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  1. maligned
    Team sports vs individual sports are very different. If you aren't winning titles eventually as an individual, you're losing matches and can't be considered the best. In team sports, you could lose games but still be clearly the best individual. I do agree that being a 4-timer or being undefeated for a career is overrated. Mason Parris losing a match as a freshman at a big guy weight or Howe losing early to a fellow all-timer shouldn't mean anything when compared to 4-timers that were at low weights and/or didn't face royalty as freshmen.
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    Iran 190 (5 gold, 8 medals) Japan 130 (2, 5) Kyrgyzstan 121 (1, 4) Kazakhstan 118 (1, 4) Mongolia 92 (0, 4) Uzbekistan 85 (0, 3) India 84 (0, 3) Bahrain gets the 10th gold and 3 other medals...4 for 4 in medals from their import participants.
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    CP alum Frazier hits the portal out of Va Tech.. Wrestlestat has him at #49 among all 133s on D1 rosters. He'd have immediate national qualifier potential in the right spot.
  4. maligned
    Wrestling schools in 3A/4A out of total wrestling schools: 33% (102 of 311) State placers from those 3A/4A schools: 70% (79 of 112) Athletes representing those same 3A/4A schools in the T & F list above: 81% (65 of 80) We see in wrestling too, that there can be a lot of small schools represented in a list of "at least one state qualifier" or "at least one placer" because there are so many of them. But you can see in the list that no 1A/2A school has more than 2 kids, and there are only 15 small-school kids (19%) coming from 67% of the total schools.
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    This would be a really good match. History has shown NAIA, D2, D3 national champs to be around NCAA national qualifier level. Kervin's domination over all but the very top of NAIA and domination over good D2 and D3 competition suggest he's at that level. And WrestleStat had Matt Lee as the #20-ranked 165 on all rosters in D1 this year. That would be an interesting one.
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    I fully agree that 97kg (214lbs) is more ideal to take advantage of CC's insane frame. That said... The obvious example of a stout 97kg guy going back and forth between 197lb and 97kg is the 5'11" Kyle Snyder his first couple years of top international competition. Even at an inch shorter, Christian is starting with a fuller 214-lb frame than Snyder had at the same age--but if he can follow even 5% of the Snyder blueprint, he's on a great path.
  7. maligned
    For those that didn't see it elsewhere: Freshmen: Evan Stanley 1st Miguel Rojas 2nd Lucas Boe 1st (wish we actually had these guys in-state for the HS season!) Sophomore: Parker Reynolds 5th
  8. maligned
    Thanks, TC. I guess if we'd paid attention to CC's post-title interview this weekend, it would have been clear too. In brief, he's 5'10" and the guys at 285 are such monsters, structurally. He also mentions wanting to coach down the road and suggests there are no examples of ex-HWTs doing that at the highest levels.
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    I agree with the sentiment of narrowing the gap between 197 and 285, but I would be disappointed if we narrowed the low-middle weights, where the highest numbers of guys naturally fall. The international weights don't make sense at all. They were created by choosing the 6 weights we wanted most--and then trying to squeeze 4 additional ones in somewhere (and accidentally skewing way too heavily toward big guys). They would be structured differently if we were allowed 10 weights at the Olympics. Something like this would include bigger guys better than we currently do, while catching as many college wrestlers' natural sizes as possible, in my opinion. Including KGs for your benefit, @SIACfan : 126 (57kg) 134 (61kg) 142 (64.5kg) 150 (68kg) 158 (72kg) 167 (76kg) 177 (80kg) 190 (86kg) 210 (95kg) 285 (129kg)
  10. maligned
    Interesting. There have been so many successful smaller heavies the last 25 years, I would have thought he'd push through and make a run at getting elite against big boys. It'll be fun to see how he evolves.
  11. maligned
    D1 Qualifier data is a limited way of evaluating who produces the top talent, but it's a decent starting point. Top 20 D1 Qualifiers, combined 2023 & 2024: 1 pa 89 2 il 54 3 oh 50 4 nj 49 5 ca 39 6 ny 33 7 ia 29 8 mn 28 9 mi 24 10 ok 23 11 wi 21 11 fl 21 13 mo 18 14 in 17 15 va 16 15 ga 16 17 co 13 18 nc 10 19 id 8 19 ks 8 Top 20, per capita (Qualifiers for 2 years, per 1 million residents): 1 ia 9.0 2 pa 6.9 3 ok 5.7 4 nj 5.3 5 mn 4.9 6 il 4.3 7 oh 4.2 8 id 4.1 9 wi 3.6 10 ne 3.5 11 mo 2.9 12 ks 2.7 13 in 2.5 14 mi 2.4 15 co 2.2 16 va 1.8 17 ny 1.7 18 ga 1.5 19 ct 1.4 20 al 1.4 (no CA or FL)
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    That's true. I agree that we shouldn't put much value on populations or enrollments to evaluate relative success.
  13. maligned
    Forgot Iowa. They're the #1 per capita producer of top-level talent, despite the small numbers. California is second-tier in per capita talent, but the sheer numbers are big. Colorado and Florida are in the second tier discussion too despite not being in the wrestling belt, and Nebraska is top 10 in per capita talent.
  14. maligned
    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.
  15. maligned
    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.
  16. maligned
    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.
  17. maligned
    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.
  18. maligned
    Final Standings are below. Congratulations to TeamGarcia! Click a couple times to zoom in:
  19. maligned
    These are the Top 4 headed into tonight. There's a winning scenario available for all four contestants!
  20. maligned
    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.
  21. maligned
    It's funny, too, how matchups matter. Woods controlled Echemendia twice, Mendez pushed Woods around--but Echemendia was such a handful for Mendez.
  22. maligned
    Cheapest I saw a week ago were more like 250 or 300, so it's trending your way
  23. maligned
    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.
  24. maligned
    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!
  25. maligned
    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!
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