Lunaticfringe

Wells may have sealed his fate at 133. With Frost and Knox needing at large, also Witcraft, Belton and the Army wrestler; he is probably out.

Argument for Hardy at 141, otherwise Bartlett has 2 wins over Mendez. Only loss to Vombaur who isn’t up for the 1 seed.

I also believe redshirting guys is overrated. Most are worse year 5-6 due to injuries

Individually Tyler Wells, Cooper Flynn, Ryder Rogotzke and Carson Kharchla. Wells and Flynn were ranked as high as 6-7 this year. Neither shoot anymore, weight cuts are killing them. Both move up next season.

Hot take here but Kerk gets big brothered by Gable and it’s as much psychological for him as it is physical. He’s not even competitive and looks beaten once he gets taken down everytime

Let’s be honest, how often have year 6 or later guys been as effective as earlier in there careers? Guys like Eierman and Teemer physically fell apart. Micic wasn’t effective at 141 at all. Has anyone wrestled there best season in year 6?

Tyler Wells failed to qualify and defaulted out of the 9th place bracket. Unless he’s hurt like Barr or Shane Cartagena-Walsh he should be wrestling to me as a Gopher fan. He now is banking on a at large for a 2nd straight year. He hasn’t wrestled well this season because of a massive cut. Who else needs a at large?

How about the all Italian team? Ferrari Bros, Nick Suriano, Sam LaTona, Nick Piccinninni, Alec Pantaleo, Austin DeSanto, Nino Bonaccorsi,

2026 Iowa 165-Caliendo 174-Arnold 184-Angelo Ferrari 197-AJ Ferrari HWT-Kueter

Cornell has more Italians than Rutgers

Vance VomBaur has basically solidified he wasn’t a fluke AA. He’s been breaking matches open. He was losing those close matches last year. By the end he was winning those matches at NCAAs with his crazy pace.

Minnesota is a better dual team as they don’t have anyone who will get bonuses regularly. Gable should get 1st with a lot of bonus. I sadly see a lot of low AA types. I see Flynn, Wells, Vombaur, Askey, McEnelly and Salazar as guys who unless multiple injuries won’t make the finals but all likely will place 5-R12. I hope Sparks can stay healthy and post a R12-R16 result along with Whiting who I project to do better as the season goes with the cut. If MN can get Gable to win and 6 other AA’s and contributions from Sparks, Whiting and Roberts we can take 2nd

I would love to see Askey drop to 149 and wrestle Millard right away at 157. Roberts is a good backup but he overall lacks scoring ability without a true go to attack to move up to a top 10 guy.

Not sure on Flynn but wells and Vombaur cut a ton. Makes sense to get those guys on the mat ASAP.

We lose Sparks at 165 who will be replaced by Charlie Millard who’s killing it, Salazar who will be by Gavin Nelson and Gable who will likely by Koy Hopke if he recovers well.

I believe one year Iowa had 11 returning AAs to its team. Another year when 9 placed, the only to fail to AA was defending champion Mark Reiland

It was 2001, not 2007. We did so with 0 finalists, with Leroy Vega, Jared Lawrence, Luke Becker, Brad Pike, Owen Elzen and Garrett Lowney all losing in the semis(3 in OT). Damion Hahn and Brett Lawrence had to fight back a long way to AA

Nelson Brands is the most overrated wrestler in the country. Patrick Kennedy and him should be a coin flip at best for him based on his overall results. He had one good Ncaa tourney where he kept matches low scoring and snuck out some late wins. If his name was Nelson Peterson, nobody would give a damn.

Let’s pray this happens!

That is what I heard as well, even still listed at 157. Here would be my projections 125-Tanner Jordan Super Sr 133-Derrick Cardinal Jr 141-Alek Martin Jr(couldn’t beat Carlson, better weight for him maybe) Another option is True Fr Logan Swenson if Martin is hurt 149-Cade Siebrecht So 157-Cobe Siebrecht Sr 165-Cael Swenson Jr (IF Swenson is out they NEED to go get Patrick Kennedy) 174-Cade DeVos Super Sr 184-Bennett Berge So 197-Zach Glazier Super Sr(Quin Morgan redshirt, could be very good) Hwt-Luke Rasmussen So

How often in the world when a statement is made right away does it turn out to be BS? If our government made a statement like this, the same people believing this would be saying conspiracy theory.

I looked at the recruiting class they have coming in. It looks like a D3 recruiting class when looking at accolades. I know for 100% sure St Cloud St and Augsburg have better guys coming in. Guys have left in the portal in mass quantity. Huge cause for concern.

Boise St had an amazing program at times. They had so many unseeded guys AA, in the 2000-2010 range they had some really tough a5letes. Greg Randall was a great coach and recruiter.

I don’t know if I see a crazy amount of upside. I do think he has room to grow but pretty sure he’s been in the PINnacle room forever and is in a very good STMA room as well. He’s not a guy like Brett Pfarr who was in the small school classification who played multiple other sports; didn’t have the extra coaching or partners in high school.

Honestly at this point SDSU is in the same tier as Minnesota, Northern Iowa, Missouri, Lehigh, Rutgers, NCST(great dual team but never do well at NCAAs)