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NCAA Wrestling + Bill Farrell Recap - Session 94
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We recap all of the Senior Level action that went down at the Bill Farrell. Then, we dive right into the top level action from D1 wrestling that went down all across the country. Tune in to hear our thoughts!
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Introduction & Weekend Preview
00:00:00
Speaker
outpaced torched him up torched him up welcome back to the barn session everybody we've got a fun weekend of wrestling not just college wrestling but also some freestyle action to go over uh and yeah i'm here with my brothers brothers how are we
00:00:19
Speaker
happy and healthy fantastic mostly love to hear it love to hear it well um there was one major Duel in college, it was Stanford, Oklahoma state.
Bill Farrell Invitational Highlights
00:00:32
Speaker
There was a lot of interesting results from it.
00:00:34
Speaker
Um, we also had the bill Farrell invitational that's freestyle at the senior level with also some interesting results and some college implications as well. Um, we had PWL 10, we had some journeyman duels in tournament, uh, and some other, uh, tiger style invite the bison invitational, or maybe it was an open, the cyclone invite actually had some interesting results as well.
00:00:57
Speaker
um So we've got some wrestling to cover. I think we should start with our non-college stuff, get it out of the way. Let's talk about the Bill Farrell first. Get out of the way, he says.
00:01:11
Speaker
Well, the people love college. So um really what we're going to talk about is men's freestyle. And there were some interesting results outside of the finals. But I think if we just kind of go over the finals matches...
00:01:27
Speaker
Um, that kind of sums it up for the most part. Uh, they started, they kicked it off with 97 kilograms and I was kind of confused why, but it made sense towards the end.
Key Matches Recap
00:01:37
Speaker
Um, but the finals was, uh, Jaroslav Slavikovsky, against Jacob Cardenas and Slavikovsky won that one four to two off of a takedown in like the last 20 seconds.
00:01:48
Speaker
It was interesting though, because Cardenas was signed up for 92 kilos and Slavikovsky was signed up for 125 kilos and they both met the finals of 97. Um, yeah. And it, it took, uh, took a last ditch effort at the end for Slavikowski to get that win.
00:02:06
Speaker
But interesting result. Nonetheless, Slavikowski will be wrestling for, well, officially UWW, but country wise, uh, Belarus, um, and Cardenas.
00:02:19
Speaker
There were rumors about him going to, I think Cuba or some other country. Um, but he'll be us. So, yeah. Yeah.
00:02:30
Speaker
I'm sorry. I'm trying to find the results. I know he has something say. Here. i can I can copy these and drop them in the chat. how about that, Reese?
00:02:43
Speaker
That would be good for me. Okay. Moving on to 57 kilograms. Former Nebraska Husker, Caleb Smith, now representing Puerto Rico, took out Sultan Kermaneliev from Kazakhstan.
00:03:00
Speaker
dropped, uh, gave up four points early on in the match and then stormed back, scored 14 on answer to get the tech fall. Um, looks pretty good for Puerto Rico. I know he's in a, he's in a roster battle with, uh, Darian Cruz. What's so funny, Ryan.
Discussion on Wrestling Terminology
00:03:18
Speaker
You sent the same thing. didn't send wrestling results. Oh, that's weird. I'm on the Bill Ferrell, but it... SMH.
00:03:28
Speaker
What did that actually mean? i thought it meant so much hate. um I'm on the Bill Ferrell results, but for some reason... Oh, I wonder if I, whatever you found, you found someone else who thought SMH was so much hate.
00:03:45
Speaker
Yeah. You know what? Actually, this is a good, this is a good
Controversy & Match Analysis
00:03:48
Speaker
thing. a good side note, uh, for people who are listening right now, if you ever heard SMH and most people, i think it's ubiquitous at this point that it's, uh, uh, shake my head.
00:03:59
Speaker
Um, but a lot of people used to think me included so much hate. I think that used to be a thing. Um, especially when it was SMDH, so much damn hate, which was also could have been shaking my damn head.
00:04:15
Speaker
Damn pretty much applies and any to any situation. Yeah, but I'm just, i you know, it definitely wasn't something that you and I came up with, Reese. Okay. That's funny. I could not, because when I looked it up, I tried to look up so much hate, couldn't find anything. took It took 30 seconds. It was a top result for you.
00:04:36
Speaker
That conversation on Reddit happened three years ago, though, Reese. How long ago was it when you looked it up? Dude, crazy. I mean, now I look up so much hate and SMH comes up right away. I don't even know what to say.
00:04:50
Speaker
Did I even look it up? Did I even try to look it up when I... i don't know. It's weird. This feels like some Mandela. Mandela effect? Yeah. I'm sorry.
00:05:00
Speaker
we're We're shifting dimensions. back to the Back to the Bill Farrell. Caleb Smith could be could be a guy who challenges Darian Cruz for the 57-kilogram spot for Puerto Rico.
00:05:14
Speaker
Looks pretty good.
00:05:18
Speaker
Who? guys didn't watch it this weekend. This is so terrible. told you I didn't watch it. I know. I'm looking at the results right now. Who were you talking about? Darian Cruz? Caleb Smith. of Caleb Smith. He he he says he's going to challenge Darian Cruz.
00:05:34
Speaker
I mean, they they wrestled off... I was also thinking about that statement. I was like, hmm, will he though? They wrestled off earlier this year and it was a 2-2 criteria win for Darian. 2-2.
00:05:46
Speaker
Classic. I got to sign in and look at these results. Caleb Smith didn't have to wrestle a single American. That's pretty amazing. Really? didn't even realize that. I guess there weren't that many because ah Mills was supposed to be the most notable...
00:06:04
Speaker
U.S. guy, I think. And he wasn't in there. And then Ono also didn't show up. Typical Penn State register, but not actually wrestle. What's up with that? Typical. Oh, jeez.
00:06:17
Speaker
I don't know if it's typical or not, I want put the pressure on him because what? You sign up for your tournament Japan, you sign up for the Bill Farrell in America, and you don't go to either? What are we doing here? You're redshirting. Are you going to wrestle freestyle or folk style? What are we doing?
00:06:32
Speaker
Put the squeeze on him. Give answers, Ono.
00:06:36
Speaker
All right. How about DeSanto? 61 kilograms. This one has some some implication that goes a little bit beyond just the wrestling match. Austin DeSanto won a ah a very boring two to one, three three shot clock point match um against Bek Bayar or Danabat from Mongolia who trains at Illinois.
00:06:59
Speaker
Now, the fact that he trains at Illinois has some implication because who was in his corner Bronigal and Brian Medlin. DeSanto wins the match.
00:07:11
Speaker
He points over at the corner and says something to the effect of you're not an American or or he's not American. i don't know. He was mad about the fact that American yeah american coaches were coaching Mongolian representatives who train at the RTC. That's what he said.
00:07:32
Speaker
myma Yes. um And then they said shut your mouth or shut up. I think so. ah always got no foreigners.
00:07:44
Speaker
The Hawkeye wrestling club has no foreigners. No, they did. They they had an Uzbekistan guy. But can't remember his name. Maybe DeSanto should shut up then.
00:07:57
Speaker
I think DeSanto is just letting the heat of the moment get him a little bit. Even the ref was like patting him like, hey, it's it's it's okay. Just move on. Just shut up. It was the heat of the moment.
00:08:14
Speaker
So that happened. And then he went over to shake the coach's hand. They kind of turned or turned away from him. So he patted. He pat. Pat Bronigal on the butt and then moved on. um That was that. ah Sexual
Remarkable Comebacks & Performances
00:08:24
Speaker
assault.
00:08:25
Speaker
na Sure. And then after that match, we had 65 kilograms, which went the furthest thing that ah from what I expected it to go to be like, because know it was between, it was a match. Huh?
00:08:43
Speaker
No one can keep up with the pace. Dude, I'll have some comments about it, but like, let's, let's set the stage here for a second. This is a rematch between bo Bass and Bo Bartlett. These two wrestled each other in freestyle world team trials earlier this summer.
00:08:56
Speaker
It was a 1-0 win for Bo Bassett. Oh, yeah. got he beat him Which shouldn't happen. thought he was winning. Bo thought he was winning, but Bo was winning.
00:09:07
Speaker
so yeah oh um but bow but but And then Bo ended up winning, and Bo lost. So, this match started off, I believe, Bassett got a step out, and then Bartlett got a 4-point throw from Parterre.
00:09:25
Speaker
And then got another step out. So he's up five to one. And then comes back to the center of the mat and they're wrestling. And he kind of just bites it on a fake and and ah Bartlett bites it on a fake and Bassett covers for a front headlock for short offense.
00:09:41
Speaker
And Bartlett doesn't really do anything to follow up. He just, Bassett hits a quick and easy go behind, locks up a trap arm and just rolls him around until it's 11 to five. Five to one. And then it was 11 to five.
00:09:56
Speaker
Yeah. We go into the next period. think deficit, though, for Bartlett. Five to one. Maybe not freestyle. Yeah, but it it was it was super bizarre to see him just, like, fall asleep at the wheel.
00:10:07
Speaker
Because, I mean, it was two minutes into the match. there's there i i cannot, in my mind, truly believe that he's that fatigued. i said I said I referred to Bo Bartlett as a Penn State guy or Nittany Lion guy. I guess he's not anymore, is he?
00:10:21
Speaker
Not anymore. Yeah. He's at Penn? Nyack. Nyack. Nyack. new York City RTC, not Nyack. Sorry, Ryan. Sorry. So sorry. So sorry. So sorry. um He is the New York City RTC, which I think is technically different from Nyack.
00:10:39
Speaker
um But this and then Bo Bassett gets two takedowns um in the second period and and wins 15 to five tech fall.
00:10:50
Speaker
And ah or maybe he got. I did Bartlett get either way. Five points. Huh? How did Bartlett score his other points? A step out and a four-point throw. Oh, he threw him.
00:11:03
Speaker
Bartlett did, yes. no Cool. Yep. Yeah, and I think Bartlett, you know, we've seen him we've seen him in folk style for so long, and he is a bit
00:11:19
Speaker
offensively limited, seemingly. But in freestyle, I think he's a bit more open. I did just mention they had a one to zero match with Bassett or with yeah with bassett earlier in the year. but um He's had some high scoring matches.
00:11:32
Speaker
Yeah, I think freestyle just tends to create more scoring and in general. so
00:11:38
Speaker
I think we should expect a more high scoring wrestler out of Bo Bartlett, but that is that. ah Thoughts? Let me hear your thoughts because Bo Bassett has had ah an event full last two weeks. We didn't really cover the the opening week of wrestling where he won the Clarion Open.
00:11:56
Speaker
hes His stock is going up. Virginia Tech is looking good. Stock is definitely up. um um'm ah I'm definitely yeah i like raising his stock. like my My personal view of him, like i was probably ah maybe a little low on him up until now.
00:12:16
Speaker
I feel like... Yeah, so this was a thing. Why were you low on him before? i thought, you know, I thought maybe he was like... He had plateaued a little bit. And, um... don't know. I thought maybe... see what you're saying.
00:12:27
Speaker
you He has hit a wall, basically, yeah. I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying. I feel like we've seen this a couple of times now, too. Where it does seem like, oh, he doesn't get the job done.
00:12:39
Speaker
He's not as good as we thought. I mean, he's only made... It's crazy it's crazy to think that he made U-17... world team the summer of it seventh grade or something like that. And then he's made one U 20 world team.
00:12:52
Speaker
Um, outside of that. And you know, he's done a bunch of other stuff. He's won four super 32 titles. Um, I get, I think he's going for four Pennsylvania state titles or maybe not. Cause McCourt was suspended. I don't know yeah either way.
00:13:06
Speaker
Uh, he's won a lot of stuff, but like it, it does feel like there've been a couple of times where he's taken his lumps and the narrative is like, Maybe Bo Bassett isn't going to take that next step.
00:13:18
Speaker
It just kind of seems like he finds a way to elevate himself. Yeah. It's what winners do.
00:13:30
Speaker
Yeah. I have been thinking about his, you know, he lost three matches this summer to Luke Stanich. um Do you think... now versus then, do you think there's a massive difference?
00:13:43
Speaker
Do you like, I mean, obviously there are two weight classes now or two different weight classes, but I think, yeah, not, maybe not massive, definitely like a significant difference.
00:13:56
Speaker
I think i would, cause I, I've kind of been, rich no I've kind of been using what I've seen from Bassett. Yeah. All right. Uh, we're back. Um,
00:14:09
Speaker
Yes, I've been using Bo Bassett's performance these last two weeks to kind of gauge what we should expect out of Luke Stanich at 141 pounds. You know, does... Like, if Bo Bartlett was wrestling Shane Van Ness right now, how do you think that looks?
00:14:32
Speaker
Bo Bartlett and Shane Van Ness? Bartlett and Shane Van Ness? Bo Bassett. Oh, okay. Okay. Um...
00:14:41
Speaker
I it's a pretty good match. i think i think we're I think we're talking like a one takedown you know kind of decide Yeah, I think it's a toss-up.
00:14:53
Speaker
ah Well, yeah, because one what i what I think about is... think it's a bad match-up for Van Ness. Maybe not, though. The biggest element to the way Bassett wrestles is the pace.
00:15:07
Speaker
If you can keep up with the pace and fight that a hand fight... it's you're going to have a pretty good chance of winning.
00:15:17
Speaker
Because, I mean, he wrestles through every position, but he's not quite someone I would describe as dynamic or like... What about Bassett, Aiden, Valencia?
00:15:28
Speaker
and folks Dude, seen that's a very that's a very real matchup now that I'm very interested in We've seen it in freestyle a lot, right? Two or three times.
00:15:41
Speaker
More than that. Five times, maybe? Five times? but Five times? For sure. I feel like they at least five. Four, maybe five. Oh, okay.
00:15:52
Speaker
Okay. So we've seen it a lot in freestyle. What does it look like in folk style? I feel like they wrestled two series. Series? Series. Series? Series. Really?
00:16:04
Speaker
thought. Pretty sure he beat him. I'm pretty sure he beat him at... The Open? The Open, and then in a series, and then beat him just one time this summer, or twice?
00:16:19
Speaker
Just once, maybe twice? Just once, maybe twice? They've wrestled him in her previous years, too. They wrestled twice last summer that I know of or that I can remember. And the two that I remember, one is that they open and one is at the last chance qualifier for Olympic trials. Right.
00:16:37
Speaker
I don't think they wrestled for the for the series, though. They didn't wrestle in a series this this summer? No, the summer before for the spot. When Bassett made a U-20 team, I thought he wrestled somebody else.
00:16:49
Speaker
Who is it?
00:16:52
Speaker
It's not Pearson Manville. I'll figure out.
00:16:56
Speaker
Bo Bassett, U20. i think i think, I mean, Bo's got his number at this point. So even Bo's style, I have a hard time seeing Valencia beating him.
00:17:07
Speaker
Well, I didn't think Valencia was just going to torch Svodersky like he did the other night. Yeah, dude. I want to watch that match because what what what happened? ah Yeah, it
Penn State Lineup Debate
00:17:18
Speaker
was good.
00:17:18
Speaker
He just... We can get to it. Basically beat him at his own game. Hmm.
00:17:27
Speaker
Yeah, I'm doggy. There's a YouTube video from Flow Wrestling that says every Bo Bassett and Aiden Valencia match on Flow Wrestling and it's 41 minutes long. So they've wrestled a couple of times. You guys are right. 41 minutes?
00:17:41
Speaker
41 minutes of wrestling. Like four matches.
00:17:45
Speaker
At least four. Maybe more. Get over Raise my hand, Sammy.
00:17:52
Speaker
Raise it. Thank you. um but ah Yep. Okay. um Let's get through these Bill Farrell results. Tyler Kasach wins.
00:18:04
Speaker
He beats Ian Parker three to two in the finals. He beat Caleb Henson 5-3 or six to three in the semis.
00:18:16
Speaker
Caleb Henson beat Melvin Miller earlier in the bracket. No, Ian Parker beat Melvin Miller and then Caleb Henson beat Melvin Miller. That's the one. That's the one. Ian Parker beat him like 10-4.
00:18:28
Speaker
Smashed him. Ian Parker got a trap arm gut. yeah Ian Parker wrestled Melvin Miller?
00:18:35
Speaker
Yeah. Is that what you said? Yes. yes that's Yes, that happened. happened Whoa. 10-4, Ian Parker. Yeah. um Ian's tough.
00:18:48
Speaker
And then Caleb Henson for third place in this bracket is wrestling Ed Scott and is down like 7-0. And I think he ends up winning 11-10. How do I get to the brackets on this website? On USA Bracketing? Yeah.
00:19:05
Speaker
just There should be a little home button and then there should be some brackets. You good? You got it? good You helped me. Good. you got you you helped me
00:19:19
Speaker
um Yeah, KSAC looked good. I don't know what this means for him. I don't know if this means that he's going to redshirt for sure or what we're looking at. There was a ah ah Cornell Kevin tweeted about the fact that he heard from a very reliable source that...
00:19:35
Speaker
um the The intention is for KSAC to red shirt and for... Brayden Davis. Oh, no, to red shirt.
00:19:46
Speaker
Brayden Davis. No. Are you sure? Yeah, Nagel's going to go. That's what I heard. Well, yeah. Oh, yeah. no. You're You're right. You're right You're right. right i got my guys mixed up.
00:19:58
Speaker
um That's correct. And Nagel's also going to red shirt. Yeah, I don't understand what they're doing with Nagel. None of it makes any sense. Why? Why?
Stanford vs. Oklahoma State Duel Recap
00:20:07
Speaker
fine to have one of the pound for pound best wrestlers in the world and just not wrestle him ever.
00:20:12
Speaker
It's been over a calendar year since he's wrestled, Reese. Kale, honestly... Wait, no, no, no, no. It hasn't. You can maybe argue Kale just hates wrestling. yeah I argue Kale... Kale is not too dissimilar from Smaug.
00:20:28
Speaker
from He hoards all of his gold. Oh. He's hoarding his gold? Smaug. He's hoarding his gold and his gold is wrestling talent. Bald dragon. holds onto it. Are we going to get through this 74-kilogram weight?
00:20:44
Speaker
ah Will Luan beat Peyton Robb? Next. Next. How did Will Luan beat Andonian again?
00:20:55
Speaker
How did he do it? yeah far Just the same way he always does it. Yeah, I actually did. It was kind of, it was more impressive. And then also Andonian had to do some crazy stuff to be Yaya Thomas on the backside for third.
00:21:08
Speaker
I'm about to watch this Caleb Henson, Melvin Miller match. Oh, I can't. du him You know what you're going to want to watch? You're going to want to watch. Well, i am the whole stream was on, is on YouTube on USA wrestling.
00:21:23
Speaker
That's yes. People, if you want to watch any of these bill Farrell matches, USA wrestling streamed it all for free on YouTube. You'll have to dig through the stream to find all the matches, but they're there.
00:21:34
Speaker
So if you want to put in the time, there it is. Big ups. 86 kilos. you oh You're just skipping 79. There. I mean, it was a brat. It was around Robin. I think Danny Bronigal worked his way through all of it. Congratulations. con Danny Bronigal.
00:21:51
Speaker
Yeah. Congrats. dadru nice Sammy doesn't want to give you your flowers, but we will. but we will Dan, I gave you my flowers in, in a whoa a field house in Nebraska. You gave him more flowers.
00:22:05
Speaker
Well, he took them from me in a 12-0 shellacking or something like that. flowered you? Is that what you're saying
00:22:16
Speaker
saying? 86 kilograms. Parker Keckisen is up, I think, 5-0 off a takedown on Marcus Coleman. Locks up a gut, turns him.
00:22:27
Speaker
Locks up a gut, turns him. He's up 9-0. Goes for the kill. Gets reversed to his back and pinned. Oh, shit. Marcus Coleman, the god slayer, just from the grave.
00:22:39
Speaker
Sammy, you won't give Marcus Coleman his flowers, but not Danny Bronigal. Yeah, well, i i I scored points on Coleman, so, yeah.
00:22:51
Speaker
True that. You blow leads, you mean?
00:22:56
Speaker
Blowing leads and other things. ah Jacob Cardenas was in another set of finals at 92 kilograms because there was only two guys signed up.
00:23:07
Speaker
Fun. And he teched the guy in 37 seconds. It was somebody from Turkey who i'm I'm thinking it's crazy that you flew all the way over here to wrestle 37 seconds.
00:23:18
Speaker
That was 92? 92 kilos. Two guys what i wrestled. what ah That is a way that you just could fire into the sun. Yeah, but then you wouldn't have Trent Heidly.
00:23:30
Speaker
It's Good point. But we need pretty awesome. Yeah. And then in the finals, Mason Paris was wrestling Kobe Merrill. It was kind of close for a little bit. And then Paris, I think, bombed him for five.
00:23:44
Speaker
I think he got a five-point suplex off ah in on ten to one 10-to-one. Jacob wrestled both weights. Jacob wrestled 92 and 97. He didn't really wrestle 92 kilos because it was one match that lasted 37 seconds.
00:23:56
Speaker
So so he just he they let him go up to 97 kilos? Yeah. And I guess Slavikowski dropped from 125 to 97 because that that just happens, right?
00:24:08
Speaker
He's just like that. He's just built different. He's just built different. Shout out Christian Lance. Guess where he's training now?
00:24:19
Speaker
Who? Slavikowski? Slavikowski. a ah Russia?
00:24:30
Speaker
Cornell. Oh, nice. Cornell. This said UWW. Going back to his... He's bea Belarus. Going back to his Ivy League roots.
00:24:42
Speaker
um All right. Let's get into some college wrestling. He actually reps Belarus. Pretty sure. That's cool. um I think he's like... ah So if you look up his... If you if you look up Jaroslaw Slavikowski and you look at his profile, I don't know if it says it on Rutgers.
00:25:04
Speaker
Yes, it does. His hometown is... Rachitsa, Belarus. he So he's born there? That's what I would assume your hometown means.
00:25:16
Speaker
That's not what it means, necessarily. Okay, I don't know. Hometown more like where you grew up. Yeah, he's right. Okay, I don't know.
00:25:27
Speaker
Close to there then, maybe. don't know. so my hometown ah My hometown is in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. That's where I was born, but that's not where I grew up.
00:25:39
Speaker
that That's where your heart lies. sammy Sammy, where'd I grow up? Huh? Where'd I grow up, Sammy? Where'd you grow up? Is that where you're... Are you asking me where you grew up?
00:25:50
Speaker
Yeah. Eudora, Kansas. page Hey, don't... Hey, don't dox me.
00:25:56
Speaker
Why would you dox me? Eudora. Shut up. 39745 West Monica Street. Okay. Well...
00:26:07
Speaker
Sammy, you'll bleep that out, right, Sammy? Yeah, yeah. wow What's going to happen? what are they going to do? Reese. They're making a big thing of it now.
00:26:19
Speaker
Let's move on to the Oklahoma State-Stanford duel. Because
00:26:26
Speaker
there were some upsets. there were some There was a ah Really a trio of shocking results right into the right in them in the heart of this duel.
00:26:37
Speaker
But let's start off at the beginning at 125. Troy Spratley gets a tech fall to kick things off for the Cowboys. And then out comes Richard Figueroa at 133 pounds. He's got Tyler Knox, number five in the country, returning All-American.
00:26:51
Speaker
Richie Figueroa, previously a national champ, didn't place at the national tournament last year, at a new home, looking to start things off on the right way. Drops the match 13-9. Tough.
00:27:04
Speaker
Hard fought match. Can watch these matches anywhere? ESPN+. I think they have the archive of the matches there. They should.
00:27:15
Speaker
yeah I saw a clip of him reversing Knox to his back. Yeah, reverse him to his back. There was a lot of wrestling, a lot of points being scored.
00:27:26
Speaker
I think it's overall a good sign. Me too. I think it's a good sign for things. I think it's something that gets cleaned up and ah you know we'll see we'll see a better version of Richie Figgs every time he steps out on the mat.
00:27:40
Speaker
That's my expectation. Knox is a contender. Knox is tough. I don't know if he's going to really be a part of that top tier. 133... one thirty three what did he finish I don't know. We didn't see seventh or 8th?
00:27:58
Speaker
I think 8th.
00:28:02
Speaker
it was It was Bird, Ayala.
00:28:07
Speaker
It was Bird, Ayala, Romney, Fugit, Davis, McGonagall,
00:28:20
Speaker
Bandy, Knox, I think what it was. Dang, dude. I think Knox forfeited his last match, correct?
00:28:34
Speaker
I have no idea. I thought he was hurt. Maybe not. Maybe. But yeah, Knox is tough. I don't know if he'll be a part of that top tier. i don't know what the top tier really looks like because, well, we've seen Bird, we've seen Ayala, but we haven't seen Crookham.
00:28:48
Speaker
And Penn State has just taken the first two weeks off. They're just not wrestling yet because they don't have to. They hate wrestling. why would they? They hate wrestling, clearly. um they actually They sent some backups to the journeyman Sunday. So who's their 33-game team? Did you say... by a Blaze.
00:29:08
Speaker
marcus Blaze. Blaze. But yeah, I mean... What that? Another guy who's probably going to be in the top tier? Ben DeVino. That dude is a monster.
00:29:20
Speaker
I got a question. As a freshman. He's tough. Where was Provo? That's a great question. Where was Provo and um Lorenzo Norman, I was told, are recovering from injury.
00:29:35
Speaker
Wasn't Provo injured last season? Yeah, but Provo wrestled this summer. Otherwise, I'd be like super concerned.
00:29:44
Speaker
Provo wrestled at the U.S. Open and then I think he wrestled through third. think he wrestled ah Liam Cronin.
00:29:52
Speaker
ah And then 141, Sergio Vega took out Jack Concilio, hit just a sick, nasty little little reverse hand reach to the inside for a low single ankle pick snatch.
00:30:05
Speaker
and Why do they do that? He's going to be a lot of fun. why do they do why like why are Why am I seeing that hand on the inside like this? ah Because you can... and tricky. It's tricky.
00:30:19
Speaker
I don't know. let's do you pulling it off because like Because I guess it's easier to pull the foot off the mat that way than it is to, like I don't know. Get the hell out of here. yeah That is not easier. I don't know. I don't know. They're doing it that way, though. so Beats me.
00:30:34
Speaker
of them Now we get to the meat and potatoes of the duel here. 149 pounds. Aiden Valencia goes comes out to take the mat. He's owen won on the year.
00:30:46
Speaker
Casey Swiderski is unofficially one to know on the year. He's number two in the country. Is Swiderski. Aiden Valencia, 20s. But, you know, not really one where we can truly gauge it. He's wrestling a guy who was a backup at Penn State.
00:31:00
Speaker
He lost a close match. We don't really know where these guys lie in the in the rankings of the match. lost to Evans? Is that who he lost to? Lost to Evans, yes. He got headlocked?
00:31:11
Speaker
Yeah. He got pinned, but he got headlocked. Oh, yeah. He was winning. he was winning, and he yeah got I guess he got headlocked. I didn't realize he got headlocked. I knew he got taken down or scored on late in the match.
00:31:22
Speaker
Well, that's... Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. um But Aiden Valencia goes out and kind is he he's, he's putting a lot of emphasis on the hand fight seemingly from what I could tell.
00:31:34
Speaker
And it, it wore out Casey Swiderski and Aiden Valencia came away from this match with a 13 to three major decision over at the time, number two in the country. All ah like takedowns, maybe an escape or back points. Yeah. I think a writing time and escape, maybe a stalling.
00:31:52
Speaker
Dang. Might've been a, yeah. Bad weight cut by Swiderski. You're thinking a bad weight cut? he yeah well How did he look? He looked super tired. Gassed. Did you watch his match at the All-Star?
00:32:09
Speaker
Yeah, I did. yeah but It did look like two different types of KC. He did not look tired in that match. no But I don't know because he's wrestling two different opponents. Like two very different styles.
Weight Class Performance & Debuts
00:32:21
Speaker
Yeah. so yeah He was worn out. yeah so with this like not really long fight long with with this match in mind and uh what happened to the cyclone invitational which was panero johnson took out evans i think panero johnson's gonna be number two in the country panero johnson Yeah.
00:32:48
Speaker
Silky Johnson. It's like, it's like that or, or you bump Lachlan McNeil up there. Cause he's had the most consistent resume or you put Joffrey because he beat Panero Johnson last year and he hasn't wrestled a match. He has, he hasn't even placed. He's he's already right now. He's number four in the country.
00:33:06
Speaker
What? Which leads me to my next point. 149 pounds right now. He's bad. That sounds like a mess. It's not a good weight. I'm like so out of the loop right I'm, I gotta.
00:33:22
Speaker
you know Yeah. There's a lot up for grabs. I do think Valencia and Evans are going to be guys that you put up in that all American tier. It's going to look like Van Ness, uh, McNeil, maybe styles. If he gets things back together, um, Valencia, Evans, Johnson, I guess, Joffrey, maybe, um,
00:33:45
Speaker
What about Joy? Maybe ah Jackson. Yeah, Jackson Joy and like Ryder Block. If Ryder Block can get on the in the lineup and and get things going the way he is reportedly capable of.
00:33:58
Speaker
Bo Bassett won't be doing that because he's wrestling high school still. heard he's been classifying. Yeah, I heard so is Jax Forrest and none of it's happening.
00:34:09
Speaker
I'm just kidding. I didn't hear that. I made that up.
00:34:13
Speaker
They'd never do that. Leave their friends behind.
00:34:18
Speaker
the one They would never leave their friends, their high school friends. ah be Yeah. you know Why would they do that? Bo wants to win a state title with his little brother. so so does Jax.
00:34:30
Speaker
With his little brother? With Bo's little brother? No, with Little Forest. What's his name? it's a Little Forest? Yeah. Snap.
00:34:42
Speaker
And a little herring. I did know that. Eli. yeah Is the little force good? I think he's improved.
00:34:55
Speaker
I don't know. But let's get back to this duel. Because that that was shocking and a little concerning maybe for Oklahoma State. ah And then outcomes at 157 pounds. be alright.
00:35:09
Speaker
He'll be alright. like And that that could be the takeaway. However, it was a short memory situation because at 157 pounds, Landon Rabideau makes his collegiate debut in a packed Gallagher-Iba arena.
00:35:24
Speaker
And who does he have but number five in the country? Daniel Cardenas. All-American for Stanford. Hammer of a wrestler. ah Kind of daunting of a task.
00:35:37
Speaker
And what does Landon Rabideau do but go out there and get an 11-2 major? Answers right back right back at the the Stanford Cardinal with a shocking result, in my mind.
00:35:50
Speaker
At the time, at least. What did it mag it look? it looked like Landon Rabideau was very confident in his ability to attack his opponent.
00:36:05
Speaker
like That's exciting. Concerning. Give me your leg, please. That's mine now. Yeah, it was it was impressive um the way he took it to him. because he i mean Normally, it is ah it is a wake-up call moving from high school to college, but Landon Robert was ready to answer.
00:36:23
Speaker
ah It was yeah very impressive. It was ready. he so they're goingnna but yeah They're going to wrestle him, right? mean, he's wrestling. die yeah That's what I was going to ask. What do you think going to happen? because they go and David Taylor is going to start his best lineup, 100%.
00:36:37
Speaker
one hundred percent Okay. you think about 141? and i mean so so what do you think about one forty one what Who do I think he's going to go with? Sergio? Sergio 141. He's going to wrestle Sergio right away.
00:36:51
Speaker
he's He's not entertaining Cale Hughes. He doesn't care about taking Jameson. Well, I mean, they should look for other opportunities to prove themselves. I guess Jameson, I forgot about him.
00:37:03
Speaker
I thought Jameson was bumping up to 49. That's what I thought, too. I mean... Is that going to go over very well whenever you got Swiderski right there? Swiderski just got majored by a two freshmen. No, by a registered freshman.
00:37:16
Speaker
so Yeah. Spot could be up for grabs. I mean, I don't feel like 141 is... isn't it we Obviously, we'll know more when we know more. I think Cale Hughes could be another guy, too, for sure. about Carter Young? Carter Young, too, but I'm less on Carter Young than the other two.
00:37:38
Speaker
yeah um but Landon Robidoux. He's ready. and got to be better we should have seen it We should have seen it coming. um When he beat Melvin Miller earlier this summer at U20s, feel like that should have been a pretty pretty good sign about what Landon is capable of. Then you put him in a college room and things elevate themselves.
00:38:01
Speaker
I mean and don't know. I've watched a kid before. He's tough. He good. He good. He real good. I mean, he doesn't... i mean he he he like He can wrestle with PJ Duke.
00:38:17
Speaker
You know? Yeah. The one match I didn't watch at the All-Star was Ty Waters' is match. Did either of you watch that? Yeah. I watched all the matches. Ty Waters can win it. Beat Landon Robidoux?
00:38:31
Speaker
Ty Waters can win it. be land and robin you and waters can win it ah Yeah, I think Ty Waters would give Landon Rabideau definitely ah more issues than Daniel Cardenas did.
00:38:45
Speaker
I think for sure. um Right now, the top tier is Entrell Taylor, Meyer Shapiro, Ty Waters. That's it.
00:38:56
Speaker
And then, I mean, yeah, like Rabideau and Duke are probably going to be knocking on the door. We don't know what P.J. Duke looks like, and we need to see like a you see a set of matches from Landon. He's wrestled one college match. But he looked good.
00:39:09
Speaker
so What is the first date for Penn State? I think Duke is going to be the guy. They're wrestling Oklahoma on the 14th.
00:39:18
Speaker
It's so far away. They're wrestling them this week. Huh? It's so far away. This week? Like days or travel? No, days. It's four days away. oh So far.
00:39:30
Speaker
My love is Penn State now. Who? yeah You're a Penn State lover. I want to see what they roll with. I'm anxious. Anxious.
00:39:42
Speaker
um Yeah, I am. ah ah like the The weight that I'm the most curious about is going to be 285. I want to see what they do there. I also want to see if Josh Barr is good after his U23s injury. There's a couple of things that i want to see.
00:39:57
Speaker
Josh Barr. Is Levi Haynes still the guy? Levi Haynes is still the guy. I think he's the guy and then some at this point.
00:40:08
Speaker
yeah
00:40:11
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. How many champs are you guys predicting? oh Right now. How many champs are you predicting them? Three? I going to say three as well.
00:40:26
Speaker
Four. Four, four, four, four, four. four four Mesenbrink. ah Oh my god, five. Blaze and Haynes. Who else? Okay, Liladol.
00:40:39
Speaker
Van Ness. Mesenbrink. Haynes. You think Van Ness is...
00:40:45
Speaker
bar i think van I think Van Ness is is kind of with the way 141 is shaken out it feels like he's alone right now there will be some guys come i mean Aiden Valencia I mean I would love to see that him versus Van Ness I think that would be very competitive I think Van Ness is going to have a lot of competitive matches
00:41:08
Speaker
And I feel like Blaze, dude, I just don't know. I just don't i don't i don't know how anybody beats him. Dude, i i i Oh, at 133, I think Crookan can beat him. i I think even Bird could give him a ah tough match.
00:41:20
Speaker
that Honestly, even Ayala. It's folk style college wrestling. realisistic do Realistically, Realistically. Realistically, they could have eight champs.
00:41:31
Speaker
Eight champs. Realistically. Look how much he loves that. Look at his face. what in What are you doing to me? wait it What's realistic about that? They win realistically. with The weights they can win realistically.
00:41:44
Speaker
Well, it's save your breath. Tell us the weights that they can't win realistically. Yeah. Heavyweight and 41. Yeah. That's it.
00:41:54
Speaker
yeah that's it So you think you think Luke Lilladol, Marcus Blaze, Shane Van Ness, PJ Duke, Mitchell Mezenbrink, Levi Haynes, ah zach raco welsh oh rockco well Rocco Welsh. Welsh is not winning 184. If Rocco Welsh wins 184 this year, no.
00:42:17
Speaker
no But he can. Especially after his U23s performance. It's not realistic. He can. It's realistic. It's realistic. He can. No. No, I'm a, I'm a, I'm not a hater, but I, I, I guess you're right.
00:42:32
Speaker
I'm going to complain real quick. Let me complain.
00:42:37
Speaker
This guy, he says, what are you doing tomorrow? I said, where are you working tomorrow? I said, nowhere. He said, asked, why do you ask? He said, I need to meet up with you. And I said, where are we meeting? I will text you in the morning.
00:42:52
Speaker
I just cannot, bro. I just can't. This freaking guy. Like, give me a plan, please. Say that. then then Then text him.
00:43:02
Speaker
Text him and say, give me a plan or I'm not meeting you tomorrow morning. ultimately i'm not go to that' those That's your option. i'm not gonna say yeah That's what you have to do. just what you have to do
Cyclone Invitational Highlights
00:43:14
Speaker
I think. You don't know. know I'm not in your position.
00:43:17
Speaker
Do it. i'm not gonna I'm not going crazy on him like that. It's not crazy. The ultimatum? It's setting a boundary. It's setting a boundary. Protect your sanity. You know what I'm going to do?
00:43:33
Speaker
Be unavailable in the morning. you just ah ah Tell me you're not going to respond to him. I'm not. I mean, i don't what do I respond? what do i I don't think he's expecting response from that text. He said I would text you in the morning.
00:43:45
Speaker
So tell me what you're doing. Are you ignoring or avoiding him right now? Well, I read the text. what does he Do you think he's supposed to be able to respond?
00:43:57
Speaker
don't know. Maybe. Maybe. the Maybe. That's what i'm talking about, man. I don't know what to... How do you... what I mean, that that is that is such a that is such a what do I do with this?
00:44:12
Speaker
but Yeah. um Okay. Let's get back to some wrestling. Say, I don't read so good in the morning. Say, my yeah i don't I don't read so good in the morning, Dad.
00:44:30
Speaker
I'm going to say it. All right, while you're while you're typing that up, 165 pounds. Ladarian Lockett ah not necessarily soundly beats Hunter Garvin, but he beats him. He beats him 2-1, and I want to say some of the things that he displayed in that win are impressive for a freshman, especially up against a two-time All-American.
00:44:57
Speaker
Well, Darian Lockett was able to ride him out. He won off of a ride out and an escape and gave up a stalling point. So no takedowns were scored. But to be able to do that against a, you know, a seasoned college wrestler to have that kind of work on top, it's pretty good.
00:45:16
Speaker
And to limit Hunter Garvin to one point, it's pretty good. How did he do that?
00:45:23
Speaker
able to shut down the the offense and... Garvin didn't have a whole lot of offense against Brignola, though, either. He didn't do a lot. He didn't do a whole lot.
00:45:34
Speaker
Garvin... Oh, no dude. Yeah. my my My opinion, my consensus from that match is that neither Garvin nor Brignola wanted to win the match, and so one of them just had to do it. It's like that that one episode of South Park where neither one of the baseball teams want to win and move on, so they're just both trying to lose.
00:45:50
Speaker
That's not a real answer, though. That's not really what it happened. that That is what it felt like though. It felt like neither one of them they wanted to just take the match. They wanted to be given the match. They wanted the other guy to make a mistake.
00:46:04
Speaker
um And eventually Garvin falls into a shot. and down Garvin definitely, you could definitely argue Garvin did not want to win the match. You could definitely argue that. Because he just gave him his legs over and over again.
00:46:17
Speaker
And then eventually decided, all right, I guess I'll shoot. Yeah. And I guess I was getting frustrated watching Brignola not finish those shots. I was frustrated as hell, dude. I mean, figure it out.
00:46:29
Speaker
Yeah. How could you not? Yeah. I don't know. Freaking leg elevated. his leg elevated. I don't know. Whatever.
00:46:40
Speaker
He must have been. That must be tight. Tight as hell. That grip he had. That lock he had around his head and his arm or whatever. Or did he have a chest lock? no I don't remember. Yeah. Yeah. I know what you're talking about. Okay. 174 Alex Facundo. Tex Colin Guffey. 19 to 3. This 184. Zack Ryder wins a 4 to 2 match over Abraham.
00:47:04
Speaker
Last name. Insert here. 197. Cody Merrill. Cody Merrill. Cody Merrill. Cody. He's wrestling Angelo Posada. It is the third period and Cody Merrill is losing two to one and he's about to, uh, Angelo is about to lock up writing time on top.
00:47:23
Speaker
There's about 20 seconds left in that moment. Cody Merrill explodes from off bottom. gets the escape and then instantaneously gets the takedown.
00:47:34
Speaker
Um, there was about so far as little, little, there was about as little of a break between the escape and the takedown as you could have possibly given. Um, and in that situation, he went from losing the match two to one to winning at five to three.
00:47:48
Speaker
So, uh, Passata is good, isn't he? He's pretty good. He didn't look bad in that match. I don't know if Cody looked like number nine in the country.
00:48:00
Speaker
It's 197. He's getting there, dude. It's 197. Give him time. He's going to have maybe knock some rust off is what we're seeing. Could be could be round 16. Could be fifth place.
00:48:13
Speaker
Could be. Yeah. Could be. um Okay. And then 285, Connor Doucette. Tech Falls, Jackson Mankowski, 19-4 in 5 minutes and 41 seconds.
00:48:25
Speaker
How about that? For a guy that everybody said is about as entertaining as watching paint dry, puts up 19 points in 5.5 minutes. you big Are you a big Doucette, Stan?
00:48:37
Speaker
i'm a i'm a Yes. I think um because what I was seeing this summer was so many Oklahoma State fans mourning the fact that they were going to have to go from Wyatt Hendrickson to Conor Doucette.
00:48:49
Speaker
And it's because what they saw with Conor Doucette in his first three years in the lineup was stagnation, not an improvement, low scoring matches, boring.
00:49:01
Speaker
little boy. He was a little boy. with a coach Yeah, he was a little boy. And with a coach like David Taylor and training partner like Wyatt Hendrickson and Zahid Valencia all those guys, yeah, of course he's going to get better in the scoring aspect of things, especially when you's wrestling a guy who he is tiers above.
00:49:20
Speaker
So that was good to see. was happy to see that. I don't know if I'm going to call him a title contender. I don't know if he can go out there and do that against ah younger baida or a or an AJ Ferrari or an Isaac Trumbull.
00:49:32
Speaker
ah Bastida. Braxton Amos. Braxton Amos. Dude, yes. Let's hop over to the Cyclone Invite. Braxton Amos. Did he lose? I hope so. Yeah, but he lost the match.
00:49:45
Speaker
He's right the match. He shouldn't have shot. Let's happened. Why did he shoot? shouldn't have shot. Now, at the same time, Younger shouldn't have shot. Younger shoots in the first period, gets taken down. Braxton Amos is winning 4-2, I think.
00:49:59
Speaker
Yeah. In the third period. And wrestling against Amos or wrestling against Bastida, they're kind of taking shots back and forth. um And Amos takes a shot like he doesn't want to give up a stall call.
00:50:12
Speaker
ah And he kind of he cuts the corner well. But then in that same moment, it's a head outside shot. ah Bastida sits the corner and slips the shoulder and is able to get the go behind and take down and then rides out the period.
00:50:26
Speaker
But he crotch lifts him, too, doesn't he? Yeah, he yes, that's what he does to be able to to sit the corner better. as He was so impressive. think Braxton Amos is back.
00:50:37
Speaker
Because Braxton looks huge. Huge. Braxton looks big, and honestly, Bono's kind of put a team together in Wisconsin. They've got a solid team.
00:50:51
Speaker
I don't think you're going to see... I'll believe it when I see it. Yeah, same. I think you can see, i mean, they're the All-American contenders that they have are Nicola Rivera, Zan Fugit, Joe Zargo, and then Braxton Amos, pretty much. Zargo is still there. I got some.
00:51:09
Speaker
Zargo redshirted last year. He's still there. I don't think you're going to see the top five performance out Fugit like you did last year, especially with the way 133 is this year. 125 is always a mess, but maybe Nico can get him get himself onto the podium.
Wisconsin Team Prospects
00:51:23
Speaker
Braxton Amos looks good at 285. I don't know what Zargo will look like at 41. 49. He's at 41. Where is he at 49? He's at 49, He's number 13. where he forty nine well forty nine yeah <unk> number fourteen He could get up there, dude. 49 is kind of weak.
00:51:39
Speaker
so That's crazy. I mean, I guess it's been weak before. Brian, why? Because you were doubting me. When I said Zargo 49, and you were like, 41.
00:51:53
Speaker
That's my bad. um And then they got some some tougher guys with ah Luke Meckler and Lucas Condon and Cody Goebel. Solid team.
00:52:05
Speaker
Solid team out of Big Ten. um Definitely better than last year.
00:52:10
Speaker
yeah What do you think? what do you think we're top five Top five in the Big Ten? Maybe. Maybe not. Probably not. Wisconsin? Yeah. but no No. no but Maybe top half. Maybe.
00:52:25
Speaker
Why not top five? That's high. okay Penn State. Penn State, Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio State, Wisconsin, florida Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota.
00:52:40
Speaker
Yes. Rutgers. Maybe not Rutgers. No. like Yes. Indiana.
00:52:48
Speaker
Probably not Indiana. All right. All right. What's up with that? He's got, they got, you get, and, and Amos Rivera and Amos. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:02
Speaker
In Zargo. Okay. Who am i um You need to, you maybe enlighten me on Indiana's. Wait. Whenever we're talking about top five, what are we saying? Are we saying, are they going to place top five at big tens? Yeah, yeah.
00:53:13
Speaker
They can. yeah now No, know no, no. They, they might be seventh. Maybe. Maybe.
00:53:25
Speaker
they they can They will do better than Northwestern, Maryland, Michigan State, and then Purdue. Illinois, another team.
00:53:36
Speaker
How good is Michigan really going to be this year? Michigan, I don't know. Pretty damn good. They got they have Diego Sotelo, Tega Dolly, Lachlan McNeil, both the Mantononas, Cam Catrebone, Dylan Ragason. Dang, this guy's got receipts.
00:53:54
Speaker
So that's a pretty tough team. I mean, there's like six or seven teams. That was gross. That's purely accidental, and I had to do it.
00:54:09
Speaker
No, you don't. You don't have to. I didn't mean to do it, and i and then once I said it, once it came out of my mouth, I had i was obligated. You have to do the gesture. Yeah. All right.
00:54:23
Speaker
I understand. All right. Let's, uh, let's pop over to some Michigan state results. Vinny Kilcary beat Caleb Lyon. So that's a ranked win for the third string Ohio state one 25 pounder.
00:54:40
Speaker
Uh, and that's probably about the only notable result from this tournament, man, this tournament fell off. What tournament Michigan state open. It used to be tough.
00:54:54
Speaker
That was the only... That and Markel Baker. Caleb Wyand and Markel Baker, I think, were the only two ranked guys. Now, you had Sergio Lemley, who's in red shirt. You had Seth Shoemate, who's not starting.
00:55:06
Speaker
Where's ah Indiana's guy? Where are all their guys? Journeyman. They were at Journeyman this weekend. Yep. Nicola Rivera won the the Cyclone invite, as did Zan Fugit.
00:55:19
Speaker
Etchmendi and Frost didn't wrestle. I'm guessing. Oh, yeah. Frost is working his way down to 133. He didn't want to get injured. That's what it was. Panero Johnson beat David Evans seven two Vinny Zerbin beat Luke Meckler 165.
00:55:32
Speaker
Connor Uten smashed Cody Goble. I think Connor Uten is going to be their guy.
Tournament Results & Team Performances
00:55:38
Speaker
No, Uten. Yeah, they really think Uten is the real deal. Dude.
00:55:43
Speaker
I mean, he was. looked. He was. Wasn't he beating Caliendo before he got hurt? I think so. He was either beating him or was like a one or two point match.
00:55:54
Speaker
So he looks tough. Guyton got the major over luke Condon. Isaac Dean won a close match. Rocky Elam got a major and younger Bastida squeaked out that one over Braxton Amos.
00:56:07
Speaker
All right, let's see if we got anything else in here.
00:56:12
Speaker
a
00:56:15
Speaker
No. where Where are the journey results? Oh, here they are. Dude, don't know. Shuffling through the journeyman results is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It's a nightmare.
00:56:28
Speaker
Now, Indiana did wrestle. They wrestled a duel. They wrestled Lockhaven. It was their opening event this for the year, and they beat them twenty five to including Including an upset win where Logan Frazier beat Gable Strickland.
00:56:44
Speaker
And...
00:56:47
Speaker
I think that's it. think that's the only upset when we had.
00:56:52
Speaker
Yeah. Um, but that there? Is that there? Uh, like those are their starters. They miss anybody. Uh, let's, let's take a look here. You're talking about Indiana. Yeah.
00:57:05
Speaker
Jacob Moran, Logan Frazier, Henry Porter, Joey Butler, Bryce Lowry, Tyler Lillard, Derek Gilcher, Sam Goan, Gabe Sollers, Nick Pavlechko. think, I think that's it. Hmm.
00:57:17
Speaker
think that's it i don't think that team good is as good as Wisconsin.
00:57:22
Speaker
Damn. I'm sorry. i
00:57:29
Speaker
They've got three, maybe four guys who can podium. Jacob Moran. At the 10s? Huh?
00:57:40
Speaker
At NCAAs? No. At NCAAs. Moran, Jacob Moran and Gabe Sollers were, were right there last year. Right. They were. It's true.
00:57:52
Speaker
Uh, lots of positive talk about Sam going. He's ranked 23rd as a freshman. Tyler Lillard, maybe. Maybe. I'm not really sold on that one. He lost his wrestle-off match, but it's a wrestle-off match, so whatever.
00:58:05
Speaker
but But there's a there's ah this this is the under-the-radar guy. It's Bryce Lowry. He's had injuries. His knees are made of glass, but if reportedly, if he can put keep his season together, he will be ah he will shake things up at the weight.
00:58:22
Speaker
What's up with Porter? i was really high on Porter. I was too. I was too. I think he's a father. Oh. So, I know he's a father, but I think that kind of takes takes it out it Makes you or breaks you, seems like.
00:58:40
Speaker
Seemingly. Ryan, how did that go?
00:58:45
Speaker
Yeah, not fun. Not fun at first. but then I imagine it's not easy. fun And I was looking for some insight. oh jo if I'm sorry if that was insensitive. He was successful.
00:58:56
Speaker
You did just kind of put me on the spot. You did. I know. i So I was kind of like, whoa. didn't have a statement prepared.
00:59:08
Speaker
i know. I'm sorry. um don't feel like helped Bo Jordan, though. Bo Jordan really... I guess he made the finals after he was a father. didn't hurt him.
00:59:19
Speaker
Yeah. I think it gave him dad strength. Wasn't the story that he...
00:59:27
Speaker
he like his dad found out that he was going to be a father and he said like, yep. And there's nothing to stop it. McDonald's. What?
00:59:39
Speaker
Oh,
00:59:48
Speaker
I thought it was a taco bell. think it was McDonald's. don't think I would have ordered any food at taco bell. I mean, what? I mean, Micah Jordan wouldn't have ordered any food.
01:00:01
Speaker
ah
01:00:09
Speaker
oh Oh, my goodness. A crossing of the wires.
01:00:16
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What are you going to I never got a response. So i'm umm I'm in the clear. Oh my God. Speaking of 149, you know who is number seven in the country?
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Andrew Clark. He got teched 21 to five by Cayman Smith from Navy. See that, that's just an indication that 149 is, it'll get better.
01:00:43
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I think it's just bad. the she Yeah, man. I hate seeing 149 bad. I don't know why. It's rebuild. It's, I hate that. It's been bad, I guess, recently, but it's been good really like for the last few years, I feel like.
01:01:01
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Yeah, I mean, there was an exodus after Zane Rutherford and then it filled back in a little bit. Well, you think I was bad when Zane was there and before he was there. That's what I meant.
01:01:12
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That's what I meant. Like when Zane Rutherford was there, ah he caused the quality of the weight to go down. Yeah. Everybody said, flee. Flee.
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Fly. Fly, you fools.
01:01:29
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Yeah. um Okay. That's all I have to recap. Oh, PWL 10 happened. pw' is professional wrestling league that is hosted by somebody in Russia. ah Three Americans wrestled in it.
01:01:40
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J. Aiello, Brayton Lee, and Nick Lee. We lost all of the matches. J. Aiello was the only one who was close. The other two got teched. Did you rehearse that? Nick just get What did he get? Laced?
01:01:52
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Cutted? No. yeah that They laced his Gatorade. yeah Damn. with immobilized him It's another USADA pop for the Nittany Lions.
01:02:03
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Speaking of which, where's Aaron Brooks' suspension? you what what do you he Didn't he get three years or something? or like
National Duels Preparation
01:02:13
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but Didn't he get a bunch years? Officially?
01:02:16
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Officially? Because it's supposed to be on the website. We're supposed to be able to see it. There's a there's a list. There's a list with people's names on it. don't see it. I'm really upset that he you can't see his suspension. It might be appealing it. ah Yeah, I don't know, dude.
01:02:33
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don't know either. I guess, yeah, that has to be what's happening right now. is There's an appeal in place. But it's just taking forever. It's been six months. six months
01:02:45
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It's taking too long.
01:02:48
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ah Okay, that's all I have. No, we will have a dude. I don't know. Like the quality at journeyman that was okay.
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It was all right. a little alert over Elmore.
01:03:07
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It's interesting. Yeah. Five to two. That's not bad. um Yeah, I mean, it was okay. Not great. These finals are not great. That's for sure.
01:03:20
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Yeah. The Jimmy Harrington beating Joe Seeley is interesting. Joe Seeley's got to find a new home. This Conway dude really impressed me. ah I don't know.
01:03:31
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I watched him. Make tournaments matter again. James Conway. James Conway is going to be pretty good. I also think Carter Bear of Binghamton is going to be pretty good too.
01:03:44
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And Ryan, I agree. Dude, I was thinking about this. Let's go let's go on a little tangent here. If the season was just duels the entire year, wouldn't that be a terrible indication of what we are supposed to see at the end of the season?
01:04:00
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Yeah, for sure. Wouldn't make sense. Because i equated it to I equated it to the basketball season being nothing but one-on-one basketball games.
01:04:11
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Where it's just you and your boy on the court doing one-on-one. And then at the end of this at the end of the year for March Madness, five-on-five. Figure it out. It's just a whole different thing.
01:04:22
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It's a whole different thing. I don't know if that's necessarily true. but yeah, that's a terrible comparison. ah yeah Never mind then. Okay, so I have a bad analogy. Otherwise, it truly was a bad analogy.
01:04:36
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You guys take the show. Go ahead. Tennis. Something with tennis.
01:04:42
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Tennis duels. And then tennis tournament at the end. I don't know. i I mean, we I just think there is a different experience and a different type of grit that you need to be able to get navigate a tournament. It's a three-day situation rather than just one duel where you wrestle and that's it.
01:05:03
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, i don't i would hate to see now less tournaments than there already are. That would be terrible. Now, here's the deal. From the fan perspective, duels are so much better. Well, they are.
01:05:19
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Duels are far and away such a better fan experience. Yeah. It's true. but Except nothing beats the NCAA tournament.
01:05:31
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no Yeah, because we're there. And it's freaking awesome. It's the ultimate fan experience. but The NCAA is the ultimate wrestling tournament.
01:05:42
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Fan experience. Wrestling ah it's like achievement experience. There's nothing better than it. And it's kind of crazy to say that. But it's true.
01:05:59
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Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:02
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Are you done? You done glazing? Yeah. ah The Tiger-style invite happened, too. was hearing a lot of talk about Oklahoma having a really good team this year.
01:06:16
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Did they not do so well? i didn't really It didn't really. Peyton Keller didn't wrestle in this tournament. He wrestled with the Bison Open and went 0-2. What? What?
01:06:28
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Beard Jordan went 0-2 or 1-2, something like that. ah Tyler Wells lost.
01:06:36
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Alex Braun lost. I don't know. Their lightweights did not do well, but then their upperweights did pretty well. Carter Schubert beat Evan Bates. ah b Brian Saldana made the finals.
01:06:47
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DJ Parker won the tournament. Juan Mora won the tournament. So they got some solid upperweights, but their lowerweights, they need to figure it out. Rafael Hippolito wrestled like one or two matches and then injury defaulted.
01:06:59
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So yeah, i don't know. Why is Peyton Keller wrestling at the Bison Open and going I don't know, because the rest of his guys were at the Tiger style. I don't know what he was doing. And then he went 0-2. was very bizarre. that Nothing made sense. You sure it's the same kid?
01:07:18
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I guess I never watched, but gosh, I would i would assume it is. i don't think there's two of them. Did it say unattached OU or anything like that?
01:07:30
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I didn't look that deeply into it. Oh, Sammy, Sammy, you might be making us look bad. Dude arc the key. Well, it's not just us that look bad. Then it's, it's a lot of people, uh, Michigan, Michigan stomped our, our small school support team.
01:07:49
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The key debts
01:07:53
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were VMI. podcast now you know that right sure okay we're doing that for real like i don't know we'll talk uh that basically is it for today um
01:08:14
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we will do a preview episode for the national duels which happened this weekend we will do a preview episode later this week Why didn't we get to go to that? I want to know right now on air.
01:08:25
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Why are we not going? Because logistically, it's a nightmare. you want me to fly right now? Do you want me to fly? The government's opening back up.
01:08:36
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Just drive. Officially? yeah officially Yeah, they voted on it. Reese, I don't have a car. ten hours I don't know if you remember. i don't know if you remember.
01:08:46
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Back in July. want a new car? No. Why? Why? I haven't got money yet from insurance. can't put, That's all I'm saying on the matter. Huh?
01:09:00
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Huh? Get a Craig, Craigslist, a car. Reese. One. Reese. I had to pay for a wedding this year. Ask for money.
01:09:13
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First one from somebody. Not me. I hope everybody had a good day. Peyton Keller where that you're listening peyton keller won his first match, got beat in the semis, and then beat in the Kanzi semis. He went 1-2.
01:09:27
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He went 1-2. Just saying. You guys said owen too what was that where I didn't say anything. okay yeah We didn't say a thing. I was talking about Sammy and his many personalities. Don't play me with this freaking nerd.
01:09:45
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All right. No, it's carless nerd. Guys got the car. I can't believe it. Reese, if I were re if i are you, I would just go down by myself.
01:09:57
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Yeah. And like, it was also a whole thing of, of this guy that Reese was talking about earlier, texts, was to text him, uh, cryptic messages. So dad, uh, he, he responded to me.
01:10:10
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about like figuring out how we were going to stay down there. He just texted Airbnb. I'm like, am I supposed to look for one? Is he, does he have one lined up?
01:10:22
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What does this mean? yeah just Why are we doing an Airbnb? There's so many hotels. Yeah. I, Ryan, you, you text, what does this mean? And you don't get a response for days. No, no. You say, do you need me to do this? Question mark.
01:10:40
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No, because then he's going to say yes. then he's going to delegate the responsibility you. I don't want to be delegated responsibility. Don't, don't, don't. $900 a night. Don't give me job. Thank you, Fajah. All cockeyed and and and on on the side.
01:10:55
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Just tell me, find an Airbnb. Yeah. I'll do it. Don't be like, and then you've Airbnb. fine Oh, you want to do it? Sure. Find it. $1,200 a night? Okay. guy. All right.
01:11:07
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Whoop his ass. Thank you everybody for listening. Have a good day. We'll have a preview later this week. Bye-bye.