Nick Lee

[1prouddad]

Just seen on flo that Nick is #1 in the Big10. Thoughts?

[wrestlenewbie]

Makes sense. He has beaten everyone in the conference who has not graduated. Highest returning NCAA placer from the conference too.

[wrestlenewbie]

Flo talked about their 141 tiers this week (though they have not yet posted the article at least that I can find) and they have Nick Lee as their pre-season number 2 behind Dom Demas.

 

Demas won their h2h in the consolation semis (I believe) 13-9 at the NCAAs last year. Diakomihalis, and Eierman are taking Olympic redshirts and McKenna graduated, so that makes sense too.

[Thor]

This is Nick's best chance he's going to get to win NCAAs. Yianni and Eirman out and Gross staying at 133 really opens the weight up. I'm hoping Chad Red can get some more magic at NCAAs this year and we can have that rematch in the finals. 

[wrestlenewbie]

2 hours ago, Thor said:

This is Nick's best chance he's going to get to win NCAAs. Yianni and Eirman out and Gross staying at 133 really opens the weight up. I'm hoping Chad Red can get some more magic at NCAAs this year and we can have that rematch in the finals. 

Flo's Tier 1 has only Demas and Lee.

Tier 2 (no order), Kaden Gfeller, Mitch McKee, Kyle Schoop, Chad Red, Tarique Wilson, Kanen Storr.

Tier 3 Grant Leeth (6th year junior? dropping down in weight?), Real Woods (only true "new" talent in weight), Yahya Thomas, Tristan Moran, Max Murin, Sam Turner, Michael Carr.

The debate centered around:

1.  Hard to see much difference between tier 2 and tier 3 in many cases.
2. Red and Gfeller perhaps should be tier 1, but Red's regular season and Gfeller's NCAA held them back.
3. Storr was borderline 2, perhaps should be 3.
4. More emphasis placed on post season than regular season results.
5. If DeSanto goes up in weight he would be Tier 1.