PAwrestlersnt - I agree. In the era of an extra year for Covid, no adjustment to the 9.9, and the portal, this is a relevant question.
Not only do you have older guys wondering when their career will end due to burnout, bodies breaking down, the reality that not everyone can compete in freestyle down the road, there is the reality that very few wrestlers are getting full rides and college is expensive as hell. I'll bet some kids are already starting to contemplate what their student loan balance really means. Usually a freshman versus a 6-7th year senior might have a different interpretation of that ugly reality.
Likewise for the top recruit who has to sit behind a hammer for another year, maybe just maybe the portal looks a little more enticing.
We will have to see, but for guys like Marinelli and Eireman after the question is left to 'season' for a few more months they may well feel differently than in the immediate aftermath of this year's tourney.
With no disrespect intended, I think Eireman's window for winning an individual championship just slammed on his fingers. Nick will be even stronger next year and I don't think he has any shot against Yanni either.
Both Hawks acheived one ultimate goal of winning a team trophy. With what PSU, Cornel, a young OSU team, a healthy tOSU and the rest of the Ivys returning stronger, next year will be a blood bath. Despite being 2022 pre-season favorites I do not see the Hawks defending next year, so a goal of a repeat is both less sure and less compelling than this past year's.
This wasn't meant to focus on Iowa necessary, and was intended more as only a speculative illustration. Nationwide, I expect we will see some big surprises in the next 6 months, and some kids revising what they state today.