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  1. Interesting about Renteria. I wonder if he came into college small. He was 5-19 in 2 years at Illinois, but he was 6-0 in opens this year behind Kaylor, who graduates. He'll obviously be one to watch if the Figueroa win was for real.
  2. The word "battles" might be a bit overstating the resistance he got from us his senior year (below). But Sollars did get him when they were sophomores.
  3. True. It's kind of like 184 was the price of admission and 125 got you to the VIP room. Only 1 of the bottom 11 scored anything at all at 184 and 16 of the top 18 had at least 11 points.
  4. It was definitely 125 and 184 where the higher-scoring contestants made their hay. You can see a clear delineation between high-ranking and low-ranking overall finishers based on scoring big in those two weights. In retrospect, the Keckeisen pick, especially, made a lot of sense because the rest of the weight was more difficult to gauge. Guys that took him freed up a lower seed to score complementary points elsewhere that were more of a sure thing than lower-seed options at 184. At 125, I know Figueroa looked like a world beater this weekend, but everyone took their turn to look great or to lose 3 or 4 matches at that weight this year. It was a bit of a shot in the dark guessing who would be hot, and the ones that landed that shot and scored points at 125 finished up the leaderboard.
  5. Final Standings are below. Congratulations to TeamGarcia! Click a couple times to zoom in:
  6. These are the Top 4 headed into tonight. There's a winning scenario available for all four contestants!
  7. So true. And if you're a Woods guy, I think last year was the real "rip your heart out" year. Compared to this year, I think he was just slightly back up the hill at his true apex then. And a once-in-a-lifetime throw by a guy who's never hit a throw took what was so nearly his.
  8. It's funny, too, how matchups matter. Woods controlled Echemendia twice, Mendez pushed Woods around--but Echemendia was such a handful for Mendez.
  9. Cheapest I saw a week ago were more like 250 or 300, so it's trending your way
  10. That match was SCARY as a Mendez fan. I hadn't seen Echemendia. That dude is physical and on you. He wore Mendez down in a way that I haven't seen. I can't believe he took 5 losses coming into nationals.
  11. I think he ended up wrestling the perfect match. He pressured, pressured, pressured, wore him down, and kept testing the waters to snipe a low attack all through the last half of the match before finally getting that opening at the death. It was absolutely perfect and he needed every second to pull it off. What a thing of beauty!
  12. I'm not doing well here or anywhere else. I've only got 7 in the quarters. I won this one last year and came close to winning the main open pool on WrestleStat. I'm bottom half in 4 pools like this right now. Whoops!
  13. Summary of last night's results for our Indiana interests: Baumann, Bates, Willham are out. C-Rooks picks up two wins and makes it to the R24 in the consis. Lemley, G-Rooks, Lee all lose and fall into that round as well. Those 4 guys each need 3 wins to be AAs. Mendez, Allred, Davison are in the quarterfinals. Mendez beat Hardy, 11-3, during the year and is clearly favored. Allred will be a significant underdog versus #2 Hidlay, who's only gone the distance in 5 of his 26 wins during his undefeated season. Davison lost 5-3 to #2 Bastida this year, and should have a shot at the upset. IU has 5 of 6 still alive in the consolations. Purdue, as noted above, has Ramos in the quarters and Clark in the consis.
  14. I don't know. Ramos is just not the Ramos of last year, nor does he seem like the Ramos we saw part of this year. At his best, he could be up 10-1 going into the second period on any of these guys. Why does he so rarely attack these days? Then his defense is good--but not the best on the planet. So he can get scored on and get matches stolen from him by guys that aren't nearly on his talent level. What gives?? Is he cutting too much for 125 at this point? Anyway...the truth is, if he can get past the quarters and face Davis and Ayala--I think he can still get it done. He'd be back in that underdog role he loves so much, and there's a good chance attack-mode could come back out.
  15. I couldn't do it...him getting destroyed multiple times this year was too impressed on my brain. But you only have to be healthy and resemble your best once a year for all to be redeemed.
  16. I might have to consider no cash prize punishments also for both of you for tattling, you're right. I try not to get in the middle of these County/Region play fights though.
  17. As Mattyb said, you posted after about 6 weights had already wrestled the first round. Ha! If you win, you get no cash prizes and you have the requirement of posting an apologetic video explaining how you had no idea what was happening during those 2 hours.
  18. More specifically with our Indiana interests in Session 1: C-Rooks and Baumann lost Bates and Willham won their pigtails before losing in the genuine first round Mendez, Lemley, G-Rooks, Lee, Allred, Davison all won IU got 3 of 6 into the Round of 16. Purdue got Ramos through (barely!) but lost their other 4 matches. Session 2 at 7pm ET/6pm CT
  19. Fun first round...a few things I saw: --Nothing comes easy in this tournament! So many high seeds got pushed. --The jury's still out on Starocci. He didn't look like Starocci from this season, but he didn't need to. --Blake Boarman should have been in this tournament. Both of the other ranked guys from his conference that were in a 3-way results ring-around-the-rosey with him during the duals had very impressive R32 wins. And the 3rd guy that got an automatic bid won the 32/33 match over Cayden Rooks. --IU has 3 guys with legit shots at being AAs. Lee continues to get it done in tight matches. G-Rooks continues to never show any quit and be a handful for anyone. And #23 Fongaro got a huge upset--coupled with the #26 also getting an upset so that he's now a 50/50 to get to the quarters. --Allred also got a big favor with the #26 from VA Tech upsetting #7 Glazier. Glazier crushed Allred during the year--but Silas tends to be about as steady as they come against guys he should beat. If he keeps his nerve and gets to the quarters, he obviously has two shots to win matches that would earn him AA status.
  20. I did a couple other contests on wrestlestat, but not his.
  21. Wow...waited for those last-minute injury reports just before the buzzer. Nice.
  22. Don't forget to choose your wildcard. The guy you designate gets 5 bonus points if he outperforms his seed. As a 13, Blockhus gets it if he arrives at the blood round (Round of 12). But you have to designate the guy you're most confident in.
  23. @Ahap88 and others: I've updated the original post and rules to include 3 tiebreakers we will use if needed. (But there's no additional info you need to provide in your entry.)
  24. I agree that it's tricky...there are 1 or 2 at every weight that jump out as "value" picks, but it's tough to make the puzzle pieces fit. Fun stuff!
  25. 125 Ramos 4 133 Vito 6 WC 141 Lemley 8 149 Gomez 6 157 Blockhus 13 165 Carr 4 174 Starocci 9 184 Ayzerov 13 197 Brooks 1 285 Kerkvliet 1
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