Wrestling 2023 NCAA Tournament Live Thread
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Drowned out by the unrelenting Spencer talk
Sorry this is so long but I missed this morning’s round so these are my thoughts about it all.
I’m so pissed that I had to work this morning and missed quite possibly the best round of wrestling in a long time! Reading through this thread though has been comedic gold!! Everyone went from about to jump off a building in all of BB, SVN, and Levi’s matches to absolute ecstasy in just a matter of minutes!! We should all learn to not post until the match is over! Thankfully ESPN + has the round archived already so I’m watching it now. SVN can get sloppy and give up some bad points but his pace really is a weapon. He just does it differently than most with so much pressure on his opponents head and by the 3rd period most guys are in deep water. I’m not sure how many of you guys have ever felt completely 100% spent where your body just won’t do what you tell it to do but it’s a horrible feeling and SVN pushes his opponents there often. This should do wonders for his confidence and he is going to be a huge problem the next 3 years. Levi Haines is the ****ing man!! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a true freshman as calm and collected in huge moments as he is. Ice water in his veins. Going down 6-0 to a kid as good as Andonian and showing no panic is pretty crazy. Going back to his high school days I’ve been one of his biggest cheerleaders and said I saw greatness in his future but even I am a bit surprised at just how good he is. His baseline defense and his leg attacks were really impressive against Andonian even in the position he gave up 6. He finishes that shot against 99% of people other than Bryce. He actually did a masterful job of staying out of Andonian’s strong positions and made him wrestle in ties that Levi liked plus Levi lived on his legs especially in the 2nd period on. PSU has dominated in the semifinals recently and I’m betting they do again but there are some really really tough matchups that could go either way even with our big guns. AB will be in a close match with Hidlay for sure and as great as Starocci is Foca is wrestling lights out and in my eyes will be a tougher match than whoever he sees in the finals. RBY is the biggest favorite in my mind. McGee is super quick which is how he usually wins but RBY is the one guy in the country who is quicker and just better in pretty much every position. I had picked Alirez to win the whole tournament but BB matches up ok with him. Alirez isn’t great on the mat so Bartlett should have a slight advantage there. Alirez is incredible on his feet but Beau has such good defense I think he neutralizes most of Alirez is good at. I see another 1 td match that can go either way. Yianni is a horrible matchup for SVN but Shayne is playing with house $ at this point so he should just push the pace and go for broke. He’s been the comeback kid this tournament so let’s see him pull it off one more time. I really like Robb and wish he and Levi were wrestling in the finals but it will be a super fun semi instead. Another coin flip match but I also think Levi will win. Getting his hands on Robb at Big 10’s was important and I think Cael and company will have a good game plan in place. Kerk should get pushed by Hendrickson but I feel like Kerk is just a bit better in almost all positions. He needs to be careful because Wyatt is dangerous as they come but Kerk should win by a td or so. I’m pissed I missed the quarters but the semis are the best round in wrestling and I can’t ****ing wait!!!
I’m so pissed that I had to work this morning and missed quite possibly the best round of wrestling in a long time! Reading through this thread though has been comedic gold!! Everyone went from about to jump off a building in all of BB, SVN, and Levi’s matches to absolute ecstasy in just a matter of minutes!! We should all learn to not post until the match is over! Thankfully ESPN + has the round archived already so I’m watching it now. SVN can get sloppy and give up some bad points but his pace really is a weapon. He just does it differently than most with so much pressure on his opponents head and by the 3rd period most guys are in deep water. I’m not sure how many of you guys have ever felt completely 100% spent where your body just won’t do what you tell it to do but it’s a horrible feeling and SVN pushes his opponents there often. This should do wonders for his confidence and he is going to be a huge problem the next 3 years. Levi Haines is the ****ing man!! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a true freshman as calm and collected in huge moments as he is. Ice water in his veins. Going down 6-0 to a kid as good as Andonian and showing no panic is pretty crazy. Going back to his high school days I’ve been one of his biggest cheerleaders and said I saw greatness in his future but even I am a bit surprised at just how good he is. His baseline defense and his leg attacks were really impressive against Andonian even in the position he gave up 6. He finishes that shot against 99% of people other than Bryce. He actually did a masterful job of staying out of Andonian’s strong positions and made him wrestle in ties that Levi liked plus Levi lived on his legs especially in the 2nd period on. PSU has dominated in the semifinals recently and I’m betting they do again but there are some really really tough matchups that could go either way even with our big guns. AB will be in a close match with Hidlay for sure and as great as Starocci is Foca is wrestling lights out and in my eyes will be a tougher match than whoever he sees in the finals. RBY is the biggest favorite in my mind. McGee is super quick which is how he usually wins but RBY is the one guy in the country who is quicker and just better in pretty much every position. I had picked Alirez to win the whole tournament but BB matches up ok with him. Alirez isn’t great on the mat so Bartlett should have a slight advantage there. Alirez is incredible on his feet but Beau has such good defense I think he neutralizes most of Alirez is good at. I see another 1 td match that can go either way. Yianni is a horrible matchup for SVN but Shayne is playing with house $ at this point so he should just push the pace and go for broke. He’s been the comeback kid this tournament so let’s see him pull it off one more time. I really like Robb and wish he and Levi were wrestling in the finals but it will be a super fun semi instead. Another coin flip match but I also think Levi will win. Getting his hands on Robb at Big 10’s was important and I think Cael and company will have a good game plan in place. Kerk should get pushed by Hendrickson but I feel like Kerk is just a bit better in almost all positions. He needs to be careful because Wyatt is dangerous as they come but Kerk should win by a td or so. I’m pissed I missed the quarters but the semis are the best round in wrestling and I can’t ****ing wait!!!
This is a solid AA level post. It would be a championship contender if there were paragraph breaks.
40 semifinal wrestlers. 34 wrestled to seed (i.e. are 1, 2, 3 or 4 seeds). The other six:
5 Humphreys
5 Monday
6 Bartlett
7 Sloan
11 Amine
12 Van Ness
5 Humphreys
5 Monday
6 Bartlett
7 Sloan
11 Amine
12 Van Ness
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Then the same Ref was determined to not give the takedown after all that bullshit. He finally called the takedown well after it should have been awarded (resulting in the silly Challenge Brick from the ASWP bench - it was a beyond obvious takedown and should have been called long before the very delayed call made by the Ref).
Some very tough matches in the semi's,is know surprise. Really only see one mismatch and that's at 149. But murin took some piss &vinegar out of yani so you never know.
the angle you couldnt tell but go Haines!!
Just don't check the box that says, "Check here if you want $3 to go to the Presidential Election Campaign." It never turns out well.
Lucky me. I live in walking distance of a church that has pierogies (pirohi or pirohy) several times a year.
Also see haluski and kiebasi/kielbasa..
I think Kerk wins, but as someone else pointed out Hendrickson training at a mile and a half elevation has a freaking freakish huge gas tank. Get'er done early, don't let it go too late 3rd or OT.
Is it 7:00 yet? This will be the longest 2 hours of my life. Can't wait for the fireworks tonight. In particular, can't wait to see our freshmen. SVN gets a shot at a historic upset. I'm sure Yianni will be sweating a little if he's up by less than 10 going into the third, LOL. Then Haines vs Robb. That was the best final of the B1Gs and easily could be the best match of the semis as well. The next gen has arrived!
Not your uncle, I hope!
You're really going to be bummed as the Semi's start at 8pm tonight.
You're right. Godamnit.
gee whiz!! where does he wrestle again and who are his coaches???
It would be a championship contender if he could say it with a gif instead of all those words
You mean a bunch of boxes with red X in them?
yea I like to see all the PA kids do well as long as they aren't wrestling PSU!
How tough has Ramirez's backdraw been? After the upset to Fish to start the tournament, he's run the gauntlet of Facundo, Braunagel, and Kennedy, and now has Griffith in the blood round. After a terrible loss to start, if he wrestles back to AA, he'll have earned ever bit of it.
I had about 45 years of consuming the work of an absolute master of the art. She learned at the feet of my great grandmother, who learned at her mothers' in "the old country".
Unleavened bread was meant to be made and consumed quickly, for people in flight, Crackers, hardtack and Matzoh, especially are unleavened bread.
Pirohi made right, take time to make and are meant to be consumed slowly, so every pillowy soft morsel is savored, along with butter (never, ever put them in onions or fry them-that's for amateurs). It is decidedly not "just unleavened bread".
They have one downfall-they most definitely are not something you eat cutting weight or with a Metformin Px.
FYI, here's 150 year old hard tack being eaten.
Hey, I spent most of my life saying that about Iowa. For those of us that remember those years, I think we appreciate this run FAR more than the newcomers to the sport.
With my memory not as keen as it once was, not remembering when Iowa was a viable national title threat is one positive.
Round 1 PSU went 8-1
Round 2 PSU went 7-2
Round 3 PSU went 9-0
Round 1 Iowa went 8-2
Round 2 Iowa went 7-3
Round 3 Iowa went 6-6
I looked on the top 10 and didn't see Rutgres... they are in 32nd place with 1 wrestle left.
Oklahoma State is in 19th with 2 wrestlers left. They may only get 1 AA this year.
Round 2 PSU went 7-2
Round 3 PSU went 9-0
Round 1 Iowa went 8-2
Round 2 Iowa went 7-3
Round 3 Iowa went 6-6
I looked on the top 10 and didn't see Rutgres... they are in 32nd place with 1 wrestle left.
Oklahoma State is in 19th with 2 wrestlers left. They may only get 1 AA this year.
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Yeah, I can root for Murin. The team race is over, IA has already suffered their share of disappointments, and he's a prototypical western PA blue collar plumber making his best with toughness and limited talent (at least for this level, LOL). I can get behind that. Four time R12 would be tough. He deserves better.
I heard Cael is funneling slush money through Iowa U to keep TnT, Morningstar,Telford on staff.
