Dark Energy

He is an outstanding wrestler. OUTSTANDING. That said, simply don’t want to watch him against other great wrestlers. Boring.

Thank you

A bit torn here. 2nd place!! Yes!! Only 3 AAs!! Crap!

Mesenbrink backing up shaking his hand out to side, seemingly discombobulated. Ref blows whistle and checks on him. Ref doesn’t call injury time. Wasn’t it though? What did I miss?

Richie Figs won a title living on that line. Crazy that the ref let him do that so blatantly. Many others. Figs isn’t alone.

@MidwestMan- hoping others there do chime in. I thought the whole setup was awesome. Arena was really impressive. Food lines were not long. Prices for food in arena were ok but better than on have seen elsewhere. Great special effects s in arena. Bathrooms kept clean and stocked (from what I saw). Local restaurant food prices well less than East coast. Had some of the best Italian food I’ve ever had. And I’ve had Italian. Many places to hang out close to arena. Need to get back to get to the WWI memorial and museum. Looks amazing. I could go on …

So much damn backing up to edge and playing the edge at NCAAs. Ridiculous. Over and over and over again. Ugly. Refs subjectivity and inconsistency on this point is not working. Need more severe incentives to keep guys from doing this.

Hoping the championships are held here more. A lot more. Great setup. Low cost. Arena was outstanding. Central. Lots of food and drink around Arena. Free tram to get you to fun area with more good food near river. City was clean. People were nice. All around great. Really hoping this city gets the event more often.

Wow. The bias is strong with this ref. Mess walked out of bounds when on bottom multiple times. No biggie.

The scenario is occurring now. Scratch Vito’s head, causing bleeding. Bait for locked hands.

@jackwebster - you going to call out Burroughs? Making sure you stay consistent.

I’m there. Crowd was booing Fix. Total lack of offense. Boring. Has over stayed his welcome (quite old) given he provides nearly no entertainment value. And then the stalemate call when opponent was in on that shot in OT …. Fans just not thrilled with him.

Thanks @Xmas32. Missed that. May have missed another. Was a quick scan. Still … main point is the roughly even AA performance across so many schools.

Goes hand in hand with the team score parity below first place …. Seems like the number of teams with multiple AAs is very high. And outside of Penn State there are no teams with 5 or more AAs. Many with 3. The parity there is interesting. I figure one of you will run the numbers (thank you). Number of teams with multiple AAs may be historic.

Each of us fans of the sport are the winner.

Foca gives up the most easily defended TD with 1 sec left and loses to F&M.

Nice. Thanks for this.

To get a high seed you should have to earn it, in very large part in THIS season. You need to wrestle a good number of matches, have good quality wins, few loses, and do very well at your qualifying tournament. Carter simply didn’t deliver on many of these. I get why people feel differently …. But I do believe this seeding system is very reasonable.

Hyperbole much? LOL.

Hoping Shapiro / Haines happens. I wonder if Haines is too fundamentally sound to succumb to Shapiro’s wizardry. Also hope Shapiro is and stays healthy so that this happens.

Few seem to think Carter is actually, meaningfully, hurt. Seems like he is. I think Lewis wins it.

All the ‘other’ wrestlers in the top half of the 174 bracket think they got f’d. Bottom bracket guys have to be pretty happy. Brutal disparity when considering past results.

Cool. Good to hear. Didn’t show through but it is a tough situation.

I just wasted a lot of time trying to find what you are talking about. What was fascinating about that thread?

Someone tell Feldman he is losing.