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Flabbergastedly perplexed as well.

Lewis hates cutting. We aren't going to see him at 74 KG.

I was just saying it in a dick way that Lewis was going 184. There was some smoke there for it last year and this year there seems to be more of it and he is a notorious hater of weight cutting. I hope he goes 184.

Who and how? He is 5-2 the last two years while not even focusing on improving at wrestling. Who were those two losses to? Hunter Catka of VTech and Tyrie Houghton of NC State. Both of them have been focusing on wrestling so I expect them to have improved more amd one of them isn't even the starter for their squad. Right now I believe I am being very high on him with a R12 expectation. If he low AAs I will be ecstatic for him.

Well Gwiazdowski lost to a guy who isn't a Worlds or Olympic medalist. He must surely feel worse because he has more Worlds medals than Fix.

I am starting to think I am wrong here. J/s. There might be smoke there.

How do you think Colon feels. Will Cox have had a bad performance if he loses to Snyder?

Kerk, Hendrickson, Cassioppi, and Davison are all better than him, so how does that work?

I was also thinking sort of the same thing. Chlebove gives me lower tier B12/P12 or MAC/SOCON vibes as someone who might win 30+ matches for them, but will struggle against the elite that are going to hit clean shots and not need to scramble with him.

So Griffith is going to compete at 174 and 184 this next season? I thought it was basically 50/50 on him still going 165 with Amine going 174. Now you're saying he is going to have to wrestle Stalrocci at 174 and Lewis at 184? In any case, Griffith won the 165lb bracket that Lewis was attempting to defend as returning 165lb champion. Lewis did not win that bracket. Griffith is might be able to beat him - just not at 184. I don't see Griffith going to 184 this season.

If we are saying impact from a points added perspective from what they got last season, I am going to say Griffith (if he goes 174, not if he goes 165 and Amine at 174). My next answer was going to be Nevills of Maryland, but looking at it and Jaron Smith went 1-2 last year at NCAAs. I think Nevills has a comparable ceiling to Slavikouski. Slavikouski is replacing a guy in Boone McDermott who went 0-2 at NCAAs. That makes Slavikouski my 2nd option and Nevills my 3rd option. Truax at 184 might win it all, but then his points are comparable. Nagao might get 2nd, but then his points are comparable. Davison might win it all, but then his points are comparable. Jack Medley and Cole Mattin both went 2-2 at NCAAs for Michigan, so DeAuggie and Cannon can improve on that, but it won't be much more. 2 wins-ish isn't as much as Slavikouski or Nevills have potentially. Voinovich might get 6th, but then his points are comparable. Mesenbrink might AA next year for Penn State... but Facundo might also AA next year for Penn State at 165. So... nothing is set in stone there. Mesenbrink could also go 0-2... which would be comparable, right?

I mean... when you pause it there...

Unbeknownstably.

Fix was the three seed and got second. He improved on his seed, so I wouldn't necessarily call that a bad day. Gross had a bad day. 2nd seed to DNP at WTT. Moore and Jackson both dropped a placement from their seeds, with one losing to the 7th seed. Being as one was rather injured, I think the other had the worse day (Jackson).

Undoubtedly.

Seething envy is probably an appropriate word for some. I don't know if that many coaches would be a proper number. If the coaches want what is best for their programs as well they should admire and strive to do the same - or better. I don't know that envy would be a good reasoning or driving factor there.

No it isn't. He wasn't deliberately fleeing the mat. From the shit angle we have for replay it doesn't look that way either. Now what he did when placed down? I can't disagree with any of that. The ref warned him more than once and he got another C1 down there. That is on Desanto for breaking.

He said Woods was the favorite because the defending and undefeated champion from last year is using an Olympic redshirt. The defending and previously unbeaten champion would be the favorite if he was wrestling.

The first C1 should have never been called. He simply defended a 4 point move by allowing it to be a 2 point move and out if bounds. That means he would have never been pit down in par terre. The matched should have been started back up at 2-0 and it would have been wrestled entirely different. Now that isn't to say Garrett did anything wrong. He wrestled his ass off today.

Okay, let's hear them folks! Be as detailed or brief as you wish to be... here is what we have: - WFS - 50 KG - Sarah Hildebrandt vs Audrey Jimenez 53 KG - Dominique Parrish vs Katie Gomez 55 KG - Alisha Howk vs Jacarra Winchester 57 KG - Helen Maroulis vs Xochitl Mota-Pettis 59 KG - Michaela Beck vs Jennifer Page 62 KG - Kayla Miracle vs Adaugo Nwachukwu 65 KG - Mallory Velte vs Macey Kilty 68 KG - Forrest Molinari vs Emma Bruntil 72 KG - Amit Elor vs Joye Levendusky 76 KG - Kennedy Blades vs Adeline Gray - MGR - 55 KG - Brady Koontz vs Dalton Duffield 60 KG - Dalton Roberts vs Ildar Hafizov 63 KG - Hayden Tuma vs Xavier Johnson 67 KG - Robert Perez III vs Alejandro Sancho 72 KG - Justus Scott vs Patrick Smith 77 KG - Kamal Bey vs Aliaksandr Kikiniou 82 KG - Spencer Woods vs Ryan Epps 87 KG - Alan Vera vs Zachary Braunagel 97 KG - Josef Rau vs Christian Dulaney 130 KG - Colton Schultz vs Adam Coon - MFS - 57 KG - Thomas Gilman vs Zane Richards 61 KG - Vito Arujau vs Nahshon Garrett 65 KG - Yianni Diakomihalis vs Nick Lee 70 KG - Zain Retherford vs Tyler Berger 74 KG - Kyle Dake vs Jason Nolf 79 KG - Jordan Burroughs vs Chance Marsteller 86 KG - David Taylor vs Aaron Brooks 92 KG - Michael Macchiavello vs Zahid Valencia 97 KG - Kyle Snyder vs J’den Cox 125 KG - Gable Steveson vs Mason Parris

He would, yes. I was hoping Hamden would go back down so he didn't look so damn undersized at 141 anymore, though.

He has been battling injuries this year. I don't think it is HEW. I think him showing up and dominating Gross the way he did shows that. Garrett has been on fire. Even internationally. He was up 8-0 on Desanto before he gassed. He fixed the tank. I still say the ref fucked Desanto there hardcore. That said, Garrett controlled Fix in a sort of manner that Fox typically does. I concede in wanting Fix to go 65 KG or 141lbs. He was small against Garrett.

A better Penn State is better for USA Wrestling. Get with it. Roll with it.

I have a feeling Rojas was headed down to try to man 157 for a season prior to Chittum coming in, so he could go 165 after Carr left. Now with Swiderski going 157 after next year, does that mean Chittum to 165 or does Swiderski head all the way up to 165? Does that also mean Rojas needs to double down and shoot for 174/184? He wrestled 189 most of the last couple years of high school in Michigan's largest division for Detroit Catholic Central (perennial Top 50 squad and the same squad as Michigan's Amine, Mizzou's Edmond, and former Nebraska/Illinois Davenport, future Princeston wrestler Heethus all on the same team). He got away with it because Michigan doesn't have a lot of upperweight depth and he is strong as a mule. Neither of those hint towards a successful venture in to 184/197 imho. If anything it makes me wonder if him being the odd man out next season that we might see him in the portal.

I don't think they have a good option for 197 at this point. Their best options at 174/184/197 might be the three(four if you include Rojas who was down at 165 to end the year last year). Iowa State has been known to run some guys through that gauntlet up there.