2024 Stevan Micic Tanner Hall Mike Kemerer Award for Perseverance

[bnwtwg]

An early front-runner for this year's perseverance award is Cam McCormick who was just granted a record 9th year of eligibility. However, he may not prevail as he will still only be a young, spry 26 years old when he has exhausted his eligibility. Surely there is a wrestler out there who can best that number!

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39337111/miami-te-cam-mccormick-granted-ninth-year-eligibility

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

Daton Fix will be 26 in March.

[nhs67]

Damn it.

I double posted this out of stupidity.

My apologies, @bnwtwg.

[bnwtwg]

36 minutes ago, nhs67 said:

Damn it.

I double posted this out of stupidity.

My apologies, @bnwtwg.

Never apologize to me for that is a fool's errand

[Idaho]

3 hours ago, bnwtwg said:

An early front-runner for this year's perseverance award is Cam McCormick who was just granted a record 9th year of eligibility. However, he may not prevail as he will still only be a young, spry 26 years old when he has exhausted his eligibility. Surely there is a wrestler out there who can best that number!

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39337111/miami-te-cam-mccormick-granted-ninth-year-eligibility

It makes sense that he would.... he has persevered through 8 years of college wrestling, which is double what some have had to persevere through.... 

[1032004]

Football?  Pfft.  I thought this thread was going to be about this:

 

[ionel]

19 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

Football?  Pfft.  I thought this thread was going to be about this:

 

ahh ... so the kid on the left or the right?  

[wrestle87]

7 hours ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

Daton Fix will be 26 in March.

This right here, this is some of the silliest garbage I can remember.  I get it bc he’s probably making a decent paycheck, but to quote rob koll, “past a certain point you have to ask ‘what’s the point?’”

Kirk has to be getting up there in age too.

[Antitroll2828]

1 hour ago, wrestle87 said:

This right here, this is some of the silliest garbage I can remember.  I get it bc he’s probably making a decent paycheck, but to quote rob koll, “past a certain point you have to ask ‘what’s the point?’”

Kirk has to be getting up there in age too.

Kirk is like 22

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

7 hours ago, Antitroll2828 said:

Kirk is like 22

23.  He will be 24 or 25 (depending on birthdate) when he wrestles at NCAA next year.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

Vito Arujau 24

Brock Hardy 23 year old redshirt sophomore.  

Aaron Brooks only 23

Carter Starocci will be 23 at NCAA.  24 if he comes back for his final year.

Brody Teske 23 (HBD)

Real Woods 24

Others?

 

[nhs67]

7 hours ago, Antitroll2828 said:

Kirk is like 22

Kerk could have competed in U23s last year.  He won't be able to this year.

[1032004]

On 1/6/2024 at 5:01 PM, Threadkilla said:

For final review, the top 25 overall wrestlers in the Class of 2017 were as follows:

BOLD:  Still Wrestling 

1. Daton Fix (Sand Springs, OK/Oklahoma State)
2. Spencer Lee (Franklin Regional, PA/Iowa)
3. Yianni Diakomihalis (Hilton, NY/Cornell)
4. Vito Arujau (Syosset, NY/Cornell)
5. Mikey Labriola (Bethlehem Catholic, PA/Nebraska)
6. Brady Berge (Kasson-Mantorville, MN/Penn State)
7. Jacob Warner (Washington, IL/Iowa)
8. Louie DePrez (Hilton, NY/Binghamton)   Back from injury
9. Nick Lee (Mater Dei, IN/Penn State)
10. Chase Singletary (Blair Academy, NJ/Ohio State)
11. Austin Gomez (Carol Stream, IL/Wisconsin via Iowa State)  3rd school
12. Austin O'Connor (St. Rita, IL/North Carolina)
13. Cam Coy (Penn Trafford, PA/Virginia)
14. Quentin Hovis (Poway, CA/Navy)
15. Kaden Gfeller (Heritage Hall, OK/Oklahoma State)
16. Kaleb Romero (Mechanicsburg, OH/Ohio State)
17. Austin Desanto (Exeter, PA/Iowa via Drexel)
18. Jake Woodley (North Allegheny, PA/Oklahoma)
19. Mekhi Lewis (Bound Brook, NJ/Virginia Tech)
20. Jarod Verkleeren (Belle Vernon, PA/Virginia via Penn State)
21. Trent Hillger (Lake Fenton, MI/Wisconsin)
22. Tanner Litterell (Tuttle, OK/Oklahoma)
23. Zack Donathan (Mason, OH/Lincoln College)
24. John Borst (Sherando, VA/Virginia Tech)
25. Jake Allar (St. Michael/Albertville, MN/Minnesota)

 

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

20 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

Vito Arujau 24

Brock Hardy 23 year old redshirt sophomore.  

Aaron Brooks only 23

Carter Starocci will be 23 at NCAA.  24 if he comes back for his final year.

Brody Teske 23 (HBD)

Real Woods 24

Others?

 

Michael DeAugustino 24

Austin Gomez 25 (will be 26 at NCAA)

Cam Amine 23 

Chris Cannon soon to be 23, will be 24 at next years NCAA

Shane Griffith will be 25 at NCAA

Lucas Davison 23

 

Lou DePrez 25

Mekhi Lewis 24

Trent Hidlay 25?

[HungusMungus]

Is this the last year of the "extra covid year" wrestlers?

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

For perspective, I was a 5th year and was 22 years old at my NCAA regional.  A lot of this is holding kids back/reclassifying (before college) added to the Covid year. Now we also have ORS, greyshirts, and Injury redshirts being handed out like candy on Halloween.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

2 minutes ago, HungusMungus said:

Is this the last year of the "extra covid year" wrestlers?

I don't think so, but they will begin to rapidly disappear after this.

[jackwebster]

11 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

Shane Griffith will be 25 at NCAA

I don't know his story beyond saving Stanford wrestling headlines. Impressive, but I imagine folks don't go to Stanford with an eye toward making a life as a professional wrestler (e g. World Team member or college coach). I would assume he had other life goals. So yada opportunity cost yada, his decision to chase this dream is ... something.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

1 minute ago, jackwebster said:

I don't know his story beyond saving Stanford wrestling headlines. Impressive, but I imagine folks don't go to Stanford with an eye toward making a life as a professional wrestler (e g. World Team member or college coach). I would assume he had other life goals. So yada opportunity cost yada, his decision to chase this dream is ... something.

I'm sure he's being well compensated in NIL and adding Michigan alums to his already impressive network of Stanford alums.

[1032004]

3 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

I'm sure he's being well compensated in NIL and adding Michigan alums to his already impressive network of Stanford alums.

And getting a master’s degree, or did he already have one from Stanford?  Even if he did, another can’t hurt

[Lipdrag]

If these "kids" aren't careful, they will soon be eligible to rent their own cars to drive to meets (25), be off Mommie's health insurance (26), have voted in their third presidential election (18, 22, 26), and be more than half way to AARP (50/2) before their last NCAA tournament.  Endless adolescence, um, uh . . . perseverance.

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

1 minute ago, 1032004 said:

And getting a master’s degree, or did he already have one from Stanford?  Even if he did, another can’t hurt

He has two degrees from Stanford, so I imagine that this would be his second masters.

[1032004]

20 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

I don't think so, but they will begin to rapidly disappear after this.

Should still be a lot next year and a decent amount even the year after.

Next year will be the last for guys who were redshirt freshmen in 2021 (like Starocci if he comes back) or true freshmen in 2021 who may not end up using a redshirt (like O’Toole assuming he comes back and doesn’t redshirt next year).  
 

But if there were true freshmen that wrestled in 2021 and redshirted later, they will also have the 2026 season for their 5th tournament.

Might still be a couple even after that if there are regular redshirts + Olympic/medicals

Edited January 19 by 1032004

[jackwebster]

2 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

I'm sure he's being well compensated in NIL and adding Michigan alums to his already impressive network of Stanford alums.

Sure, but not like buy-a-condo-in-Tribeca-money.

In any event, I was just thinking that the NIL money would be temporary. I hadn't consider that the networking would help him after he left his shoes on the mat.  Shows why my bank account us what it is.