charmon55

Jax made the WORLD team as an 18-year-old lol.

Plenty of guys graduate HS at 18, turn 19 over the summer/fall, and wrestle their first year in college as a true freshman. Marcus Blaze, Duke, Jax, and Davino were all 18 years old last spring/summer when beating top senior-level competition. You have high schoolers coming into college and wrestling year-round with senior-level competition in the states and abroad. I mean Jax literally wrestled with the senior world team over the summer lol. So, saying that Jax waited until mid-season to wrestle is misleading. Also, Jax turned 19 in October, so he wasn't 19 1/2 years old coming into college. As a matter of fact, he's STILL not 19 1/2. People are just hating. Jax could've waited until next year to wrestle as a "true" freshman, and people would've been complaining then as well.

Tagg 141 SDSU

165 Barbosa RUT

Mougalian 133 PENN

Cam Catrabone 157 MICH

Amos WISC 285

Fishback tOSU 184

Casey Swiderski OSU 149

Joey Novak 197 WYO

Yes wildcard

Vincent Robinson 125 NC State

Ventresca 125 VT

Haines PSU 174

I'm ready

Ben Mower

Current: 125: Bouz 133: Leete 141: Echemendia 149: Josh Edmonds 157: Duke 165: Esinoza-Owens 174: Minto 184: Welsh 197: DJ Parker 285: Yonger

Braeden Davis

I’m in

Cael Hughes at 133 for OKST

Just for fun, here are my predictions: 125: Robinson vs. Lilledahl 133: Shawver vs. Fugitt 141: Mendez vs. Stanich 149: SVN vs. Henson 157: Cardenas vs. Zerban 165: Garvin vs. Blaze 174: Pinto vs. Steed 184: McEnelly vs. Welsh 197: Barr vs. Novak 285: Trumble vs. Ghadiali

I'm unfamiliar with the situation but I'm curious as to how could Ortega gain a year of eligibility.

He was live on TikTok about a month ago saying he is going 157, 165, or 174 next year. He also said that he doesn't cut any weight to make 165 and walks around at 168.

Yeah a lot of successful wrestler/grapplers in MMA are very physical. They stay on the gas, pressure, mix in strikes during those exchanges, they're explosive, and they stay in the opponent's face from the beginning. Examples of this would include Khamzat, Khabib, Merab, and Oliveira. Even the wrestler/grapplers who don't pressure as much, like Islam, Evloev, and Aljo Sterling are still really physical in grappling exchanges. Nickal looked to be pretty relaxed, took his time, and just wasn't as physical in those exchanges just like he was in his previous couple fights. de Ridder was on the gas that whole fight whereas Bo seemed to just be reacting, which is exhausting.

Sure, I guess I should've been more specific. Most fighters will lose most of that 25lbs within 72 hours of weigh-ins.