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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?

Hardy is very, very tough to prepare for in either Folk or Freestyle. Similar style to Seth Gross, who coincidentally he beat earlier in a 30+ point match.

Rules matter. Burroughs' double is borderline unstoppable because it typically results in 2, 4, or a pushout for 1 and is low enough to avoid getting jacked up in underhooks or with a single in the air, which would greatly favor Satiev's skill set. No pushouts and 1 pt takedowns would favor BS, pushout and 2 pt. takedown favors JB.

Illinois: Quintroy Harrell

AWA has 7 satellite locations in Wisconsin Lake Country: Ben/Mateah Roehl Mequon/North Shore: Max/Lauren Louvie Madison: Pat Spray South Shore Mafia: Wade Hodges/Jordan Newman Green Bay: Josh Wagner Central Wisconsin: Weston Wichman Fond Du Lac: Wilder Wichman

It's not that people don't give AWA credit, it's that lots of people outside of Wisconsin assume Ben Askren is all these stars' primary coach. There are several AWA locations throughout the state with great coaches at each site. Obviously Ben is the public face of the business, but Max and many other coaches had a hand in developing these athletes from a young age. Ben would probably be the first to give credit to these men and women.

Let's give credit where credit is due when talking about AWA wrestlers: although they are all friends and "teammates" under the AWA banner, Keegan O'Toole is a product of Ben (40 minutes west of Milwaukee) and Parker was coached by Max (10 minutes north of Milwaukee).

It's the "OPEN" for a reason. There are a bunch of dudes who stay in shape coaching or even training part time with a 9-5 for the event knowing full well that they might be lucky to score points, much less win a match. It's a true open where anyone can enter. Realistically there are only 3-4 guys at each weight who have a chance, though. The WTT is different because there are qualifying criteria, so you don't have 80 man brackets and multiple rounds of 30 second 10-0 matches.

As others have mentioned, Keegan is married and a homeowner in COMO. Kind of a different situation than a lot of recent grads getting into the senior circuit who could probably fit all their belongings in their trunk and move on a moment's notice.

Jordan Burroughs and Joe Williams come to mind. Not too tall or too short for their respective weights (Joe was a little taller/skinnier, especially in the legs), but both had wingspans much, much greater than their height.

Allison Schwab posted on Instagram that PK is sticking around Cedar Falls, at least for now, when someone speculated that he might join Ben Askren's AWA RTC.

The discussion of jacked wrestlers who look 3 weight classes heavier starts and stops with Ryan Deakin. A friend who attended some Stanford duals told me that Deakin is visually bigger than Pat Brucki, who was a jacked 197 lb. multi-AA. It defies logic how Deakin was a 157 lb. wrestler. He would've been big and jacked at 174. Never seen anything like him.

Those guys are a little before my time. I'm pretty sure Mark Schultz is a Mormon, religion-wise, but I don't know the ethnic/cultural/religious background of his ancestors.

Damion Hahn, Alan Fried, Lindsay Durlacher (RIP) are some all time greats who are Jewish. What about the person most likely to be the GOAT of American wrestling (Amit Elor)?

Madison is a special college town/city. Arguably the best in the Big Ten: good academically and absolutely legendary in terms of partying/atmosphere. It's a shame that their wrestling team doesn't have much to cheer about. Iowa COULD be more fun like Madison or Champaign/Urbana but you'll get arrested for just walking down the street. At least that's how it was back in the day. What college kid wants to start their adult life with a rap sheet for doing normal college weekend activities? I've lived in the Milwaukee area for my whole adult life, and it's hilarious how they literally have Marquette apparel with shamrocks on it, when their mascot is an eagle. Really leaning hard into the stereotype that it's the second choice for affluent Chicagoland kids from Catholic schools. As for UChicago and Northwestern...that's a little above my tax bracket in terms of brains and $$$. My daughter is an exceptional student and looked at every school in Chicago (she wants to get out of Wisconsin and loves big cities), but settled on Loyola over NU/UC/DePaul/Columbia.

It's been that way for a LONG time, speaking as someone who grew up in the Chicago suburbs. Iowa is the school for Chicagoland kids who didn't get into Illinois, and Marquette is for Chicagoland kids who didn't get into Notre Dame.

I thought Fishback was from Illinois, and moved to Ohio for high school? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Hardy is a terrible matchup for someone who's never wrestled folkstyle.

"We build it, we don't buy it" People should absolutely take that as shots fired, and Manning has a great point. Go Big Red.

Askren's moves pretty much changed the sport. In the mid 90's when I was competing, no one would have had any idea how to deal with passing legs, weird merkle positions, baiting people into cradles while they are in on a shot, etc. My coaches would hate me but opponents would be completely bewildered like Jake Herbert in the NCAA final.

Parker Keckeisen 133-2 with the only non-NCAA champ losses to Truax once and Hidlay once, he avenged both of these losses 2x each.

An old-school coach that I had at a HS camp told me that Greg Gibson could explode a properly inflated basketball with his gut wrench lock, kind of like Danny Hodge and the apples.

I don't get it either. DT beat Brandon Hatchett and Tyler Caldwell in his NCAA finals the years he won. Brooks beat Trent Hidlay 2x, Parker Keckeisen, and Myles Amine in his championship matches. C'mon, people.