wrestle87

This is a very smart comment, and I agree both coaches, and all top coaches have moved beyond the concept that dual meet performance is anything other than tertiary window dressing. Yeah, it's nice to win at home, but the whole schedule, as well as the way coaches structurally and competitively manage their seasons, is so overweighted for March, that I wouldn't be surprised to see this outcome either. As part of the structural thing, I think its important to note that being a college wrestling coach seems to be a much more year-round position than it was in it was ten years ago. A lot more press and hype is given to getting college age guys to medal at age-group worlds or to make senior teams than it used to be. Overall I think this is a great thing, but I believe the best coaches now budget their wrestlers' mileage on a 12 month basis rather than a 4-month basis.

Not unless Askren can mind-hack the team for his coach. I have a sneaking suspicion he’s a behind the scenes cornerstone to the long term success of that program.

If I only saw this one, I’d agree 100%, and I do think Missouri was straight flat soda today, but something good has happened to the okie state attitude this season, I think it is entirely due to coleman scott. Him showing up has somehow changed the chemistry in that room. Olejnik has been jiving with coleman’s techniques, and has had crazy swagger all year, and it's rubbed off on Plott and is starting to show on the other guys. They are starting to have expectations for themselves in a good way. The way they wrestle kinda reminds me of old iowa teams in a way.

They looked about as good as I can remember seeing an Okie State team look in a long time. Around this time of year from most years I can remember, they would typically be wrapped in miles of athletic tape, and would just be muscling through to some token 7th/8th matches for most of the best guys, with a Fix high AA here or there. That is not what they looked like today. If they keep it together like they showed up today, they can pose some real problems for a lot of people.

The last time a team was this passive I think they were being coached by Mahatma Gandhi.

And Elam....the 197 pounder, with the....2nd(?) takedown of the meet for mizzou?

In hindsight, that road trip out east really might not have been worth the squeeze for Missouri. They could be very road weary.

Were officials a "topic" for any match other than the PSU Ohio State Match?

Mocco using the exact technique that works well in freestyle, but automatically gives your opponent a scoring position in folkstyle is poor decision making.

What're the odds that Missouri gets to more than ten team points?

Mizzou is wrestling poorly, these refs also are not very good

This ref legitimately needs to remember what back points are, this dude is just eyeballing stuff nonchalantly from 30 feet away. He has potentially missed 10 back points so far across all these matches.

Didn't they also say that there was record attendance here today? Whooooops....

Mauller is contemplating a legal name change to Maullee

Lol, as in, after he took one at around the minute mark, there was nothing to count?

Don't jinx it!

Are mizzou guys just ranked too high? Like, wtf is going on? Mizzou looks like they're drinking the same thing Iowa hydrated with against Michigan

Mizzou looks really not good. And this ref apparently doesn't believe in back points.

He was definitely pinned more than truax.

You beat me to it

If I could award comment of the month or something like that, I would give the award to you for this.

Lewan has that match format down to an art. Nobody wrestles him to a big match, but, like we just saw happen, lots of other wrestlers have trouble handling the extra time portion. Lewan also must be strong as an ox to be able to shut down just about everyone he wrestles.

Franek got out-Franek’d

Truax doesn't have the engine to get past keckeisen I don't think, and he maybe has a 20% chance against Plott.

Brooks is so big, I'd venture to say that David Taylor is in for a run this cycle. Brooks is going to be really strong coming off this season spending the whole time up at 197.