Understood. Funny tho, the real outliers in eligibility are Tennis and Hockey who can play organized activities, delay enrollment and still retain eligibility. The others are much more similar.
Hildebrandt needs B1G matches since those are the key component to seeding at Big Tens. Get those matches, he is enough of a veteran wrestler that missing matches next week is not going to matter. At 157, those guys need as many matches as possible to gain experience.
Maybe less risk wrestling in a dual? One match vs 3-5 in a tournament?
Yes,there is a risk going against Howard and RBY too.
Then don't wrestle if you can't deal with the risk. Put your best team on the mat or GTFO. Otherwise you're killing the sport.
Obviously predicting 3rd with Glory, Arujau and Suriano entering this season at 125 is silly. However, Hildebrandt finishing 6-8, is a very reasonable expectation and a massive upgrade from our prospects without him at 125 this season.
Yes - certainly Cael Sanderson and the Penn State varsity wrestling team are “killing the sport.”
For those that don't know Evans results at NCAAs were DNP as a frosh and then 6, 6, 6. Proof that the stache is the devil.
another approach would be to enter him but only have him wrestle his first two depending on how he feels. we’re seeing that more and more these days.
And Matt Brown. Did Bo & Jason get married before their senior season or after?
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You could say the same for Murin or Young, that there are guys in the 15-20 range that could beat them both.
Big difference is Iowa can afford hits at those weights. Murin and Young are considered their 8th and 9th guys probably and 184 is their 10th. Murin also has been R12 twice including with mono once and Young has podiumed twice. Drew and Beau are our 7th and 8th and our 9th and 10th aren't even guaranteed qualifiers (I think Creighton definitely qualifies but I wouldn't bank on him scoring a ton of points). Our issue last year is we didn't get points at 4 weights basically (4.5 at our non AA weights) and even 4 champs can't overcome that. We need points at 125/149 almost certainly (insert 8 scoring wrestlers joke) to win this year and for our first 6 to be high AAs/champs with bonus.
I’ll take Hildebrandt to be an AA, Bartlett to surprise folks and Facundo as the wildcard. Add to that our big 4 are superior to their big 4 come tournament time and I like where we stand.
It's definitely not a given that Facundo is getting his redshirt pulled, Casey even said the plan is to keep him in redshirt and alb409 from 247 said he excepts Facundo to stay redshirted.
yes, you can. especially murin. actually more so than hildebrandt who has at least placed before. young isn't exciting, but he is pretty consistent. for the most part, he beats who he's supposed to and loses to who he's supposed to.
Come on now. Our board personality is to always assume the worst.
Now that it's known he has been in the room for quite some time, I feel way better. I was kind of worried he was literally waiting until January to arrive.
Imagine Cael teaching Drew how to use his length to get the ankle.
Far from guaranteed points? Are you saying you dont think he’ll win a match? If Drew qualifies he’ll grab more points than Murin or Assad.
*guaranteed significant points*
The beauty of NCAA is nothing is guaranteed. That's why I don't think starting with the prior year tournament is the best methodology. That's assuming a lot of the same thing to happen again, which we know isn't the case ever. Bottom line, on paper, Iowa has multiple heavy hitters that can win, a lot of bonusers and no holes, which makes you guys the favorite. I think Cael (and Brands) just take a big picture approach. Why over complicate things? Focus on the guy ahead of you and focus on bonusing. As DT said, Cael never brought up the team score to him during his 4 years there.
