Nittany

Deakin was just not f-ing around there...

If this were only true.

Glad to see him back to form and back in the finals. I especially appreciated him walking to the center of the mat and pointing at the mat in an effort to get Crookham to stop backing up and playing the edge. Good stuff.

John Lange, 7 seed for Penn State in 1998. Lost in the first round to David Wells of Cal Poly 15-5. Wins 7 (!) straight on the back-side to take 3rd. In the consolation semi-finals he pinned David Wells.

You guys are arm chairing it - in the moment, he felt he could ride and chose top. Good decisions can have bad outcomes.

Skullet

Fix has been living too close to the edge and I think Ragusin takes him out.

Vito

Why is Mendez so smug? He just gets more unlikeable the more he opens his mouth. He has a big win over Hardy to make the semi's and all he can say is that he hasn't hit a spladle since his first year wrestling. Really?! Who learns a spladle the first year they wrestle? I'm calling BS and rooting for Echemendia.

No consistency with the backing out stall call. This rule needs to go.

Meh

Shuh-pyro wins 157.

Depends on which Beau shows up - the one that opened up and beat Woods soundly in the Iowa dual, or the more tentative (and typical) one that lost at the Big 10 tournament. I think he makes the finals, but I don't think he'll win it all. The guy just needs to open up, but mostly refuses to.

Makes you think that Trev is just one of those football guys who could never understand how a 140-ish pound wrestler could put a Nebraska linebacker on the ground and keep him there.

Hardy is a tough out for anyone - the guy is really unorthodox and a great scrambler. Smart money says Mendez, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Hardy take this one.