U20 and U23 WTT
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Sealey beats Iowa’s Aiden Riggins 8-3 and will wrestle for 3rd.
It wasn’t that they gave it to McKee, they told Spratley that they would allow McKee to wrestle him off if he used his sixth year. Spratley didn’t think McKee would use it and thought the spot had no competition. Spratley did beat him in the room as a redshirt though.
Only thing worse than “You just don’t get it” Freestyle wrestling fan is “You just don’t get it” soccer fan.
But the gap is closing every year!
Apologies, just heard it was something about McKee. For the record, I don't think there's anything wrong with giving favoritism to the veteran guy who's proven himself in the postseason big time.
Against good competition most of his matches are tight. Riddle had a great tournament though. His win against Mulvaney was really good. Barr has a ton of physical tools but needs some refinement. I still believe he will be an absolute stud in college but he definitely needs his redshirt year to work on some things just like most incoming freshman
I’m pretty sure I’m going to miss the best of 3 finals. Will someone please do a pbp? Looking at you @CSauertiegPSU!! Thank you in advance!
Wow!! Aden Attao techs Koy Hopke 12-2 in the first. Total domination. Attao is massive and just pushed Hopke all over the mat
doing some googling now haha. kid is a brute and more technical than he looks. reminds me a lot of (formerly fat) tony. maybe quicker feet. great understanding of leverage and uses his size so well. not surprised he’s an elite greco guy.
Googles just fainted. And then started goggling Adan Attao.
Cole Mirasola with a nice 10-9 win over Gavin Nelson to make the 3rd place match. He will wrestle Voelker for 3rd who he beat on the frontside
He moves really well for being so huge. Much quicker than people probably think and he uses his size perfectly. Gets that underhook and uses his leverage to push guys all over. Hopke looked like he had no idea what to do even when he got in deep
Just got to rewatch some matches. Nasedo looked great and could turn into a tough 125. Davis has Volk beat. I didn’t like the way he was taking breaks. That won’t work in the Big Ten.
That spratley is a man against little boys vs Jax and Bo. Mature 20 yr man vs 16 yr old boys. They battled tough and both pushed him pretty hard. They seem to keep making each other better. I questioned if they could withstand the man strength and they seemed to.
I am watching Sealey next. Then can’t wait to watch these finals.
it’s his reliance on offense from space that has to get ironed out. he started being more intentional with his set ups and hand fighting late in the match and looked much better. the underhook throwby was really nice.
with his build, i could see him becoming really effective with inside reach picks and low singles off the collar like DT early in his career (and of course Cael). Standard picks too I guess but that’s a bigger transition from what he already does.
Bassett seems like a real quality individual. Saw on a recent Cayden Henschel podcast, he's gonna be 18 before his sophomore year. I graduated when I was 17. I think he said COVID had something to do with it but I hate the trend of holding dudes back like that for sports reasons. Haines being 18 and doing what he did is extremely impressive if he was 21 as a freshman, it's still a hell of an accomplishment but I do think you put an asterisk there.
If that's true, then he won't be eligible for his SR year of HS. IIRC PIAA rules state you must be under 19 as of 7/1 to participate in a given year.
He is not going to be 18 before his sophomore year
Yeah - he's turning 17 this year, older for sure but 18 would just be ridiculous. I also wouldn't be shocked if Bassett does the senior skip move anyways and just move/train at where he's committed to. He never has seeked weaker competition to look good, I think people just are upset people used to go a 7th grader did XYZ!
I don't want to get it, no wrestling at all I don't know to call it but it certainly isn't wrestling!!back points when your not on your back 4 points for putting someone on their butt and more just insane!
Sealey reminds me a ton of Van Ness, maybe not the athlete Van Ness is. Relentless pace and attacks and an insane tank, still pretty sloppy at times in scrambles, sometimes goes back into the same attacks out of frustration. Van Ness had a bunch of ? losses on the free scene. I'm pretty sure Bartlett pinned him in like 20 seconds before also since he just walked into a front headlock.
Worse is the "I won't even try to get it" wrestling fan.
Really, if we claim to support the athletes, trying to get the rules is microscopic effort compared to theirs.
Biiiiiig 4 from Lilledahl late to close out a 9-4 win. Man, Spratley is the real deal and Lilledahl hung in the pocket and beat him. Kid is just really damn good
Like you said ... almost like he might know a thing or two about Gabe's tendencies ...
Mendez with a 4-3 win over Kasak in match 1. Not really much in it. Kasak with the only TD, Mendez with 3 step outs and honestly a pretty ridiculous shot clock point.
Arnold talks smack about beating 3 time champ Starocci and then gets manhandled by Singleton. Might wanna pipe down, young man.
Garvin already whining which he did pretty much the entire time at the Open
gabe’s dad has a bunch of videos of them training on his instagram going back years. probably wrestled the equivalent of hundreds of matches.
the simple snatch single was genius. it’s almost impossible to get to gabe with conventional penetration. singleton used timing and length to get around that.
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