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Man what a tournament for Lachlan McNeil. I never thought he’d be wrestling for 3rd (especially knocking off Brock Hardy to get there). Really happy for him to be in this position as a redshirt freshman. Should be 3 more fun years after this.

Yeah, he may be because by all accounts he’s a good guy that cares about the right things. Wasn’t Mueller a finalist in like 2018 ish too? I don’t think they’ve had anyone else relevant to that extent on a national stage since Mueller. I still think they should be a least a little more competitive on the mat, but I also realize there are bigger things in life than wrestling and Steve seems to get all of those things right.

I’ll tell you what, matchups can be SO weird. Lachlan McNeil has had absolutely nothing for Ryan Jack every time they have ever wrestled. It’s been completely one sided. Hines smoked Jack. Then McNeil followed that up with a nice controlled win over Hines (I wouldn’t call it dominance or anything, but just a solid win). I’m almost positive if that was Ryan there, McNeil wouldn’t have had anything for him again.

I may enter myself into witness protection because I’ve been known to lay a good sports jinx… this is probably my fault. edit: I also had Ryan Jack as my highly confident pick to all American on the backside. Whoops.

I never want to draft first again lol. If I get the 1st pick it’s immediately for sale.

Hmmm. Respect your opinion but hard disagree. Virginia Tech doesn’t really care about anything other than football, other than having a little bit of individual success in track and field here and there. The stereotype they are known for is they could care less what basketball and non revenue sports do. I’m sure they’re fine with wrestling being solid, but wouldn’t care if wrestling wasn’t great. Virginia, on the other hand, heavily invests in non revenue sports. You can start with the baseball team being at the top of the ACC yearly, the 2019 and 2021 men’s lacrosse national championship, the 2021 and 2022 women’s swimming and diving natty, and the 2022 men’s tennis national championship. So you’re telling me Virginia gives all those non revenue sports ample resources to compete nationally, but tells wrestling to kick rocks? Not sure I can buy into that.

Stave Garland’s seat should at least be a little toasty. Virginia is terrible. Their “rival” VT is lightyears ahead of them. Since Jack Meuller they haven’t had any wrestler contending at a high level nationally (that I can remember at least).

Good call! Sounds like Glory is going to deck Ramos lol.

In my opinion the way he wrestles just isn’t sustainable in a tournament format. It’s more geared for a dual once a week. He spends 7 minutes trying to upper body manhandle ridiculously strong 157 pounders and he wrestles balls to the wall (for lack of a better term). It’s not like he’s waiting for the 3rd period with 10 seconds left to try his first throw of the match. He’s going for it right off the whistle. Couple all of that with not really having any consistent leg attacks in his arsenal and there’s your bad formula for dying on the mat in the 3rd period.

I genuinely do wonder where Glory is at mentality now. I don’t care what anyone says about just wrestling the next match, I know all he’s been thinking about is getting to the finals and stopping Spencer from getting his 4th. Now he steps into wrestle Ramos, who did what Glory was planning to do. I’m almost positive Glory decks him, but there’s a small part of me that thinks there could be a little bit of a let down.

If that’s the case I hope Spencers mom brought multiple sets of backup glasses. She might really start going through them.

That was a weird match for Hendrickson. I know Kerk is a great wrestler, but Hendrickson just felt lifeless once he got on bottom.

My biggest hope for tomorrow is if Nino wins he looks at the camera and goes full Ricky Bobby “I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with my hands” on us.

Nino is a pretty damn good and by all accounts a really quirky guy. Love unique guys that aren’t cookie cutter.

Maybe that’s why his mom broke her glasses. Now she has to call a shirt manufacturer and see what kind of refund plan they offer.

Spencer sacrificed himself for a Nelson Brands pin. That’s gotta be it.

Keck is a good dude. Really nice interview there.

I’ve watched him wrestle a ton in the ACC, he genuinely just doesn’t have many leg attacks. He’s either throwing or relying on his opponent to shoot so he can get in position for a weird scramble. It’s a major deficiency in his arsenal because when he needs a controlled takedown it’s just not there (against good wrestlers).

Hidlay continuing not to take any risks when he’s going to lose anyways is laugh out loud funny.

Feels like these guys have wrestled 100 times in their career and it always gets ugly for Scott. Until the NCAA tournament, when Scott decides to stick him.

Thanks D3. Always enjoy your posts!

Admittedly, I do wish the team overall was better. We’ve had a lot of the same holes in our lineup for a while now and this year the team was less competitive than it’s even been in his tenure. But I can’t deny how he prepares them for March. Our guys show up ready to scrap and always perform well. And we get treated to some wild upsets (Monday over Lavallee, Ness over Shakur Rasheed, Clark over Eierman last year, etc.)

3 All americans for UNC and they showed up with 5 wrestlers. All 5 wrestlers wrestled at or above their seed. Coleman gets it done in March.

Oh no O’Connor. Not like that

Vito is DOMINATING fix. Man I love session 4 every year.