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I don't know that I agree with this statement. He had a single SV loss to in his opening match to Pletcher his frosh year and would have been the #1 or #2 seed (I can't remember if Lugo or Pletcher won the B1g finals but that was your 1 and 3 seeds). 2021 you may recall that Stanford was cutting the program so he overloaded his academic schedule to graduate from Stanford in 3 years in order to transfer somewhere to wrestle the following year and he quite literally stepped on to the mat to still make R12, and if anything he "regressed" in 2022 finishing "only" 6th place with a return to normalcy 2023 at Iowa. Did Woods improve as much as the next person with 5 years under their belt? Absolutely. But I don't feel like he took any special leap at Iowa because of Iowa last year. NCAA finalist has always been the expectation for Woods.

Stop it that's a bigger fib than "Rulon can make weight"

NCAA Article link here which was last updated April 8, 2020 Nearly eight million students currently participate in high school athletics in the United States. More than 480,000 compete as NCAA athletes, and just a select few within each sport move on to compete at the professional or Olympic level. The table shows how many high school and NCAA athletes compete in each sport along with an estimate of the percentage of high school athletes going on to compete in the NCAA. In contrast, the likelihood of an NCAA athlete earning a college degree is significantly greater; graduation success rates are 86% in Division I, 71% in Division II and 87% in Division III. High School Participants NCAA Participants Overall % HS to NCAA % HS to NCAA Division I % HS to NCAA Division II % HS to NCAA Division III Men Baseball 482,740 36,011 7.5% 2.2% 2.3% 2.9% Basketball 540,769 18,816 3.5% 1.0% 1.0% 1.4% Cross Country 269,295 14,303 5.3% 1.8% 1.4% 2.1% Football 1,006,013 73,712 7.3% 2.9% 1.9% 2.5% Golf 143,200 8,485 5.9% 2.0% 1.6% 2.2% Ice Hockey 35,283 4,323 12.3% 4.8% 0.6% 6.8% Lacrosse 113,702 14,603 12.8% 3.1% 2.5% 7.3% Soccer 459,077 25,499 5.6% 1.3% 1.5% 2.7% Swimming 136,638 9,799 7.2% 2.8% 1.2% 3.2% Tennis 159,314 7,785 4.9% 1.6% 1.0% 2.3% Track & Field 605,354 28,914 4.8% 1.9% 1.2% 1.7% Volleyball 63,563 2,355 3.7% 0.7% 0.7% 2.3% Water Polo 22,475 1,072 4.8% 2.7% 0.8% 1.3% Wrestling 247,441 7,300 3.0% 1.0% 0.8% 1.2% tl;dr Men's wrestling has the lowest overall HS-to-NCAA rate of any sport listed above so don't be a psycho parent.

@TitleIX is ripe for reform don’t go co-opting. May not end the way you want it to. Or maybe it will. But probably not.

Bingo.

Why would TnT have any problem with an individual who has gone through legal due process of a charge sexual in nature? Young legally adult aged men will just be legally adult aged men after all. https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/brands-v-sheldon-community-892105121

FIFY

My opinion is that we see a repeat from Gable: he wins OTT but doesn’t accept because he wants to keep the allure alive. It’s a trap game because if Parris does anything but win gold then everyone will say “if it were Gable…” and if he beats Parris who’s then goes in to win gold then people will (rightfully) say “Gable doesn’t lose…” He is pursuing being famous rather than pursuing a GOAT career path in Olympic wrestling. That is his choice and I respect it, this is just how I see it shaking out. And even moreso if he is not all-in then I can see Geno beating him and Zare running amok. He needs to be all-in or else he legit deserves to be goat’d based on only half assing his way to another Olympic gold and shuts the door on that convo forever.

He’s the garbage butthole that pushes out turdbiscuit after turdbiscuit

We all saw him with his singlet down and let’s just say that I don’t think Hulkamania is running through his veins

This is an inherently bad take

@nhs67 grows more powerful with each new member of the cult of the turdbiscuit

It is single elimination for the challengers. That winner will take on Richards and Lee best of three.

It will happen before Pan Ams but the date to submit a challenge and the date(s) of said challenge have not been publically released yet. Challenge TBD Pan Ams Feb 1-3 OTT Apr19-20 Olympic global last chance May 9-12 Olympics Aug 5-11

Current WTT member unless challenged. Olympic Last Chance will be the OTT winner but hopefully will not need to be attended because whoever goes to Pan Am continental qualifier at 57 and 65 gets the job done.

I thought he was focusing on his doctoral dissertation at a clown college after Bellator cut him last year? Even if he registers there is no chance he shows up to OTT. But I do miss needling his dad who welched on a bet and would not make a donation to a women's & children's shelter because he is a scumbag human being on par with Trev Alberts.

Better odds: Gomez makes the olympics or NCAA finals? I say olympics

Even if you only get one match, the real world champs is the work that is put in along the way. If a youth wrestler is so advanced and experienced as to make a world team then the entire family is keenly aware that you may only get one match. As JB stated, this isn't a fourth grader weekend tourney.

No you don’t. If you did then you would understand.

Connect and cut lingo has entered the chat

Haha I thought the same thing when it was finally announced. Might as well just make it an NCAA version of the Dapper Dan. It would probably get more viewers in all honesty.

You are going to hurt someone's fee-fees with this kind of blue collar attitude

It really does not seem to be advantageous to any of the challengers to do so. They force themselves to make scratch 3x instead of just once if they win: challenge tourney/match + Pan Am + OTT. Especially at 57. Knowing how tough the cut is for Gilman, Vito, Fix, and Richards it really does seem silly to make weight multiple times when the strategic advantage is to only make Richards make it 2x (Pan Am + OTT). At least Vito can sit until the semis (and same with Retherford if he decides to cut back down to *65 which the eye test says will be a tough cut). I get the whole competitor’s mentality aspect but strategically I don’t.

I read it to be a ladder match scenario but that would be akin to the old ways. A deadline to challenge followed by a mini tourney is a much better scenario for all.