65 teams, 330 wrestlers, 80 All-Americans, 10 Champions, and 1 Most Outstanding Wrestler.
I am getting tingly all over.
Oh, yeah. And a team title. Let’s just get the team race out of the way right away.
The Highlander - There Can Be Only One
It is Penn State’s to lose…..again. Boring. Well not for me. Or for you guys. But for some.
What is not boring is the race for second. Wow, did that heat up.
With Iowa’s seed average (9.6) much lower than their ranking average (6.7) going into the conference tournament, Oklahoma State, and Nebraska are firmly in the conversation for second. Feels kinda Thunderdome-y to me. Three men enter, one man leaves.
But do not count Virginia Tech, and Minnesota out as serious podium contenders. Northern Iowa, Cornell, and Illinois may be long shots, but don’t you dare try telling our muse @ILLINIWrestlingBlog that. Rest in Peace, buddy. Just don’t do it on that great big mat in the sky or we will send Jombo up to call the stall in all his ham and vinegar fueled wrath.
Here is hoping your beloved Illini do the deed.
Author’s Note: For the long-time readers in the crowd you know that I come up with these point projections based on how the average wrestler at each seed performs. Well, here is the thing about PSU, they just don’t do average. For example, based on average expectations last year they were projected to score 145 points. And we know what happened. So, yeah, 155.7 this year is more. If you throw in the PSU bump relative to the average, they project out to something like 183. Yep.
Lou Gehrig Award
Who is this year’s Iron Horse? How appropriate that our warrior is a soldier.
Army’s Brady Colbert leads all entrants with 36 wins on the season among his total of 43 matches. The man is a thrown back. And if you aren’t careful, he will throw you to your back. Our hero had 10 pinfalls among his 36 wins. With Wyatt Pinfalldrickson flying into the sunset at the end of the tournament, perhaps we have a new American Hero in the Black Knight freshman.
Is he The One Who Was Promised?
The Harlem Globetrotters Award
The Globetrotters have won 27,000 games. You read that right. They will beat anyone, anywhere, anytime. And Campbell shares that ethos. If Campbell is going out this year, they are doing it in style. The Fighting Camels have the highest average matches contested among their entered wrestlers.
The Outliers
I am not sure what to make of this but there are more wrestlers with sub-0.500 records than with perfect records. Go figure. Call them "The Chip And A Chair Crowd".
I am getting tingly all over.
Oh, yeah. And a team title. Let’s just get the team race out of the way right away.
The Highlander - There Can Be Only One
It is Penn State’s to lose…..again. Boring. Well not for me. Or for you guys. But for some.
What is not boring is the race for second. Wow, did that heat up.
With Iowa’s seed average (9.6) much lower than their ranking average (6.7) going into the conference tournament, Oklahoma State, and Nebraska are firmly in the conversation for second. Feels kinda Thunderdome-y to me. Three men enter, one man leaves.
But do not count Virginia Tech, and Minnesota out as serious podium contenders. Northern Iowa, Cornell, and Illinois may be long shots, but don’t you dare try telling our muse @ILLINIWrestlingBlog that. Rest in Peace, buddy. Just don’t do it on that great big mat in the sky or we will send Jombo up to call the stall in all his ham and vinegar fueled wrath.
Here is hoping your beloved Illini do the deed.
Author’s Note: For the long-time readers in the crowd you know that I come up with these point projections based on how the average wrestler at each seed performs. Well, here is the thing about PSU, they just don’t do average. For example, based on average expectations last year they were projected to score 145 points. And we know what happened. So, yeah, 155.7 this year is more. If you throw in the PSU bump relative to the average, they project out to something like 183. Yep.
Lou Gehrig Award
Who is this year’s Iron Horse? How appropriate that our warrior is a soldier.
Army’s Brady Colbert leads all entrants with 36 wins on the season among his total of 43 matches. The man is a thrown back. And if you aren’t careful, he will throw you to your back. Our hero had 10 pinfalls among his 36 wins. With Wyatt Pinfalldrickson flying into the sunset at the end of the tournament, perhaps we have a new American Hero in the Black Knight freshman.
Is he The One Who Was Promised?
The Harlem Globetrotters Award
The Globetrotters have won 27,000 games. You read that right. They will beat anyone, anywhere, anytime. And Campbell shares that ethos. If Campbell is going out this year, they are doing it in style. The Fighting Camels have the highest average matches contested among their entered wrestlers.
The Outliers
I am not sure what to make of this but there are more wrestlers with sub-0.500 records than with perfect records. Go figure. Call them "The Chip And A Chair Crowd".
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