PAC 12 wrestling schedule for this week 1/26/24 thru 1/28/24

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FRIDAY - January 26, 2024 - 6 p.m. PT

Little Rock @ Oregon State - Not on any PAC 12 network apparently

SUNDAY - January 28, 2024 - 3 p.m. PT

Little Rock @ Stanford - Televised on the PAC 12 Bay Area channel

Edited January 23 by Thumper
correction

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The other three PAC 12 teams (Arizona State, Cal Poly and CSUB) have no wrestling events this week.

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@Thumper@NearFall@bronco. 

The Oregon State vs LR match will not be televised. The Pac-12 switched up a bunch of stuff and now the dual will be held off-site at a local high school at the conclusion of Day 1 wrestling at the Resers Tournament of Champions (One of the best tournaments in Oregon HS wrestling). There might be live scoring. 

It should be noted that although CSUB does not have a match on the schedule, they are in fact still a wrestling program and are still competing. 

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It's too bad it's not being televised.   The WrestleStat dual comparison feature - when you plug in Little Rock vs. Oregon State - is shown as a 20-13 win for Oregon State.  However they have Oregon State's # 82 ranked Nash Singleton beating Little Rock's # 48 ranked Kyle Dutton at 149 lbs.  Switch that 149 lb match to a win for Little Rock and it's a one point win for Oregon State - 17-16.  Their only common opponent is ASU's Kyle Parco and Singleton lost by MD (14-3) last December and Dutton lost 4-0 to Parco on the 19th of this month, i.e., five days ago.

Every other match in the dual comparison has the higher ranked wrestler winning the match but for reasons unknown at 149 lbs they show the much lower ranked guy winning that match.

Also at 157 lbs they have Little Rock's Matt Bianchi winning 8-7 over Oregon State's Isaiah Crosby.  Yet the last time these two wrestled each other Bianchi won by MD (16-7) at the 2023 PAC 12 tournament. 

To me this appears to be a pretty evenly matched dual.  Too bad only local (Corvallis/Salem/Eugene) area Oregon State fans will be able to watch it.

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The Pac 12 was also responsible for the 5:00 local start time for the PSU dual due to scheduling basketball double headers for the prime time slots over the weekend. It was a hassle to have a 5:00 local start time , yet we still managed over 8,500 fans for the dual. That also took  creativity, as there were several Oregon Classic qualifiers that weekend and weigh-ins were at the same time as the dual. Luckily, people stepped in and organized a satellite weigh-in for the kids at Reser Stadium so they could weigh in and then walk across the parking lot to the dual. 

The LR dual was almost canceled due to more Pac12 basketball stuff, but the staff thought outside the box to make it still happen by moving it to the high school. Hopefully OSU can capitalize on the huge crowd that will already be there for the Resers Tournament of Champions. 

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The PAC 12 individual weight class rankings (On WrestleStat) - First thru sixth - are interesting especially in regards to Little Rock.  If you attach 10 points for each wrestler who is ranked first in their PAC 12 weight class ratings with 8 points for second, six points for third, 4 points for fourth, 2 points for fifth and 1 point for sixth and then add up those team points you get the following:

66 points - Little Rock (2 first - 3 second - 2 third - 2 fourth - 1 fifth

64 points - Oregon State (4 first - 1 second - 1 third - 1 fourth - 3 fifth

60 points - Stanford (2 first - 2 second - 3 third - 3 fifth

59 points - Arizona State (2 first - 2 second - 2 third - 2 fourth - 1 fifth - 1 sixth

47 points - Cal Poly (2 second - 2 third - 4 fourth - 1 fifth - 1 sixth

14 points - Cal State Bakersfield (1 fourth - 1 fifth - 8 sixth)