Doesn’t make a lot of sense to have him forfeit this weekend if he had no chance of wrestling. Odd situation
are they RS everyone that could taken his place? I just feel like if i was a back up and they knew the whole time he couldn't go I'd be pretty frustrated with that
I’m seeing some rumors that Carter was supposed to go, but the coaches held him out last min and now he’s mad. Such a weird deal, I’ll expect to see him in KC until I don’t.
I'm surprised Latona won that... He finally got hit with stalling in 2OT, but I think even HS kids get hit with stalling before he did.
Aaron Brooks is the best overall collegiate wrestler in the country regardless of weight imo. Don't think it's super close.
Will Lewan's interview before the semis was sad. Clearly he hears the Flow guys and the message boards ripping him for being the human stall call. Better to not mention it, Will, and keep being you. That style has gotten you further than it should have. Messenbrink's interview after the final sums up his style "...a lot of guys can wrestle at that level, but not many can wrestle at that level for 7 minutes." Hamiti dominated two periods and then MM broke him at the end. Even though Hamiti had all the physical advantages, the gas tank went dry. 165 is going to be wild at NCAAs.
WVU is sending 4 to nationals. Freshman 149lb Ty Watters won the B12. We have 3 more who could get an at large, but I think only 1 gets it Qualified 125 Strickenberger 149 Watters 165 Hall 174 Conley Needs at large 141 Titus--think he gets one. Was in semis and had to injury default out due to concussion. Ranked 11th 184 Robin---finished 7th and ranked 28th 285 Wolfgram--finished 6th, don't think he's ranked. B12 had 5 spots at this weight Haven't had 2 AA since 2005 and 3 since 1999. Titus, Watters, and Hall all have a shot at it based on rankings
After I shit talk Goodale he shoves it up my hoop with a solid showing. But now I have to take back credit and give it to the bus driver instead.
Mekhi looks great right now. Think he nabs 1 seed now and I hope we can send him out with a Saturday Night match. TJ Stewart at 184 is a force, think he make noise. I’ve thought all year Caleb would win the natty at 149, but the loss in the finals made the question it, he’s got his knee wrapped and doest look as attacking as he was early in the year. Hopefully the slower turn around at nationals helps. rest of the line up has been a bit of a bummer, hope we can turn it on in KC. Anyone making the trip out there?
Indiana's six automatic qualifiers are the most since 2010, when Angel Escobedo was a senior in school
At Largest were good to Hokies, all 10 for the second year in a row. 7 schools this year have 10 qualified. Cornell does it for the first time ever.
Our 74 got the shaft on no at large and would have had us at 10. Similar resume, one spot out of AQ just like the UNI kid and ours beat him head to head this year - literally the first criteria didn’t get factored in. Feel for him as he was significantly under seeded at B1Gs and his draw was rough
They put 3 NCAA Champs on the top half of 174. Bottom half has cade devos, edmond ruth, and rocco welsh.
This year the seeding was purely analytics/stat based and there wasn't much actual thought put into it. This seeding is some of the worst that I can recall.
Anyone else hate they put NCAAs the same weekend as March Madness? Would rather they do it the weekend of the conference tournament imo
Yea, Lewis got screwed. #1 seed and gets 3x defending champ in the quarters. Should have put Starocci as the 6 seed imo
Has to beat him regardless, likely a better chance early than primetime with half the crowd being Penn State fans in a frenzy
Hell yes I hate it. They don't always overlap like this year, do they? I don't remember it being an issue in years past but maybe I'm misremembering. I know the women's and men's first rounds never were same weekend previously but they are this year too for some reason
For as long as I remember it has. We used to have a wrestling cookout and poker party where we had 4 TVs for b-ball but the main one set to wrestling