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No disrespect to Alirez who looks good, but is Fix's best shot for NCAA title at 141?

Seems like holiday tourneys are not quite as tough as pre-pandemic trditions - less participation from top competition and less depth overall. Might be smart for some of the top guys to stay healthy and manage the risk of injury from a grueling sport by sitting our the holiday tourneys. The upside is more room to see some of the newer competitors. I am not complaining and note there has been a lot of exciting holiday wrestling!

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125 - Dean Peterson may have secured the spot over Rutgers teammate Dylan Shawver; same for unseeded Diego Sotelo of Harvard who was unseeded and took 3rd after a first round loss to Jack Medley. Sotelo beat teammate Beau Bayless in the consis 10-0 and won 5 matches before a MFF in the match for 3rd over Peterson. 133 - 4th Seed Michael Colaiocco of Penn won the title with an 8-1 win over Taylor Lamont in the quarters, a 15-13 win over #1 seed Lucas Byrd in the semis and a 3-2 win in the final over Chris Cannon that included a riding time point. Ryan Crookham had a big 2-1 decision in the quarters over #2 seed Joe Hellman of Rutgers. 141 - unseeded Saul Ervin of SIU Edwardsville took 5th and got to the semis with wins over Joe Zargo (WBF 1:54) and 4th seed Jesse Vasquez of ASU. 149 - unseeded Caleb Tyus of SIU Edwardsville also made it to the semis with wins over Graham Rooks (4th seed) and 5th seed Sam Hillegas. He took 4th to Doug Zapf (2-6) but beat Tyler Badget of Pitt in the consis semis 7-5. Badgett also had a good tourney. 157 - unseeded Drew Scharenbro of WIsconsin won 2nd. 165 - not a lot of surprise. Lucas Revano of Penn won four matches in the consis and got 7th from the 14th seed 174 - Unseeded Daniel Wask (Unattached Navy Prep) beat #2 seed Troy Fisher in the quarters and fell 2-3 to Nick Contrera in the semis, then won 4th after a win the consi semis over Pitt's Luca Augustine. Wask is going to do some big things in NCAA wrestling after his PG year. 184 - Jaritt Shonhoster (UW Whitewater) was the 5th seed and won 2nd, with a fall over the top seed Brian Soldano in the semis. 197 - Andrew Davison Northwestern lost to Cole Urbas 2-3 in his second match on the front side and then won 3rd place with 6 wins in the consis - beast! 285 - Pitt's unseeded Dayton Pitzer took 2nd and won several big matches, including 4-0 over #1 seed Colton Schultz (ASU) in the quarters and a pin (5:57) over 4th seed Trent Hilger in the semis. Plenty of other big wins, but these are some I noticed!

Saw that he competed in recent matches. Any word from the PSU bench whether Levi has won the position for the year?

The no call of a fall is not uncommon. It seemed to me from the first row in the 2nd round of the EIWA championships at Navy in 2000, 8th Seed Justin Haskins of Rutgers might have gotten the fall against #1 seed and eventual champ Rick Springman from Penn. It was close, to say the least. It was not called. Springman promptly reversed and pinned Hakins at 2:36, then beat Mark Dufresne (who was tough and had a great duckunder) 3-1 in the semis, and then pinned Harvard's Ed Mosley in the final at 5:40. https://www.eiwawrestling.org/results/EIWA_results_2000.pdf

I had not heard that this was a done deal, but obviously a merger with one of the Big V schools makes perfect sense: UC LA/Philly.

O'Malley is very dangerous and his matches often are among the most entertaining. A joy to watch him try to toss everyone to their back!

I would guess 157 is next and 165 will be volatile in the top 5. Impressive depth in NCAA wrestling makes it fun!

I understand your take - even though I am rooting for PSU. I turn the sound off. He adds no interesting analysis.

Iowa tough on their home mat.

I still bet on Yianni at NCAA's

Roster says that Zapf was 2017 Pennsylvania state champion at 106 pounds - not sure 149 is tough cut for him. Ivies in many sports use grey shirts like PG years or other ways - nothing unique about Cornell doing it other than maybe they have had more guys we noticed since they have been in the top 10 of wrestling. Takes a commitment to delay your life the extra year and not all wrestlers or other college athletes will make that choice. Maybe NIL will make it more common? I'm fine with it at all schools and admire the commitment.

I read this result and wonder if these are better weights for both of them?