Hammerlock3

mind fart.

Cael didn't wrestle scrubs either. Eggum was world silver not long after, and couldn't make the finals again cause he wrestled Cael in the semis, vertus jones was a 2 time finalist (once before cael beat him) who gets too little respect cause he got killled both times, and Trenge was a multiple finalist and always one of the first mentioned for best no timer.

I think fix is gonna have a strong claim pretty soon

I think its a lot more likely that they'd stay where they were. Which is fairly obvious, I'm saying a lot less than you might think i'm trying to.

I guess I'm sneaking around the idea that Iowa has an image problem which i don't like, also PSU's massive pull is not good for wrestling.

no but that goes to my point, if PSU wanted franek or caliendo you think they had no shot cause of the mystique around iowa?

at the olympics I saw one give him a hand once.

This is basically what I was getting at, I can see where me saying the have no selling points was clumsy

yeah, i guess when i said physical I just meant in terms of handfighting and pulling heads and stuff.

less handfighty, very low to the mat, they like to try and trick people down to their level with the threat of a double leg or other outside shot, once they are down thereon a knee or something that hit a lot of overtie shucks. In general they are a little too patient but very tactical.

he's really popular and shockingly technical but not known for physicality or shape. Its all subjective but IMHO i'd read those strengths into my guy. Maybe he's a wrestler's wrestler in free but not folk?

well that would be a meaningless excercise. Thats kind of the one thing I couldn't do for Michigan, give them both lewan and griffin. One is possible not both.

its deceptively hard to not lapse into purely realistic picks... I will say that I would be more surprised by a PSU shut out than a Michigan victory. However if Michigan drops the first two matches I'm gonna be putting on my PSU hat and cheering for it.

I'm gonna pick it as generously as I possibly can for Michigan... DeAugustino dec Davis (3-0) Ragusin dec Nagao (6-0) Bartlett Dec Lemley (6-3) Gomez Maj Kasak (10-3) Lewan dec Haines (13-3) (in keeping with the super michigan optimism I decided to give them 157 or 174) Amine dec Mesenbrink (16-3) Starocci dec Griffin (16-6) Truax dec Bullock (16-9) Brooks maj Striggow (16-13) Davison dec Kerk (19-13) Ok so, with my finger on the scale at every weight in michigans favor......I'm telling you there's a chance....

yeah but thats obvious, my point is that Iowa wouldn't have many selling points beyond NIL.

for me its andrew howe.

the amazing thing about that image is how ferrari's dumbfounded expression make it look like just lost his footing and fell into the splits by accident

Maybe I'm just projecting but there is a stagnant feel to OSU and Iowa. Its not great that my favorite guys in Iowas lineup are all transfers. Also its kind of a sad thought, but if there was no NIL, I think Iowa would be getting less of the transfers than PSU for sure.

Scott Moore was simply annihilating everyone

they also have a pretty specific style, something coaches and athletes from other teams might be getting used to.

thank god i have a spiritual advisor on the forum.

i thought i was going to be cynical about it before watching but that was pretty cool.

fairly obvious vito is hurt, unless you think they held him out for a month because they wanted to duck a guy they needed to avenge a loss against.....

This isn't related but in terms of content Flo is put out a goofy article asking if Vito was going to go down, which he obviously wasn't cause Unger is a title threat, and dropped another article right after that he wasn't going to. Wreaks of floating a rumor just to justify a headline.

yeah fair point, just seems like its policy at Michigan, not a lamentable alternative.