Transcript
Cokeley Brothers: Welcome back to another episode of the Bar In Session, everybody. This is part two of our NCAA Wrestling Championships preview. On the previous episode, we looked at the first five weights, 125 through 157, and today we are going to be looking at the upper weights, 165 through 285.
Cokeley Brothers: Gentlemen, how do we feel?
Reese: Now prepared.
Cokeley Brothers: how are you?
Ryne: I'm good. How are you, Sammy?
Cokeley Brothers: I'm doing fine. Thank you for asking. And ah
Cokeley Brothers: i think I think I'm going to upset some people with these with these picks. And I mean, I guess maybe that's kind of the point. But look, it's I don't mean to do it on purpose.
Reese: Thank you.
Cokeley Brothers: I mentioned this at the start of the last episode. My picks are... heavily biased, ah either towards guys that i personally know and I wanna see succeed or guys that I just am a fan of and I want to see, I want to envision their highest success.
Cokeley Brothers: So, with that out of the way,
Ryne: Are we just doing top two? Are we just picking our finalists?
Cokeley Brothers: kinda walk through the notable things of my bracket.
Ryne: Oh, well, I haven't even filled them out. I'm just looking. I'm i'm going off the cuff here.
Cokeley Brothers: That's totally fine. I've got mine filled out and I can give you plenty of insight, I guess, into my process.
Cokeley Brothers: um First and foremost, we we do have an Indiana Hoosier in here, Tyler Lillard at 165 pounds if we want to get started. ah And I have him making a run to the semis.
Cokeley Brothers: he He has the seven seed Max butno Brignola right off the bat. ah I think with with as good as Tyler Lillard has shown himself to be in the past, not always this good, but his peak capability, I think he's better than than Max Brignola.
Ryne: Thank
Cokeley Brothers: I think he is capable of beating a Will Denny in the quarters. and Hell, are in the round in the round of 16, or second round of of the frontside, I even think that he can beat a guy like Joey Blaze.
Reese: Thank
Cokeley Brothers: he He kept the match very, very close in the duel.
Reese: you.
Cokeley Brothers: It was a a tight loss at Big Tens. I think if he manages it manages to make it to the quarters, I think he can get a win over Joey Blaze and put himself in the semis.
Ryne: He's got a terrible matchup first round.
Cokeley Brothers: Brignola?
Ryne: Mm-hmm.
Cokeley Brothers: What's so terrible about it?
Ryne: I just think Brignola kind of a bad matchup. I think he wrestles a style that doesn't favor young Tyler.
Cokeley Brothers: i don't I don't really know enough about the stylistic matchup um with Brignola. I just know that like from the matches, he's gritty, but i don't think his offense is...
Reese: He tough, he gritty.
Cokeley Brothers: is ah I don't think that there's like a high high level to it that that makes me think, oh yeah, he's going to shoot and score on Tyler Lillard. Because Lillard is tricky to score on whenever he's whenever he's feeling himself.
Cokeley Brothers: um Outside of that, Caliendo and Mezenbrink are making the finals, and in Mitchell Mezenbrink is winning this bracket. I don't think there's any reason to...
Reese: Thank you.
Cokeley Brothers: assume otherwise. I think Ladarian Lockett gets his, uh, revenge over Nico Ruiz in the quarters, falls to mezzanbrink in the semis, comes out the back for third place.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: Uh, there's, there's a good number of seeds, like 14 and below
Reese: Thank you.
Cokeley Brothers: that are very solid, very greedy guys. Andrew Barbosa from Rutgers, who obviously he just showed that he can beat somebody like Joey Blaze. um Even Noah Mulvaney. That's noel Mulvaney, ah Andrew Barbosa. That's a very good first round matchup.
Cokeley Brothers: ah Andrew Sparks and Ty Whalen. Whalen is from Princeton. Probably a little under the radar. Doesn't have like the best record so far this year, but up at this weight, he's been tough at 49 and 57.
Cokeley Brothers: I think he'll be pretty good at 65. See what he can do. um Patty Gallagher, Braden Skolls, a 16-17 matchup. That's a great first round matchup. um So definitely, even conor Connor Uten, this is a guy who I think, if you're looking for somebody to find their way onto the podium, who is in like almost the bottom half of the seeds, especially with his draw, I think it's something that's very possible.
Cokeley Brothers: He's super tough.
Ryne: Yeah, and they were in the Cyclone Faithful, they were very
Ryne: optimistic about him this year.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, I mean, I even mentioned it in my CyHawk preview. I was like, I think this guy could beat Michael Caliendo. So maybe a little too optimistic, but... ah
Ryne: Does Reese know he's muted?
Reese: No, I don't. I'm concerned. Like,
Cokeley Brothers: About what?
Reese: I can barely hear this guy over here. Barely.
Cokeley Brothers: No, I can hear i can i can hear Ryan, and and I'll take care of it in post.
Reese: So you think people will be able to hear it?
Cokeley Brothers: It's going okay.
Reese: Okay. It's probably just because I have no headphones.
Cokeley Brothers: I hope so.
Cokeley Brothers: Doesn't help.
Reese: Yeah.
Ryne: Dumb bitch.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay.
Reese: Should plug it?
Cokeley Brothers: are you are you Are you worried about anything in the bracket, Rhys?
Ryne: Did you, did you hear that Reese?
Reese: I like some of these matchups in the round of 24 on the backside, in my bracket at least.
Cokeley Brothers: i don't I don't think he heard it.
Reese: I got Gallagher-Denny. Who
Cokeley Brothers: ah
Reese: wins that match?
Cokeley Brothers: You have Gallagher Denny.
Reese: Yeah, man, that's a good...
Cokeley Brothers: Oh, so you have you have Gallagher losing or yeah you have
Reese: Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: gallagher losing first round, and then Will will Denny losing to Bergnola.
Reese: Yeah.
Reese: Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: um
Cokeley Brothers: Interesting. and then the And then that would be in the round of...
Reese: Araujo and Waylon. That's another good one.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, i have that. I have a Raja winning that.
Reese: mean, I pick Araujo probably. Waylon hasn't had that spectacular of a year.
Cokeley Brothers: No, I think we'll see some, we'll see some flashes, but not necessarily like a complete performance from him. ah
Reese: Yeah. Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: EJ Parko, another guy who's kind of had to bump up to find his way onto the, the ah starting lineup for Stanford and made managed to find himself at the national tournament. He could, he could disrupt some things, maybe not like take out a ah big name, but he's tough.
Reese: Yeah, he's good.
Cokeley Brothers: So this will be a,
Reese: Yeah, him and his little... I got like him like where he he could end up in the round 24 against Mulvaney. and if he and he could totally beat Mulvaney. And if he beats Mulvaney, he's in the round 12. I guess that's the round of 16, isn't it? Yeah, that's round of 16.
Reese: um And then in the round of 12, he would have the loser of...
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, yeah.
Reese: what that will what I have as Brignola or Blaze, which would probably be Brignola. I think Blaze is going to make the semis, honestly.
Cokeley Brothers: Dude.
Reese: like i I don't think it's going to be. i feel pretty confident in Messenbrink, Lockett, Caliendo, Blaze. I feel pretty confident in that quad or that group of four.
Cokeley Brothers: Speaking of.
Cokeley Brothers: Speaking of of of lower seeds and and tough quads, ah Matt Olgin at the 22 seed. this is This is a guy who in the past, what he had Shane Griffith's number, right?
Ryne: Yeah, he beat him once, I think.
Reese: I looked up his WrestleStat, Matt Holgien's.
Cokeley Brothers: It's
Reese: Guess what year this is for him?
Cokeley Brothers: like sixth.
Cokeley Brothers: It's his seventh year.
Reese: Seven.
Ryne: Nice.
Reese: This is his seventh year.
Ryne: Nice.
Cokeley Brothers: yeah He's one of those one of those COVID kids. um so like that this This little group of four, Ryder Downey...
Reese: So I have him going owen too
Cokeley Brothers: yeah i mean Yeah, because this group of four is Ryder Downey, Matt Olguin, EJ, Parco, LJ, Raja. That is a tough group of four right there. ah so I also have them going 0-2.
Reese: Yeah, like young guys too. That's how I was. Yeah.
Reese: I mean, Parco is a freshman, right?
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah. Pretty sure. Redshirt freshman.
Ryne: Yeah, because him and his brother could have wrestled at the Iowa-Stanford duel last year.
Cokeley Brothers: Oh, yeah.
Reese: Do we think like Blaze, if Blaze and Massenbrink meet in the finals, do we think that's a match at all?
Cokeley Brothers: No. i don't think I don't think there's anything. I don't think anybody has the skill set to manage Mitchell Mesenbrink.
Reese: Yeah. Maybe not.
Cokeley Brothers: and I'm pretty set on that.
Reese: How did he do it against Tyler Kasach, man? How did he do it? Kasach looked unbeatable last year.
Cokeley Brothers: um
Reese: Then he did lose to Antrell.
Cokeley Brothers: That's it
Reese: Antrell was, i mean, really good too, but that's a bad matchup for Blaise, I would say.
Cokeley Brothers: yeah
Cokeley Brothers: it. Yeah. I just think the i just think the the the raw pace that Mezenbrink puts out there, it it ah along with his diverse offensive skill set, yeah.
Reese: it' It's kind of a...
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Reese: It's a Forrest Blaze situation, if you ask me.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, but is...
Reese: Forrest Marcus Blaze. Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, is... Two things. I think Mitchell is a little more inside the box with his ah with what he does.
Cokeley Brothers: ah And I don't think Joey Blaze is quite as good as keeping things locked down as Marcus.
Reese: Maybe.
Cokeley Brothers: But I would love to see the matchup.
Reese: He shut Caliendo down.
Cokeley Brothers: I would love to see the matchup.
Reese: He shuts down pretty much everybody he wrestles.
Ryne: Amen.
Cokeley Brothers: yeah yeah Yeah, I mean, I guess he just didn't know that, you know, whenever you have somebody in a front headlock, you can spin like a top on top of them and get the takedown.
Reese: Yeah. And that dude's good.
Cokeley Brothers: So.
Reese: Barbosa's good. Barbosa's solid dude.
Cokeley Brothers: He's tough, but.
Reese: He's a freshman, right?
Cokeley Brothers: I think he's a freshman, yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Reese: Captain Barbossa.
Cokeley Brothers: Uh-huh. All right. Closing thoughts on 165.
Reese: I have none other than next topic.
Cokeley Brothers: Anything from our ghost?
Ryne: Closing time.
Cokeley Brothers: Closing time.
Ryne: Wait, wait, wait.
Cokeley Brothers: All right. Yeah, it is
Ryne: Before I move on, can I give my picks for the first five weight classes? Just the champs. Just the champs.
Cokeley Brothers: Let's hear your five champs, ghost.
Ryne: I've got Liladol. And then I'm going.
Ryne: See, this one's tricky. I'm going to go.
Cokeley Brothers: Some say the trickiest.
Ryne: I'm going to go forest. I know. I know. Right.
Cokeley Brothers: Coward.
Ryne: Mendez.
Ryne: Van. I feel like Vanessa is going to find a way to choke, but maybe he won't. I'll go Vanessa and ah I'm going to go.
Ryne: I'll go. Meyer Shapiro.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, my five to recap from yesterday are Spratly, Forrest, Mendez, Joy, Shapiro.
Cokeley Brothers: And Jacob Moran makes the finals too.
Cokeley Brothers: You're muted, Reese.
Cokeley Brothers: You're muted.
Reese: I still don't have any AAs. None whatsoever.
Cokeley Brothers: Huh?
Reese: That's what I unmuted myself to tell you guys. I have still yet to make my picks.
Cokeley Brothers: I don't know what you said. Ah, well, that's okay.
Reese: I was just following following up on what Ryan was saying.
Cokeley Brothers: Uh, right. And I, I kind of assumed.
Reese: Yeah. Maybe someday.
Cokeley Brothers: I don't, i don't have too much outside the outside the box here. um Honestly, when I was getting ready to look at these before we started recording, because we got a Hoosier at 174, Derek Gilcher, I did not think I found a way to get him onto the podium. And I am re-looking at the path that I have given to him.
Cokeley Brothers: And it's not... It's it's it's ridiculous. ah This is probably the most I've reached... No. So far, this is the most I've reached to be able to do get a Hoosier on the podium. ah But let's just walk through it.
Cokeley Brothers: Derek Gilcher is the 26 seed. He's got the seven seed camp. Steed big 12 champ round one. He loses that match. He loses that matchup and that's okay. Cause we are, we're, we're backside. We're road warriors.
Cokeley Brothers: We love the backside.
Ryne: Are you backside boozies?
Cokeley Brothers: Uh, Yes. And so we've got Luca Augustine. oof This is not an easy first backside match, but we get through it. And what's what's our reward for winning our first match? We have the number nine seed, Bo Mantonona.
Cokeley Brothers: ah Probably not going to be able to win this match. But we do it anyway. And then we've got Colin Kelly, who we had on the ropes. Or actually, I think we were beating in the duel at at Illinois. And we dropped it late. But we're getting our revenge this time to put ourselves into the blood round. And who do we have? Matty Singleton. We get the job done. Because Singleton's in sad boy hours.
Cokeley Brothers: And we find ourselves in in the placement area. wherere we're We're top eight. And then we beat Carter Schubert to advance to top six. And we get dusted by Carson Hartzler.
Cokeley Brothers: Top six for Derek Gilcher. And Simon Ruiz is my champ. Which... I want to ask the people, here's two things. two Two things have been happening at this weight class. Either one, everybody says Haynes next topic. They're saying it's it's the next topic weights are our Mitchell Mezenbrink, Josh Barr, and Levi Haynes. And they don't even talk about Jesse Mendez.
Cokeley Brothers: ah And then everybody else is saying, no, no, no, no. Levi Haynes is going to lose to Chris Minto. And I'm sitting here saying, who forgot about Simon Ruiz?
Cokeley Brothers: Why?
Ryne: I don't know. He's forgettable.
Cokeley Brothers: What are we doing? What's going on?
Reese: I, why, well, yeah, why do you,
Ryne: I'm putting Levi Haynes at the top for this one.
Reese: you, you give, you give Simon re Ruiz no shot.
Cokeley Brothers: I do. I have them winning it.
Reese: I know I'm saying time to run.
Ryne: Oh, I mean, he has got a shot. Everyone has a shot.
Cokeley Brothers: Oh, shut up. Do you remember Ruiz versus Haynes on the backside last year?
Reese: Yeah, he was right there. I mean, he was, wasn't he winning that match?
Cokeley Brothers: No, but he was in on the winning takedown and the scramble ensued and Haynes won it.
Reese: that's right.
Cokeley Brothers: But the point stands. Simon Ruiz is the two seed for a reason. And people are going say, oh, yeah, well, that's because he's only 16-0 and he had a he had a cake a cupcake Cornell Ivy League schedule.
Cokeley Brothers: ah Shut up. He beat Matt Singleton.
Reese: Okay.
Cokeley Brothers: He beat Alec Facundo. He's good. He's beating good guys. And ah he's going to beat Levi Haynes.
Cokeley Brothers: I hope.
Reese: Well, he's got to beat Minto first. how do you How do you think that Minto match goes?
Cokeley Brothers: I don't know. I don't want to think about it. I just think he's going to win it.
Ryne: Minto Strong. meno strong
Cokeley Brothers: Minto strong, Minto long, Minto rough and Minto tough.
Reese: Minto, very strong. Ruiz seems like he's really strong too, though.
Cokeley Brothers: It's, uh, yeah, ah it's gotta be like a John Lowe type of strength where he grabs you and you're like, oh, get off me. Um, but I don't know.
Reese: Yeah. I, uh, man, I know I haven't gotten there yet, but and back to your point about the, what the public thinks about who is a lock and who isn't a lock. I feel like it's very mixed. Like there are a lot of people who think it's, I mean, obviously you got your real locks between one nine, uh, 165 and 197. I'd say those are your two true locks. That's it.
Reese: in my, in my opinion, but then you got a lot of people who think like there's, you know, they'll they'll include 74 or they'll include 57, even stupid to me.
Cokeley Brothers: Dude, it's...
Cokeley Brothers: Or 84 and 125.
Reese: That
Cokeley Brothers: Like...
Reese: eighty four
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Reese: ah yeah think eighty four is is stupid
Cokeley Brothers: There's Dude,
Cokeley Brothers: there are people out there who are like, if you are picking against a Penn State wrestler, you've lost your mind.
Reese: to me
Cokeley Brothers: And...
Reese: that I mean, that whole over-under five and a half. I decided this yesterday, maybe be two days ago. I'm gonna go i'm going all in. I'm going to make this tournament as stressful as possible for myself.
Cokeley Brothers: Me too. I've done it.
Reese: I'm going find what's the best. What?
Cokeley Brothers: I've done it.
Reese: You've already done it?
Cokeley Brothers: I've committed to like... I i i want to see... i only have two Penn State champs. And like i I thought to myself, like what's the best outcome of like individuals and teams that I want to see have like ah have moderate success? And it's like, Penn State still wins, but they only have two champs and they have eight All-Americans.
Reese: um when um I don't think we're talking about the same thing.
Cokeley Brothers: Oklahoma State...
Reese: I'm talking about betting.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay, then go ahead. What are you saying?
Cokeley Brothers: Oh! No, I don't do that. Uh-uh.
Reese: Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: Uh-uh.
Reese: I got the bug, dude.
Cokeley Brothers: what ah What are you...
Reese: I'm going I'm probably going to like, i don't know where to go. like I don't know what the go-to like sports book is for this type of thing. but I, I, you know, I, every year I always do like, you know, I'll do like pick them contests and fantasy stuff.
Reese: I want to do the fantasy thing on wrestle stat. I think it's still open.
Cokeley Brothers: but With the wrestling room?
Reese: Pat Moneo usually does. ah
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Reese: Well, yeah, that's Pat Moneo saying, yeah, I want to do that.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Reese: Um, you know, we, we all, we are in a group that we do fantasy wrestling,
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Reese: Uh, and yeah, I want to do some pick them contests. I want to, and then, yeah, I want to just do some straight up, you know, spreads over unders.
Cokeley Brothers: Dambling.
Reese: I just want to, i don't know. I've been, I've been, I've been having to fight the the bug for a long time, especially like this year, like between football and basketball, I've been a good boy.
Reese: i haven't been, I've been resisting it. It's everywhere now. And can't, especially like in Kansas, it became legal a few years back. And it's just like it's it's penetrated every single like aspect of your everyday life.
Cokeley Brothers: Dude. That
Reese: It's everywhere. It's inescapable. And you know what?
Cokeley Brothers: is not...
Reese: You can't beat them.
Cokeley Brothers: That is such a bad pitch for gambling.
Reese: Join them.
Reese: And it's wrestling.
Cokeley Brothers: You make it sound like...
Reese: No, it's wrestling. It's wrestling. it's it's one It would be one thing if it's basketball or football even. But wrestling is a lot more predictable, I think. I spent like a season on this website.
Reese: It's like the only place that I could find that had college wrestling betting lines. And that was like the 2018, 2019 season. And I made like good money.
Reese: i had like no money at that point in my life. But I profited a lot of money only to find out that, you know, when I tried to pull my money out, I had to, I found out i had to bet a specific amount of, you know, you know how it works.
Reese: Like you if you take like free, you know how they they'll, they'll, they'll give you free, like a free, like a hundred dollars to, to bet with or whatever.
Cokeley Brothers: yeah
Reese: Well, then there's a catch where you have to bet like 10, 10 X that amount, uh, in order to actually withdraw those winnings.
Reese: Um, And then when I tried to start, when I tried to continue to bet the website, ah like locked me out of my account, froze me out my account and basically told me, um, since you tried to withdraw, we have to get some proof of identification. Like they wanted me to upload my ID and email them it, and also upload a copy of like a bill.
Reese: of like my utility bill to prove that I, you know, lived here in in the United States or proof of residence or whatever. So I just have like, I have like four or $500 sitting in that account for about the past almost 10 years now.
Reese: But anyway, long story short, I'm in, I'm the all in.
Cokeley Brothers: Kids.
Cokeley Brothers: Kids, kids, stay out gambling.
Reese: Kids use discretion, be, you know, be reasonable and use moderation, gamble in moderation or abstain.
Ryne: One time, Sammy.
Ryne: Sammy, you remember that time you you wrestled in freestyle tournament in Dallas? And recently came down and watched you.
Cokeley Brothers: Oh, yeah.
Reese: What about it?
Ryne: There was this dude on Twitter who had like lines for some of the like matches at that tournament. And I bet on one. I couldn't remember. Reese, you remember who it was?
Ryne: i needed i needed them to win by fall.
Reese: I don't remember.
Ryne: And they were losing the entire match. And then they got the fall with like 10 seconds left. One turned like $5 into 50. It was awesome.
Reese: Who would that have been?
Ryne: From then on, I was pretty much hooked.
Ryne: Hmm?
Reese: so that was at the last chance qualifier?
Ryne: Yeah. I can't remember who the bet was.
Reese: They had what, what, where do, where were their betting lines for the last chance qualifier?
Ryne: It was just some dude on Twitter doing it. Hold on, let me look. me look Let me look through my DMs.
Reese: Oh, okay.
Cokeley Brothers: Kids, stay out of gambling.
Ryne: Or don't.
Cokeley Brothers: i I got i got ah approached on Twitter about because I said that ah Penn State would only have three champs. and They're like, okay, side bet, $100 down on that. I was like, all no.
Reese: You should have done that.
Cokeley Brothers: No, thank you.
Reese: Why wouldn't you take that?
Cokeley Brothers: Leave me alone. i mean, they're probably going to have at least four champs, Penn State.
Reese: They kind of pumped you there, dude.
Cokeley Brothers: I don't gamble. i don't I don't have money to spend like that.
Reese: You don't gamble even a little bit. It's fun, dude. Just a little bit here and there.
Cokeley Brothers: No, I don't.
Reese: It's fun.
Cokeley Brothers: i The only money I have ever gambled has not been mine.
Reese: all I will say, i did that same year where I was betting a lot on NCAA wrestling. Uh, later in that season during the, uh, I'm guessing it was probably the U S open or the trials.
Reese: I put like a hundred bucks down on the field against Frank Molinaro. So it was, it it was Frank Molinaro versus the field.
Ryne: Thank you.
Reese: And there was really good odds. And, you know, you had Ryan Deacon, Alec Pantaleo, um, Hayden Hydeley. Yeah. You got several guys who had realistic,
Reese: Chances at beating Frank. He ended up winning it. Right. Ryan Deacon was winning. and at certain points in the match. But you know, at that point in his career, he was, he would, he would get up a lot and then blow it.
Reese: And losing that hundred dollars was like devastating. It ruined my entire week, man. i I, you know, but then also at that point in my life, a hundred bucks was a lot. So.
Reese: it was painful so that is a cautionary tale you know if you take losses hard that chick can hurt
Ryne: It was a hurt race.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, no thank you.
Cokeley Brothers: All right.
Ryne: It was Evan Henderson is who I bet on.
Cokeley Brothers: ah
Cokeley Brothers: That makes total sense.
Reese: who
Cokeley Brothers: Evan Henderson.
Ryne: I can't remember who he was wrestling, but and i just bet on the i just bet on the money line.
Cokeley Brothers: could have been
Ryne: And he was losing he was losing the entire match, and then he got the fall with, like, no time left.
Cokeley Brothers: It could have been literally anybody, dude.
Ryne: Turned $5 into $50 right there.
Cokeley Brothers: That's nice. um Okay. Other notable elements to this. Man, where do I have MJ Gaetan losing?
Cokeley Brothers: Oh, i have ah I have Pinto making a backside run to the blood round and then losing to Facundo. I also have Facundo taking fourth place, avenging his long-time ah loss streak against Patrick Kennedy.
Cokeley Brothers: ah That felt good for him. So can't wait to see him do that.
Reese: so do you you have guy time losing to uh singleton
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah. 100%. Dude, he might not even be Brody Bauman.
Reese: i got scat i got him beating singleton you're right he might not beat brodie bauman but i have him beating both of those guys and hell maybe i'll pick him against mento who knows
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Reese: Maybe I'm back in on the Gaitan train.
Cokeley Brothers: That's
Reese: I bought stock early.
Cokeley Brothers: That's crazy. jar Jared Sima also makes it to the blood round and then loses to Patrick Kennedy.
Reese: Ow. That hurt.
Cokeley Brothers: That's going to be a tough one. Jesus Christ, Reese.
Ryne: You're anti-sunflower.
Reese: ah hurt
Cokeley Brothers: ah What do you mean?
Cokeley Brothers: Dude, if i have if I have Patrick Kennedy losing to Jared Sima,
Cokeley Brothers: that is bad for the Hawkeyes. And like they need this right now. The Kansans will take a loss to just... Iowa needs this.
Ryne: So we're still riding that Wyatt Hendrickson high.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, we'll we'll have that one for a while.
Ryne: okay
Cokeley Brothers: And we got... Hey, we got we got shooters at this year. We got Witt, we got Dawson, we got Sima. Reese, I was wrong yesterday. Devin Dawson is is Kansas' kid. So that's three.
Ryne: fourth. He's a quarter.
Cokeley Brothers: Three. Yeah, he was only there for one year, but that's fine. Minnesota, you can take your three quarters, whatever.
Ryne: didn do two He did two years at Pratt.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay. Well then, yeah, he's ours. Screw it.
Reese: Not a Kansas guy.
Cokeley Brothers: um
Cokeley Brothers: Yes, he is.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay. Any other thoughts on 174?
Ryne: Levi Haynes. levi haynes
Cokeley Brothers: Simon Ruiz and Reese, you complete the the trifecta.
Reese: I got one one thing to say. One question to ask more.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay.
Reese: Well, does Karcha, if he makes the semis, he got over Kennedy last Last week or two weeks ago or whatever. He got over the Kenny Hope. Can he do it? Does he have a shot?
Reese: get What percentage do give him against
Cokeley Brothers: Five.
Ryne: Yep, five. that was That was exactly the number i was going to say.
Cokeley Brothers: Maybe 15. Yeah. yeah
Cokeley Brothers: 15 tops, but probably five.
Reese: Give me
Cokeley Brothers: Oh, yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: No, you don't know. Denied.
Reese: him. This is his last this is lost chance
Cokeley Brothers: i know it just, you don't dude here. Okay. So actually I forgot to mention this part about one 74 because I do have a quarterfinal matchup that I think most people, most of the time would find very intriguing.
Reese: I'm very free.
Cokeley Brothers: And that's Alex Fakundo versus Levi Haynes.
Reese: And I'll just cut recent.
Cokeley Brothers: Reese, turn your volume down just a little bit.
Cokeley Brothers: Uh, Facundo Haynes, former teammates. Facundo even has the most recent win in freestyle over Haynes. However, here's my issue.
Cokeley Brothers: Facundo has a high shot rate and gets in on legs, gets in on attacks.
Reese: Sorry.
Cokeley Brothers: Are you there?
Reese: I was just trying to move the mic away from my computer.
Cokeley Brothers: All right.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah. um
Cokeley Brothers: My issue is that Facundo and how long he takes to finish shots is it plays into how good Haynes is at defending. If you even get if you give Levi Haynes a moment to stuff your head and put pressure in with his hips and and lengthen the position out.
Cokeley Brothers: you're not going to finish the shot. And so I don't think Fakundo is able to get over the hump against a guy like Levi Haynes. And I think, yes, Carson Harchler could finish some shots finish some shots and and score on Haynes, but I don't think he can put a full, complete seven minutes together.
Reese: Okay. Okay.
Cokeley Brothers: That is my estimation.
Cokeley Brothers: All right. 184. Let's get to the fun stuff here. I have something happening in this bracket that has yet to happen.
Reese: What, 84?
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, that's what I meant.
Ryne: You have Aiden Sinclair taking down Angelo Ferrari.
Cokeley Brothers: No.
Cokeley Brothers: I have a 33 seed beating the one seed.
Ryne: Who's that?
Cokeley Brothers: Sam going
Ryne: What's the faith you have?
Cokeley Brothers: the, all right. And you know what? I understand that. Like Reese, I'm still getting some feedback.
Reese: That's crazy. Cause like i'm if where I'm not gonna be able to hear Ryan at all. If I turn it down anymore,
Cokeley Brothers: Okay. All right. All right.
Reese: maybe turn your ears down.
Reese: If you can, can you do that?
Cokeley Brothers: What?
Reese: Turn your your input down.
Cokeley Brothers: No. That's... to Make this quieter?
Reese: Make your mic quieter.
Cokeley Brothers: i can't I can't do that in the middle of the show, I don't think. Maybe?
Reese: Push it away from you.
Cokeley Brothers: i don't know. Sure. i'll do I'll talk from here. ah
Cokeley Brothers: Here's the deal. Rocco Welsh has given up takedowns, I think, against three people.
Reese: I think. But.
Cokeley Brothers: It's been Fishback, Mantenona and Sam going Sam going's gotten a takedown on him twice in their one match. So the person who has the most offensive capability who or is at least shown it is Sam going.
Cokeley Brothers: But I also recognize at the same time, this is insane because it's a 33 seed versus a one seed. Yes, Sam Gohan maybe shouldn't be the 33 seed because ah all of his losses are guys that are seeded top 20 or higher.
Cokeley Brothers: ah But his wins are kind of, it's kind of a messed up situation. Either way, ah just if it's going to happen, this is the most likely situation for it to happen. And honestly, i think most people in the arena would be psyched to see this happen.
Cokeley Brothers: So I'm having it happen. I'm having Sam go and beat Rocco Welsh, and then he's going to beat Ian Bush, and then he's going to beat Chris Moore and make the semifinals, where he has James Conway, and he's going to lose.
Cokeley Brothers: And the in the Cinderella run's going to end there, but, however,
Reese: or you can see.
Cokeley Brothers: that means he's going to take the slide. He's going go all the way down to sixth place because he's going lose to Aiden Sinclair on the backside, and then he's to have Rocco Welsh for fifth, and Rocco is going to tech-fall him. He's going to be very mad, and he's going to do bad things to Sam going for fifth place.
Cokeley Brothers: And in the finals, we're going to see James Conway versus Angelo Ferrari, and Angelo Ferrari is going to complete the season with ah how many losses? Three losses and zero takedowns given up.
Cokeley Brothers: He's going win. He's going to beat Aiden Sinclair. He's going to be Max McAnally. He's going to beat Caleb Campos, and he's going to beat Chase Kranitz.
Cokeley Brothers: And James Conway.
Reese: What can I other than... Who, me? other than
Ryne: Not how I see it going down.
Cokeley Brothers: Tell me.
Reese: so me
Cokeley Brothers: Pick.
Ryne: I see Aiden Sinclair doing it.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, that's fair.
Cokeley Brothers: Dude, Angelo really boned himself by forfeiting out at Big Tens.
Ryne: Yeah, well.
Cokeley Brothers: He screwed this up, man, because he really should have been like the five or four seed, probably the five seed, because like McAnally or not McAnally, James Conway lost to Caleb Campos.
Reese: yeah
Reese: They should have made him to Make him to
Cokeley Brothers: So like.
Cokeley Brothers: Make him the eight seed. Make him the seven seed. Or no, make him the six seed.
Reese: Make him to
Cokeley Brothers: Make him the nine seed. Make him the four seed. Like, make him anything other than putting him on the bottom half. Because I'll tell you what, if Sammy G doesn't beat Rocco Welsh, Rocco Welsh is making the finals.
Cokeley Brothers: The only other two guys that could stop him are Mantenone and Fishback, and neither of them are going to get past Conway because they're going to empty the gas tank beating each other. And then they're going to have to make weight.
Reese: You don't give Conway a shot?
Cokeley Brothers: No. No.
Cokeley Brothers: I don't.
Reese: Why not?
Cokeley Brothers: It's not the, he's not the complete, he just doesn't have, he's missing something that Sammy G has. And so he's just not gonna be able to get it done now.
Ryne: Thank you.
Reese: Dude, I think you're, have you watched him wrestle?
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, he's pretty good.
Reese: He really good.
Cokeley Brothers: He's pretty good, but he ah a lot of his stuff relies on that that pace and the pressure, and I think that that is something that Rocco Welsh is going to be able to withstand.
Cokeley Brothers: We'll see, though. We will see.
Ryne: Aiden Sinclair winning it all.
Cokeley Brothers: that So that is the other...
Reese: that's.
Cokeley Brothers: like
Cokeley Brothers: good timeline the other positive outcome because I don't I don't reliably expect Ferrari or McAnally to beat Welsh as evidenced by what has happened against him so far
Reese: Good.
Cokeley Brothers: so yeah with that being said I also have McAnally beating Welsh on the backside so
Cokeley Brothers: And to my Ohio State ah brothers and sisters, Dylan Fishback is losing in the blood round to Rocco Welsh. I'm sorry. You can be mad at Sammy G for that. Sometimes that's just the way the cookie crumbles.
Cokeley Brothers: Zach Ryder gets into eighth place. He beats Chris Moore in the ah blood round with half of a shoulder.
Ryne: How many shoulders? Just half?
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, half a shoulder. And... ah Well, it's because Brian Saldana took out the half of the other one and ah trying to put him on his back after he's already on his back.
Cokeley Brothers: ah And yeah, Silas Allred slips in for seventh place. So Huskers can be happy about that one.
Cokeley Brothers: That's what I got.
Ryne: Rhys? Rhys?
Reese: I got I got a, you know, I think I'll i'll probably end up putting
Reese: Rocky on the backside. don't want him to make the finals at all, but if he does make the finals, he's definitely not winning. In no way can I see, in no possible future do I see Rocky winning the 184 bracket.
Reese: Not my bracket at least. It's not happening.
Cokeley Brothers: Who's Rocky?
Reese: I won't allow it. He has gotten, but he has skated by too many times.
Ryne: He means rock.
Reese: I'm like, I'm disappointed in the lack of like specifically flow, the flow boys, how they're they've softened, man. They've definitely never go after Penn state.
Reese: Like imagine if Rocky or Rocco, um, had, I did that several times.
Cokeley Brothers: Thank you. You had me messed up, man.
Reese: Imagine if Rocco had, thats if he was like from Iran or Russia, and he'd done that singlet pull on the like at Worlds, they would have lit him up.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: Dude.
Reese: And they brushed over it like it was no big deal.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah. And like people.
Reese: It's a huge deal. It had a huge impact on the match.
Cokeley Brothers: People.
Reese: no matter whether and you eat Whether it did or didn't, whether it was accidental or on purpose, that's irrelevant.
Cokeley Brothers: People were.
Reese: It was 100% illegal. illegal
Cokeley Brothers: People were like really complaining about the one where he was on top and you saw him like pulling the singlet strap across the chest. To me, it's the one where he grabbed on the hip and used that to hold on when Angelo had him up in the air.
Cokeley Brothers: Because he's using that as like an anchoring point.
Reese: Exactly. That is the big one.
Cokeley Brothers: ah That, like, that, you you cannot hold yourself up without grabbing that.
Reese: That
Cokeley Brothers: So...
Reese: that one was worse than this. That one was had more effect on the match than the Zahid Brooks one.
Cokeley Brothers: Right. I mean, yeah, every singlet poll has more effect on the match than that one. So, but college wrestling is kind of grateful for that singlet poll Reese.
Reese: Yeah, it's true.
Ryne: Only one.
Reese: I just know that Rocco is getting his comeuppance. his He will get his Jess desserts, and it will be this week. It's going to happen.
Reese: He's not going to win one of you for it. Mark my freaking words. That will be the first bet I place.
Cokeley Brothers: That's what I was waiting for.
Cokeley Brothers: You put your money where your mouth is. All right.
Ryne: So how many champs how many champs do you think Penn State's going to have?
Cokeley Brothers: Okay.
Reese: That's
Cokeley Brothers: Two. I predict two in my bracket, but it is probably going to be four.
Ryne: You predict Messenbrink and Barr, that's it.
Cokeley Brothers: bar missing break. So here's, here's here's my, so my floor and ceiling floor, mesenbrick and bar ceiling, mesenbrick and bar plus two other guys.
Ryne: who Who's be who' beating
Cokeley Brothers: Oh, and Ryan, he's had so many close matches this year. He like, he's lost to his teammate. He can lose.
Ryne: His teammate's really good. His teammate beat some good 41-hounders.
Cokeley Brothers: I understand that. And there's other 125 pounders. here's Here's the deal, right? A lot of people are talking about like, oh, Luke Lilladol, undefeated, Big Ten champ. That's great. There's plenty of talent in the Big 12 and in the ACC that can take him out.
Cokeley Brothers: Whoever wins between ah Troy Spratley, Vince Robinson, and Sheldon Seymour, that's who he's going to have in the semis. That is not going to be an easy matchup for Luke Lilladol. And then whoever he's going to end up having in the finals, whether it's, dare I say, Jacob Moran,
Cokeley Brothers: Or Nico Provo, Mark Anthony McGowan, Eddie Ventresca, Jory Volk, Nick Buzakis.
Reese: Thank you.
Cokeley Brothers: There's so many guys who I think give Luke Lillard all a run for his money.
Cokeley Brothers: and And Ryan, things have gone for gone in Penn State's favor so far this year for too long. Okay? So if if they just... Dude, if they have like 10 All-Americans and like seven national champs, I'm going to have a terrible time for the next calendar year.
Ryne: It's probably what's going to happen.
Reese: Did he say that's probably what's going to happen?
Cokeley Brothers: Okay.
Ryne: It'll be nine.
Cokeley Brothers: You did say that.
Ryne: It'll be nine All-Americans. It'll be nine.
Reese: Seven? So you think you're going to seven champs?
Ryne: They could.
Reese: Would you put money on that?
Ryne: How much money?
Cokeley Brothers: All right.
Ryne: How much money?
Cokeley Brothers: Let's...
Ryne: How much money, Rhys?
Cokeley Brothers: No, you guys can put your side bets on the table after the show. uh one is one 97
Reese: I would never bet with this man.
Cokeley Brothers: it is the next topic wait but i want to talk about who can he see in the semis or no who can he see in the finals and and i who could give him a run for his money i have one name in particular on my mind uh i guess two
Ryne: money?
Cokeley Brothers: And then there's probably a third one that people are thinking of that I don't actually expect to be a real problem for him. But Josh Barr is going to win.
Cokeley Brothers: I think you could see guys like Sonny Sasso and Rocky Elam give him a run for his money.
Reese: Okay.
Cokeley Brothers: And then the other person that that people might consider is Justin Rademacher. If he makes it to Saturday night, full feed, he's going to be like 289 pounds by then. and and you know ready to out-strength Josh Barr, I just don't see it happening.
Cokeley Brothers: One, I don't see him getting there. And two, if he does, it just doesn't feel like it's going to happen.
Reese: Who? Novak? Is that what you
Cokeley Brothers: Justin Rademacher.
Reese: said? Oh, right. I'll say I think Novak is interesting. ah Maybe Lil and Elam.
Reese: And Merrill. Merrill, too, is someone I would love to see against Barr. Because I don't see Barr blowing Merrill out of the water, you know?
Cokeley Brothers: well
Reese: I just... I don't know. I have hard time picturing that.
Cokeley Brothers: I don't know, man. i So Merrill is who I have making the finals.
Reese: Oh, okay.
Cokeley Brothers: I have making the finals. He he he he beats ah Ben Vanadia, Max Stout, Rocky Elam, and Steven Little to make the finals, and then drops the finals to Josh Barr.
Cokeley Brothers: That's what I have.
Reese: Okay.
Cokeley Brothers: Now, you know, I.
Reese: If he can make the finals, he's got a shot. Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, anything can happen Saturday night, but. And then round of 12, we've got Remy Cotton losing to Joey Novak, Gabe Sollers beating Angelo Posada, ah Rocky Elam beating Luke Geog and Justin Rademacher beating DJ Parker.
Cokeley Brothers: That could all flip around. You've also got a 27 seed Gabe Arnold, who is a a lightweight landmine and could be a problem for most people.
Reese: Thank you.
Cokeley Brothers: I don't think he's going to win his first round matchup since it's probably the biggest guy in the weight wrestling the smallest guy in the weight. And that normally doesn't pan out well for the smallest guy. ah Bennett Berge is also pretty under the radar, tough guy ah that people should keep an eye on.
Cokeley Brothers: Remy Cotton, Branson John. Those are some some other Big Ten Hammers. Colton Hawks, with a 7-9 record, has had an overall terrible season.
Cokeley Brothers: Kind of came alive at and or at Big 12s. So, we'll see. I don't know. I don't know what to expect. He's a...
Reese: I like Hawks.
Reese: What can I say?
Cokeley Brothers: All right. Okay.
Reese: Somebody say love them.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah. Well, he's up a weight class, so you could even say Big Hawks.
Reese: Colton Hawks.
Reese: Big Hawks.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Reese: Big Hawks do some big things.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay.
Cokeley Brothers: All right. Ryan. Thoughts and prayers.
Reese: This guy, he didn't even care. He didn't even, I got nothing from him.
Ryne: um yet I'm going to say
Ryne: ah say Josh Barr.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay. He said Josh Barr. Reese, if you're curious.
Reese: That was his pick.
Ryne: But I'm going to say he beats.
Ryne: I'm going to say he beats.
Ryne: Man, I want to go Elam, but.
Reese: Stick sounds like he's medicated.
Ryne: No, I'm i'm not.
Cokeley Brothers: No, he's just got a child who's trying to sleep.
Ryne: um Yeah, my my my baby is right up there. um
Reese: need You need to go out in the shed. You need to set up a studio in the shed.
Ryne: Hey, you know what you need to do, Reese?
Reese: Do you have a shed?
Ryne: You need to shed these balls from your mouth.
Reese: Hey, when are you moving?
Ryne: May 1st.
Reese: May 1st?
Cokeley Brothers: New studio.
Ryne: May 1st.
Reese: Did he say May 1st? I can't hear him.
Cokeley Brothers: He said May 1st. He said May 1st.
Reese: Okay.
Cokeley Brothers: And you know what? We're going to move forward because you guys are. i'm du I'm not playing telephone.
Cokeley Brothers: All right. 285. Time for the big guns to come out. And I have.
Reese: Hey, have a question.
Cokeley Brothers: I have some things happening. All right.
Reese: Before we move on, i got I want to get your opinion on this. Geog versus McDaniel. That's what I have and the second round on the backside. Who would you pick?
Cokeley Brothers: Ah, Geog.
Reese: right, McDaniel it is.
Reese: I'm just kidding. what okay What about what about ah Amos and Devin Dawson? Who's your pick there?
Cokeley Brothers: Dawson.
Reese: is he is he Do you really think he you would beat Amos?
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Ryne: It'd be a good match.
Reese: Okay.
Reese: All righty.
Cokeley Brothers: All right, let's let's let's do some... Let's talk about the quarterfinals here. Up at the top, we got Younger Bastida versus Ben Keeter. Keeter going to have a hard time getting there.
Cokeley Brothers: He's got Conor Mirasola, who beat him earlier this year, but I think we are seeing the best version of Ben Keeter.
Reese: He also
Cokeley Brothers: I think the Iowa Hawkeyes are... I know. Can i finish what I was saying?
Reese: it makes, it it makes, it doesn't make sense when you say he beat him earlier in this year. You preface that when he beat him most recently.
Cokeley Brothers: Right. So so if if I could finish, if i could finish i as I was saying,
Reese: But you, I'm just saying the setup is, it's a weird way to set it up.
Cokeley Brothers: while Cole Mirasola beat Ben Keeter earlier this year, I think the Hawks are peaking at this time of the year, as evidenced by the fact that Ben Keeter beat him at Big Tens.
Reese: Yeah, that's strange. That's all i got to say. Strange.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay. All I'm giving credit to both of them.
Reese: Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: I'm trying to say, hey, there's some back and forth here. It's not it's not black and white. There's a gray area. But I have Keir making the quarters. He's got Bastida. Bastida's going to beat him.
Ryne: I have like light gray, medium gray, dark gray.
Cokeley Brothers: Yep. ah Nick Feldman takes out Braxton Amos to make it to the quarterfinals where he will have AJ Ferrari. And Ferrari is going to get the win over Feldman again to tie their series at two to two.
Ryne: You think so?
Cokeley Brothers: That's what I think. But get ready because something's going to happen in the semis between Ferrari and Bastida.
Reese: Thank you.
Cokeley Brothers: Tegadali beats Devin Dawson who had to take out Nathan Taylor to make it to the quarterfinals. And Connor Doucette falls to Isaac Trumbull in the quarters. In the semis. We have Younger Bastida versus AJ Ferrari, a match, a heated rivalry.
Cokeley Brothers: Good show reference. If that dates back to 2021, Bastida wins this time.
Cokeley Brothers: And ah Ferrari is not happy about it. As a matter of fact,
Cokeley Brothers: AJ Ferrari gets himself disqualified in this match.
Ryne: No. Yeah.
Reese: What's he do?
Cokeley Brothers: I'm not even ready to fathom that. I'm not. I gotta i can't imagine. nobody can Nobody knows what AJ Ferrari's next next move is. And that's that's honestly the that's the charm about him.
Cokeley Brothers: He's unpredictable. ah And so that forces him...
Reese: Well, you can't predict he gets disqualified and then not tell us how.
Ryne: yeah
Cokeley Brothers: Oh! Okay. Alright. Well, I thought you meant like, okay, he got disqualified from the tournament. Now what does he do? i don't know. Transfers, probably? Yeah.
Ryne: Does he helicopter the crowd?
Reese: No, no, no. What's he doing the match?
Cokeley Brothers: Oh, no, he, uh, this, there's an out of bounds exchange late in the match, uh, that, of that devolves into fists and Mark, Mark Manning gets involved.
Reese: Or post-batch?
Cokeley Brothers: Uh, and he,
Ryne: Oh, so only AJ throws punches?
Cokeley Brothers: uh, you can probably, you there's probably going to be some controversy. You hit the replay and it's like, Bastida got his licks in, but AJ was clearly the aggressor or something like that.
Ryne: if he were in If you see Bastida throw any punches whatsoever, he's DQ'd too, per the rules.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, but you have to have a winner. You can't have a non-final.
Ryne: per that's not
Cokeley Brothers: Can't.
Ryne: That's not true.
Cokeley Brothers: And I'll tell you what, Ryan, it's going to be extremely controversial.
Ryne: no You know NJCAA 125, there is no
Cokeley Brothers: Just the way it is.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Reese: What if he hits him with the old...
Ryne: third and fourth place winner
Reese: The
Reese: The old... Dick twist.
Cokeley Brothers: Uh, yeah, Ryan, the one you're talking about was a one 25 pounder from Rutgers. What was his name?
Ryne: It was Jet Strickenberger and Nico Aguilar.
Reese: Aiden? Smith?
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, that's right. Thank you. Uh, but yeah, so, so,
Ryne: they both started They both started swinging. They got DQ'd, so there was no third and fourth place guy that year at 125.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, i mean look, if when if you play back the tape, you can tell how it's like, ah, maybe Basita wasn't really throwing punches. Maybe it was just like really hard clubs. You can't really tell. ah But but ferrari Ferrari turned it into an MMA fight.
Cokeley Brothers: He gets disqualified. I don't really know what they do at that point. Like, does he still have any points counted towards the team score? Or does it all just go to zero?
Ryne: No, no. If you get, if you get, yeah, if you get DQ, they take all your team points.
Cokeley Brothers: Does he still get sixth place?
Ryne: No, no sixth place.
Cokeley Brothers: So there's just no sixth.
Ryne: yeah Let me tell you about this time in 2022 at the NJCAA national championship at 125. Okay. There's this kid, you remember what happened in that story, Sam?
Cokeley Brothers: Between Jet Strickenberger and Nico Aguilar. Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay. All right. Well, that's clear.
Cokeley Brothers: They both threw punches and they both got disqualified.
Ryne: Yeah, and needs neither of them placed. No third or fourth place guy.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay. Okay.
Ryne: First, second, fifth, sixth.
Cokeley Brothers: And no points.
Ryne: No, no points for either of them. Clackamas basically had it in the bag at that point, and then they gave us a shot. We almost came back and beat them because of that.
Cokeley Brothers: Interesting. Okay. ah Man, I wish I had like tracked team race implication because that would probably take Nebraska from like a trophy team to seventh or something like that.
Cokeley Brothers: ah But then we move on to the bottom side. Tegadali takes out Isaac Trumbull and then loses to younger Bastida. Bastida finally gets his chip. Isaac Trumbull takes third, taking out Conor Doucette for third place.
Cokeley Brothers: ah Like I said earlier, AJ Ferrari falls all the way down to sixth. No trophy for him. Nick Feldman takes the fifth place and takes the lead in the series. ah And
Reese: Oh, it's insane. Sorry. Who beats Trumbull?
Cokeley Brothers: And Ben Keeter beats Christian Carroll loses first round.
Reese: Why not have picked Christian Carroll beat him?
Reese: So you you think it's more than sickness for him?
Cokeley Brothers: And he had ah he had a big old knee brace on after his first loss.
Reese: so you think they're lying about the sickness thing?
Cokeley Brothers: Who?
Reese: They said to you it's really sick.
Cokeley Brothers: Who? Who?
Reese: Wyoming.
Cokeley Brothers: Could have been both.
Cokeley Brothers: We'll see. Here's what I know.
Reese: I'm
Cokeley Brothers: I need Christian Carroll on the backside in that spot to take out Cole Mirasola and then to lose to Devin Dawson. So that's what I have. And Ben Keeter beats Devin Dawson for seventh.
Reese: going to... I'm going to just decide thing. i got a weird feeling, back to 25, got a weird feeling that Kale Lordson is going have a good tournament.
Cokeley Brothers: He came alive.
Reese: He had good Big Tens, right?
Cokeley Brothers: He came alive a little bit. And so, you know what, Reese? Who does he have?
Cokeley Brothers: Ooh, Dean Peterson, man, dude.
Reese: He's from Nebraska, right? He's a Nebraska boy.
Cokeley Brothers: I think so. But like,
Cokeley Brothers: that's a tough one, man. I'm not an Iowa fan, but I can't in good conscience have Dean Peterson lose round one.
Reese: I got him losing to Dean Peterson round one, then beating Aiden Smith in a rematch. But then he's got Nico Provo, and I don't know what to do with that one.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah, probably doesn't win that one.
Cokeley Brothers: Nah, I mean, he can he can get a win or two in there, but that's really it.
Reese: Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: All right.
Reese: Which is good. That's good for Freckham.
Cokeley Brothers: That's our second half preview.
Ryne: I pick younger Bastida.
Cokeley Brothers: Breeze?
Reese: Who am I picking?
Cokeley Brothers: Just give me a give me a vibe check.
Reese: i mean, I'll probably end up picking Bastida. I'm not on the Trumbull train. Suddenly everybody thinks Trumbull's the guy to beat. I have no idea why. Bastida hasn't lost this year, so I'm picking Bastida.
Reese: I'm picking Bastida.
Cokeley Brothers: I mean, i can so i can imagine it just because ah Trumbull looked really good against Nick Feldman.
Reese: Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: And I think people are kind of using that as a centralized data point.
Reese: oh
Reese: What about Bastida has made them think that he...
Cokeley Brothers: Everybody says, oh well, he falls apart in March.
Reese: that He and
Cokeley Brothers: you He starts to, he starts to, he doesn't really, things aren't really panned out for him by the time the CAAs come around.
Reese: had one bad match.
Ryne: His hand breaks.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Ryne: His hand breaks.
Reese: One bad match.
Cokeley Brothers: It was pinky or fingy.
Reese: One bad 12 seconds or whatever it was.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: He'll be all right.
Ryne: So who's who's winning the team race?
Cokeley Brothers: um
Cokeley Brothers: Penn State by honestly, actually in my bracket. Yeah. In my brackets, Penn State still wins.
Cokeley Brothers: I think they're the only team with two champs.
Reese: But no record. No new records.
Cokeley Brothers: or No, no new record.
Reese: So, Kale?
Cokeley Brothers: No, no, no, no, no. no no They have eight All-Americans, two champs.
Reese: Is Kale regressing?
Cokeley Brothers: Huh?
Reese: If he doesn't break the record this year, is he regressing? Do we call that regression?
Cokeley Brothers: yeah Yeah, I would say that he's coming down the mountain.
Ryne: Technically, right
Reese: Yeah.
Ryne: by definition of the word.
Cokeley Brothers: Dude, i have so I have Oklahoma State getting two champs, Penn State getting two champs, Ohio State gets one, Iowa State gets one, and Cornell gets three.
Reese: So, I think...
Cokeley Brothers: That is fun. Oh, and Iowa gets one with Ferrari. Iowa gets two with Ayala. Dude, I got a guy.
Reese: Why do you have Ferrari winning?
Cokeley Brothers: Huh?
Reese: Why you have Ferrari winning?
Cokeley Brothers: Because I said at the I said earlier this year that he wouldn't get taken down and now I have to follow through and like, i don't know.
Reese: So that's giving you bias.
Cokeley Brothers: It's lame to be like i took third place, but he didn't get taken down. And so.
Reese: He's lost three times and still hasn't gotten taken down yet.
Cokeley Brothers: I know it's disgusting.
Reese: Who else hasn't been taken down? Vega, Vendivino,
Cokeley Brothers: Sergio Vega, Ben DeVino, Jax Forrest.
Reese: is that it?
Reese: Forrest hasn't been taken down?
Cokeley Brothers: ah I don't think so.
Ryne: Marcus Blaze.
Cokeley Brothers: ah Blaze, I think, gave up a takedown to Willishell.
Reese: Marcus plays has been taken down.
Cokeley Brothers: I think.
Cokeley Brothers: I think he gave up a takedown to somebody.
Cokeley Brothers: Bars given one up. Mezen Brink has given up one PJ Duke is given up a takedown. I think to somebody. Yeah, Brandon Cannon Jesse Mendes has gotten taken down by a better mean kid ah
Reese: like everybody's been taken down. everybody else
Cokeley Brothers: Luke little got taken down by his teammate Yeah Pretty much everybody but them dang true freshmen who'd be looking so good.
Reese: The true freshies.
Cokeley Brothers: Dude, we haven't had an undefeated true freshman national champ since like 1947. Shout
Cokeley Brothers: out to Cornell Kevin for that stat.
Reese: Yeah, but it'll probably have an asterisk.
Cokeley Brothers: Why?
Ryne: Bye.
Reese: I don't know. 13 matches. He'll have 18 matches by the end of the year.
Reese: you talking about Jax Forrest?
Cokeley Brothers: Screw him. Yeah. I mean, it could it could be Jax or Sergio, but ah
Reese: I guess if he write if he gets through, if he makes it, wait, Jax has been taken down.
Cokeley Brothers: I'm saying undefeated. Oh, who took down Jax?
Reese: twice.
Cokeley Brothers: Oh, three times.
Reese: Three times, yeah.
Cokeley Brothers: You're right. Forgot about that match. But he's undefeated. It was the stat.
Reese: Oh, that's talking about? Undefeated?
Cokeley Brothers: haven't had an undefeated freshman.
Reese: True freshman?
Cokeley Brothers: yeah True freshman national champ since 1947.
Reese: I guess.
Reese: I mean, it's really, he's really going to have two matches. Two matches.
Reese: Three, counting the duel with Seidel. He'll have three matches that really, like, you know, that'll actually have wrestled someone high caliber.
Cokeley Brothers: Sergio Vega is another option.
Reese: What?
Cokeley Brothers: Sergio Vega is another option.
Reese: Yeah, Sergio. Dude, Sergio, yeah, if he does it that's amazing.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah. And I'm guessing Hodge is going to go to Mezenbrink or Mendez. Those are the two front runners.
Ryne: Why not Barr?
Cokeley Brothers: Because most of the Penn State vote will go to Mezenbrink.
Reese: think Mendez.
Cokeley Brothers: And like, I'm down to make...
Reese: Maybe it'll be split between Messon, Brink, and Bars.
Cokeley Brothers: I know. i am down to make a campaign push for Josh Barr to split the Penn State vote between those two so that Mendez can win.
Reese: That's a good idea. Hey, I got one question.
Ryne: i just think, I think Barr might might just be the best guy for the for the award.
Cokeley Brothers: Yeah. And then a lot of...
Cokeley Brothers: Cool. Good, good, cool nerd. Reese, what's your question?
Reese: Another totally unrelated question to what we're talking about right now. Styles, Valencia, who do you pick? Who do I pick? Styles or Valencia?
Cokeley Brothers: Styles.
Reese: Really?
Cokeley Brothers: Styles. Styles.
Reese: What about block joy? Well, you're gonna say joy.
Cokeley Brothers: Joy.
Reese: Ryan, what do you think? Ryder, Blocker, Jackson, Joy.
Ryne: Joy.
Reese: right.
Cokeley Brothers: Joy Boy.
Reese: Joy it is.
Reese: I'm not sold on the Styles Valencia just quite yet.
Cokeley Brothers: Okay. Anything else, boys? We've just crossed over an hour. Don't need to make it too long.
Reese: I think we did it.
Cokeley Brothers: All right. Thank you everybody for listening to another episode of the barn session. We've done this for a long time and we're going to keep doing it forever. So keep enjoying, have a good one.
Cokeley Brothers: And thank you. And goodbye.
Reese: Bye-bye.
