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But isn’t the time he “jumped levels” also including his senior year of high school? Although I guess he was training a lot at NLWC right?

Haven’t plenty of guys had success at the Olympics immediately following an NCAA season? As long as he’s not wrestling through injuries folkstyle is still good training for freestyle. Plus I’m sure he’ll be wrestling plenty of freestyle at RTC practices anyway.

Cassar is probably the best example of Cael helping to develop a not so heralded recruit. Took longer than 2 years though. Haines seems to be more of just being under-ranked, which of course is another skill Cael has. IIRC Starocci is another example of that.

Cael getting credit for developing high school kids now, wow he really is a magician

Yeah but he did it “on principle”

Good. Now teach the rest of them!

Maybe you should get into reffing since you’ve claimed to be such an expert?

Lol

Must’ve been before Gilman went to NLWC though

Agree, well except for your definition of "lower half" :-). I'd say really only the 7 & 8 spots are really up for grabs, and I'm not including Bastida among the top 6. Schultz isn't planning to ORS is he?

IIRC, wasn't it not required to be at the actual weight?

Is an uncle actually a problem too? I thought that was just a parody twitter account

It’s the American refs’ fault!

Thanks, I was, just saying I guess that’s where a lot of the news is these days. Thought it was mostly just for girls’ bikini pics (which is probably another reason I should be on there)

Because he does more than just “grab legs” - I would agree because of that I’m skeptical Steveson would

Yeah I’m a bit surprised if they all leave, thought the Obe hire was best case scenario. Guess it may be along the lines of Kolat leaving Campbell and hiring Sentes. Kept the continuity but still going to have guys that were more loyal to the HC that likely recruited them.

Guess I need to get on the gram

I think Nickal would rule Greco

What happened with Janzer?

I’m confident that Iowa will properly discipline them for any wrongdoing that occurs on their watch. The question will be if (when?) one of them gets kicked off the team or something of that nature, will they all leave?

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Orndorff had pretty significantly better results than Doucet. He had 11 wins at the NCAA tournament in his career.

If Orndorff "didn't do shit," then Doucet definitely didn't. I'd guess Caroll is definitely an upgrade considering Doucet scored 0 points at NCAA's. But with the logjam at the top of 285, his upside might be limited.

I don't know too much about Carroll but I'd bet he qualifies for sure. Weren't he and Feldman pretty close? And Feldman had beaten some NQ-level guys as a high schooler. I could certainly see Carroll beating guys like Gordon, Heindselman and Wolfgram. Not sure what to think about Bastida at 285. I'm not sure why but wrestlestat has SDSU RSFR Luke Rasmussen at #33 despite a pretty uninspiring redshirt year. It may make sense to redshirt and let 285 clear out a bit though. I don't think either are placing top 6, but wouldn't be shocked if either finished 7th or 8th.