What a match by hall vs valencia

My favorite matchups in order tonight

184- Dean vs. Nickal- Potential 3Xer going against one of the most exciting wrestlers in the sport

133- Clark vs. Gross- Gross going against ex-teammate. Both fun to watch

141- Heil vs. DiCamillo- Heil isn't the most fun to watch, but these two have bad blood.

125- Lizak vs. Cruz- Lizak is amazing on Top. Should be interesting tactics.

197- Cox vs. Pfarr- Pfarr can push him, but will be glad to see Cox come away with 3 titles.

174- Hall vs. Jordan- They had a great match at Big Tens. Expecting the same.

285- Snyder vs. Medbery. Medbery will have his best shot if Snyder has a rib issue. Medbery kept it respectable last time and got a takedown at the end of the match

149- Retherford vs. Mayes- a new matchup. So maybe we see something unexpected.

165- Martinez vs. Joseph. Both crazy athletic dudes. We've seen this match a couple times already. Don't expect anything to change. Martinez with 1 or 2 takedowns to win. 3Xer

157- Nolf vs. Lavallee- Their scores against common opponents are pretty funny. That doesn't always mean much in wrestling, but I think we see Nolf dominate.

My guess is that they start with Cox at 197. So you Mizzou fans can't tune in late.

And an obligatory post to register my dislike of "riding time." Other than a potential point for one wrestler who all but stalls for 1+ minute more than the other, it offers nothing to the sport IMO. In fact, it's a detractor.

I wouldn't mind getting rid of riding time if takedowns were worth 3 points. Overall, wrestling has done a much better job of limiting stalling on top with 5-counts and such. HS wrestling, and their out of bounds rules, is 100X worse and they don't have riding time.

Although, I think the perfect takedown/escape ratio should be 2:.5. But a half point would make everyone's head explode.

Btw, Eierman finished 5th and Lewis 6th. Eierman notched another quality win. Lewis looked disinterested. Sometimes happens in the consis when dealing with a cut. Hope he moves to 174 next year.

Lewis looked exhausted.


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Cox is playing football next year...

How will he do? What position? Anyone know?

Cox is insane. Wow.

Sidenote: My God I wish high school TD rules near out of bounds line were the same as college.

ILB




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I need Gross to win this one badly...this could be a matter of me winning $500 or jack shit.

Gross and Clark...hell they used to be practice partners before that deal where he and a couple other Hawkeye wrestlers (the other 2's parents are friends of our family) got drunk as hell and arrested for burglary. Bad deal...pretty sure all 3 have turned things around.

Whoa...Mayes came out swinging...

I think it made Retherford mad though.


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Damn these Penn state wrestlers are tough.

CENZO JOSEPH!!!! OMG