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I would rather see him stay at Minny, but if he left I agree. I see him as way more of a Carl guy than a Tom guy.

I’m not sure if he has to go in the portal since he sat a year and was not enrolled. I agree - I don’t see him going anywhere. I believe he’s still training in Minny. Wasn’t Eggum in his corner at X?

Still some decent names in the portal who could make an impact somewhere: Renteria, Nolan, Bryant, Carlson, Eichens, Pentz and some young freshman that could be developed somewhere.

Can you imagine Brands coaching Steveson....

Bingo …… and probably 13.

Well we do have Jimmy Cinny2 who starts a lot of threads.

That's because you are ignorant and don't know the answer because you fail to see the big picture. You pretend to care about the kids and keep using them as your answer, but in reality you only care that Iowa has a lot of money to pay kids and buy your team.

I will ask you again, do you know why pro-sports have salary caps, revenue sharing, tax penalties and competitive balance?

In related news Boise State dropped wrestling, added baseball, dropped baseball before it even started, then added an E-Sports team.

Why do pro sports have salary caps, revenue sharing and competitive balance? If you want to be treated like a pro athlete by earning money and being able to unionize, be prepared for what comes with that.

Every recruiting site is a little different, but Schunke is in the ESPN 300 and a 4* with 7 offers according to ESPN. The elite camps this summer along with this fall season will probably determine his direction. NIL could play a factor, but he may play the long ball with his chance of bigger paydays down the road. Who is the greco coach at Sunkist?

"Previous U17, U20, U23 World Medalist (UWW)" That could end up being quite a stretch from a U17 world medalist to Olympic redshirt year. An athlete who graduates at 19... redshirt... free COVID year... 3 years of wrestling.... you end up at the end of a second Olympic cycle since you won a world medal... add in a mission and you are in the 3rd Olympic cycle from when you medaled. There will be no free year for some kids, but you still add in a late graduation at 19 or 20, church mission, gray shirt, redshirt, medical shirt, 3 years of competition and then an Olympic redshirt, you end up pretty far removed from that U17 medal.

"non-big" schools are having to get creative in staying competitive. Obviously they have to be good at developing the talent they bring in as recruits. They have to find those non-starters on bigger teams that can come in and start and be developed as well. They also have to figure out how to bring in a grad guy who can improve your team (i.e. a returning NQ) that isn't going to cost a lot of money. It's definitely a lot harder work for 90% of the teams to stay in the picture than it is for the top 10% teams.

Good little wrestler.... was he hurt this past season? Kind of lanky kid...is he projected at 125 or 133?

I'm not sure, but it would make sense that a qualification from a previous olympic cycle would not be used. If a wrestler won an event prior to the last Olympics to qualify them, but did not win that same event or maybe did not place at the same event, then I don't think they should qualify for the current olympic cycle. That makes sense to me, but I am not sure that's accurate in reality.

At "top schools" yes - At other schools, no. A known struggle for many sports programs has and will be larger donors redirecting funds to NIL rather to the program in general. It will also be interesting to see how the tax aspect will play a part in how a donor will donate.

I would be curious to see the numbers of guys per program that have an NIL that covers the amount of a full-ride scholarship (and above). I doubt this information is accessible, but it would provide a number of "extra scholarships" per team as a result of NIL.

Still important to mid-lower level teams, but not as important to programs with a lot of money to hand out in NIL.

He was bumped up to 152 but a majority of his matches for HS were 138 and a few at 145. He just wrestled at 63kg. Seems he will be a 141/149.

90% would say yes... because the kids they have developed are getting plucked away by bigger schools. 10% will say no... because they are the teams plucking the talent away from the smaller schools to fill out their roster. Whatever the case, there aren't too many people arguing against some way to regulate NIL in all college sports. What that looks like is the tough part. Of course, teams with big money are fine with it because they can make their teams stronger by filling roster holes with kids from mid and lower level teams. It's happening in all sports... Men's basketball has seen a lot of guys moving around as well.

Northern Colorado quietly putting together a decent roster.

Nice get for ASU. They have a lot of depth from 133-157 and very thin after that. Didn't Negron have one more year left?

How od you know it's old people who don't like it....I'm old... just leave me alone and let me watch my informercials and Matlock.

He's staying at OSU.

Oregon State Beavers coming in at #15! That's the highest rank we have had in a while... several top 100 guys on there and a few fly under the radar types.