Cool news from Buckeyeland - wrestle offs

[WiscoWrastler]

I’m surprised he moved up as well especially now knowing Micic/Fix/Suriano are all taking Olympic redshirts, and Seth Gross has been heavily rumored to move up to 141.

He did look good against Eierman this past summer at the trials.

Seth Gross has said himself he is going to attempt to make 57kg for Olympic Trials. So year that makes sense to go to 141. lol

 

[CholleyVandine]

As if last night were anything other than a dog and pony show.

Ohio State's first competition is the MSU Open. Does anyone seriously think last night's 157 and 184 winners will be the starters after that tourney?

Sure. Remember last year when Gary Traub locked down the starting 285 job by beating Chase Singletary in the wrestle off? Oh, wait ...

 

[Str8DBLz]

They even said during the broadcast that tonights matches don't mean anything is concrete

Sure. Remember last year when Gary Traub locked down the starting 285 job by beating Chase Singletary in the wrestle off? Oh, wait ...

 

[mjmirv]

But looking back, it was a pretty good sign that Chase Singletary wasn’t gonna be a top 10 ranked guy in 2019.

 

[Raw Daddy]

Take this with a grain of salt as it is coming from Flo, but in frl this morning they all seem to believe that last year was being considered Teasdale's red shirt year and that he only has his 4 competition years left.

That is 5 years to me. He may not have gotten to choose his redshirt year exactly, but he was certainly working and able to wrestle in opens last year.

 

[crablegs1]

As if last night were anything other than a dog and pony show.

Ohio State's first competition is the MSU Open. Does anyone seriously think last night's 157 and 184 winners will be the starters after that tourney?

No, I don’t. But I also don’t see anything wrong with a dog and pony show for the fans. I happen to like both dogs and ponies.

 

[crablegs1]

We don’t have public wrestle offs thankfully.

I like the way we do it, everyone has their hopes up real high coming into the season, Flo does 50 articles of how so and so team can beat PSU, then PSU takes the mat for first dual and fans of other teams put their head in their hands and realizes “welp, maybe next year”

My point is, you can’t really be critical with the way TOSU wrestled and mention how sick you’d be if PSU wrestled that way when you have no idea what PSU would look like in a similar situation. I bet there would be several close, low scoring, matches in a PSU wrestle off as well. Guys that’s practice together all the time often figure out how to keep things close and limit the opponents offense.

 

[diggerpup]

I bet there would be several close, low scoring, matches in a PSU wrestle off as well. Guys that’s practice together all the time often figure out how to keep things close and limit the opponents offense.

Which made Cassar smoking Nevills 7-2 in last year’s Scuffle all the more impressive.

 

[NoVa Lion]

Which made Cassar smoking Nevills 7-2 in last year’s Scuffle all the more impressive.

True, except it was the Keystone Classic.

 

[El-Jefe]

True, except it was the Keystone Classic.

Which means Cassar went back in time, Terminator style.

 

[El-Jefe]

Which made Cassar smoking Nevills 7-2 in last year’s Scuffle all the more impressive.

Not so fast ...

PS, when I googled "Mike Evans Iowa" the very first result was:
The Mike Evans "Impression of the Week" 3/9

@slushhead broke the internet.

 

[CholleyVandine]

My point is, you can’t really be critical with the way TOSU wrestled and mention how sick you’d be if PSU wrestled that way when you have no idea what PSU would look like in a similar situation. I bet there would be several close, low scoring, matches in a PSU wrestle off as well. Guys that’s practice together all the time often figure out how to keep things close and limit the opponents offense.

I wouldn't say we have no idea how Penn State would look in similar situations.

There have been the occasional 2-1 or 3-2 Berge/Verkleeren or Rasheed/Morelli types of matches in early season tournaments during the Cael era, but they are the exception.

2010 Nittany Lion Open
Andrew Alton wbf Adam Lynch
David Taylor md James Volrath, 12-0

2011 NLO
Dylan Alton md Nick Fischer, 9-1
James Volrath md Nick Fischer, 11-2

2012 NLO
Jimmy Gullibon dec. Frank Martelotti, 7-2

2012 Southern Scuffle
Ed Ruth dec. Matt Brown, 6-3
Quentin Wright dec Morgan McIntosh, 5-3

2014 NLO
Jason Nolf md Cody Law, 21-8
Matt Brown dec Bo Nickal, 10-7

2015 NLO
Jered Cortez dec Jordan Conaway, 5-4
Shakur Rasheed dec Cody Law, 8-0
Geno Morelli dec Garrett Hammond, 12-7

2017 Keystone Classic
Anthony Cassar dec Matt McCutcheon, 6-5

2018 Keystone Classic
Anthony Cassar dec. Nick Nevills, 7-2

 

[NoVa Lion]

Not so fast ...

PS, when I googled "Mike Evans Iowa" the very first result was:
The Mike Evans "Impression of the Week" 3/9

@slushhead broke the internet.

Just in case some were not aware of this but Evans last three seasons at Iowa his placement at NCAAs was 666.

 

[Dogwelder]

... when you have no idea what PSU would look like in a similar situation ...

So, is it INCONCEIVABLE that someone like CholleyVandine would have an idea?

 

[slushhead]

Just in case some were not aware of this but Evans last three seasons at Iowa his placement at NCAAs was 666.

His mustache was the puppet master behind that. Poor Mike -- who to this day blamed the push-pull-block (PPB) offensive scheme of the program --had no idea what was really holding him back.

 

[slushhead]

No, I don’t. But I also don’t see anything wrong with a dog and pony show for the fans. I happen to like both dogs and ponies.

 

[El-Jefe]

Just in case some were not aware of this but Evans last three seasons at Iowa his placement at NCAAs was 666.

Sign of the beast.