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Are you folks on the Rokskin premium channel?

if only we could get ride of all lawyers and laws (bylaws included) we could all do whatever we want.

benefit package?

And a 4 region system would eliminate that. 1st place will wrestle 8th place the first match of NCAA, the region/draw system would be random every year, make the draw/reveal (could be a big deal on Espn) after conclusion of 4 regions. So sure, you could still injury default down to 8th to get in but you are going to wrestle a 1st place region your first match of the NCAA.

well you certainly made a big mess over there

think I just got under Bob's 15 minute rule

well sure ... but how did you handle Dresser's weight bumping shenanigans?

calling @PortaJohn clean up on aisle 7!

Well sure but he worked very hard those 7 years to "achieve a minimum gpa" and if I recall he was near perfect, correct? So think if he applied that work effort for 7 to 9 years of wrestling.

Good grief! Teams are traveling all over the country as it is. How far is it from Maryland to USC, is it more expensive to fly from Rutgers to Lincoln, NE or to Vegas or Florida. This isn't that complicated, its simple math not rocket science. You developed a simple system that rotates teams based on their "seeds" which could be a simple math formula using last years place and current year rank. Its a simple matter of assigning to 4 regions where your are splitting up the teams based on rank and conference but keeping in mind location such that no one is at home every year or traveling to the furthest region every year. Sure you could end up with a very tough say 141lb bracket at one region, but the goal is to make sure all AA's have a chance to make the NCAA tournament, with 8 qualifying out of each region you are guaranteed the top 8 make NCAA. Sure you still could get some duck'n trying to get a better seed at the region but ... hey ducks are gonna duck. This has a real chance to grow the sport. Look at how popular NCAA has become and how expensive and hard to get a ticket. This is a chance to spread this excitement out into 5 locations every year. Also, the 4 regions would not be competing with March Madness BB so there's an opportunity for significant increase in TV etc. revenue. But of course, what to do with the conference tournaments? Well each could decide but could be an early season tourney, hold it during the winter break mid Dec to early Jan (of course that impacts Midlands, its pretty dead anyway, and Scuffle. But again the biggest hurdle is all the excuses above and the B10 thinks their tournament is the best in the world and don't want to change.

coulda been a D1 wrestler:

Hence why they changed the rules.

Been proposed many times before. All you have to do is convince the b10 that their tournament isn't more important than the NCAA tournament.

Yes

Where is Iowa?

Maybe he just doesn't wanta wrestle this year.

Yeah but they just lost to App St, don't think they have a very strong deep team this year or they are dinged up.

The Max battle.

Maybe something as simple as NC State knows they aren't going to beat PSU, so rest your guys for the matches that matter?

A couple guys willing to put it out there and wrestle.

ya sure?

Be safe ... I mean practice safe ... well you know what I mean.

and it can be cold in Northern Iowa so ...

gf?

Is Dan still in the portal, is he sitting out this year?