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This right here. Hammerlock, are you secretly Angel Rivera?

I’m surprised at how small the Iowa bubble is. But then I saw the ohio state bubble and thought ah…not really

Here I showed up to write a post, and you did it far more succinctly than I would have.

For the non-twittering of us...where does this stand?

NFW did he pull his hamstring. He had a ton of lateral pressure put on his leg in a single leg scramble, that’s almost always a ligamentous or other connective tissue injury.

A DT-era okie state trophy would be awesome for the sport.

Calling ryan a POS for one outburst is beyond uncharitable. He runs a great program and has improved the lives of hundreds of kids. Did you all forget that these are D1 coaches who ALL lose their sh*t at one point or another? These are the most competitive, prominent people in the sport. T&T tell the world and everyone in it to f*ck itself every dual meet, but ryan has one outburst and you want to hang him from a lamppost?

Because an arbitrary one time rule that was implemented randomly due to a global event does or doesn't apply to him, when others have already competed for the exact same circumstances and not been punished? Why is he different from brooks or starocci or beard or steveson?

You’re not wrong, or wolak or kharchla for that matter, that is a tough first two matches for all those guys.

Pinto got a raw deal with his draw. Not great for KOT in my view. 10% chance, but pinto is a bull, KOT doesn’t handle that very well.

Watch out for kharchla wolak. That has dark horse written all over. Wolak is still dangerous even if he’s not in last year’s form.

What happens when Kasak and shapiro headbutt each other and neither passes protocol in the ncaa finals?

This will always be the answer, followed by caldwell over metcalf, and then cenzo over Imar.

I don’t hate that idea. The NCAA however…

I’m a PSU fan but that is getting a bit tiresome, especially after witnessing how people treated JB last year. That legitimately made me reassess who I was on the proverbial bus with. #2 is an all dogs team. I love any story about a kid punching an AA ticket from a small school, and I love a low seeded bracket toppler. So, my #2 team is seeds 17-33. I really want Okie State to be a force again, and for there to be more teams that value and prioritize the fun upside to enjoying the sport instead of hating life as the price of success, so my #2 team is the DT OSU crew.

I understand the mechanics of seeding, I also think Alirez is likely wrestling on one arm, but still, a previous champ is a bad bad draw. It is arguably the toughest quarter at the weight. Now, of course alirez could put this to bed by getting bounced before the quarter, but I still think the point is valid.

For real, talk about being punished for your success.

Well, seeding committees have a history of only taking criteria as suggestions, hence the annual forum pilgrimage to threads (correctly) talking about how insane and actually against the established rules these brackets are. It’s like the annual sprouting of foliage, it happens literally every year.

A 4x returning champ has more than enough cred to warrant a one seed. This doesn’t need to be questioned.

If he's getting screwed it's by whomever at his school or on the coaching staff that told him he could have a fifth postseason. The free year was pretty clear, and he didn't use it. I really fail to see a screw job in the NCAA not allowing a fifth year for him. Seems like he is in the bracket, though..... If this were 15 years ago, I’d agree. But at this point, all of these rules are pointless and arbitrary. The NCAA is simply a hollow leach of a media rights brokerage. The shine is off the moral superiority of amateur athletics, I see no reason for the NCAA to exist for any reason other than convention and “we need something to call ourselves”. These rules just exist so donks in suits can continue to have their hooks in young people trying to pursue a passion. That’s disgusting. I would be very happy if the NCAA acronym disappeared, and men’s wrestling fell under the same acronym as women’s wrestling.

Really? Put yourself in this kid’s shoes and the answer becomes self-evident in half a second. The 2020 seniors definitely got screwed the hardest though, no question.

That’s really ***ducking** stupid if they do that to this kid. Guys have been enrolled in college for practically a decade amongst the various ways other people have said. People also stay back in school as far back as middle school. We’re really going to begrudge a kid a year even though the same and more has been awarded to active wrestlers? This is the first time this kid qualified for nationals too. I’m not even going to say the ncaa made the error, bc this isn’t an error. He was enrolled in college during covid, jtfc isn’t that enough to say he’s had enough taken from him already?

This is a great opportunity to point out, I don’t have any dislike for the brands, they are a vital part of wrestling, and college wrestling becomes a shell of itself without them. I have frustration with them that they aren’t developing guys, outwardly it appears this is the case because they are refusing to put the fire and brimstone aside to explore the creativity and positive thinking that has revamped so many programs. It’s brutal to say, but it feels like the thing that made them great in their time as wrestlers is currently a ball and chain keeping them from getting where they want to be. I entreat the hawkeye faithful to pay for a T&T ayahuasca excursion.

This is both fascinating and instructive. It’s almost like there’s a reason coaches go to bat so hard during seeding meetings. Almost like that sh*t really matters!

Kasak is the next Zain Retherford. Heard it here first. Dude is the meanest wrestler on that roster, and is a brick sh*thouse. Edit: @Husker_Duare we now required to not use “bad words” as part of maintaining marketability for your new advertising provider?