Really impressed with the young Stanford wrestlers. They are going to be really good and Mandarino didn't wrestle Nolf like a frightened turtle which was nice to see.
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Really impressed with the young Stanford wrestlers. They are going to be really good and Mandarino didn't wrestle Nolf like a frightened turtle which was nice to see.
1st let me say Stanford's young wrestlers impressed.
I think though you were a little too conservative on a few PSU guys, with respect to Ok St. You have Fix, Picc, Joe S and White as potential finalists. On the other hand, you have top-5 guys (Lee, Shak and Cassar) as potential AAs. I would put them at pretty much the same level as the aforementioned Cowboys.
Same goes for Brock, Jacobe and Gfeller, if they are AA contenders ... and I agree they are ... I would have to think RBY and Berge deserve better than 'others scoring points'. To me, they look about as close to the AA doorstep as the Poke trio.
Oh my....a Guderian reference on a wrestling forum. Well done!
Retherford-Nolf-Joseph-Hall-Nickal-Rasheed-Nevills ain't too bad either
Now that Nolf has beaten Pipher, I think Nolf can finally start on his own team!
I probably shouldn't admit how many times I watched that highlight.
Yeah, for him to have come back to where he is now from where he was less than two years ago is nothing short of miraculous. Just a wonderful story, and I hope it continues on that trajectory (so long as it doesn't include beating Cenzo).
"Lots of local attractions" just won't cut it; you gotta mention Lookout Mountain by name!
and we didn't give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
Beat me to it. And it is sad that someone else out there has the same sense of humor as I do....
The guy immediately to the right of the scoreboard is the most animated, but check the kid in the yellow vest thing left of the clock at floor level.
You can see his whole thought process.
"Oh, my, Jason Nolf is gonna get taken down."
What?
What?
You can see him mouth, "Oh, my goodness." when he realizes Jason just did Jason stuff.
Then, leans to his buddy and says, "I knew he wasn't going to get taken down."
I disagree with Pyles’ take on Shak/Bolen. Didn’t get the sense that Shak “worked that hard” in the match and never seemed seriously challenged. Not sure how best to describe it, but it seemed like Shak was bored.
Nolf makes me think of the James Coburn character in The Magnificent Seven.
As I remember it...Yul Brynner is talking to the young guy (Horst Buchholz) and says that Coburn is the best there is with a gun, and with a knife. The young guy says “Then who does he compete with?” and Brynner says “Himself.”
Come to think of it, Nolf even kinda looks like Coburn..lanky, emotionless, stoic face.
As I remember it...Yul Brynner is talking to the young guy (Horst Buchholz) and says that Coburn is the best there is with a gun, and with a knife. The young guy says “Then who does he compete with?” and Brynner says “Himself.”
Come to think of it, Nolf even kinda looks like Coburn..lanky, emotionless, stoic face.
What Nolf did to BoP...looks like how Dake caught Taylor in that freestyle match a couple yrs ago..I think the first time they met after the NCAAs?
Well now I know what you read when you're not on here.
Plus a Magnificent Seven reference in the same thread, better than the Iceland thread.
Good choice. The original post was 6 consecutive wrestlers though. So you would have to add Gulibon at 141 or McCutcheon 197 and neither placed
Though McCutcheon was R12. Without doing the math, (1 + R12) vs. (2 + 6) is probably a slight advantage to 1997 Iowa, but one that could be overcome with bonus.
Not really; caring doesn't have to be tender, unless one is stuck in a paradigm.
Bo said, "Poised." Cenzo said, "passionate" (after deciding his first choice shouldn't be said out loud lol).
BTW, Cenzo said he didn't like having his match with Marsteller be the final match. Said he'd rather get his match over and be able to watch and enjoy his teammates' matches.
P.S. Shak's interview was enjoyable too. He said he was disappointed in the low score of his match and would rather it be a 20-17 win than 4-1. "I should've gotten after it more. I want majors, techs, pins. I don't want no 4-1. It's fricken boring. It's not me." Shak also said he sometimes get's humbled in the room and that his main room partner is Cenzo ("Cenzo, that's my guy right there, we go more than anybody"). That may help explain why Cenzo doesn't have problems with the size/strength of any of the other 165's in the country.
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Yeah. Kinda like Bo training all summer with DT. Everybody else is easy.
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