Spencer Lee should be the biggest odds on favorite to win his weight class of anyone this year. Forget about "two knees just operated on", he won comfortably with two knees that NEEDED to be operated on. With that said, it's still true that no one is a lock, especially once you're deep into the NCAAs where everyone is an elite wrestler at the class. Spencer vs Cruiseliner Nick last year would have been a treat to see.
Is Aaron Brooks a Lock to Win 184lbs?
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Also true lol. My point is...what if he can't go...and thats a very real possibility. I'm trying to remember national champs who did this on 2 acls and I'm drawing a blank.
He's not going to be 100 percent ever again but if he is 75 then yep.
We can disregard the field. We've seen Lee against everybody likely to AA. (Except Howard.) Glory is the only one who's shown any life at all.
And there are no new faces of note.
The only question is Lee's health. If he looks remotely like Spencer Lee, he wins. If he looks like SR Jesse Delgado, he'll lose.
Has anyone wrestled at the All-Star classic, and then redshirted? it seems more likely to me that he would just take the Olympic shirt next year, but who knows.
Winning a medal in 2023 sets you up nice for 2024 . I can't think of anyone off the top of my my head who RS after the classic
Mason Beckman ****ing sucks on Twitter. Whiny, tiny bitch.
Far more active on Twitter than he ever was on the mat.
I figured that is where your head was with the question. It certainly makes some sense to consider. AB at least probably has a good idea where he needs to be to beat the very best at the weight. Gosh, it seems like a tall order, doesn’t it? My gut says he wrestles both of the next two folkstyle seasons, though perhaps on a pitch count or two. And my gut isn’t all that trustworthy.
My speculation, I wouldn’t be shocked if AB hopes to and if the team looks like they can win without him (losing 24-25 points is significant and brings us back to the pack if we have a lot of holes) then he might. Example if our guys 141 to 165 all look like AA level guys in the fall, AB can redshirt with a clear conscious since that plus our other 4 returning AAs (3 champs) is more than enough. If guys aren’t developing, he might be a “break in case of emergency” situation. Once again just my guess, what isn’t my guess though is that AB is a team first kid.
Similar situation to Matt Kolodzik in 2020 when he wanted to take an Olympic redshirt and saw he could be a huge difference maker for the team (possibly a trophy) and went second semester before getting his last year taken by COVID.
Similar situation to Matt Kolodzik in 2020 when he wanted to take an Olympic redshirt and saw he could be a huge difference maker for the team (possibly a trophy) and went second semester before getting his last year taken by COVID.
Mason was probably misunderstood. Mason made backing to the edge and doing nothing offensively and sprawling out of bounds art forms of wrestling. I am assuming Mason was simply offering Aaron a critique on when you need to do nothing but guard for 10 seconds, there is a better way.
You left off the kneeling.
Mason spent 90% of his neutral time on one knee.
... and 10% on the other knee.
Not to take anything away from Aaron, but Amine winning bronze at that weight is completely baffling to me, did he win more than one match at most recent worlds?
When the argument is whether or not a kid is in the top 3, 4 or 5 in the world at a particular weight there is no need to argue about whether or not he is tough as hell. There is also no need to debate if beating him is a high quality win.
Myles won 2 matches at Worlds, eventually losing to one of the bronze medalists in the QFs.
That's on top of his 3 European Championship medals and his Oly Bronze. I'm not exactly sure how his international accomplishments are being questioned.
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