Black Knight Invitational - Sun, Nov 24

[Pennstate1985]

Exactly right, and Cael would have rightfully caught hell on this board for it.

We saw about 100 PSU bouts today. No need for 103.

 

[PSUAllTheWay]

The ONLY thing that derails this PSU train this year is injuries. Cael is playing it smart as usual when deciding who wrestles when.

 

[FatWoodchuck]

Anyone else hate the Flo notifications? I get a text 40 seconds before match is over showing the result

That's why I only get mat notifications, I figure the spoiler wasn't worth it anymore I always look at the results any way.

 

[Pennstate1985]

Slippery Pete, As always you did an incredible job, and just so you know, I go back and read your play by play a lot to understand how the action occurred for an individual wrestler even when I haven't watched or heard the matches. It's like your words enable me to see what happened. It's a true gift you have and thanking you doesn't do justice by how much I do appreciate your work. I was driving around meeting clients this afternoon and broke the law by reading and driving at times.

 

[SlipperyPete12]

Final results. 22 wrestlers entered. 6 wrestlers won 1st place (Lilledahl, Bartlett, Van Ness, Kasak, Mesenbrink & Barr). 3 first place matches had 2 PSU wrestlers that didn't wrestle (174, 184 & 285). Facundo & Cochran took 2nd place. McHenry & Connor Mirasola took 3rd place. Levine & Garcia battled for 5th at 133lbs, with Levine getting the win.

125:
Luke Lilledahl 1st Place
Kurt McHenry 3rd Place

133:
Timothy Levine 5th Place
Kyison Garcia 6th Place
Gary Steen DNP

141:
Beau Bartlett 1st Place
Cael Nasdeo DNP

149:
Shayne Van Ness 1st Place
Connor Pierce DNP

157:
Tyler Kasak 1st Place
Alex Facundo 2nd Place

165:
Mitchell Mesenbrink 1st Place
Ty Watson DNP

174: Levi Haines & Matt Lee share 1st Place (no final match)

184: Carter Starocci & Zack Ryder share 1st Place (no final match)

197:
Josh Barr 1st Place
Lucas Cochran 2nd Place
Connor Mirasola 3rd Place

285: Greg Kerkvliet & Cole Mirasola share 1st Place (no final match)

 

[Chickenman Testa]

They wrestled the matches that mattered for who is in the lineup. Why wrestle ones that don’t matter. Would you be happy if one of our stars got hurt in match that meant nothing?

This x 10000000000000000

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Slippery Pete, As always you did an incredible job, and just so you know, I go back and read your play by play a lot to understand how the action occurred for an individual wrestler even when I haven't watched or heard the matches. It's like your words enable me to see what happened. It's a true gift you have and thanking you doesn't do justice by how much I do appreciate your work. I was driving around meeting clients this afternoon and broke the law by reading and driving at times.

Your clients keeping you from following PSU Wrestling, eh?

Do you have any me to have a sit down with them to clear some things up?

 

[FatWoodchuck]

Ryder is tiny

Kasak might be a 174 ponder next year, he looks huge, bigger than Mesenbrink.

 

[Pennstate1985]

Your clients keeping you from following PSU Wrestling, eh?

Do you have any me to have a sit down with them to clear some things up?

I was pissed actually. Sunday at 4 is the only time you can meet? But I knew I had Slippery Pete in my back pocket.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Cael sent a full squad so he could avoid pro-Army trolling from SHP on Twitter/X

 

[GogglesPaizano]

Barr looks amazing and based on today I have no idea why he would ever go down to 184

Yep.

184 is Ryder or (fat) Levi next year. Book it.

 

[David Keller]

Kasak might be a 174 ponder next year, he looks huge, bigger than Mesenbrink.

Not sure he is tall enough

 

[SetonHallPirate]

Cael sent a full squad so he could avoid pro-Army trolling from SHP on Twitter/X

Well played, sir, well played!

I definitely can't troll any press releases from the Black Knight Invitational this year...

Edit to add: This was more of a

"Pirate,

Shut Up!

-Society"

type of performance.

 

[FatWoodchuck]

Not sure he is tall enough

Is the cesspool leaking over into here?

Height can give you an advantage but it doesn't define your weight class.

The better question is would he have a spot.

 

[PAgeologist]

Slippery Pete, As always you did an incredible job, and just so you know, I go back and read your play by play a lot to understand how the action occurred for an individual wrestler even when I haven't watched or heard the matches. It's like your words enable me to see what happened. It's a true gift you have and thanking you doesn't do justice by how much I do appreciate your work. I was driving around meeting clients this afternoon and broke the law by reading and driving at times.

For a real challenge, I think Pete should do a closed captioning of Byers for us.

 

[matter7172]

I bet Davis is disappointed he's not getting a shot at one of those Flack Jacket trophies.

Pretty sure he took one home last year. Over this year's 133 winner, iirc.

 

[baccafarmer]

Final results. 22 wrestlers entered. 6 wrestlers won 1st place (Lilledahl, Bartlett, Van Ness, Kasak, Mesenbrink & Barr). 3 first place matches had 2 PSU wrestlers that didn't wrestle (174, 184 & 285). Facundo & Cochran took 2nd place. McHenry & Connor Mirasola took 3rd place. Levine & Garcia battled for 5th at 133lbs, with Levine getting the win.

125:
Luke Lilledahl 1st Place
Kurt McHenry 3rd Place

133:
Timothy Levine 5th Place
Kyison Garcia 6th Place
Gary Steen DNP

141:
Beau Bartlett 1st Place
Cael Nasdeo DNP

149:
Shayne Van Ness 1st Place
Connor Pierce DNP

157:
Tyler Kasak 1st Place
Alex Facundo 2nd Place

165:
Mitchell Mesenbrink 1st Place
Ty Watson DNP

174: Levi Haines & Matt Lee share 1st Place (no final match)

184: Carter Starocci & Zack Ryder share 1st Place (no final match)

197:
Josh Barr 1st Place
Lucas Cochran 2nd Place
Connor Mirasola 3rd Place

285: Greg Kerkvliet & Cole Mirasola share 1st Place (no final match)

Kudos for the coverage. Assuming that you will be in Philly in March. Free drinks for you.

 

[El-Jefe]

Maybe at some point. But no one can earn that label against the level of competition at Black Knight.

True. To earn that label, he'd have to face the level of competition at the Luther Open.

 

[Pitchfork Rebel]

Yeah, and it's understandable. One thing if two guys are fighting for a starting spot, like 157 (Facundo and Kasak) and 197 (Barr and Cochran). Really not much point of having a starter go against a guy who is redshirting or an obvious backup, as at 174, 184, and 285.

There's also an injury risk.

 

[7brwnpsu]

Can we take a moment to realize how lucky we are? First for having someone like Slippery Pete do such a yeoman's job on the pbp. Second, for this team....... It is an amazing organization that Cael, Cody and Casey has built.

Fify and that is the way Cael would want it.

 

[SlipperyPete12]

 

[Chickenman Testa]

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It’s fine for Mitch to wrestle hard against plebes, but he better not dare against his betters like JB!!! That’s just unsporting

 

[Ruby Tues]

We should start a go fund me for the carpel tunnel that
@SlipperyPete12 is going to develop…..

 

[Psalm 1 guy]

125 Final - Luke Lilledahl vs. Charlie Farmer (ARMY)
133 Final - Ethan Berginc (ARMY) vs. Takeo Davis (Gardner-Webb)
141 Final - Beau Bartlett vs. Todd Carter (Gardner-Webb)
149 Final - Shayne Van Ness, vs. Andrew Clark (Rutgers)
157 Final - Tyler Kasak vs. Alex Facundo
165 Final - Mitchell Mesenbrink vs. Gunner Filipowicz (ARMY)
174 Final - Levi Haines vs. Matt Lee
184 Final - Carter Starocci vs. Zack Ryder
197 Final - Josh Barr vs. Lucas Cochran
285 Final - Greg Kerkvliet vs. Cole Mirasola

14 of the 20 finalists are from PSU.

And most likely would have been 15 had Luke and Kurt been on opposite ends of the bracket.

 

[Kale_yeah]

I had the win loss record 59- 14 with 50 bonus wins . I thought Josh barr was best wrestler and curt McHenry could be the backup at 125 -133.

 

[yakrider]

And after all that he still managed the best finish of our men’s Olympic wrestling team, guess it all worked out okay for him.

him yes. Iowa no.

 

[SlipperyPete12]

Slippery Pete, As always you did an incredible job, and just so you know, I go back and read your play by play a lot to understand how the action occurred for an individual wrestler even when I haven't watched or heard the matches. It's like your words enable me to see what happened. It's a true gift you have and thanking you doesn't do justice by how much I do appreciate your work. I was driving around meeting clients this afternoon and broke the law by reading and driving at times.

I have to go back & clean up the PBP typos because of people like you. Lol. It's cleaned up & better than before.

If you turn your clients into fans of the team, then they won't bother you during matches or tournaments. 😆

 

[7brwnpsu]

We should start a go fund me for the carpel tunnel that
@SlipperyPete12 is going to develop…..

I don't think so. My thoughts are Cael has been letting Pete into the RTC all summer long to build his conditioning for these tournaments. That has to be it, no human could take on pbp bouts from 22 wrestlers cold.

We could ask nerfstate to ask Cael at the next presser, but he'd have an easier time getting the answer from the NSA.

Just like the team, we are Grateful for what Pete has done and I think he had Fun. You watch how Pete peaks in Mid-March.

 

[El-Jefe]

Slippery Pete, As always you did an incredible job, and just so you know, I go back and read your play by play a lot to understand how the action occurred for an individual wrestler even when I haven't watched or heard the matches. It's like your words enable me to see what happened. It's a true gift you have and thanking you doesn't do justice by how much I do appreciate your work. I was driving around meeting clients this afternoon and broke the law by reading and driving at times.

The United States Army watched Penn State wrestle, but your clients think they're special.

 

[doubleboots]

 

[Biffkin]

What was the over/under on ankles pick TD's for PSU.