PIAA Super Regionals 3/6
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Steen still has to be seen our 125. Robbie Howard can't/won't hold 125 forever. He has to eventually bump up to replace RBY, right?
Also, Mason Gibson is special but as a Freshman, he's expected to grow yes? He's not likely a career 125 if he's already 120 in 9th grade. Then again, I know nothing about his family. Maybe they're all short like Spencer Lee's family. At any rate, PSU has to get him when his time rolls around.
Disagree on Howard. Right now he looks like a small 125. He is young so may grow to 133 and then again he may not.
A little more horsepower from weight training should help Howard
Just my guess, but I'd say either Howard or Steen goes 125 next season and the other redshirts
At least we now have a legit wrestler at that weight; it's been a while.
@El-Jefe or others,
I assume the Super-Regional results make the seeding for States pretty straight-forward?
1 East vs 4 West
2 East vs 3 West
3 East vs 2 West
4 East vs 1 West
**after looking at the PIAA brackets, there is a slight difference
1 East vs 4 West
3 East vs 2 West
2 East vs 3 West
4 East vs 1 West
I assume the Super-Regional results make the seeding for States pretty straight-forward?
1 East vs 4 West
2 East vs 3 West
3 East vs 2 West
4 East vs 1 West
**after looking at the PIAA brackets, there is a slight difference
1 East vs 4 West
3 East vs 2 West
2 East vs 3 West
4 East vs 1 West
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well Teske was giving it a go two years ago... had a bright spot (one match) at the scuffle
Teske just won Big 12s, so he might have developed into a solid option for PSU had he stayed around.
Just spitballing, but I suspect that due to COVID concerns they wanted to cut down on the number of people in the arena. Not sure it’s a permanent change, may just be a one time thing.
I asked this last week. Due to covid it limits the amount of kids at states. Not sure if it will hang around. They still have sectionals districts and regionals they just added this between regionals and states. Makes sense. Wrestling there is ridiculous. Everyone is above par
I counted about 4 headbutts or so before the one from bottom. Then the uppercut you could partially see. Ugly stuff - looks bloated and terrible
Yeah that was pretty flagrant. Seems like a perfect fit for Iowa or the NJ Fight Club
I'd say he's about ready to wrestle-off with Nelson Brands. Kid could be a true freshman starter.
That was pretty bad.
Should be noted about the apparent head butts on feet -- the Manvilles wrestle head-first and straight-on. It's why Mason is known as the Halo Kid -- from having his head wrapped in virtually every HS match.
Because of this, it's surprising that more of their matches don't get chippy.
Gotta hand it to the opponent (Brooks Gable from Dallastown) for keeping his cool throughout.
Gable has some pedigree. His dad is one heck of a coach, and I believe his brother won a state title a few years back.
Yep, true enough Brooks Gable is a 2x state qualifier, and his brother Clay was 171 AAA state champ in 2009.
Mike Evans was not impressed. Literally. Evans beat Gable at SC Regionals, but withdrew from states "for undisclosed reasons" (IIRC it was the infamous lacrosse incident).
While it seems unlikely that Clay Gable would've won states with Evans in the bracket, that's not to diminish him. At states he majored Tyler Wilps -- the same Wilps who Matt Brown beat in the NCAA finals -- and beat Pat Tasser (who was an NCAA qualifier at HWT for Pitt). So he probably would've been a state finalist with Evans in the bracket. The next year, Evans was #1 nationally at 189 while at Blair.
The second takedown only happened because Steen was in late match desperation mode.
And Evans later wrestled for a Big Ten title at 165 vs David Taylor (who had wrestled at 112 as a high school junior); who would have thought they would meet at a weight in between?
the only TD... Steen probably had an NCAA TD on the edge with his first inside trip...
Hope we can get Mason Gibson. Might be an uphill battle, I don't think his club coach likes us that much.
Mason Gibson could be like the beginning of a waterfall.
Mason is a stud, a super HS stud but the pipeline he opens up could be just WOW
He trains several days a week at M2 as well.
I figured you were referring to The Compound. He is there a couple days a week as well. They have some crazy stuff going on there. We went to an open gym type thing there for a weekend and literally half the youth/MS studs in the country were there to get some good competition.
True -- and PSU recruited Erik.
Families with high-end recruits just don't split up like that very often, at least not without extenuating circumstances (such as Broc Berge leaving Iowa). Yeah, the cousin went to Wisconsin, but all the rest of the Jordans went tan. Etc. It's definitely a high hurdle.
Doesn't mean it can't happen, and if anyone can clear that hurdle, it's the bald guy in Lorenzo.
Brother Eric is middleweight and a whole head taller. I suspect babyface Mason will sprout up too. Highly unlikely he’s a college 125/133.
For reference:
Spencer wrestled 113-120-120-126 his 4 years.
Erik Gibson wrestled 138-145-152, with next year remaining.
Obviously I don't know him personally but I'd be shocked if Bill Bassett had anything against PSU.
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