Konquest

I can assure you that college wrestlers still preach head/hands defense, and practice downblocking and sprawling. A lot of wrestlers are confident that they can scramble to a North/South ankle grab stalemate, and not get scored on if someone gets in on their legs, but guys like Hardy and prime Sasso put good wrestlers in danger from there.

Brock Hardy is a terrible matchup for anyone who doesn't have partners who can give that weird feel. He wants you in on his legs, which is antithetical to how most wrestlers wrestle. And the more you get frustrated and try to create action, the more chances you have of getting that cradle slapped on ya!

I'll die on the hill that Burroughs, Leen, and Poeta (all at the same weight) were the 3 most athletic wrestlers in the NCAA that year regardless of weight class. All 3 were an incredible mix of speed, flexibility, strength, etc.

Addendum to the above. I just had a look and as a sophomore at Cheesehead he also lost to Logan Swensen from Minnesota and Tommy Verrette from Colorado/Oklahoma, who is more of a Greco specialist. Undefeated freshman, 2 losses as a soph, one as a junior. Probably about 150-3 heading into senior year.

Kellen won state 3x in Wisconsin big school division so far, and should win a 4th without many challenges. He won Cadets at 113 when he was in 8th grade, and has been an AA and runnerup in the Junior nationals. In HS folkstyle, he's split matches with Davis Parrow from Minnesota who is going to Nebraska. I don't think he's lost in Wisconsin. He had to go through a senior defending state champ and Fargo AA (Ben Bast) to win his first title. He is VERY good, and the upside of Wisconsin/AWA prep wrestlers in the NCAA lately makes him a prized recruit. In terms of AWA club guys, He is more of an offensive minded brawler like Keckeisen than a funky scrambler like O'Toole or slick like Mesenbrink. In other words, perfect fit for Big Ten. This was bound to happen with the OKST billionaire dude buying Jamison/Robideau (Minnesota), Swiderski (ISU), Routledge (Nebraska) from other teams plus Jax and the Raneys. We are in a bad spot now as a sport where billionaires are paying kids big bucks to ride the bench just so other teams can't get them. In 5 years, NCAA wrestling is just going to a be a triangular dual meet.

"A" up until middle school, "B" after that, but obviously it's everyone's individual choice. Ben Askren is arguably the best club wrestling coach in the country, and those guys pride themselves on kids who didn't do anything big as youth wrestlers going on to earn college scholarships. Play a bunch of sports as a kid but if you want to be great at wrestling, fall in love with it as a kid, and then start the high level competition grind at age 11-14 (early adolescence) if they're ready for it. The big trophies from the kids' national tournaments where you see psychos screaming at kids and 6 year olds cutting weight don't mean squat in the grand scheme of things.

Ian Miller was like a kid who only hit the cool looking homerun moves, but then when he made it all the way to the top level of college wrestling with that stuff, coaches have to re-think what they call "junk moves". Dylan Ness is probably the only wrestler to get to the level he did without learning how to sprawl. I'm going to throw out a name to discuss: Tony Davis. He, Drew Foster, and Parker Keckeisen are the most recent modern era NCAA champs from UNI, but something that made Tony's story different is that he didn't wrestle his senior year of HS and was caught up in Chicago gang lifestyle, which was WAAAY worse in the 90's. JUCO and Mark Manning helped him turn it around and win a natty. He was considered one of the best kid's wrestlers in IL history and I don't think he lost at all through youth, middle school, and his first 3 years of high school. He lost in the IL state final to Reggie Wright as a junior (one of the best HS matches ever), and his life completely spun out of control after the loss.

It sounds like he had flower and not vapes/carts. A tiny little jar of today's nugs will stink up an entire room, much less a car. In terms of marijuana consumption, smoking flower is absolutely the least discreet way of going about it. Vape pens and especially edibles barely have any odor that a human (K9 might be different) would notice in a routine stop.

I never thought I'd see the term "Head Stash" on this forum. However, I did have to laugh at the quoted post above where the dude said a cart costs $5. They come in 1/2 and 1 g and are like $30-60ish, respectively, in the Chicagoland area.

Rumors (and I really, really, want to stress that they are rumors) are that Jake Paul and Dana White contributed financially, and the Tate brothers offered and may have been politely turned away (probably not the best look for a guy whose business is educating children to take money from sex traffickers).

He said it was a short guy so I'm assuming he's talking about Cole Matthews...

Kyle Connell?

Can Ono hold 133 for a whole season? If he goes 141, I could see him beating Mendez but losing to Hardy.

I remember him well, fast as lightning and could go upper body or attack the legs. I follow IL HS wrestling somewhat, and using the clues of a state and Fargo champ with a career cut short due to injury, Brill was my guess...

Bryce Brill?