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Shrinkage has nothing to do with my comment (although I like @ionel's post below yours). Yes, even a 7 strip 32' mat is 42- you can't get rid of any of it. But with a 30' circle you can eliminate one of the blank strips meaning 36' saving 6'. If you go 4 in a row you save 18'

I made a pitch with the rules committee to allow 30 foot circles at Opens. Reasons for this- 1. They're doing it anyway. 2. It's harder to get a lot of 32s. 3. Because it's harder to fit them in to some gyms. The 30s made by Dollamur and Resilite among others are made in 7 6 foot strips. 32' circles go slightly into the outer strips. 30s have blank strips on either side so you can remove one of the two between adjacent mats and save space since there's still 6 feet between with a 5 foot rule.

Technically, that's the rule both HS and college. One reason to do it that way is because if high seeds don't get pigtails they lose a chance at bonus points. It does become an issue when events decide to seed all the way down forcing high seeds to get byes. It might not be a problem in, say, the current EIWA with only one pigtail and most of them going to a lot of the same few lower ranked teams.

Actual preseeds will be released publicly by tomorrow. By preseeds I mean there might be replacements after that. Coaches checking them out as we speak.

That's a Medical Forfeit. You take the mat for a default and don't finish for whatever reason. A forfeit is when you don't take the mat at all for whatever reason.

No question about that second sentence. Folkstyle stalling is more about penalizing. Freestyle is more about incentivizing and getting points on the board. They sometimes pick on one of them and hope the call works and someone scores. I don't see that it happens too often during the 30 seconds. I guess it would be interesting to see if anyone has done a study of what happens after. Don't forget that if you get called first- it can be an advantage if little other scores happen later and the other person gets called late in the match since you will get the last score.

The actual problem with a step out rule (it's not a push out rule in freestyle) is how it would conflict with the current cylinder interpretation of folkstyle. You can't do both. It's when the second guy goes out that OB calls are now made.

He doesn't mind that direction.

What I heard from a friend in Florida was that he yesterday tried to get on the floor without credentials. When approached he went- Don't you know who I am?

We have a winner! I scored ALL the points at NCAAs for 20 years!

Here's a Lehigh piece of trivia- (and keep in mind that when the coaches heard the answer they wanted to throw things at me) What Lehigh person scored the most points at NCAAs (career)?

Hopefully varsity before she graduates. New coach Brazel Marquez is doing an amazing job.

I remember I was walking around the far side of the mats from this mat for some reason. What a roar from the Ohio U crowd!

You have a life? BTW- do you know what time the releases happen today?

Not sure what forum but ... https://www.facebook.com/reel/413521131007873

They sent him to get 1. He doesn't need the RPI. He has the WL needed and getting a bout in the last 30 days will get him on the Coaches Poll.

13. Match against McGonagle doesn't count for these purposes.

Nothing definitive that I could see but Lovett was obviously trying to push him out rather than trying to take him down. In freestyle, I believe Lovett would have gotten the step out point. I didn't notice his arms being extended which would negate it.

Same area? Yes. District XI (Lehigh Valley). Crookham- Notre Dame GP/Saucon Valley. Chlebove- Northampton.

I think on his recruiting trip the kids were taking him through the apartment they lived in. As they got through the kitchen Mike Galante pointed him to a frying pan sitting there and asked if he could roll it up. He could. It turned out it was a gift to Brian Tanen from Brian's mother.

I'll give you a couple of reasons that I've heard over the years as to why Pa is so good. 1. Back in the day (40s-50s in particular) the top 4 wrestling colleges in the state sent their coaches out to local high schools to give clinics as the sport was in its HS infancy. Those areas where the colleges were became the states hot spots. One might surprise you. In no particular order- A. Western Pa (WPIAL)- Pitt (Rex Peery) B. North Central Pa- Penn State (Doc Speidel) C Eastern Pa- Lehigh (Sheridan/Leeman) D. South Central Pa- F&M (Believe it or not- they were among the top teams in the country back in the day) (Uncle Charley Mayser) 2. The State College system. Used to be known as the State Teachers Colleges. Several of them have dropped over the years. The PSAC was never a qualifying conference but the league tournament was one of the best in the country. So what would happen is that a kid would wrestle in HS, go to one of these colleges to wrestle and to become a teacher. Would get a job as a teacher and a coach and the cycle would continue in an upward motion.

I tried to have McGonagle called the New Hampster. Didn't work out for some reason.