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Iowa @ Ohio State PBP, Results and Discussion Thread

Great match. Think NaTo should've tried to eat into that riding time. Great job by Spencer getting away from what looked like a pretty certain second takedown.
 
The problem for OSU is that they had better hope NaTo doesn't run into Spencer too early at NCAA. I think Spencer only puts more distance between himself and NaTo moving forward.
 
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Did Penn State recruit Pletcher or did we stay away because of Cortez transferring. Pletcher would look good in the blue and white as a redshirt freshman.
 
this pletcher match could foretell problems at nationals for the yuks....w a minute left he needs a TD for a major and doesnt even force the action in an attempt to get it....bonus will be huge in march
 
Pletcher is really good. I don't know if Cael went after him hard or not, but if he didn't I understand why. For as good as Pletcher is he's just not offensive enough. He's not going to turn guys and score bonus. He's going to win, but he's going to grind out wins against most of this opponents. Glynn is no stud and a guy ranked #2 at a weight should easily bonus him and it took a riding time point for Pletcher to bonus him.

Pletcher won a ton of matches in high school by one point. I wouldn't be shocked if he won an NCAA title, but he won't win going away doing it.
 
The problem for OSU is that they had better hope NaTo doesn't run into Spencer too early at NCAA. I think Spencer only puts more distance between himself and NaTo moving forward.


Slow down. Spencer needs to actually take a shot and score to put distance. How many shots did you see him take?
 
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Dammit...I started cleaning house and lost track of time; turned on tv in time to see Pletcher, but only match I really wanted to see was Tomasello-Lee.

Let this be a warning to the rest of you.
Dont ever clean house..ever.

I cleaned my house this morning. You gotta plan shit, man!
 
this pletcher match could foretell problems at nationals for the yuks....w a minute left he needs a TD for a major and doesnt even force the action in an attempt to get it....bonus will be huge in march
Yeah. That really surprised me that he only needed the takedown and short time ride out for an extra team point, and didn't attack until 3 seconds left. As the #2 guy, you got to get that point.
 
Slow down. Spencer needs to actually take a shot and score to put distance. How many shots did you see him take?

Spencer took zero shots. I understand that. He wasn't even close to scoring from neutral. But Spencer is also a TRFR going up against a senior who has won it all. I don't think NaTo has nearly as much room for improving, if at all at this point, as Spencer does.
 
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McKenna looking pissed off / motivated. We will see if he is more excited to score points against a kid he should dominate than Pletcher was.
 
Did Penn State recruit Pletcher or did we stay away because of Cortez transferring. Pletcher would look good in the blue and white as a redshirt freshman.

I think PSU recruited Pletcher, but weren't able to offer him the deal he needed or wanted. If I'm not mistaken, Pletcher wanted badly to wrestle for PSU.
 
Spencer took zero shots. I understand that. He wasn't even close to scoring from neutral. But Spencer is also a TRFR going up against a senior who has won it all. I don't think NaTo has nearly as much room for improving, if at all at this point, as Spencer does.


And NATO just missed finishing a few shots. Could reverse itself very easily next time. There was nothing that showed me a widening gap potential IMO.
 
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What does this do to Tomasello's seeding?
Flo keeps him #1. If he is #1 with no matches, making a weight cut that was difficult 2 years ago, and having a knee injury, then he certainly remains #1 (here's to you CP and Willie!).

Honestly, seeding won't much matter, as he'll have tough matches as the 1-4 anyway, and will need to go thru two of Lee, the kid from Rutgres, and Cruz (not to mention others). If he is having trouble with the weight management, the matches Thursday and Friday, right after weigh ins may be brutal (that is where Imar seemed the most vulnerable until he met Joseph). Certainly hoping that Nato's ceiling is 4. Happy cheering for Lee, Cruz, and that other kid
 
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