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Don't blame you...I had to look to make sure there was neither a nonstop flight nor, shockingly, even a direct Greyhound bus line between the two (literally requires changes of bus in both Memphis and Baton Rouge, amazingly)!

Would not have thought that the only ways to get between Little Rock and New Orleans would be a connecting flight or a rental car...

https://wrestlingbypirate.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/december-12-2022-wrestlingbypirate-dual-impact-index/

You mean nobody's ever given birth to a baby over 100 pounds?

All times Eastern, with local times in parenthesis. *-indicates event is eligible for a one-pound weight allowance Monday, December 12: Clarion at Bloomsburg, 7:00 PM Thursday, December 15: Appalachian State at North Carolina, 7:00 PM Friday, December 16: Chattanooga vs. SIU Edwardsville at Gardner-Webb, 11:00 AM Clarion at Gardner-Webb, 11:00 AM Chattanooga vs. Clarion at Gardner-Webb, 1:00 PM SIU Edwardsville at Gardner-Webb, 1:00 PM Clarion vs. SIU Edwardsville at Gardner-Webb, 3:00 PM Queens at Davidson, 5:00 PM Presbyterian at Davidson, 7:00 PM Bucknell at Sacred Heart, 7:00 PM Sunday, December 18: Edinboro at Buffalo, 12:00 PM California Baptist, Indiana, Michigan State, Utah Valley, Wyoming at Reno Tournament of Champions, Reno, NV, 12:00 PM (9:00 AM) American at George Mason, 1:00 PM Northern Illinois at Kent State, 1:00 PM Bucknell vs. Edinboro at Buffalo, 2:00 PM Northeastern JC at Northern Colorado, 3:00 PM (1:00 PM) Nebraska at South Dakota State, 3:00 PM (2:00 PM) Bucknell at Buffalo, 4:00 PM Northwest Kansas Tech at Northern Colorado, 4:30 PM (2:30 PM) Lindenwood vs. Virginia Tech at Stanford, 4:30 PM (1:30 PM) New Mexico Highlands at Northern Colorado, 6:00 PM (4:00 PM) Virginia Tech at Stanford, 6:00 PM (3:00 PM) North Dakota State at Little Rock, 7:00 PM (6:00 PM) Lindenwood at Stanford, 7:30 PM (4:30 PM)

All times Eastern, with local times in parenthesis. *-indicates event is eligible for a one-pound weight allowance Wednesday, December 7: Franklin & Marshall at Ursinus, 7:00 PM Friday, December 9: Pittsburgh at Brown, 6:30 PM Army West Point at Penn, 7:00 PM Minnesota at North Dakota State, 8:00 PM (7:00 PM) Saturday, December 10: Missouri, Northern Iowa at UNI Open, hosted by Northern Iowa, 10:00 AM (9:00 AM) Fairmont State at VMI, 11:00 AM LIU at Binghamton, 1:00 PM Shenandoah at VMI, 3:00 PM *Michigan State at Brown, 6:30 PM Iowa at Chattanooga, 7:00 PM Edinboro vs. Ohio at Saegertown, PA, 7:00 PM Wyoming at Air Force, 9:00 PM (7:00 PM) Sunday, December 11: Central Michigan, Cleveland State at Cleveland State Open, hosted by Cleveland State, 9:30 AM Pittsburgh at Columbia, 12:00 PM Buffalo at North Dakota State, 1:00 PM (12:00 PM) Kent State at Ohio State, 1:00 PM Maryland at Navy, 2:00 PM Oregon State at Penn State, 2:00 PM Rutgers at Princeton, 2:00 PM Drexel at Wisconsin, 2:00 PM (1:00 PM) Lindenwood vs. Minnesota at Cal Poly, 2:30 PM (11:30 AM) Lindenwood at Cal Poly, 4:00 PM (1:00 PM) Oklahoma State at Oklahoma, 4:00 PM (3:00 PM) *Missouri at Virginia Tech, 4:30 PM Minnesota at Cal Poly, 5:30 PM (2:30 PM)

Ironic that Byrd was originally a Maryland commit (when Kerry McCoy was still coaching there).

Makes two of us.

The Arena is usually great, this is actually the first time I've seen an issue with the current version of it. (and it's updating, just very slowly) This thread isn't a reference to CKLV, at all. It's a reference to the Penn State/Rider dual.

The Penn State/Rider dual wasn't on a college campus. It was from a disused minor league hockey arena in downtown Trenton several miles from Rider's Lawrenceville campus that presently has no regular tenants.

Yeah, but given that he got hurt, I'm not sure you can really call that an "upset"...

In high school, I think you could blunt that by going to the current college rules (not the arbitration-style rules I've suggested). I hate matching up as much as the next guy (esteemed Senator from Kansas notwithstanding), but I feel like being able to choose the start weight in HS (with no "strikes", so to speak) would be a fair and equitable counterweight to not being able to choose odd/even matches to send second.

Minor change: The Bloodround (Consolation 2nd Round of Eight) is actually being wrestled Friday night, and wrestling is starting at 1 PM Eastern on Saturday.

Contrived drama? It happens behind closed doors anyway, at weigh-ins! And it's not unheard of...when you are choosing an independent arbitrator for an arbitration hearing (for example), the two sides are given a list of eligible and willing names, and they alternate striking names until one guy is left...

Fake news. It was either start at a weight that the two coaches would agree to (there was specific mention of "showcasing" a weight, in fact, in the rules) or random draw. The myth about it being either 125 or draw was just that...

Knew he was going to be "the bad draw", but also knew I would be flamed for seeding an unranked guy with as many wins over D1 wrestlers while enrolled at Cornell as me.

Well, new since the 2019 off-season, when they got rid of the draw (which was generally done with tongue depressors, for those wondering, although I know Michigan changed to a ten-sided die in its last year).

I like it, but I do think it needs to be improved...I'd like to see a "scratch" system, where coaches alternate striking weights they DON'T want to start at, and there's a coin flip between the last two. Besides, having a coin flip televised an hour before the dual starts is an absolute non-starter for the television networks, unless they tape-delay the coin flip only and show it at the top of the broadcast. The current college system would be better used in high school, IMO, where there already is a ton of weight behind the coin flip, and being able to choose the start weight would counterbalance that, but in college, almost nobody "matches up" due to the current qualifying system (especially in D-1).

Funny...I thought you were talking about Jason Borrelli!

Not sure...JB is more our Jimmy Lennon Jr., IMO.

All times Eastern, with local times in parenthesis. *-indicates event is eligible for a one-pound weight allowance. Wednesday, November 30: Lindenwood at Bellarmine, 7:00 PM Belmont Abbey at Queens, 7:00 PM Thursday, December 1: Davidson at Lock Haven, 7:00 PM Augustana (SD) at Minnesota, 8:00 PM (7:00 PM) Friday, December 2: Air Force, Appalachian State, Arizona State, Bucknell, Cal Poly, California Baptist, Clarion, Columbia, Cornell, CSU Bakersfield, Edinboro, Harvard, Hofstra, Kent State, LIU, Michigan, Navy, NC State, Nebraska, Northern Iowa, Northwestern, Ohio, Ohio State, Oregon State, Purdue, Sacred Heart, South Dakota State, The Citadel, Utah Valley, Virginia Tech, Wyoming at Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, 12:00 PM (9:00 AM) Bloomsburg at George Mason, 4:00 PM Bloomsburg vs. Gardner-Webb at George Mason, 5:30 PM West Virginia at Missouri, 6:30 PM (5:30 PM) Gannon at Buffalo, 7:00 PM Gardner-Webb at George Mason, 7:00 PM Virginia at Queens, 7:00 PM Presbyterian at Truett McConnell, 7:00 PM Penn State vs. Rider at Trenton, NJ, 7:30 PM Saturday, December 3: *Lindenwood at Drury Open, hosted by Drury, 10:00 AM (9:00 AM) *Air Force, Appalachian State, Arizona State, Bucknell, Cal Poly, California Baptist, Clarion, Columbia, Cornell, CSU Bakersfield, Edinboro, Harvard, Hofstra, Kent State, LIU, Michigan, Navy, NC State, Nebraska, Northern Iowa, Northwestern, Ohio, Ohio State, Oregon State, Purdue, Sacred Heart, South Dakota State, The Citadel, Utah Valley, Virginia Tech, Wyoming at Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, 12:00 PM (9:00 AM) Army West Point at American, 1:00 PM Chattanooga at Illinois, 2:00 PM (1:00 PM) Pittsburgh at Illinois, 4:00 PM (3:00 PM) Sunday, December 4: Davidson, George Mason, Lock Haven at ARMS Software Patriot Open, hosted by George Mason, 10:00 AM *Cleveland State at Storm Open, hosted by Lake Erie, 10:00 AM *Lindenwood, Little Rock, Northern Colorado, Northern Illinois, SIU Edwardsville at Cougar Clash, hosted by SIU Edwardsville, 11:00 AM (10:00 AM) Franklin & Marshall at VMI, 11:00 AM Duke vs. Franklin & Marshall at VMI, 1:00 PM Penn State at Lehigh, 2:00 PM Binghamton vs. Michigan State at Newark, NJ, 2:00 PM Drexel vs. Indiana at Newark, NJ, 2:00 PM Penn vs. Rutgers at Newark, NJ, 2:00 PM Princeton vs. Wisconsin at Newark, NJ, 2:00 PM Iowa State at Iowa, 2:30 PM (1:30 PM) Minnesota at Oklahoma State, 3:00 PM (2:00 PM) Duke at VMI, 3:00 PM Virginia at Campbell, 4:00 PM Binghamton vs. Indiana at Newark, NJ, 4:00 PM Drexel vs. Rutgers at Newark, NJ, 4:00 PM Michigan State vs. Princeton at Newark, NJ, 4:00 PM Penn vs. Wisconsin at Newark, NJ, 4:00 PM

All times Eastern, with local times in parenthesis. Tuesday, November 22: NWCA All-Star Classic, Austin, TX, 8:00 PM (7:00 PM) Saturday, November 26: Iowa State, Northern Iowa, Wisconsin at Cyclone Open, hosted by Iowa State, 10:00 AM (9:00 AM) Penn at Iowa, 3:00 PM (2:00 PM) Sunday, November 27: Cornell, Lock Haven at Mat Town Open I, hosted by Lock Haven, 9:30 AM Minnesota at South Dakota State, 2:00 PM (1:00 PM) Binghamton at Buffalo, 7:00 PM

Thought at first glance this said "Samsung GT-ID10T"!

Nailed it!

Could think of worse airports to live in…imagine if somebody lived in the Stillwater Airport, for example!