I'm setting this thread up in advance of the start of States.

Please post your comments, updates, etc. as responses over the course of the AA and AAA competition at States.

In previous weekends I restricted my initial post to PSU verbals. For PA States I'm adding a few "wrestlers of interest."

PSU Verbals

Brian Friery (Lewisburg)
PIAA State Championships, Class AA, 113
R1: he has a bye
R2: 7-5 decision over Abe Guariello (Fort Leboeuf)
Quarters: got TFed 24-9 at 4:54 by Gavin Teasdale (Jefferson-Morgan)
Consolations R2: he has a bye
Consolations R3: loses 1-0 decision to Darren Yearick (Penns Valley)
As a result, he's out at States.
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK

Luke Gardner (Pottsville)
PIA State Championships, Class AAA, 145
R1: he has a bye
R2: 5-4 decision over Kyle Luben (Meadville)
Quarters: Pin at 1:20 over Wyatt Jennings (Solanco)
Semis: lost a 5-3 decision to (Penn-Trafford)
Consolation Semis: lost a 3-1 SV decision to Dylan Chatterton (Central York)
5th Place Match: 11-3 Major decision over Kevin Edwards (Avon Grove)
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK

Mason Lindenmuth (Brockway)
PIAA State Championships, Class AA, 126
R1: he has a bye
R2: 9-0 decision over Brian Earlston (Line Mountain)
Quarters: 8-2 decision over Jonah Zych (Saucon Valley)
Semis: loses 7-1 to Max Murin (Central Cambria)
Consolation Semis: loses 4-3 to Jonathan Gabriel (Bedford)
5th Place Match: 3-1 SV decision over Tanner Altobelli (Redbank Valley)
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK

Devin Schnupp (Warwick)
PIAA State Championships, Class AAA, 113
R1: he has a bye
R2: 10-4 decision over Nick Dolak (Parkland)
Quarters: 3-2 decision over Jakob Campbell (Boyertown)
Semis: lost a 8-1 decision to Julian Chlebove (Northampton)
Consolation Semis: lost a 9-0 Major decision to Gage Curry (North Hills)
5th Place Match: lost a 10-4 decision to Luke Werner (Bethlehem Liberty)
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK


Wrestlers of Interest

Spencer Lee (Franklin Regional)
PIAA State Championships, Class AAA, 120
R1: he has a bye
R2: Pin in 0:45 over Josh Paisley (Big Spring)
Quarters: Pin in 0:39 over Zurich Storm (New Oxford)
Semis: Pin in 1:19 over Danny Moran (Northampton)
Finals: 15-0 TF over Austin Desanto (Exeter Township)
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK

Sammy Sasso (Nazareth)
PIAA State Championships, Class AAA, 138
R1: he has a bye
R2: 14-4 Major over William Kaides (Cumberland Valley)
Quarters: Lost a 2-1 decision to Luke Pletcher (Greater Latrobe)
Consolations R2: he has a bye
Consolations R3: 18-5 Major decision over Owen Wherley (Southern Western)
Consolations Quarters: 14-2 Major decision over Carter Starocci (Cathedral Prep)
Consolation Semis: 7-0 decision over Shaun Wilson (Waynesburg Central)
Consolation Finals: Pin at 1:00 over Colin Cronin (Upper Darby)
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK

Gavin Teasdale (Jefferson-Morgan)
PIAA State Championships, Class AA, 113
R1: he has a bye
R2: 21-5 TF at 4:07 over Luke Pipe (Bishop McDevitt)
Quarters: 24-9 TF at 4:54 over PSU verbal Brian Friery (Lewisburg)
Semis: 28-13 TF at 5:24 over Bronson Garber (Upper Dauphin)
Finals: 23-8 TF at 3:30 over Kollin Myers (Boiling Springs)
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK

Julian Chlebove (Northampton)
PIAA State Championships, Class AAA, 113
R1: he has a bye
R2: 4-0 decision over Aidan Burke (Council Rock North)
Quarters: 5-1 decision over Logan Macri (Canon-McMillan)
Semis: 8-1 decision over PSU verbal Devin Schnupp (Warwick)
Finals: 3-0 decision over Matt Parker (Pennridge)
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK

Edmond Ruth (Susquehanna Township)
PIAA State Championships, Class AAA, 145
R1: he has a bye
R2: 2-1 TB2 decision over Dakota Weitoish (Philipsburg-Osceola)
Quarters: lost a 6-2 decision to Cameron Coy (Penn-Trafford)
Consolations R2: he has a bye
Consolations R3: 7-6 decision over AJ Boeh (North Allegheny)
Consolation Quarters: lost a 6-4 decision to Kevin Edwards (Avon Grove)
7th Place Match: lost a 5-2 decision to Brock Port (Bellefonte)
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK

Travis Stefanik (Nazareth)
PIAA State Championships, Class AAA, 152
R1: he has a bye
R2: 9-3 decision over Skitch Light (Central Dauphin)
Quarters: 6-3 decision over Felix Belga (Cumberland Valley)
Semis: lost a 7-3 decision to Hayden Hidlay (Mifflin County)
Consolation Semis: 7-5 SV decision over Jonathan Ross (Northern York)
Consolation Finals: Pin at 4:35 over Derek Verkleeren (Belle Vernon)
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK

Gavin Hoffman (Montoursville)
PIAA State Championships, Class AA, 195
R1: he has a bye
R2: 19-0 TF at 4:21 over Clayton Green (West Branch)
Quarters: 15-0 TF at 4:30 over Logan Fisher (Huntingdon)
Semis: 5-4 TB decision over Blake Reynolds (Greenville)
Finals: 6-3 decision over Bill Bowlen (Jefferson-Morgan)
You should be able to follow how he does at THIS LINK

Then again, at PA States, almost every participant is a Wrestler of Interest.

Completed brackets for AA can be found at THIS LINK.

Completed brackets for AAA can be found at THIS LINK.

Anyone have any ideas yet? Think of a booster (not a trustee) enthralled with planes and airports. Who started his own "airline" and that's a big clue.

Does anyone know if Ironhead will be covering all the sessions at Nationals? Thanks in advance.

Don't score another goal. I swear they were protecting the lead. Now going to OT on espnu

Nice job willie.

http://www.flowrestling.org/article/40234-team-race-shake-up

Freeh Report source materials already in the public domain, combined with other evidence, confirm that Tim Curley had a file on Sandusky -- and its contents found their way into the so-called Schultz "secret file"

By
Ray Blehar

Even though the alumni-elected members of the Penn State University (PSU) Board of Trustees (BOT) have succeeded in gaining access to the Freeh source materials, the court sided with Old Main to keep the information from being publicly disclosed.

Regardless of that ruling, and likely unknown to the public, some of the Freeh source materials are already in the public domain - and they prove that evidence was manipulated and/or tampered with in order to railroad PSU officials (i.e., Curley, Schultz, and Spanier).

However, when the source materials are combined with other existing evidence, the totality of the evidence confirms that former PSU Athletic Director (AD) Tim Curley had information related to the Sandusky matter -- and that information was illegally placed into the so-called "secret file" of former PSU VP for Finance and Business, Gary Schultz.

http://notpsu.blogspot.com/2016/02/freeh-source-materials-confirm-curley.html

nfm

enjoy


Indiana Gazette: Gulibon, Nolf set for NCAAs

PennLive: Loaded 138 class rolls along, monster Luke Pletcher-Sammy Sasso quarter looms Friday

Black Shoe Diaries: NCAA Wrestling Brackets -- Seeds, Sleepers, Predictions
(they teamed up with Black Heart Gold Pants for this article, on weights 165 through 285)

Black Heart Gold Pants: NCAA Wrestling Tournament Breakdown -- 125-157
(this is the other half of the article in which BSD and BHGP teamed up to analyze the NCAA Brackets)

Lancaster Fly Show on Saturday. Two true gentlemen and legends. I can check that off my bucket list. By the way the trout are starting to feed with this warm weather.

I would love some education about wrestling history.

What are some examples of an aggressive wrestler who gets stymied by a defensive wrestler and then (eventually) figures out how to overcome that wrestler?

The reason I ask is that, if I had to prepare to face a high-energy wrestler like Nolf, I'd look to see what Delgado, Dake, Martinez, et al. did. But if I (or Nolf) had to prepare to face a defensive wrestler like Delgado, to whose example would I look? (I know Mega and Taylor and Nolf already have overcome tons of defensive wrestlers, and are already experts, but I'm looking for examples in which someone at first is *losing* to a specific defensive wrestler, and then figures out how to win against that same defensive wrestler.)

Though it was 8th, but honestly can't remember at this point.

This one's for a non-PSU positive personal experience you've had with a sports athlete or celebrity.

Lou Holtz

I used to work with a woman whose husband was a big Notre Dame fan. They were both Irish and when he would come in to visit her, often times he would spend more time talking Notre Dame football with me than the time he spent visited her. Rich was a great guy, always cheerful, salt-of-the-earth type of person with great respect for Joe and Penn State.

Well, it seemed like all at once his health took a dramatic turn for the worse. He had stomach cancer and he was having heart problems as well. I thought as a way to help lift his spirits I would write to Lou Holtz, who was Notre Dame’s coach at the time, and ask him if he could jot a quick, inspirational, encouraging message to Rich. I didn’t expect anything especially since it was in the midst of football season and I can’t even imagine the demands the head football coach of Notre Dame must face during football season. If anything, I hoped perhaps once the season was over, maybe then, if at all.

Later that same week I received a letter from Lou thanking me for thinking about Rich with a copy of a letter he wrote to Rich. I was shocked and it did a lot to pick up Rich’s spirit. On top of that, later in the year, still in football season, Lou sent a follow-up letter to Rich hoping he was doing better.

So I know there are those Lou Holtz detractors out there, but from my personal experience, he’s good with me.

....actually I should say the complete non-enforcement of passivity rules in match after match after match including the Championship matches. How many stall calls were made against Sorenson, Brunson and Burak? Those three had maybe 30 seconds of non-passive, defense-only wrestling between them combined! I hope Cael makes it clear to the NCAA (the organizer of the National Tournament that the actual rules of wrestling need to be enforced as intended because PSU is hurt the most by these officials allowing wrestlers to blatantly abuse the passivity rules with impunity without fear of being penalized as they are supposed to be.).

no mention of his pending nuptials in IC though

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A little trickier as the top guys haven't all faced each other...

I'd go with

1 - Martinez (1 loss to Nolf that he avenged at B1Gs and a returning NCAA champ)
2 - Gantt (undefeated but didn't wrestle the top 3 guys this year)
3 - Nolf (1 loss to Imar but beat him earlier in the year)
4 - Miller (no losses (except a MFF?) didn't face other top 3
5 - Palacios (beat JoJo)
6 - Braschetta (returning AA with losses to Nolf and Gantt)
7 - JoJo (losses to Imar, Nolf, and Palacios)
8 - Murphy?

Thoughts? Corrections?

B1G Freshman of the year: Nolf

B1G Wrestler of the year: Zain

B1G Coach of the year: Cael

here's my look at the returning B1G placeholders for next year. I'll leave it to others to predict which guys will changes weights next year, which guys will redshirt, etc. The year listed is what they will be next season. (I based that on the year listed in the B1G Championship brackets. I did find a few mistakes; didn't check each so apologies in advance if any are incorrect.)

enjoy


125
1. Tomasello (OSU) - RS Jr
2. Nico (PSU)
3. Gilman (Iowa) - RS Sr
4. Lambert (NEB) - RS Sr
5. Oliver (IND) - So
6. Youtsey (MICH) - RS Sr
7. Jimenez (WIS) - Jr
8. McCabe (RUT) - RS Sr

7 of the 8 placers return.

133
1. Clark (Iowa) - RS Sr
2. Richards (Illini) - RS Sr
3. Taylor (WIS) - RS Sr
4. Conaway (PSU)
5. Montoya (NEB)
6. Giraldo (RUT) - RS So
7. DiJulius (OSU)
8. Alexander (MD)

4 of the 8 return, including the top 3

141
1. Ashnault (RUT) - RS Jr
2. Gulibon (PSU) - RS Sr
3. Jordan (OSU) - RS So
4. Thorn (MINN) - RS So
5. Sabatello (PUR) - Sr
6. Gasca III (MSU) - RS Jr
7. Abidin (NEB)
8. Fisher (MICH) - RS Jr

7 of the 8 return

149
1. Zain (PSU) - RS Jr
2. Sorensen (Iowa) - Jr
3. Pantaleo (MICH) - Jr
4. Tsirtsis (NU) - RS Sr
5. Sueflohn (NEB)
6. Dippery (RUT) - RS Jr
7. Short (MINN) - RS Jr
8. Burcher (OSU) - RS Sr

7 of the 8 return

157
1. Martinez (Illini) - RS Jr
2. Nolf (PSU) - RS So
3. Murphy (MICH) - Sr
4. Cooper (Iowa)
5. Lewis (RUT) - Sr
6. Ryan (OSU) - RS So
7. Berger (NEB) - Jr
8. Ruschell (WIS) - RS Sr

7 of the 8 return

165
1. Jordan (WIS) - RS Sr
2. Jordan (OSU) - RS Jr
3. Rodrigues (ILL)
4. Wilson (NEB)
5. Welch (PUR) - Sr
6. Perrotti (RUT)
7. Rhoads (Iowa)
8. Morelli (PSU) - RS Sr

4 of the 8 return

174
1. Nickal (PSU) - RS So
2. Brunson (ILL) - RS Sr
3. Martin (OSU) - So
4. Jackson (IND) - Jr
5. Meyer (Iowa) - RS Sr
6. Barnes (NEB) - RS Sr
7. Bakuckas (RUT) - RS Sr
8. Robertson (WIS) - RS Jr

8 of the 8 return

184
1. Brooks (Iowa) - RS Sr
2. Dudley (NEB) - RS Sr
3. Abounader (MICH) - Sr
4. Gravina (RUT) - RS Jr
5. McCutcheon (PSU) - RS Jr
6. Koepke (ILL)
7. Christensen (WIS) - RS So
8. Courts (OSU)

6 of the 8 return

197
1. McIntosh (PSU)
2. Burak (Iowa)
3. Pfarr (MIN) - RS Sr
4. Studebaker (NEB) - RS Sr
5. Huntlery (MICH)
6. Hrymack (RUT) - RS Sr
7. Martin (OSU)
8. Stein (PUR)

3 of 8 return

285
1. Snyder (OSU) - Jr
2. Coon (MICH) - Sr
3. Kroells (MINN) - RS Sr
4. Smith (RUT)
5. Black (ILL) - RS Jr
6. Jensen (NEB) - RS Sr
7. Horwath (WIS)
8. Stoll (Iowa) - RS So

6 of the 8 return

Interesting how many placers return. 197 is the weight that clears out the most. 133 and 165 are next in terms of weights that clear out a good bit. On the flip side, all placers return at 174, and 7 of 8 return at 125, 141, 149, and 157.

Morelli just lost to Patrick freaking Rhoads

I've been watching the Big Ten tourney on BTN2GO. Anyone else notice IMAR is not himself? He doesn't look gassed, he just doesn't look himself. Almost got pinned by Berger and then had to get a late 3rd period take down to squeak out a one point win against Murphy. I've heard rumors that he may have been banged up all year. Anyone know what is going on there?

Hard to believe there are some wrestling "fans" who still think he stalls on top.

Somebody had to get it going.

Man, I would have paid good money to see Greg Martin's face as that was happening.

Newsflash - he's not getting closer to Bo.