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unless it was at Reno TOC back in the day, I do not think so Blaze was always 113/120 when Hughes was in high school, and I think Hughes was generally 132-138. Personally, I think Bailey may have been a bigger notch in the cap than Hughes although Bailey is a better folk guy.

I think it fits their lineup better with Trumble at 197 however I agree he's better at heavy.

the most interesting pieces to me are Feldman who narrowed the gap each time and seemed to make huge jumps as the season went on. Also given he did not do u23's I assume hes all in on the folkstyle season. Keuter who lost 9-1 but had been in the room for what 2 months, and now for the first time in probably 8 years is focused exclusively on wrestling. Lastly Wyatt who is finally in a legitimate room. If I was a betting man and I am I would potentially bet on the field against Kirk this year however he still should be a decent stand-alone favorite.

my only qualm would be how much more infuriating the transfer system would be than it already is.

he had mentioned that they are returning 3 linebackers in an interview, so he hoped to work his way on the special team's unit. Ultimately, I think he's very talented at both things, but he may be looking at it as he can't start this year so let me throw all my eggs into the thing, I may be better at compared to my peers and see where that goes. As evidence by Gable signing with the bills football will be there when he's done.

it is streaming on vimeo Kozak just retweeted the link for anyone interested apologies I am on work computer or I would share.

I am seeing this all over twitter that nobody knows who is streaming it. I would imagine someone picks up the packager on rokfin?

my thoughts exactly! throw in Jesse Mendez too

to my knowledge his last loss is like cadet trials 2022

Marcus blaze over the last 18 months has wrestled Anthony knox twice Jax Forrest twice Ben Davino three times Nick suriano Nico Megaludis Nasir Bailey Luke Lilledahl Leo Deluca twice Jordyn Rayney once Brayden Palmer on a one day weigh in 12 hours after the weigh in (he was probably 140+) Im probably missing some. Of all those matches hes been takedown 4 times once by forrest, once by palmer, once by davino and once by suriano. I think hes a 133/141 and college but his defense is probably the best ive ever seen and hes developed into a really good leg attacker on top of having a really good slide bide and go behind. I think Duke is also absolutely unreal but in terms of nitpicking he seems to let guys in a bit more often and his gas tank is a little suspect to me. All that being said I think Blaze has a really good shot at being a 4x champ not that you can really predict that but his resume is just unreal to me.

he has somehow managed to become a tweener which is hilarious to say. I dont think he is athletic enough for 197 or to be competitive at the top of heavy now. ultimately the size advantage at 197 is probably his best bet. A carter vs Cass match makes me laugh to think about.

I watched one of his youtube videos when he wrestled in bulgaria and he was shedding a few lbs to make weight at what I assume was +2kg for 61kg so that boy is big.

@Husker_DuHeard you say Marcus blaze and his teammate Ben Davino then double back on cadet world team teammate... Was that a freudian or am I reading way too much into it??

I think that AB would beat snyder currently if he decided to go for 97kg. AB reminds me a lot of Cael not to the same extent as David but definitely similar. I do think AB is bigger than Cael was though, and given caels offense was largely based on moving his opponent I could see that being an issue with Snyder.

This is a 2025-2026 lineup but if tOSU gets Blaze their lineup would look something like 125: Kilkeary/McCrone 133: Davino/Blaze/Bouzakis 141: Blaze/Bouzakis/mendez 149: Mendez/Shaw 157: Bouzakis/Birden/Paddy 165: Bouzakis/Birden/Paddy 174: Welsh 184: Rogotzke 197: Geog 285: Feldman do we think this could beat PSU? I dont think they will be as good through and through but I think they could have 4-5 finalists (I'm outrageously high on blaze and almost as high on Davino)

I think people are saying this because the general consensus for a while seemed to be guys wrestled where they walked around at for them. You have to send out your best lineup which they obviously do, and it works for them but that is a result of cutting weight and I think that will continue as their room gets more and more occupied by multiple AA type guys at each weight.

If he somehow manages it will be on a super limited schedule which I think ultimately would hurt him.

mr fast twitch jr will occupy all those weights as well at 197

for sure! looking back as Gus mentioned I think It probably goes PK,Gunderson,Voelker or Gunderson,Pk,Voelker or maybe even Gunderson at heavy his red shirt year he wrestled up there.

selfishly I want PK to go up so we get him vs carter anyhow So im hoping we see gunderson,PK,Voelker. heavy is also their weakest weight by a decent margin.

Probably just an assumption because Pinto was entered at 79 but ended up going 86.

my guess is he thought he would get the weight off easier than he did or he was sick or something out of his control. He's not a particularly huge kid.

PK is huge I thought right after the season the thought was he would go 197 but the Gunderson had a great LCQ. Their best lineup would probably be voelker of gunderson up!

I think Facundo is still going to be better than ryder for the time being, both are great options but facundo looked like that dude at trials.

Northern Iowa is going to have a team next year 125: Trevor Anderson (Beat Camacho and was in a lot of matches 133: Julian Farber 141: Happel 149: Realbuto 157: Downey 165: Jack Thomson 174: Gunderson? 184: PK 197: Voelker 285: Jose Valdez could see this being a team with 9 NQ's and if gunderson can make 174 effectively maybe 5-6 aa's