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...because of what Brooks said specifically. Watch the clip.

To be fair Starocci was their "only" other champ, and he historically doesn't praise God for everything I believe. He was a little more humble in this one than some others though, thanking his family and team mostly. Yes, there have been other threads about wrestlers thanking God but I think by this point the horse has kinda been beaten...until Brooks added this extra touch.

did the other guys also disparage other people's beliefs?

Ha! Whoops

OK I think I may have found the most mysterious, and it involves 197. Max Dean still #1 which is silly but seems in line with possibly the biggest problem with their algorithm that has been discussed in the past that they place too much emphasis on prior year's results (sometimes including several years back). But Silas Allred, 27-7 in his first year as a starter and R12 finisher, is #2. The undefeated national champion and 2x finalist comes in all the way down at #5, with everyone above him having at least 3 losses. Basically as a result of Dean being artificially high, all the guys that beat him this season are also artificially high. But Nino doesn't get as much boost for beating those guys even though he didn't beat Dean H2H.

I think the easier question is who does not? Glory, RBY, O'Connor, Labriola, Nino, Parris. Think that's it?

Ivies have grad programs, but you can't participate in athletics as a grad student. I'm about 99.9% sure Vito unenrolled and can still wrestle at Cornell next year or else this would have been talked about much more. And he will have 7 years post high school graduation when he does.

I'm kinda surprised NCAA Wrestling would clip this. I mean we knew he was going to talk about God/Jesus anyway but Quint really teed him up.

because you only have 4 years to wrestle 4 seasons in the Ivies. You have to unenroll to stop the clock which Vito did.

Steveson, not Dan. He of course was only a 2x'er also but I bet he goes for the 4-for-4 if he had the chance. There have now been quite a few freshmen upper weight national champs in recent years. AJ Ferrari, Myles Martin, Mark Hall, J'Den Cox. The common denominator likely being that they had a lot of experience prior to college.

I can't hate on praising one's faith but Brooks' interview sounded more like a missionary pitch

C'mon your last paragraph in particular is just silly. You're not honestly comparing catching a line drive while 2 guys happen to be on base to winning 20 matches at the NCAA tournament over a 4 year period, right? Please tell me you're joking. Also define "experience." College experience maybe, but overall wrestling experience is generally higher at the lower weights, and the middle weights tend to have the greatest number of overall participants. I will give you it's probably more coincidence that Cornell got 2 4x'ers, but you seem to be diminishing the feat in general. It's incredibly hard as seen by the few guys that have done it, and several that were assumed to be able to (Gable, Lee, etc) but couldn't get it done. Congrats to Yianni, I feel bad that he seemed to be overshadowed this season by Lee "because of Lee's dominance," but Yianni can be argued as #2 on the list behind Cael given he only had 2 losses.

Probably, was just saying one could argue it

Slavikouski had been in there for awhile right as I believe he will need to transfer if he plans to wrestle next season.

Dominance doesn't really matter unless you win them all. Their resume of wins look very comparable to me. Martinez was the only national champ that Nolf beat, and then Deakin would win 3 years later. Yianni beat 2x champ Heil (yeah yeah he didn't have a great senior season), and also beat Nick Lee who would go on to be a 2x champ. There are also several guys who Yianni beat that could go on to become champs in future years. Nolf's other best wins: Kemerer (4-4-3-2), Hidlay (5-4-3-2), Berger (5-3-2), Micah Jordan (6-4-2), Pantaleo (6-5-3), Lavallee (2) Yianni's other best wins: Meredith (4-2-2), Eierman (5-4-3-2), Sasso (5-2-2), McKenna (3-3-2), Parco (8-6-4 with 2 more years), Lovett (a 2 with 2 more years)

Disagree. But I do think intentionally driving someone OOB from the top position should be a stall.

wouldn't the stepout only be in neutral?

Also, Fix is STILL #1 on wrestlestat...

Will he go down to 125 next year? Probably his best chance of winning right? Or does he take another Olympic RS and stay for year 8?

But if he goes undefeated his last 4 years you could argue he should be equal to Cael

I can’t tell if this is a troll post mocking the similar thread from 2021

I agreed with the no 2 here: The Perrine/Mocco one was probably more questionable

Yeah Ohio U had I think 3 guys in a short span lose heartbreakers that would’ve been upsets, I think a couple of which involved close calls/challenges. Surprised there wasn’t any discussion in the session thread on the Peyton Mocco/Perrine no takedown call. That one was awfully close. Curious to see if even Askren’s homerness would’ve thought that was a takedown, he seems to lean towards saying the close ones should be takedowns.

I assume this isn’t sarcasm, but I could see some saying that’s evidence of the Socon’s weakness. But he had a brutal draw, with Cardinale as a 28 seed and then catching DeAugustino on the backside

Hard to tell from still photos, the first one doesn’t look great but I don’t think the rest look bad. Got video?