Edinboro Open
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If I get a pie out of it, Schalles spells it wrong.
Imagine if Nolf and Nickal larded up their schedules with Opens loaded with bums from the Midwest. #askrenpaddingstats
Ah, good to see Ol’ S.S. Rumbaugh is still in the top 5. Guy was an animal. Bo Nickal would’ve looked like a JV compared to him
Too bad he sunk in high seas off the Dutch coast not long after. 🤓
And I remember thinking when nolf was a freshman what is everybody all fired up about. I didn't see it then but his second year he completely changed into a monster. My favorite all time wrestler for sure. Love the new trend with the ankle bracelets lol. Little kids all over the country doing that
I also originally thought Nolf was not that exciting. But he transformed himself into a takedown machine. It was at Disney Duals, I think. He just kept coming, putting on constant pressure. I thought: well alright. This guy may have it.
That list of Penn State pinners posted earlier included Sam Harry, who was Pennsylvania's first state champ, I believe: 85 pound champ in '37 or 38 for Clearfield. He didn't wrestle 85 in college.
When rating pinners, straight numbers don't tell the story. Zane was a workman, Nolf was an artist and Nichol was a showman. Their pins were so much f*n to watch, and so different from each other's. Zane thrashed people until they welcomed a pin. Nolf caught people in motion. Bo's most memorable pins seemed to be on the biggest stage at the most important times.
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That was the public face of it. Jason was more of a positional wrestler his HS FR/SO years, but lost to Diehl in his SO state semis. He decided that he needed to become a scorer, completely transformed his style in short order, and wrecked DIehl about 3-4 months later.
Jason also transformed himself in 6 weeks after the Rutgers injury into One-Legged Jason Nolf.
Just amazing. So few guys can change their style over the course of several years, and yet he twice did it in a matter of weeks.
I'm sure you're right about the timing. When I watched the transformed pre-PSU Nolf I was amazed. Before he was really good. But now he was manic. Shooting constantly, high, low, right, left. Who could defend against that? That's when I knew Jason was a special one. And what he did at Nationals on one leg was extraordinary.
I can’t see how he isn’t #1. I’m sure there are arguments for some of his losses and others credentials, but name another high schooler working guys at their caliber. He’s the most excited recruit I can remember for Penn State based on his early high school results, style and our need.
Once I started realizing this connection years ago, I stopped going to Panera. There is like a random one in WV that wasn’t owned by them and on our way to vacation my wife would say why can we have eat at this one and not the one at home? I couldn’t tell her it was wrestling related or she would be bringing bread bowls home every week.
Jason mentally broke so many other high quality wrestlers. Zain physically broke everyone. I think some of his matches go against the "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" clauses. Bo hit the biggest moves in the brightest of lights. All 3 were all world in different ways. And I'm happy that the torch has been passed along to Aaron, Nick, Roman, etc. They're just as much a joy to watch work as the previous 3. And I look forward to the next group and hope they're the best we have ever seen.
Caels greatest accomplishment may be to let his guys just be themselves and develop their own style at a high level. With a little world class instruction of course.
I noted that gopsusports reported on his championship. I also noted that he wasn’t in a Penn State uniform.
Negron is still raw for sure but he has a lot of potential. I hope he lands somewhere where his development continues. I was even hoping he would give it a quick go at 165 vs Edsel.
This year was his window as a lion. I could see why he is frustrated as just when he was looking like he might get over the hump we jumped back to the Claw. That said he had more than a fair shot to prove himself and create some distance. It didn't happen. If Berge is going down, that pretty much styles it.
Next year of course even under the best circumstances he's a backup to Haines or Facundo.
If he leaves the program I wish him the best, and if he comes back, better yet a quality backup who might surprise. He's a good kid, and I like the excitement he provided this year
Could be a chicken or egg situation. Was Negron not in a PSU singlet because we went back to Barraclough, or did we go back to Barraclough because Tony wasn't in a PSU singlet anymore?
I have no idea if there is anything to read into about apparently wrestling unattached.
That was the point I was trying to make. We have no idea what the circumstance is, or if there is even a circumstance to speculate on.
What kind of message board do you think this is, that we couldn't blow up a likely non-issue for no apparent reason?
Seriously, a simpler explanation could be that originally everybody registered unattached to avoid any possible issues with the competition date limit. Then some guys dropped out, and the guys who remained didn't bother changing to attached.
Or he forgot to pack his singlet.
Guys wearing somebody else's singlet are 2 for 2 at tournaments
Nickel, Nolf, and Schalles were all great pinners, but let's not forget S.S. Rumbaugh. Dude was a hammer.
Never heard of S.S. until I read through that chart. Hell, he wrestled before my grandfather was born. I didn't think wrestling was invented back then.🙂
Yeah. Jimmy Clausen was old enough to drive his own white hummer limousine on to the field at Notre Dame back in 2006.😄
I remember some matches watching him think his way through a match it was something to see. Hard to explain but you could just tell he was setting the kid up. Taylor was the same way. They both just had the best minds for wrestling. I guess you could lump Nickel in there as well although he was setting people up for the boom
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