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The irony in an iowa wrestler pointing a finger at a PSU wrestler is...worth observing. Gear is everywhere. This is professional sports.

Yeah, the Iowa room DEFINITELY has never ever seen a stray needle in its time either. This is a dumb conversation entirely. "No wayyyyy, the NCAA doesn't test in any meaningful way because it's ultimately entertainment for pay?!" Kids are on gear in high school and it's blatant. Those same kids get recruited and wrestle. We think that enrolling in college is going to DECREASE the amount that they take and have access to?

Learn how to read words and do a little research. I'm sure you're all in your feelings because of something unfortunate that happened to the young man. I've watching enough of shapiro to know that, and this is putting it as charitably as possible, his behavior is "unpredictable" when his emotions get bigger than he knows how to control. This is not a new thing. In no way am saying I wish him ill, but accidents don't excuse poor behavior or being a douchebag. They also don't excuse you from being called out for same. Go to 1:25:40 and watch from there, you'll see enough.

You want a better nickname than captain america, for a dude who makes the superhero look small? No, he is captain america. Only other one I’ll consider is the lion tamer.

I have very little to say in support of anything shapiro says. He was a complete tw*t at the end of one of the matches he won, maybe his quarter, and this is just sour grapes from him. If he had been composed and a gentleman, I might listen politely and then ignore him, but this is his ego just continuing to run the show. Really love to hear what he has to say about getting big brothered by antrell taylor too. After all he’s been through with his concussions I just treat him like antonio brown. Highly talented, but unbelievably predictable, and mentally just on mars.

This is why it’s so important to show appreciation and build connections with all young athletes, so they can see and understand that they have value and identity that they appreciate outside the sport. Guys who are missing that take unnecessary risks to hang onto the only thing they value about themselves.

A lot clearly, both in technique but even more between the ears for hendrickson. He was notoriously the 3rd place king because he always had hiccups against kerkvliet. He had to get over those mental boogeymen just to have the chance to wrestle steveson, and he kept a TON of poise throughout that match.

Manning and nebraska had an outstanding year and an amazing tournament. Because people like doug schwab, lee roper, and neil erisman exist, I’m not giving manning that crown though. Antrell taylor had a fantastic tournament, lovett and hardy are both 35.

Iowa better buckle its seatbelt. It’s about to be a loooong couple of years. Bright spots were Kennedy and Keuter obviously. Kennedy placing was my favorite result of the tournament until captain america stepped in and took rob rohn’s place as the next coming of larry owings. Even though he low AA’d, heavyweight is wide open next year, Keuter is an immediate “probably” for at least the semis if not the finals. Ayala is also ENORMOUS at 133, will he make the move to 141 next year? It really looked like the weight cut just wore him down by the end of the year. Been there. There are things that food, water, and rest can’t put back into you for a long time after consistently cutting a lot of weight. Being a 2x bridesmaid is a lot of pressure, but corey clark did it. Also, lol at Ferrari the youngest being homegrown.

Dude go back to reddit. This is a forum for wrestling. @Husker_Du can you zap this thread pleeeease, for all of us.

We can say all we want. I rooted for captain america super hard. It was very cool of Steveson to actively encourage the crowd to cheer for hendrickson while they were on the awards stand. That is something his namesake is incapable of to this day. Imperfect, heel, what have you, he showed class and grace towards hendrickson in that moment, which was a big thing to do.

We very quietly just watched the most complete team performance in ncaa history. 1st - x2 2nd - x1 3rd - x5 5th - x1 6th - x1 They had a “disappointing” showing and beat a second place nebraska team that wrestled out of its shoes by 60 points. We are (rightfully so) a little distracted right now by the biggest upset since larrold owings, but this is something that will likely never be done again in our lifetimes. To me this is more impressive than their 5 champ year, because their floor was a heavyweight with a blown knee who med forfeited to 6th. That is outlandishly impressive.

Gotta be, beating kerk and steveson on the way to your title. Only other option is hamiti.

Burroughs, Dan Gable, and John Smith have a ton in common. Their wrestling obviously speaks for itself. Much of this is their own self worth being intricately intertwined with performance in the sport. It makes them bad commentators, because they can’t relate to and empathize with other wrestlers. They just say “he shouldn’t have done that, I would have done something else.” Burroughs is a tremendous wrestler. Never came across as a dude I’d want to have long conversations with. He’s so hyper competitive he expresses himself as self-centered and one-dimensional. Almost like that’s what you have to be in order to be the very very best at something. But, I agree 1000%. Hidlay is so fun to listen to. The finals always have trash commentators.

He certainly did in our household, not just because he won, but because he took a title chance away, and we can get off the media circus with the most dislikable person to enter the sport I can remember in my lifetime.

Bono’s a lock, his guys legitimately outperformed this tournament.

It’s not bad luck when it happens a few seasons in a row. This has been the song around mizzou for a while. “We’re amazing but our bodies are broken” is code for “our training ruined good athletes.” I’m pretty sure Iowa thrives on that reputetion, mizzou needs to return to the funky fueled askren-style fun wrestling team days.

Place all ten top six, with three in the finals. Best ever? No. But imploding? Even more no. What’s astonishing is they have already accomplished something I’m pretty sure is new (10 AA’s with a finalist), and this will always be seen as a disappointing finish unless ALL of their backside guys take 3rd.

I said it before I'll say it again, don't transfer to Iowa as a senior. That always leads to short NCAA tournaments due to injury or fatigue. Woods, Eierman, Teemer, likely parco as well (I think I saw that he had a bunch of tape under his black knee sleeve, could be something pre-existing.) I'm really invested in Buchanan bucking the trend though, for racecar reasons.

dude gtf outta here with that. Talk about wrestling. That you typed this shows exactly the type of person you are and that is very very unimpressive. [if you paid attention, you caught the immense irony in my writing that third sentence...Don't be that guy]

I came here looking for this after catching a replay. Strategy-wise, that was him throwing something up in the air to see if it stuck. I guess a part of their expectations was cannon would go further on the front side. It's immensely ironic that I'm pretty sure he was arguing that takedown was a slam...when they thing that set him off when advocating for rogotzke was rogotzke's own slam. I'm getting tired of that behavior. This is not meant as a joke, though many will take it as such, but maybe somebody really needs to keep an eye on coach's demeanor after his car crash. Gotta be head trauma that goes along with that.

Love that list, thanks for putting in the leg work on that. Looking at those opponents, I think you can slot starocci right between brooks and yianni, and you have a perfect list going from worst to best.

I was originally going to put him pretty low, but then I remembered all the people he has beaten on his way to winning these titles. Dude may not bring the heat, but he is clutch AF. 2021 - beat kemerer in overtime 2022 - beat mekhi lewis in the finals 2023 - pinned labriola in the finals 2024 - Beat walsh from Ohio state in the finals while wrestling with a blown out knee, on the way he beat mekhi in the quarters He may not always put up points, but his mental game is on point. I probably put him 4th behind cael, dake, and brooks.

The inside trip heard ‘round the world. Cenzo was the textbook definition of a gamer. He had jake rosholt blood in him.

Mark Hall and Vincenzo Joseph deserve to be on the short list of Penn State’s greatest of all time, but they don’t have that 4th year so nobody talks about them. Those two college careers got absolutely kneecapped by 2020.