There might be a special award for anybody that pushes him to the end.
I'd like to see him get a few pins.
Michigan match thread - Fri, Jan 19
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There might be a special award for anybody that pushes him to the end.
I'd like to see him get a few pins.
Wish granted. He has three falls and three tech falls on the season.
Did you catch Cael saying, "If he goes on Friday" about Kasak? Interesting and curious. Hopefully he does go because obviously this is a big measuring stick and he shouldn't be shocked or concerned should he lose that match, assuming he puts up a good fight.
Respect your POV, but feel 141 won't be in much doubt. But 3 losses wouldn't surprise me much at all--4 would a little.
That caught my ear in the interview as well. I thought it was slightly uncharacteristic of Cael to speak about one of the wrestlers that way. Based on that, MM is on the road to doing some great things and we're all along for the ride.
At about 9:50 "We obviously didn't know that he was going to be the killer that he is"
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Carter calls him Psycho
Cael calls him Killer
I know a great Talking Heads walkout song…
Cael calls him Killer
I know a great Talking Heads walkout song…
I'm thinking Michigan matches up better against Penn State than Iowa does.
I picked Nagoa to lose only because I really do not believe we will shut them out. Being bias towards our freshmen and really wanting them to win I can not, will not pick against them (until they lose). Although deep down I really do believe they are more likely to lose than nagao but not by much. So I can see losing 3, 4 is a stretch but crazy things do happen all the time.
And yes I know kasak lost one early in the year but has bounced back in a very very impressing manner.
And yes I know kasak lost one early in the year but has bounced back in a very very impressing manner.
3 of his last 4 matches have been decided in the last 30 seconds or OT and the best of those wrestlers is ranked about 14th (Kasak). The other two - not sure they are any different than Lemley.
That's just him. But expect him to get burned by it occasionally.
His opponents will be run run run run run running away.
Seriously.....Is this more like what you are looking to hear from the Michigan wrestlers? :
Griffith: "I know I have no chance in Hell to win. I just want to make it to the end with all my limbs intact" I will most likely just roll over like a 2-bit Hooker".
Lewan: "I realize I am nobody's pick to be an AA let alone be top guy at my weight. I am just hoping that my mother doesn't fall asleep watching me wrestle.............again"
Amine: " I have never watched him wrestle. My mom covers my eyes when he wrestles. I plan on being more offensive this match, which is why I'm not wearing deodorant. For good luck....I think....my coaches gave me two pennies. They said it was for my eyes. Haven't heard that one before, but I trust my coaches"
"Athletes need to be confident in their abilities....or why even bother".......... Matt Ramos
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Agree
Beau has wrestled 5 matches against guys ranked 12-23; 4 were one-TD matches in regulation.
We need to let go of the notion that he will dominate a top-25 kid. I think he is capable of doing so, but that just isn't who he is.
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My junior year in Pinchot, I was tagged "Beef" or "The Beef".
We also had a "Stargazer" and a few others.
"Gazer" was famous for taking the four worst classes in EE and acing them. He also came up with gems like "I don't know what we're doing this weekend, but I'm pretty sure it involves alcohol."
The 80's were different.
Not "tech falls"; pins.
Sorry, got spoiled by the Nickal-Nolf-Retherford bowling alley where pins came in tens.
Dean Heil didn't either. He has 2 national championships.
Get your hand raised. Beau does that just fine.
Interesting thing about this match is pretty much every psu wrestler (other than maybe Bernie) who isn’t already ranked no 1 has real rankings upside (ie, not just maintenance) with a victory.
A national championship this year certainly isn’t out of the question, but there’s a long way to go before I get to any expectations for it, given the caliber of the guys still in front of him (i.e. KOT & Carr). If he & Levi were switched in the lineup, I’d already be thinking about it for him at 157, but I’m going to pump the brakes a bit at 165. Amine is a great milestone checkpoint for him. If he dominates Anime, it’s one step closer to a reality.
Even if MM blows through Amine & Caliendo in the regular season and Hamiti in the B1Gs, I’m going to be more conservative about his chances against KOT given their kind of big brother relationship. Mentally, it’s hard to get over the hump against a guy who’s been beating up on you since you were a kid, even if you’ve surpassed him as you’ve matured.
Flo picks Ragusin and Gomez.
https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/11901441-2024-michigan-vs-penn-state-wrestling-dual-preview-predictions
https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/11901441-2024-michigan-vs-penn-state-wrestling-dual-preview-predictions
Just cat-killing curiosity. Are pre-match weigh-in weights known? And do we know any recent one for Mesenbrink?
Kasak's loss was against Beau. I think that's forgivable. LOL.
It could be closer than people expect, but a thrashing is also possible.
Remember the hype for the 2022 dual? And then Michigan just didn’t show up.
Who knows what tomorrow has in store. All I really expect is that lineups will not be quite what everyone expects.
Remember the hype for the 2022 dual? And then Michigan just didn’t show up.
Who knows what tomorrow has in store. All I really expect is that lineups will not be quite what everyone expects.
If I was going to pick a Talking Heads song for Mitch I would choose their live version of What A Day That Was from the Stop Making Sense concert film. The tempo starts high and just keeps on building!
That messages very well with both his style and the 'Taz' moniker I suggested. No doubt he is a tornado on the mat.
I mean, Ragusin is really good, too. I'm picking Nagao, but I wouldn't be shocked if Ragusin pulled off an upset. He's been on the cusp of AA the last two years and is also ranked in the top 10 right now.
MM is two years younger than KOT - he won a Wisconsin State Title at 138 his So year in HS, the same year (2020) that KOT won the 160 Title for the same HS (high school was coached by Mesenbrink's dad btw). There is no evidence that the two ever wrestled against each other in their HS years or since. No idea what you're talking about with:
Then you have no idea of how the dynamics of high school sports work. LOL.
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