Lleynor

Oh *I poop my pants, don't laugh at me*!!!

1099 days since last…. I’m sorry, but that’s pathetic he even gets a shot.

Agree. This isn’t fun to watch.

Lovett did nothing. Absolutely nothing. He blocked and pushed OOB to get a questionable stalling. He looked worse than Vincent Robinson doing absolutely nothing to win as well.

Unless an obvious Messenbrink or Steveson, the most surprising to me is the depth of college wrestling. Everyone truly has a shot. O’Toole was almost out, Robinson, etc. Look at the double digit seeds in the Round of 16! I freaking love it!

Unreal

I don’t know if I believe that Brands is #2. Iowa, the name, draws in recruits. Most of the recent top-level success on the mat, minus Lee, is from transfers. I just don’t see the development there.

Swipes

I feel like Plott was about to get swiped in OT, and then they called them back to their feet. Why stand them up right then?

Blaze

The next Lee? Easy now.

Kinda surprised not OkState. The way they got mashed by PSU makes this look even more about money.

Yes, a Freestyle Medalist. All of these other guys were winning in dominant fashion, and definitely not losing, at this point in their career. That’s why I have Stieber losing to True Freshman Retherford as a significant loss in his RS Jr year.

I can get behind this one. Brooks winning 197 being undersized is an accomplishment to me as well to consider. His loss to the Michigan Guy I'm blanking on hurts him, since it was in an era where he should’ve still dominated. Star, 5th or not, is definitely last on my list. Slightly weaker defense than Dake, but zero offense. He should be mauling people in his 6th (7th?) year.

How are any of you putting Stieber at 3?!?! He got pinned by Ramos, taken down in the finals and handed a Natty, lost to a True Freshman as a RS Jr( who I have ranked higher collegiately than Stieber). Stieber is without a doubt on the bottom of my list. With that said, what an amazing list to be the bottom on. And 159-0 will always be #1. Not only did he never lose, he never almost loss either. He controlled every match.

No chance he isn’t currently atop the list. He literally just teched a very, very good wrestler.

Steveson’s domination just doesn’t get me pumped really. Him getting a Redshirt while in the WWE is garbage.

This match got many people into watching wrestling. Never give up.

When Dake jumped to 165, even the Cornell faithful didn’t think he’d hang with DT. Not saying Haines and O’Toole are at that level, but you sometimes just don’t know until you see it on the mat. It is easy to say Haines, since what he did in Free. However, O’Toole is a better Folk than Free wrestler. I know I want to see it, no matter what!

Will this be televised?

No matter what Gable does, I just can’t consider him. He’s not a typical Senior. He’s 7 years removed from being a Senior? He’s not a 5th year Senior. He’s a 7th year Man. Nickal bumping to 197 and still having the same level of dominance says a lot to me. In my book, he’s it of lately.

Agree on Teemer, but I see the floor for Parco being lower than 4th.

Or that people above them switched weights or graduated.

David Taylor is an obvious absolute stud in folk style. We all admired him, and his skill set. He has been wrestling since adolescence. He lost his Junior year to Dake. By a riding point. Obviously Dake is special as well, but a guy that had worked on getting out from bottom for over a decade couldn’t. Do I think Ono would crush everyone? Pretty much yes. But someone throwing in boots, or spiral riding him, someone that truly knows top game, will choose top and make life hard for him. Ono would have 5min to get as many takedowns as he can. And he will take down anyone in his weight class.

Figure it out? Yes. But it takes more than figuring it out with an absolute hammer.