Lunaticfringe

Sparks lack of development has shocked me. He started wrestling late and won single class California. Then came in as a true freshmen and was ranked 15-20 most of the year. He’s really only regressed since then

Have you seen them wrestle? Leyden didn’t even wrestle last year.

Brands is 37-19 in his career, a far cry from what his expectations were coming in as a 3 time Iowa big school champion and son of a World Champ and Hawkeye legend. Heck it would have been a disappointment if his name was not Brands. He wrestled the tourney of his life to get 5th. He realistically lacks the offense necessary to jump levels and will only go down from where he was. Assad has been a bigger disappointment with his Freestyle/Greco accomplishments and being a 2x big school Illinois champion. Assad has struggled to get any offense going in B1G ten matches and has laid Eggs at NCAAs. Iowa has not done well developing guys. It seems they get better quick year 1 but then that is all

1981, 134 lbs was a ever bigger $hitshow. As big of one as possible. Clar Anderson of Auburn st the time makes the semis. Apparently all his previous opponents thought he would lose in the semis for sure as they all missed weight on the backside to give a injured Randy Lewis a forfeit in the 7th place match. http://www.wrestlingstats.com/ncaa/pdf/brackets/NCAA 1981.pdf

Askren is very libertarian. Small government, fiscally cheap but he is more liberal on social freedom issues.

Spencer never could wrestle 7 minutes. Spencer also benefitted from the 4 pt near fall

Is this his 3rd or 4th school?

Ridge Lovett is coming back. Gotta wonder if Peyton Robb takes a medical redshirt?

Oklahoma stunk, if these guys were all so good then Rosselli would still be there

With how kids transfer these days, why would you ever redshirt the best wrestler for a weight? Very few will stay the course whom have options

Ramos may have not seen a path to starting at that time. He was behind McKee, he may have been losing in the room to Gliva early on. He was a low Ncaa seed when he pinned Byrd and went to rd of 12. He has just exploded at Purdue but he wasn’t that guy when at MN just yet.

Molinaro looks like the 57kg guy and Suriano the 65kg

How did Perry make 165? He’s way taller than Joseph and was far from thin at 165

Lots of Italians in that picture

I can not imagine going to bed let’s say 7 lbs over and thinking you will drift close to that amount. Nobody must have had a clue what the situation actually was. I know his cut was huge and damn near impossible. He is not a guy I would have expected this happening to. I would have guessed Sparks or McKee

Correct, I don’t recall any Gophers not making it before. I recall Joe LeBlanc missing before at NCAAs

I liked his chances to come through consolations this years again with his draw.

Chris Bono did the game with SDSU. He interviewed and got bumped and did it again with Wisconsin and the AD told him, no more raises. You either want to be here or you don’t. Good choice to move on

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