With the benefit of hindsight:
You need to convert any pic you have into a URL (for example I use an app called Imgur). I’m sure there are others that may be better but that’s what I use.
Agreed. Ranked 8 to 10 seems fair. Like your current top 5 and, frankly, don’t expect Davis to beat one of them on his first attempt or two. That said, I’ll take Braedon all day over the others, just for demeanor, technique, attack rate, calm, and upside. Seems unflappable and oddly never out of breath, especially in his bout with Cat Stevens, er, uh, DeAugustino.
When is the first Coaches Poll? Will be interesting to see how they sort them out.
Depends on how old of a printout of flo rankings they hand to their intern, I suspect.
Very few bumped up after Lee won his first in 2018:
It will be even funnier when their #1 ends up redshirting. He still only at 5 events. He didn’t wrestle this past weekend
Don’t feel it’s justified . . yet. Would like it worked into Flo’s algorithm that to be considered for the top 5, you need to beat a top 5 from the “prior” week’s ranking (or have them fall below you with their own loss). Wouldn’t solve much, maybe, but could provide a touch more stability. Blacken the two eyes (Buck and Hawk), though, and I’m almost okay with it.
I think the team that matches up best vs Penn State in a dual is Cornell. They would be favored at 133 (Vito vs Nagao) and 184 (Foca vs Truax) and 50-50 at 125 (Ungar vs Davis) and 157 (Shapiro vs Levi). Even 165 Ramirez is a tough out, although I think MM would handle him in the end. It wouldn’t take too many unreasonable upsets before it would get close with them. Michigan matched up much more poorly. They were good but not good enough at almost every weight. That easily could have been a shutout if Nagao finishes his moves just one more time and Starocci doesn’t sit out.
He can get some facial hair from DeAugustino and make a fake stache and beard.
I actually think we match up great against Cornell because in a dual against PSU, Cornell would wrestle backups at all the weights you mentioned.
And even if Cornell lost, they'd get their lawyers involved to overturn the result.
I’ve been technologically challenged in this area as well. Although, it may be a good thing for the board.
Cornell??? They don’t wrestle to win duals. Foca isn’t beating Truax and Ramirez would get schooled by Messenbrink.
It’s weird seeing him #3 I agree. That being said, I can’t justify him being out of top 5 since everyone else at the weight has multiple losses and Davis does have a couple very good wins with no losses.
Levi hasn't looked bad enough to lose to Trevor Chumbley.
Rankings aside, it’s clear the kid’s now on everyone’s radar. Good thing he hit Cael's first.
I'm sorry, I haven't been around as long as others. I've seen the Cornell lawyer reference a hundred times but don't know the story. What is it?
Zain and YD were in Final x a few years ago for a world team spot. They had a few CRAZY scrambles that went Zains way.
They had to re-wrestle and that match had to take place at a neutral site I believe. They did it at Wilkes University.
To be "fair," the lawyer & arbitration were successful, and Zain and Yianni had a redo of the 3rd match on the campus of Wyoming Seminary--just a few miles from Zain's family farm. The partisan home crowd went home satisfied. I sat a row in front of Sem's Beau Bartlett for that one.
Because it was brought up, I had to rewatch the match. It's an instant classic. Lots of crazy scrambles.
