billyhoyle

This guy just had the biggest upset ever (or at least since Dan Gable). His name is Wyatt. He wrestles for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. And the best nickname that we as a sport can think of for him is rehashing Captain America, which was a pretty unoriginal nickname when it was used for Kyle Snyder. Can't we think of some "Wyatt" related cowboy nickname? If we want to make it something more patriotic, how about something creative involving airplanes or the Air Force? Or anything other than the same boring Marvel superhero? Anyone else miss the days of nicknames like the East Lansing Strangler, Funky, Kid Dynamite, King Cole, or The Great Pumpkin?

Yes, assuming he had eligibility and same age compared to the guy he met in the finals, although still older than you should be for the level.

The equivalent would be if Bo Nickal decided to go back and compete in high school wrestling to win one more Texas state title because he got a good NIL deal to do so.

Not even close to the same comparison. Bo Nickal probably would still not have made a world/olympic team if he stuck with wrestling-he didn't have much of an option to stay. Also, this is the equivalent of if he had another year of college eligibility and decided to compete in NCAAs, not internationally (but still it's not even the same comparison because Gable won at a level above NCAAs).

That's great that he chased what he wanted, but wrestling fans will probably root for the athletes who want to wrestle. I hope Gable decides to stick with wrestling, but I doubt it happens unless MMA doesn't work out.

Steveson made it clear that wrestling was a very low priority in his goals. WWE, then Football, then probably MMA..He wrestled this year because of NIL. Why wouldn't people root for Hendrickson over him?

Hodge should be Starocci. If you want to base it on bonus %, then it should be MM. But Starocci just did something nobody ever will again. These two guys led the single greatest NCAA team we have ever seen. No doubt Hendrickson deserved OW for NCAAs though. But that doesn't erase that the two PSU guys are more deserving of the award.

Golf

There's nobody in that replay room! Who's reviewing this thing a ghost?

Mendez looked better after giving up 5 than he has all year. You don't see people flip switches like that.

Looks like Hardy didn't cut his nails.

Mendez has a chance to do the funniest thing...

It's not irony. It's the state of Iowa wrestling.

Quinn and Cormier both already work for ESPN, so they have to be assigned to this.

I get that he has to be there because he works for ESPN, but yeah....

Cormier is awful at this...

Iowa can because they are the world's experts on stalling.

Imagine an Iowa wrestler losing on a stall call in the NCAA finals. I want to see that!!

They should have called stall on that.

Call the stall on him

You have to give that three points. Just relative to everything else we've seen tonight so far that should be two takedowns.

Nickerson Donahoe comes to mind.

Musk has to prep for his fight with Zuckerberg.

If he makes it to half time, I'm going to be impressed. There's three more hours scheduled in this broadcast.

So far through 20 minutes of wrestling, we have 1 total takedown.