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More like Evan Thick amiright

Also, the Michigan Benedict Arnolds should show up just to blow up the brackets, errr I mean to get additional experience. I would pay all the moneys for a Micic/Lee match. Pure fireworks.

I am very excited to see what Warner looks like. Hopefully he has a better gas tank without the brutal cut down to 197. The bracket is Mike Mach’s to lose but 97 will be fun. 86 also looks very good and a preview of senior nats + OTT. Glad to see strong participation.

Lee is registered. Suriano is not - I wonder if he is going to attend Senior Nats next month instead to punch his OTT ticket?

This is such a stupid thread. This is why we can’t have nice things.

I remember seeing his interview after winning a rare 4th NCAA title when Kessenich asked him about his world silver after beating Sasso in ho-hum manner "That's not going to do it, what I just did. It's not [even] going to get me on the team. So I've got to do more, got to get better." He literally said he needs to improve to even compete domestically after winning a silver medal at the toughest weight in the world. Touch grass dude.

I know you are but what am I?

Could Taylor beat Dake if they were the same weight class? I’ll see myself out

What about Illinois has been overrated? The program was left in the dumpster and Hef ate everything in the cupboards on his way out. Poeta is doing yeoman’s work if can manage a top 10 B1G finish this year. Far cry from what used to be a little thing called “annual expectations.”

Again, freestyle, 1x world finalist, 2x team rep, 4x Team USA finalist. You’re comparing him to two who have legitimate ground to go down as the best US wrestler, not just FS but any style, of all time. Yianni has already done more than JB in the same time frame (college career) so idk what you want other than to wait out the duration of his career?

4x NCAA champ 2x world team member; additionally 2x world team alternate. All occurred before he graduated. World silver at a weight with a 20ish year Team USA drought. What about that still-growing resume says “overhyped?”

No, and I’ll gladly make that bet barring injury.

Does your reply mean I’m back in good graces? Like hopefully a bottom 50 innocuous post gets me a little less heat… for now?

Does this unofficially confirm Kannon Webster is redshirting? cc @ILLINIWrestlingBlog

If you told me post 2016 OTT that Zane was going to be the Pan Am games rep (and champ) but Anthony Valencia was going to place 4th for another country after getting rocked by the US backup at a non-oly weight I would have laughed at you. I would have laughed SO. HARD.

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I thought the process was updated to go in front of a waiver approval committee? It's hard keeping track of so many changes in just the past 7 years.

Schunke is attending KState as a preferred walk-on.

I'm pretty certain Svedka is still the all-time wins leader at Indiana

Last one and then done, since you are going after my points but then talk about smaller college towns. Lehigh is like putting a school in Joliet, IL. It is what it is, but it was never a slight regarding location but some of you certainly took it that way without removing the rose-tinted glasses. Glad to see I struck a sore spot with PA folks. Should have just remained logged out on this one and stuck to freestyle & heavyweights. Keep fighting Lehigh and sorry for answering a question honestly with recent anecdotal evidence.

I concede. Done fighting.

1) Illini homer here! Very glad Poeta et al is righting the ship. 2) With regards to proximity, it was a response to @PortaJohn’s reply concerning distance to major cities. 3) Lehigh, unlike the majority of all schools whether tiny D3 or gigantic D1, is an engineering sausage fest. I hope I’m not crossing boundaries too woke for even my libcuck standards by directly inferring what that means.

And so no one thinks I’m biased, university of Illinois is ~90 minutes from Chicago. You know why many IL recruits don’t want to go there? Because “it’s in the middle of nowhere.”

I’ll trust USN&WR for stats such as this. Lehigh is 54% male / 46% female and you can click here for the sauce (that means cited reference for the old heads).

Also please @Husker_Du be sure to enlighten us why *top recruits choose other schools over Lehigh. But since you have your ear to the high school recruiting trail you better be honest in your answer and not only give the part you like but omit the portion you dislike.