping off the mat at the end of the match.

I think DeAug is in a daze because he thinks he's Tom Hanks' character in Castaway and is too lonely and sad to wrestle. Bormet just needs to tell him to imagine a volleyball face on all his opponents, and he'll be fine

Possibly DeAug

Country Club Plaza and Riverboat casinos. I seem to remember a restaurant with a little train that runs near the ceiling and drops off your food, but I could also be hallucinating. If you really are going all the way out to Lawrence, be sure to grab a drink at Quintons with a sandwich and breadbowl soup.

I'll root for Starocci to win #4 only if he can commit to going for #5 next year.

How do you see a potential Teemer-Shapiro match playing out in the semis? Idk if Teemer has the gas tank for Shapiro or Haines. Esp a totally fueled-up Saturday night Haines. Haines-Andonian in the quarters might be kind of fun, if it happens. EDIT: Just looked it up, Haines and Andonian would actually run into each other in the semis

My usual bracket complaint: I wish the committee could seed the brackets a little more creatively without sacrificing fairness, so that we don't get so many repeat conference and conference tournament matchups... or guys from the same conference jammed on the same side. Would also be great if the criteria were adjusted so that instead of a minimum # of matches for RPI, wrestlers got a progressively better score or weighting, the more matches they wrestled. Also an adjustment to Quality Wins with a deduction based on "Quality Win Opportunities Missed"... This discourages wrestlers from earning a quality win and then ducking thereafter to preserve seed placement.