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A U23 World Bronze (10-0 tech in the medal match) before entering college isn't stock up?? That's just crazy.

Nothing really changed for me much, winning World Titles is hard and these results don't change much for me. 57 - I didn't think Luke was a next topic at 125 anyway so this doesn't change much. He didn't get a TD in the finals last and like most 125s will be in 1 TD matches that could go either way depending on how the critical sequence play out. 61 - Was and is still is a NCAA title contender. Stock up if anything 65 - Probably suffers from the same expectations we put on Spencer. Any close match will be seen as a bad performance. He is still learning international freestyle but still one of the best in the US. Not a lock to win 5 titles as no one is, but he can win it in his first year. 70 - No change, a podium threat not a title threat 74 - He is so young. This was good experience that will make him better. Sitting out a year to delay his clock starting but his time will come. 79 - Shouldn't have been the rep, not at 79KG guy. Was probably only the rep because PSU tried to get Barr the spot at 97KG even though he isn't a 97KG so they gave them this one when it opened up 84 - Still one of the tope 184s, but I would pencil him into the 2-5 spot behind MM 97 - This seems like his best weight, as others have said, he should try HWT, its obvious he just isn't the same guy at 197lbs as he is at 97KG 125 - Stock up if anything

For the amount of work that goes into wrestlestat and the what it provides, head to head comparison, predictions, fantasy games, it only makes sense. In this day in age, you can't read an AP article without paying $1.99. Rokfin, On3, Flo, Patreon. Outside of big content providers with major ad deals, almost everyone has their stuff behind a paywall.

Do we know if he has eligibility and if its questionable, does Little Rock want to test it after Tyler Brennan? I believe he can use the old rules (pre 5 for 5) but he would still need a medical for last year. Has that been granted or applied for? It didn't seem to end well at Iowa and if Iowa tells the NCAA he wasn't hurt and could of wrestled but chose not to, would the NCAA grant the new medical year.

Kasak is pretty good at being caught on surveillance footage but not having consequences. Much easier to discipline a back up, I guess. Does this mean Kasak is starting at 157?

If the event was cleared in your (2), you would think RAF's statement would of have pointed it out and made it clear they followed all of the steps. I do find it interesting that ESPN is paying attention to RAF to do the work they did to call it out Fox about it. If RAF was a nothingburger then I doubt they would care at all.

I used PK because, PK is getting better and Dake is getting older (despite his bio hacking) and eventually PK might surpass Dake, father time is undefeated. Dake was 0fer against JB until he wasn't too. I am not saying Dake shouldn't be our rep this year, I am just pointing out that we determined our team early this year and if it wasn't a 1 year oddity, determining the team 5-6 months prior might not result in our best team come Worlds.

I don't have any issues with our process. And most years, Worlds are held mid September so the timing isn't as bad. It's probably more of a 1 year oddity. It just seems odd we didn't adjust the schedule when Worlds was later and the OP seems upset we don't know the full team 3 months before the event, which is closer to when we normally determine the team.

I don't think these guys really have an off season. It's late July. Worlds are not until late October. I actually think a better question is are we deciding the World Team too early? Parker K was eliminated from being the US rep in late April at the US Open, 6 months prior to Worlds. I am not saying Parker would win the spot if the schedule was changed but I don't know how a guy is wrestling 6 months before the Worlds is the best data point either. Plus, the sports calendar is pretty lean right now. Until football starts, its just baseball for another month. Seems like a better time to determine our team from a viewing standpoint. Of course, I wouldn't of held some of those events in the middle of the work work so what do I know.

He is not getting paid anything like he has previously. No one wants to deal with his antics and if Anthony is part of package it probably devalues it even further. It's more a question of who wants to deal with them than a question of who can pay them.

I think they will end up at a school not in the B1G/B12/ACC.

Kennedy announced she is leaving college to focus on her pro career (RAF and Worlds). She said she will continue to train in Iowa. First, good for her but honestly I am a little surprised. In the NIL area and women's NCAAs being freestyle I don't see why she needs to stop competing in college. I get that she is probably too good to be competing at NCAAs, but I would of thought Iowa could have thrown her a few NIL $$ to show up at NCAAs. Heck she could probably train through NCAAs and still win it.

I don't actually care about the call. I was more surprised they went right back to wrestling, after being "out" or I would of thought he would of taken more time

How did it come out of that original position 2-2? Even if you take away the pin, wouldn't of been 4-2? Also, Davino took more time to recover from hitting Jax's knee than Parris did from "being unconscious" or whatever the reason was for overturning it.

A whole lot of nothing at 70KG. Congrats to Zain.

I'll be honestly, when you said "they had it figured it out in October" I assumed you meant that the coaches thought he could effectively wrestling 125.

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Making weight back to back days in October doesn't mean he was effective. Hindsight being what it is, he made weight back to back days at NDI but didn't wrestle the morning session either day so he had a lot of time off the scale. He didn't wrestle 2 duals in a weekend until the end of the season. I know you are closer to it but from the outside they didn't act like they had it figured out. If he was holding his weight all year, why didn't he wrestle on Friday/Sundays until the end? I am sure they thought they had figured out in October and I am sure they thought he would be good in March. We will never know if they actually had it figured out in October and they obviously didn't in March.

That style really is evident when he is down and needs to score. But in fairness to Merrill, he was been wrestling HS kids and the jump to senior level is pretty massive so he may not quite have a good feel for when to pull the trigger at this level yet. Really understandable all things considered.

In non headbutt news, David Carr needed a TD with 1 sec left to advance.

He did it again in the quarters. So you can no longer make a guy take it off, I assume?

I think the better question is how did he and coaches not have his weight figured it out before March?

Dang, didn't see that one coming. I'm sorry my comment upset you. I don't take message board comments that seriously and didn't mean anything malicious, I probably shouldn't of used the pot meet kettle phrase, I just found it funny that people are arguing over speculations and speculating on those speculations and getting worked up about what nobody actually knows. I think I used the word speculating 4-5 times in my short reply to highlight the absurdity of this debate. My bad.

If its like the last few years, BTN+ has all of the mats/matches and a quad box to watch them all, plus all of the consi matches. The BTN broadcast bounces around to top matches/upsets and then shows the semis/finals. BTN+ has the 3rd and 5th place matches. So you do get more coverage of the B1G tourney with BTN+ but if you only care about the semis and finals and a few top quarter matches, BTN will probably give you those.

Youre speculating what others are speculating? I think that's the rub. You and I don't actually know what anyone is paying (at least I don't) so your speculation that it is less than others speculate is pot meet kettle. Willie may be more than speculating which is why it gets more credit.