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Graduation year.

"Kids"? Bless you, my child. What don't you understand about "lu75"?

Really? I guess I did. Would you post the links so that I can catch up?

Does this strike anyone else as a bit ....... I don't know, excessive, maybe? At some point, doesn't everyone need to get on with the rest of their lives? On ESPN's website: Miami tight end Cam McCormick confirmed Thursday he'd be returning to play for the Hurricanes in 2024 -- his ninth season of college football. McCormick, who began his career at Oregon in 2016, missed significant parts of four different seasons due to injury, which along with his redshirt year and the COVID year of 2020 allowed him to petition the NCAA for an unprecedented ninth season of eligibility.

I'll go with Lehigh's Colin Kilrain in 1981 and 1982. Kilrain was seeded 1st in the 1981 tournament, based on an undefeated season including a win over Ed Banach, the eventual champion. Colin lost 5-3 in the semis to Clarion's Charlie Heller and wrestled back for 3rd place. In 1982 Kilrain was again undefeated and seeded 1st, this time at 190; the other top seeds were Mike Mann, Bill Scherr, and Pete Bush. Colin had beaten Mann and Bush during the season. This was the tournament when Harold Nichols threw a fit over the 190-lb seeding and the seeding committee re-seeded the weight; Mann and Bush were originally seeded 2nd and 3rd and would have met in the semis. Instead Kilrain met Bush in the semis and walked into a 44-second fall. Bush beat Mann 3-3, 2-2, criteria for the title; Kilrain wrestled back and beat Scherr for 3rd. Bush said it was the only time he beat Mann in a lifetime of trying. Kilrain made a career of the Navy, became a Seal, recently retired as a Vice Admiral. His wife is a retired astronaut. One of their children, Sean, is on the Lehigh roster now.

Hunte drew Lehigh's Bob Sloand in the first round in '77. Sloand had talent but was unseeded due to a roller coaster year. He won 9-9, 3-2 against Hunte, won his second match, and then med forfeited the next day due to a knee injury. Defeated wrestlers only wrestled back if they lost to semi-finalists back then, so Hunte was out. Iowa finished 3rd, 11.5 points behind Iowa State; it probably cost Iowa the team title.

Tag team?

That job never stays filled for long; they all OD on fudge ripple.

Their father. Wrestled at Pope John XXIII in Sparta, NJ. Mike's brother Jim also wrestled for Lehigh, son Travis did in the '00s.

Mike Frick in 1976. Defending NCAA champ at 134, missed the fall semester due to academics. Weighing 144, beat Mark Churella at 150 at Midlands, lost by a point to Pete Galea in the finals. At 142 drew with Brad Smith in the Iowa dual, then beat Smith in the All-Star meet. At 150, beat 1975 NCAA 142-lb champ Jim Bennett in the Yale dual. In the NCAA finals at 134 he fell behind 2x champion Pat Milkovich 3-0, then won 7-4. Brad Smith was the 142-pound champion. The top 4 at 150 were Chuck Yagla, Galea, Churella, and Bennett. Finished the season with a 19-0-2 record. I may be just a little bit biased.

Half a dozen years ago there was talk about Pennsylvania shutting down some of the schools like Edinboro, Lock Haven, etc., due to low enrollments. Not shuttering the wrestling programs, shutting down entire colleges. I think that was one reason Flynn left. Kind of hard to recruit for a school that might not be there.

Umm, because he can beat at least half the other guys?

No need to get so excited, D3 ..... Lehigh's won four of the last five duals against Cornell now, nothing special about it .....

Can we vote for more than one? Take the field?

Looks to me like the highest-priced all-session tickets are 50 bucks. https://umterps.com/sports/2023/11/7/b1g-wrestling-ticket-information

Dean Hamiti.

I still make that mistake occasionally. With Rutgers, too. Penn State had two champs and Michigan one, so that gave the B1G three champs as well.

Only if you had knee replacements at 72.

Programs that make the most sense geographically are Rider, George Mason, and Morgan State.

Best Christmas movie, best movie period, ever: The Lion in Winter.

Parking is more reasonable than the last time Bucknell hosted. https://bucknellbison.com/news/2023/12/15/2024-eiwa-wrestling-championship-tournament-all-session-passes-now-on-sale

I'm done with this thread.

Going back aways -- Pat Milkovich. Won his first two NCAAs; finished second in the final two, both times applauding the wrestlers who had beaten him (John Fritz and Mike Frick).

Hofstra's coach from 1995-2006 was Tom Ryan. He had a ton of support from the administration to build the program, and he was successful enough to be hired away by Ohio State; his last team at Hofstra finished 11th at NCAAs. There were two coaches in-between Ryan and Dennis Papadatos, who took over a floundering program with a roster limit of 18 and little support. Dennis has managed to slowly get the roster size bumped up; I see 28 this year. He's in his 9th season with Hofstra; gotta believe if they weren't happy with the job he's doing they'd have replaced him by now.

So .... they would've wrestled if they could've, but they could've wrestled but they didn't? Out of curiosity, did the coach draw a breath in-between the two statements?