Wrestling 2023 NCAA Bracket Release Thread
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Working on my contest picks and I keep coming up with Beau in the semis. Damn it that doesn’t look right to me….
So, I don't have time to read the whole thread. Show of hands...
Who's worried?
Who's worried?
Even if he loses to Matthews, it’s beat Schwartz or Hart for AA, Cornella to get to 5th place match. Not easy, but a doable path to at least the 5th place match. Of course, that’s what his seed predicts.
I blame Moriah, the Yoko Ono of college wrestling.
My initial picks have Beau losing to Mathews in the Qs then beating D'Emilio in the BR and Filius on the back side before losing to Hardy to go into the 5th place match, which he wins over Jack.
I have been looking through the 197 bracket and noticed something about the top 4 seeds. Don’t know if anyone else has mentioned it….if so sorry. Of the top four seeds, only one has more than 16 matches wrestled….Laird at 26. Bonaccorsi 16, Truax 14 and Elam 11. I realize the formula is the formula and the B10 loss in the finals is huge but seeing Truax at 14 matches and Elam at 11 as the 2 and 3 seeds is…..well….I can’t find the words to describe!
The word I'd use is: accurate.
Truax beat Beard among others. Elam won a very tough conference. Other than Bonaccorsi, who earned a spot above them? Laird maybe, except he lost the common opponents battle to Elam (lost to Pentz).
Someday Madden is going to do a post with one gif per word.
Note: this is not a challenge.
Rewatched Andonian and O'Conner last night and I'm sorry, but Andonian made two huge mistakes to give O'Conner 4 points. O'Conner did take advantage of them but Andonians' mistakes lead directly to the points. Not saying his NCAA title was a fluke, just making the observation that Andonian makes plenty of mistakes, he is dangerous if you're not mindful of your positions.
Mine was a bigger point: O'Connor was a deserving champ and is wrestling just as well now, and shouldn't be dismissed.
The 2 Andonian wins are not his full body of work.
I'm rolling with it. Beau into semis.
O'Connor reminds me of a more mature Levi a little bit. A little more powerful right now, but very fundamental with great body awareness and mat savvy. Not a crazy high attack rate, but can get to everybody's legs at least a couple times a match and finish efficiently.
I’m from Dallastown - same HS as Clay Gable, whose dad Dave was in my class.
Beau doesn't take many bad shots,Cole doesn't take any shots!!
That’s because Gunsie re-evaluated his approach, after Spyker kicked his a$$, outside of a State College bar.😉
all of their matches Hidlay never wrestled until the last 30 seconds and did a lot of stalling!
Go with it.
And if he makes the semis, given our track record on Friday night, you might as well pen in the Finals.
If the Nolf matchup Deakin was just tired of being taken down.
I’m here for it. I’m very pro gif #teamgif
Nolf was like I'm going to ankle pick your right ankle right now and then would do it and Deakin couldn't do shit about it. Nolf was crazy good it's almost like he was dancing everything was fluid and going in one direction
Deakin stalled so much that he rode out the period, got the RT point, and was still outscored in the period.
Granted, outscored by less than if Jason had gotten to neutral.
In filling out a bracket on paper, in a close match, I go with the easier last name to write again.
For all of the bitching about Max's #9. You know who got screwed? Bonaccorsi.
His side is loaded. I think he has more than his hands full with Max, Beard or Laird, maybe even Allred.
Like several other brackets the bottom half is markedly easier IMO, so much for the rewards of a #1.
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Yeah, getting the first seed at 197 doesn't appear much of a reward for Bonaccorsi's season.
At least going into the tournament it appears that way. Who knows, after all the medals are awarded Saturday it may appear different.
I agree with you there. I was only pointing out how much difficulty he had with Lewis. Of course everyone knows how Lewis wrestles too. He tried the same strategy with Labriola in the CKLV finals and it backfired.
Regarding Foca he’s a really good guy too. I spoke to him his Jr year in HS at the Doc Buchanan tournament and he came across as a very polite young man. He had his head shaved and looked very much like a young Cael Sanderson at that time. I took a picture of him that I’ll post if I can upload it to one of those photo sharing websites.
Foca is a unique challenge from Labriola and Mekhi, who are tougher to score on guys. Plott is in a similar boat (if he somehow beats Foca) That being said, Carter will be at his best in March vs December (where Foca almost beat him)
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