Schalles once told me he actually had no idea that you could name a move after yourself. He said if he had to do it all over, he would definitely call it a "schalles".
Wrestling: PennState vs Iowa Final
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Schalles once told me he actually had no idea that you could name a move after yourself. He said if he had to do it all over, he would definitely call it a "schalles".
Oklahoma State has an excellent team. I believe there is a very good chance that Penn State will wrestle them for the dual meet national championship this year. If it happens, it should be an excellent match.
A spladle and cradle are way different. When i was in school it was called a can opener and it is very painful.
Not sure why Gibbons is crediting Billy Kelly with the spladle, when the move was invented by Wade Schalles.
The spladle is different from the Banana Split. The spladle was used by Nickal to pin Brooks, whereas the banana split was used by Studebaker of Nebraska, to pin Matt McCutcheon last week.
The blue cheese brisket chips are great, so were the crab and bacon hushpuppies.
The service was poor though.
2 months after you put this up, Taylor was winning in the room. So yes, you are absolutely correct here. You make good, solid points when you aren't defending Ed DeChellis, actually.
Yup. It's amazing how insightful I am when it comes to everything BUT Ed DeChellis. Then again, maybe the points I've made re DeChellis are equally valid and it's you that has the bias. #foodforthought
One of Ed's proteges is having a good year at Quincy (DII) - Marty Bell was Kurt Kanaskie's assistant at Drake. I think Ed hired Marty's assistant from Quincy last year.
Haha, no Larry, it's not my bias, it's fact. The NUMBERS show it, as in "wins and losses". You gave it one hell of a try though, I gotta hand it to you. #Rollingfouryearaverage
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You're still the board's reigning dipshit champion. You're a dynasty in that regard.
Allocations of automatic qualifiers by conference won't be announced until late February. Fifth in the Big Ten tournament should almost certainly clinch a spot, sixth or seventh could do.
Great post, Bob. The Assman, Stopping Short and Fusilli Jerry all in one episode. Classic.
I thought he had his head and leg with his arms clasped together, which we called a cradle. In the mean time it looks like he has the other leg in a split scissors Though it's tough to tell on an iPhone replay
Every conference takes a certain number of conference tournament place winners to Nationals. On top of that, certain weights will also take a smaller number of "wild card" entries. To get in as a place winner, if for example the Big ten takes 7 at 125, then you need to finish 7th or better at the tournament. They will actually wrestle off for 8th sometimes, for position just in case of wild card. If you have a bad tournament, you can still get in as a wild card, PROVIDED you have wrestled a certain amount of matches and have a certain number of wins, giving you either "gold" or "silver" status. The Big Ten takes the most numbers of wrestlers in each weight class, to Nationals, out of all conferences. This is because of strength of conference, and strength of individual teams. In about a month, we'll know more, about how many can, and will go at each weight. Spoiler: PSU will take 9 out of 10, with an outside chance to take all ten, depending on wrestle offs this week with Law vs Carpenter at 133, and then how well Law can do in the remaining schedule, IF he wins the wrestle off. If not, we will need Carpenter to pull a shocker in the Big Ten tournament and finish in the top 6, most likely.
Expect Oklahoma State to take all ten, with PSU, Ohio State, and Iowa most likely taking 9 or 10. Virginia Tech and N.C. State will also likely take 9 or 10.
As for Mark Hall, he already owns a number of wins, and matches, from tournaments, as well as 3 wins over ranked opponents in tournaments, before the redshirt was pulled, so he has either already done enough, or will have done enough by the time the B1G tournament comes along. With that said, nearly everyone of us, involved in the sport, knows that last night was not representative of what will happen from here on out. Hall is special, and will finish no worse than 3rd at the B1G tournament, so he will qualify, easily. The only question will be his seeding in the Nationals, most of us expect that seed to be no worse than 7th or 8th, by the time it comes along. Hall is, and will be a threat to win it all in St Louis, the match last night was actually common: Burroughs the gold medalist and 2 time champion, lost his first two matches in his redshirt year, so did Quentin Wright, who in fact lost at Carver Hawkeye his first match, and many others. Carver Hawkeye is the second hardest venue in the nation to win at, Hall was thrown into a raging fire, he'll be just fine.
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Nickal's pin last night was the ultimate crowd silencer. I was watching on the BTN and I was stunned as to how fast the pin happened.....and then within a second or two the arena was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop.
From 12-11 with three matches to go.....to 18-11 and for all practical purposes game set match the evening was over, everyone drive home carefully!
From 12-11 with three matches to go.....to 18-11 and for all practical purposes game set match the evening was over, everyone drive home carefully!
