Just a take on a few things.
First. For those who think duals don't matter. You needed to ser Cael's response to Max Dean walking off the mat. Smiling, back slapping and yelling in Max's ear. Pure emotion from the man who rarely shows it.
Second. While I love making fun of Iowa's wrestling style, they wrestled their collective asses off last night and it was (at least for me) a fun match to watch. Yeah, there weren't many DT, Zain, Jason or Bo moments but I watched kids from both sides give not an inch and fight tooth and nail trying to win a singular dual meet match. The intensity in the building I thought was palpable.
The 125 PSU kid letting it fly.
Teske fighting to maintain his positioning and giving RBY nothing, right until RBY got him moving a hair out of position and BAM.
Woods shooting off the whistle, Beau damn near sticking him. Woods moving forward with the lead, not giving Beau room to attack.
Max, fighting SVN and being the one shooting when he had the riding time point for the lead.
Levi, just continuing to attack. Even after almost getting tossed, Levi just keeps on a coming. As someone pointed out, that needs to become his walkout tune.
Kennedy and Alex. Kennedy kept his hands out and low and then when they moved into tie-ups Kennedy woukd come in aggressively and with an undertook of his own. Successfully keeping Alex away from his legs and prefered ties. Alex wrestled a really hard fought match, Kennedy wrestled a slightly better match.
Carter. Yes I expected a handful of takedowns and a bonus, but when that wasn't going to be the result he buckled down and ground on Brands. Brands didn't just lay there getting ground up, he kept fighting to get out until he succeeded.
Aaron did what he should do in that situation except maybe once up by 12 or 13 work it for a fall.
Max and Warner, again two studs just freaking grinding on each other. At 39 seconds of riding time before Max did whatever he did to get both of them rolling backwards it could have easily been Warner accumulating riding time. Then when it was Max on top he did what he does, grind harder.
Greg was not giving an inch and wrestled his ass off to secure the win.
Fans who could not enjoy the simplicity of the straight up strategy of two great programs trying to outgrind the other. That is a shame, because it was a fun phucking match to watch!