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NCAA Championships Recap - Session 102
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We recap the 2026 NCAA Championships.
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Podcast Introduction and NCAA Wrestling Recap Overview
00:00:01
Cokeley Brothers
Welcome back to the Barn Session, everybody. We have to recap NCAAs. So that is what we are going to do.
00:00:06
Reese
Thanks.
00:00:08
Cokeley Brothers
We've given ourselves a week to really digest what happened up in Cleveland, to really s think about the matches and the action and the impact.
00:00:21
Cokeley Brothers
And that's why you know we're so late to recap NCAAs, because we really needed to think about what it all meant. So...
00:00:33
Cokeley Brothers
And Reese needed an apple.
Structuring the Recap: Weight Classes or Finals First?
00:00:36
Cokeley Brothers
So, ah yeah, let's let's talk about nationals.
00:00:36
Reese
Yep, I needed an apple.
00:00:40
Cokeley Brothers
Let's talk about the action. Where do you even want to start? You just want to go weight by weight. Do you want to talk about the finals first? Where do you want to go, Reese? Where do you want to go?
00:00:50
Reese
Um, I don't know, man. It was kind of a... It was a while ago now. ah Um, let's just go weight by weight.
00:00:58
Cokeley Brothers
Oh, my goodness.
00:01:02
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, you're kind of right.
00:01:04
Reese
Oh, God, remember you.
00:01:04
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, let's go weight by weight. I've got the bracket pulled up here.
Spotlight on Luke Lilladol's Season and Finals Performance
00:01:09
Cokeley Brothers
ah Penn State champ Luke Lilladol goes twenty five and o on the season, undefeated.
00:01:16
Cokeley Brothers
Wins just a very boring finals match against Mark Anthony McGowan, which is not really Luke Lilladol's fault. ah Yeah.
00:01:28
Cokeley Brothers
Can I say... I was kind of right about this weight. Kind of.
00:01:34
Reese
What did you say?
00:01:36
Cokeley Brothers
Well, what I really noticed is like, cause I was kind of paying attention to what people would predict and what like some people even would go and put their like round of 12 finishers out there and all that stuff. Uh, not many people had Jacob Moran and in their like top 12.
00:01:55
Cokeley Brothers
And I was right.
00:01:55
Reese
Yeah.
00:01:56
Cokeley Brothers
He placed sixth. He made the semis. He beat Nick Bousakis. He beat Jory Volk. He fell to Mark Anthony McGowan and then slid right on down to sixth. And you know what? We take those.
00:02:05
Reese
Not a lot of people would predicted that outside of Indiana fans, which is what category you fall into.
00:02:10
Cokeley Brothers
Right.
00:02:14
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. ah
00:02:15
Reese
Indiana fan.
00:02:16
Cokeley Brothers
I'd like to think I'm more than just a fan. I'd like to think I'm like the loudest voice that they have.
00:02:19
Reese
What are you?
00:02:25
Cokeley Brothers
He's me. He mutes himself when he eats an apple. He's really smart now about it. For those of you that have viscerally complained about his eating sounds while recording. um Yeah.
Lilladol's Strategy: Boring but Effective?
00:02:39
Cokeley Brothers
Luke Lilladol really, I want kind of i do want to say this cause I thought about it the other day.
00:02:43
Cokeley Brothers
ah he if you watch Luke's matches but for pretty much the entire season, It always felt like as soon as he got in on a shot or as soon as he took an attack or was countering his opponent and was in a scoring position, he just kind of stayed composed until he gets the takedown. He didn't really feel like he overextended or reached or really strained himself to get the score and just kind of stayed ready until...
00:03:12
Cokeley Brothers
He was waiting for them to dive roll or to overreact from a swing single position, whatever it was, kind of just stayed in good position and then eventually scored his takedown.
00:03:24
Cokeley Brothers
ah Which maybe is boring, but.
00:03:26
Reese
Yeah, he's good from everywhere.
00:03:29
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, he it didn't it ever felt like he was really in danger of losing any of his matches, even though it was he had a 4-2 match against Strickenberger, 2-1 against Dean Peterson and 2-1 against Mark Anthony McGowan. It just didn't ever really feel like he was going to lose any of those matches. So.
Potential Challengers to Lilladol's Dominance
00:03:47
Reese
Hopefully somebody can come in and challenge him at some point.
00:03:47
Cokeley Brothers
Solid stuff.
00:03:47
Cokeley Brothers
Like.
00:03:50
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:03:52
Reese
I didn't really expect him to kind of separate himself like this.
00:03:53
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:03:57
Reese
um
00:03:58
Cokeley Brothers
Mm hmm.
00:03:58
Reese
At least not at this point. I don't know
00:04:01
Cokeley Brothers
Right. It's, it's super interesting to think about the fact that his only loss was his teammate.
00:04:08
Reese
know. Yeah.
00:04:09
Cokeley Brothers
And it's, you might, you might ask yourself, man, if Nate Desmond wasn't at Penn state, would he have been in the finals? Maybe, maybe not. maybe I don't even know if he would have been at one 25 for a different team.
00:04:17
Reese
Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:20
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know. So, uh, that was interesting to think about. And, What else about this weight?
00:04:31
Cokeley Brothers
ah Troy Spratly, I felt like was the guy who went out there and really tried to like take it to to Luke Lilladol. And we saw how that panned out. It didn't work.
00:04:42
Cokeley Brothers
It, you know, Lilladol had all the answers and, and it just, it was not the way to approach a match like that.
00:04:47
Reese
Yeah.
00:04:50
Cokeley Brothers
So you can't try and, and break things open.
00:04:51
Reese
Well, yeah. not you can't You can't approach a match like that when you're that, oh you're you're that ah you know,
00:04:53
Cokeley Brothers
You can't. Yeah.
00:05:04
Reese
you're just outmatched. You're outmanned, outgunned.
00:05:07
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Yeah.
Future Matchups and Speculations for Lilladol
00:05:09
Reese
Like, if maybe if if maybe if it's somebody else, you know, who's on that level, maybe...
00:05:09
Cokeley Brothers
Right.
00:05:16
Reese
But I don't know if there is anybody.
00:05:16
Cokeley Brothers
Right.
00:05:18
Reese
I mean, this is a guy who...
00:05:19
Cokeley Brothers
Right.
00:05:21
Reese
He's got wins, like multiple wins over Jax Forrest. um
00:05:26
Cokeley Brothers
Mm
00:05:26
Reese
He's beaten Bo Bassett. He's beaten pretty much everybody. Any any and everybody he's... Has he ever wrestled Marcus Blaze?
00:05:34
Cokeley Brothers
<unk>t know if he's ever wrestled Blazed. Did he beat Bo Bassett? I know he's lost to Bo. I don't know if he's beaten him.
00:05:39
Reese
I think he's beaten him before, yeah.
00:05:41
Cokeley Brothers
Okay.
00:05:43
Reese
I believe they've gone back and forth.
00:05:44
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. Oh, yeah. ah Dude, I do wish that we could have seen like
00:05:51
Cokeley Brothers
Honestly, the old Lillard only wrestled two all Americans and he beat them Spratly and McGowan, but like, it would have been interesting to see him go out there and wrestle Nico Provo or a,
Rising Stars: Provo and Jax Forrest's Impact
00:06:04
Cokeley Brothers
a Vince Robinson.
00:06:04
Reese
Provo would have been interesting, yeah.
00:06:07
Reese
Provo, he went ham on the backside.
00:06:07
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, I think he went ham on the back.
00:06:11
Cokeley Brothers
So he he lost him a going in the second round, four to two, and then stepped up on the backside and, Yeah, major decision, decision, major, decision, major. like Just kind of hammered his way through that backside.
00:06:27
Cokeley Brothers
ah
00:06:28
Reese
That'll be interesting. What if he's a sophomore or a junior?
00:06:32
Cokeley Brothers
Provo, I believe, should be just a sophomore because he was a freshman two years ago, medically redshirted last year. It says Richard junior on Russell staff, but I think that's because they didn't apply the med shirt.
00:06:50
Cokeley Brothers
Let me confirm. Or did he just flat out rich? No, he it was a flat red shirt. Okay. 2023 freshman, 24 sophomore. Last year was a red shirt. This year he's a junior.
00:07:01
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. So he's got one more year.
00:07:04
Reese
Hmm.
00:07:05
Cokeley Brothers
Interesting. I don't remember him in 2023 at all.
00:07:09
Reese
Feels like he's been around for a while.
00:07:13
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Well, I remember him in 2024. He won CKLV and he was ranked number one. And then I think like the next weekend.
00:07:19
Reese
Yeah, I thought he was a freshman that year.
00:07:22
Cokeley Brothers
yeah i thought that i thought that Yeah, I thought that was his freshman year because he he wins the CKLV and then the next week or two weeks after that, Stanford wrestles Virginia Tech and he loses to Cooper Flynn 5-2.
00:07:34
Cokeley Brothers
Tyler
00:07:36
Reese
I thought both him and Knox were freshmen, but I guess not.
00:07:37
Cokeley Brothers
um
00:07:42
Cokeley Brothers
tyler knox
00:07:43
Reese
No, that year. Because Knox redshirted the next year and now he's a sophomore.
00:07:50
Reese
Right?
00:07:50
Cokeley Brothers
Interesting.
00:07:51
Reese
Or no, no. No, he was in the tournament last year. So hes he was a junior this year.
00:07:55
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, Knox was in AA last year. So really, i thought Knox was going to end up starting in 2024, but Dom LaJoy ended up being the starter.
00:07:58
Reese
Or did he redshirt in...
00:08:04
Reese
That's right.
00:08:06
Cokeley Brothers
Then he was an All-American last year at eighth, and then an All-American this year at sixth, which really him taking sixth at 133 is kind of impressive.
00:08:13
Reese
Did he, uh, so is he a junior to or is he a sophomore?
00:08:17
Cokeley Brothers
He's a sophomore.
00:08:18
Reese
Okay.
00:08:19
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. ah Some round of 12 guys or just some guys on the backside who like I'm surprised to see where they fell.
00:08:30
Cokeley Brothers
um Two Big Ten guys, Dean Peterson and Nick Buzakis, both lose to Tyler Klinski of Ryder. Good performance for Klinski. um Suck to see Buzakis' season end that way.
00:08:44
Cokeley Brothers
um it sucked to see Dean Peterson never get on the podium, but That's the sport, man. That's the sport.
00:08:52
Reese
Yeah.
00:08:55
Reese
Yeah, I
00:08:55
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
Dynamics of the 133-pound Weight Class
00:08:56
Reese
don't know.
00:08:57
Reese
Bousakis, I feel bad for. Peterson, I don't know.
00:09:01
Cokeley Brothers
Not so much.
00:09:02
Reese
Not as much.
00:09:04
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. That's fair. All right. Any other 125 thoughts? Okay. Okay.
00:09:12
Reese
Well, Mark Anthony McGowan, was he sophomore this year?
00:09:16
Cokeley Brothers
i believe so. There was like questions about whether he would actually start to wrestle in in college. ah Like I think in the middle of the season last year.
00:09:29
Cokeley Brothers
ah Let me double check that he is. Yeah, he's a sophomore. He did a gray shirt year, I think in 2024. Or yeah I think so at the New Jersey RTC.
00:09:43
Cokeley Brothers
think he was class of 2023, like number one, I think. Qualified last year, took second this year. princeton Princeton can put out some lightweights, so we'll see if ah we'll see if he can continue to be an elite guy at 125.
00:10:00
Cokeley Brothers
His style is not great.
00:10:02
Reese
He's big, bro. I don't think he's i don't think he's staying at 25. I don't know.
00:10:07
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, and if he goes 33, it's going to get a lot uglier for him.
00:10:07
Reese
I mean, he looked huge to me. You
00:10:13
Cokeley Brothers
Or it gets a lot better.
00:10:13
Reese
know what?
00:10:15
Reese
Yeah, maybe.
00:10:15
Cokeley Brothers
I would love to see.
00:10:17
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Imagine that.
00:10:19
Reese
Who knows?
00:10:20
Reese
Maybe you can add to the to the way. Yeah.
00:10:20
Cokeley Brothers
Imagine he
00:10:23
Cokeley Brothers
Yes. Imagine he grows into 133 and then becomes this at least more of an offensive juggernaut. And then you have, you have to Vino, maybe blaze side L maybe forest. I don't know. I could see blazing and forest both bumping up. As a matter of fact, let's get to that weight. Now, 133 Jack's forest hops into the middle of the season.
00:10:42
Cokeley Brothers
destroys the competition. Uh, his only close match, uh, matches of the year are Aaron Seidel, who he later majors in the semis at nationals. And then in the finals, uh, against Ben DeVino wins five to two,
00:10:56
Cokeley Brothers
the kids, a hammer, uh, i I need to say that I'm wrong fully 100% because I said earlier in the season, I don't think that this is a good idea and that I i don't think it's worth it.
00:11:10
Cokeley Brothers
Oklahoma state finished second as a team. Jack's forest won and a national title and people are talking about him being Hodge, a Hodge contender, which maybe probably probably not. um Yeah, that he's the real deal.
00:11:24
Reese
He is.
00:11:24
Cokeley Brothers
He's the real deal now.
00:11:24
Reese
I mean, I was wrong too. I thought Blaze would figure out a way to beat DeVino. And then I really, you know, i felt like Blaze would maybe be the one guy who could, I mean, he has been before the one guy to beat jacks um but marcus he couldn't beat devino hell lost five to zero to a dude who i'm pretty sure the last time they wrestled he tagged him in freestyle so it's it's interesting sad boy hours and
00:11:44
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:11:54
Cokeley Brothers
Oh yeah. Yeah. But I think that advantage, I mean, we, we saw it happen. Seidel got on top. Yeah. But also Seidel got on top and that's the difference between folks on freestyle. Right.
00:12:05
Reese
took him down
00:12:06
Cokeley Brothers
Yes. Yes. So maybe some sad boy hours. I don't know. You know what? you know what I think? I think Marcus blazes is not long for 33. I,
00:12:16
Reese
He didn't, I don't know, well whatever it is, whether he's too big or, um you know, he just, I don't know, whatever it is, he needs to figure something out because, I don't know, man, he just, ah I wasn't expecting him to get, like, i mean, that side down match, you know, maybe it is just third place.
00:12:17
Cokeley Brothers
I think he makes his way up.
00:12:27
Cokeley Brothers
Hmm.
00:12:38
Reese
He didn't really care as much, but, like, to get kind of outplayed like that,
00:12:45
Reese
Oh, no, man. You shouldn't. Sidell did look really good. Sidell is really, really, really good. And the Hokies. Got be happy. Got be happy if you're a Hokie.
00:12:45
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, I mean, Seidel looked really good.
00:12:57
Cokeley Brothers
Right, right.
00:12:58
Reese
But, yeah, Blaze, don't know.
00:12:59
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:13:00
Reese
I don't know. Maybe figure some things out with your offense specifically.
00:13:05
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe.
00:13:06
Reese
Yeah.
00:13:07
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe, but yeah, I have some thoughts about that. I do think like if blaze, I think putting blaze, keeping him at 133 pounds next year for Penn state is the wrong choice. I think if they are going if they are considering blaze, Oh no 33, 41, that they should do.
00:13:25
Cokeley Brothers
Oh no 33 blaze 41, just to see if it changes something for Marcus blaze. Cause I don't, Unless they they have a different answer, like a different solution for changing Blaze's performance.
00:13:39
Cokeley Brothers
um He's got the frame to be a 41-pounder. Now, does he do against Stanich and Vega? i don't know. I don't know.
00:13:50
Reese
Well, I think, I mean, he's beaten Vega before.
00:13:51
Cokeley Brothers
And like for...
00:13:53
Reese
beat Vega a little over a year ago in folk style.
00:13:58
Cokeley Brothers
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:13:59
Reese
don't know. I think he'd be fine. don't think it would be a different challenge. I think it'd be similar challenge. And I think, honestly, at this point, I think Divino is better. think Divino's...
00:14:10
Reese
I don't know. Vega's not going to be a 41, first off. I don't think. is what i From what I'm gathering, sounds like he's going up. going up He can't make 41 anymore.
00:14:20
Cokeley Brothers
So do you think we're going see a double bump?
00:14:24
Reese
Jax and Vega? Maybe, yeah.
00:14:26
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. I don't know. I heard that Forrest is going to be wrestling 61 kilograms this summer, which might just mean that he's sticking around at 133.
00:14:34
Reese
Jax could stay a 33. didn't hear... I mean, yeah. But, but the yeah, Vega, the word is, he's big.
00:14:38
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe.
00:14:41
Reese
He's big, big, big boy.
00:14:44
Cokeley Brothers
No.
00:14:44
Reese
So, he's, yeah, he's SOL.
00:14:45
Cokeley Brothers
So what does that do? What happens to Casey?
00:14:49
Reese
He's, figure something out, yeah.
00:14:50
Cokeley Brothers
He's out.
00:14:54
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:14:54
Reese
Because RobbyDew doesn't really look big enough to go 65.
00:14:58
Cokeley Brothers
No. And then you got Ladarian Lockett.
00:15:02
Cokeley Brothers
Now, I am hearing that there's a chance that Lockett red shirts and they bring in they try and bring in somebody from the portal for one year 165.
00:15:11
Reese
Really?
00:15:12
Cokeley Brothers
Like if we see ah one thing, like a potential thing I could see is like, uh, no, I don't know. Like, I don't know if this was a discussion that people had. This was just like an idea that was thrown out there.
00:15:22
Cokeley Brothers
Um, in terms of Ladarian redshirting and in terms of a guy that could maybe be in the portal, which is Joey blaze. If he's unhappy with the way things are looking at Purdue, going from being a finalist to taking sixth kind of, of his own choice.
00:15:39
Cokeley Brothers
Um, Maybe he's unhappy. I don't know. He could to be totally happy at Purdue and say that this is my home and I'm staying. So I don't know. But we'll find that out.
00:15:47
Reese
You think he probably graduated, right?
00:15:51
Cokeley Brothers
No, he's he's a true junior. Yeah. The Blaze brothers do not believe in red shirts. We will find out. We will start to hear portal news very shortly. April 1st is the first day and it is one probably one of the dumbest choices of days. like Why not make it the 2nd or the 31st of March? like April 1st is really the first day that they're going to start letting people announce that they're entering the transfer portal?
00:16:20
Cokeley Brothers
Really? what are we how are we gonna so How are we supposed to believe what's what's true and what's not, Reese?
00:16:27
Reese
Well, you're just going have to take a leap of faith, as they say.
00:16:33
Reese
find God.
00:16:33
Cokeley Brothers
Take a leap of faith.
00:16:35
Cokeley Brothers
wish I wish had access to the portal. But anyway. um
00:16:43
Cokeley Brothers
A surprise, some surprises on the backside, because this weight finished out. Forrest Devino, which i am i have I have high expectations for Devino moving forward. Seidel, Blaze, ah Drake Ayala, Tyler Knox, fifth and sixth, and then Van D taking seventh over Lucas Bird, who finished in eighth, went from first to eighth.
00:17:05
Cokeley Brothers
ah Some guys who didn't place, or at least one, Larkin. Larkin not placing, That kind of surprised me. it Jacob Vandy. Okay.
00:17:17
Cokeley Brothers
Vandy loses round one to Julian Farber from Northern Iowa. Loses to him five to four. The 13 seed loses to the 20 seed, which I actually think i I had marked down because I thought Vandy had a concussion. I didn't really think he was going to like really wrestle.
00:17:34
Cokeley Brothers
Wins wins by the skin of his teeth, 10 to seven over, over Willis shell. And then just four to two over Walker, 12 to one over Grice, two to one over Markel Baker to place. And then he beats Lucas bird for seventh place.
00:17:47
Cokeley Brothers
Stellar performance from the corn Husker. ah they're continuing to get some solid performances out of him in the post season. Um,
00:17:59
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, and that's kind of it, honestly. like Farber losing in the blood round, I'm not shocked by. Markel Baker, i kind of like I thought Baker would have beaten Van D in the blood round when I saw that matchup.
00:18:11
Cokeley Brothers
Just because Baker... like No, you're shaking your head.
00:18:17
Cokeley Brothers
ah You're muted still. That's okay.
00:18:20
Reese
Sorry.
00:18:21
Cokeley Brothers
That's okay.
00:18:22
Reese
um ah Well, you know, I said Vandy, classic Vandy, vintage Vandy, backside, you know, warrior.
00:18:23
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know.
00:18:31
Reese
But no, Markel, I don't know.
00:18:31
Cokeley Brothers
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:18:32
Reese
as what What makes you think Markel Baker is better than Vandy?
00:18:36
Cokeley Brothers
Didn't he... I guess it was a sudden victory went over Serrano. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe that was a really dumb choice and in thought.
00:18:48
Cokeley Brothers
So... Yeah, this will be an interesting way to keep an eye on moving into the future.
00:18:56
Cokeley Brothers
Especially just to see who's going to be in it next year.
00:18:56
Reese
Thank you.
00:18:59
Cokeley Brothers
I expect Divino to stick around and... and Dude, talk about talk about a... I don't even know how... like You're Ben DeVino. you've been You've been working your ass off all year long to to win this title. You hear about this guy that comes in in the middle of the season and you say, it doesn't matter. plans the The goal remains the same.
00:19:24
Cokeley Brothers
You make finals. You make it to the finals. you've, you've beat, you've battled and you've, you've beaten all the tests that have come in front of you, even avenging a loss twice. And first match of finals, you watch your, your team captain and the, probably your, your training partner,
00:19:35
Reese
Thank
00:19:40
Cokeley Brothers
ah take you know, lose to this true freshman, Sergio Vega, who didn't give up any takedowns all year. And now you've got to wrestle that guy's teammate and you lose a one takedown match.
00:19:53
Cokeley Brothers
I saw a picture of Divino after afterwards in the hallway, face face in his hands. And just, I can't imagine that he's the type of guy to do anything, but just kind of take it, take it up another notch in terms of training and, and,
00:20:11
Cokeley Brothers
Elevating his game to be even more.
00:20:14
Reese
Yeah, it seems like him and Mendez have a good thing going.
00:20:15
Cokeley Brothers
Prepped and ready for next year.
00:20:18
Reese
Hopefully Mendez sticks around.
00:20:19
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:20:22
Cokeley Brothers
Hopefully. Hopefully I'm excited.
00:20:25
Reese
i didn't even...
00:20:25
Cokeley Brothers
I'm excited for the.
00:20:26
Reese
this Did you see this match with Seidel and Ayala? Did you watch that match?
00:20:32
Cokeley Brothers
ah Yeah, it was bad.
00:20:35
Reese
You just smoke him.
00:20:36
Cokeley Brothers
If I remember correctly.
00:20:36
Reese
Yeah.
00:20:38
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, 11 to zero. But it was like, I think he took him down and rode him and turned him, I think.
00:20:46
Reese
Yeah.
00:20:46
Cokeley Brothers
Let's see here. Yeah, reversed him, got some near fall. Eala took neutral. Seidel took him down, turned him, and rode him out. So, geez.
00:20:58
Reese
Dang.
00:21:00
Cokeley Brothers
What a beating.
00:21:00
Reese
He looks big too. Sidell looks big.
00:21:03
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
00:21:05
Reese
Big boy.
00:21:06
Cokeley Brothers
We'll see.
00:21:07
Reese
hey you like I saw like a video of him walking next to Freya and i was like, oh my god. is
00:21:13
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, Freire's short.
00:21:15
Reese
He is short. But what when he was like a 41 or 49, think.
00:21:16
Cokeley Brothers
He's short.
00:21:21
Cokeley Brothers
think so. He's definitely ah muscled wide, for sure.
00:21:25
Reese
yeah
00:21:28
Cokeley Brothers
All right. 141. The weight of surprises, or at least a weight with surprises. Namely, in the finals, Sergio Vega completes the completes a full season of just not giving up any takedowns.
00:21:43
Cokeley Brothers
As a true freshman, beating you know the the one of the Hodge favorites prior to the final session of NCAAs, Jesse Mendez, two-time national champ.
00:21:57
Cokeley Brothers
And what can you even say, man? What can you even say?
00:22:06
Reese
I was shocked.
00:22:06
Cokeley Brothers
Except how does he do it? Yeah.
00:22:10
Reese
I don't know. The flow guys were like, oh, not surprised.
00:22:11
Cokeley Brothers
Now.
00:22:14
Reese
Figured it was not going to happen coming in like to the tournament or whatever. I didn't see coming. I don't know.
00:22:22
Cokeley Brothers
I know, like.
00:22:23
Reese
I was shocked. I figured they go or Mendez would just find a way to double off you know, do something, man, figure something out.
00:22:34
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:22:35
Reese
He's been there so many times.
00:22:35
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know. I was nervous. i was nervous I was nervous and like seeing how Stanich was able to kind of limit Mendez. I was like, okay, that makes me a little nervous too, but it's def, it's a diff, totally different body style. So maybe, you know, you put that into play and and it's a different situation, but i don't know.
00:22:55
Cokeley Brothers
And, It just, it felt, it feels like if you have Mendez wrestle him a couple more times that he starts to get some wins over him and he starts to get something figured out, it just feels like Vega is a little bit of a puzzle that if you give somebody some some some shots on him, they're going to figure it out.
00:23:14
Cokeley Brothers
Like, I do feel as if a Bo Bassett would be a guy who solves Sergio Vega a match or two.
00:23:22
Reese
You know what? I lied. i don't think Blaze wrestled Vega last year.
00:23:25
Cokeley Brothers
Hmm.
00:23:27
Reese
made that up. He was supposed to in the Ironman.
00:23:29
Cokeley Brothers
Okay.
00:23:30
Reese
And then he lost to Mendoza. Vega did. So I like to retract that.
00:23:35
Cokeley Brothers
Vega did.
00:23:38
Reese
Yeah. Remember Mendoza lost to Blaze.
00:23:44
Cokeley Brothers
Interesting. And now they're all at different weights.
00:23:46
Reese
Yep. For now.
00:23:47
Cokeley Brothers
Crazy.
00:23:48
Reese
For now.
00:23:50
Cokeley Brothers
For now, maybe maybe moving forward. Mendoza really looks like he could be a serious 57-pounder.
00:23:57
Reese
yeah Is he not gonna go 49 next year?
00:24:00
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know. Like, like he could be 49 and vegaga Vega could be 49, but at Vega could be 49 and Mendoza might be 57. I don't know.
00:24:07
Reese
Don't hope he goes 49. I don't know unless he gets a lot bigger. I mean he'll probably get bigger eventually
00:24:12
Cokeley Brothers
Hey, I, it looked like, it looked like he had the frame to do it.
00:24:15
Reese
Yeah, but he did not have the muscles
00:24:16
Cokeley Brothers
Got them long, long limbs. Right. That comes with time and weights. um Luke Stanich kind of showed out, took third place, looked good doing it.
00:24:27
Reese
Okay.
00:24:30
Cokeley Brothers
um Brock Hardy finishes a solid career in fourth some guys that surprised me in terms of not placing ah
00:24:43
Cokeley Brothers
three namely and that is Vance Von Bar Nasir Bailey and Vince Cornella Vince Cornella loses to Carter Noggle of Air Force who's that who's that
00:24:57
Reese
I don't know, dude.
00:24:58
Cokeley Brothers
I never heard of him. And he ends up taking fifth.
00:24:59
Reese
Took fifth place, though.
00:25:02
Reese
Yeah.
00:25:02
Cokeley Brothers
Took fifth place.
00:25:04
Cokeley Brothers
Wyatt Henson, a guy who over the last previous two seasons comes into NCAA's ranked or seeded pretty high because he doesn't really have much of a season because Lock Haven's schedule isn't anything notable.
00:25:20
Cokeley Brothers
ah Comes in, out think, like the 13th seed, but then just just buckles up and gets the job done against Nasir Bailey. Yeah, I don't know, man. And CJ Composto, a guy that Vince Cornella beat three times, four times?
00:25:35
Cokeley Brothers
Four times this year, I think? Southern Scuffle, Penn Duel, Ivy Leagues, NCAAs, and then Composto places, Cornella doesn't.
00:25:47
Reese
I mean, what can you say about Compasso other than Mr.
00:25:48
Cokeley Brothers
Ouch. Which...
00:25:49
Reese
March? mr march
00:25:53
Cokeley Brothers
He's Mr. March. I guess. And Cornell is not when there's a there's a whole overarching like what happened to the Cornell wrestling team that weekend.
00:26:06
Cokeley Brothers
ah But that could be a tie a story for another day or a conversation for another day. Etchimendia slides into sixth after majoring Composto.
00:26:19
Cokeley Brothers
And that's kind of the story of this weight. ah
00:26:25
Reese
Stanislaw looked really good. i thought i thought he looked like a clear three, like third best guy.
00:26:27
Cokeley Brothers
Stanchis look good.
00:26:32
Reese
who knows?
00:26:33
Reese
I would like to see a match between him and Vega.
00:26:33
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:26:33
Cokeley Brothers
100%.
00:26:36
Reese
i don't think he I think he's he's not going attack.
00:26:36
Cokeley Brothers
Mm-mm.
00:26:39
Reese
He's probably not going attack. So I have really no idea what would happen. i I imagine Vega would maybe squeak it out and ride outs or something like that.
00:26:45
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:26:49
Cokeley Brothers
I mean, we're probably just not going to see it.
00:26:51
Reese
Probably not now. Unless sandwich goes up a weight and fit.
00:26:53
Cokeley Brothers
No.
00:26:56
Reese
I want to say both go up weights or they both stay at 41 or whatever.
00:26:56
Cokeley Brothers
I don't think he is. He's.
00:27:00
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:27:00
Reese
i mean Sanders is big dude.
00:27:01
Cokeley Brothers
yeah
00:27:02
Reese
He was a big dude. This is a 25 pounder two years ago.
00:27:04
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. I know. yeah I mean, he's cut.
00:27:10
Reese
But
00:27:12
Cokeley Brothers
look He's cut like he's very, very lean.
00:27:14
Reese
he looked big compared to Mendez.
00:27:14
Cokeley Brothers
So he could. He could be. Yeah, he could be a. ah More filled out or I guess ah a less lean 49 pounder, but I think honestly, especially if Vegas gone.
00:27:33
Cokeley Brothers
What is what in I guess Bo Bassett comes in. Maybe probably that's the expectation, I think.
00:27:39
Reese
And one of those thirty three s are coming up, I would imagine.
00:27:42
Cokeley Brothers
One of those 33s bump up probably still, even with all that.
00:27:45
Reese
Yeah, they don't all want to stay at the same, they don't all want to stay at the same weight. That would suck for them, I feel like.
00:27:51
Cokeley Brothers
Right. Mendez. Mendez is is out. Brock Hardy is out. I think Stanich would have Etchamendia's number. ah Dude.
00:28:01
Cokeley Brothers
I mean, this starts to become a way where, huh?
00:28:03
Reese
How old is Carter Noble?
00:28:07
Reese
How old is Carter Noble?
00:28:10
Cokeley Brothers
ah I think he's a sophomore or a junior. Let's take a look here.
00:28:19
Cokeley Brothers
Carter is a sophomore.
00:28:24
Reese
Interesting.
00:28:26
Cokeley Brothers
Yep. He took took third at it at Big 12s. I don't think...
00:28:29
Reese
Yeah. It's not a one-off, probably.
00:28:32
Cokeley Brothers
But I mean, dude, he had he had some losses. He had a loss to David Sainz, Tyler Wells, AJ Rallo, Jack Concilio, Lorenzo Frezza. He majored by Lorenzo Frezza.
00:28:44
Cokeley Brothers
Dominic DiTulio. But hey, you put it all together in March.
00:28:47
Reese
Ooh, Dominic DiCoco?
00:28:51
Cokeley Brothers
Dominic DiCoco. You put it together in March and that's all that matters, man. That's all that people will remember. So hats off to Carter and and the Air Force.
00:29:02
Cokeley Brothers
right All right, 149.
00:29:06
Cokeley Brothers
Dude, this this reminds me. What did I go on finals picks? Did I go, i think I went four or four out of 10.
00:29:14
Reese
That's because you didn't pick with your brain.
00:29:18
Cokeley Brothers
I kind of did, kind of.
00:29:20
Reese
Not really.
00:29:23
Cokeley Brothers
My brain told me Mendez.
00:29:25
Reese
Your brain said only three Penn State champions.
00:29:25
Cokeley Brothers
My brain told me Shane Van Ness.
00:29:28
Reese
what your brain said.
00:29:29
Cokeley Brothers
Right. But I felt like the three Penn State champs that I picked made the most sense. I guess, no. You know what i totally forgot about? McGowan and Liladol wrestled earlier this year, and McGowan got stalled out of the match.
00:29:44
Cokeley Brothers
Should have known. Should known about that.
00:29:45
Reese
Yeah.
00:29:47
Cokeley Brothers
um
00:29:47
Reese
That boy is a stall monster.
00:29:48
Cokeley Brothers
That is really... Yeah. But like I didn't expect Valencia to beat Van Ness. Now, Anshal Taylor, Landon Robodeau, I don't know. i mean You wrestle that match again, you can get a different result easily.
00:30:01
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah,
00:30:02
Reese
Dude, I mean, yeah, the back points, I think you wrestle that 10 more times and you don't see back points after that that that initial match.
00:30:12
Reese
You never see back points again.
00:30:14
Cokeley Brothers
probably not. Probably not. Which which is crazy because they wrestled earlier this year. You know?
00:30:20
Reese
Yeah.
00:30:23
Cokeley Brothers
But yeah, anyway, 149 Aiden Valencia runs the gauntlet down as a 10 seed really
00:30:33
Cokeley Brothers
didn't have an easy match after the first match beat. And even dude, yeah he had, had Max Peterson round one. That's a tough 23 seed match, but he he gets the, he gets the job done 18 to six.
00:30:46
Cokeley Brothers
And then has Ethan Stiles beats him seven to five has to complete a comeback against Jackson. Joy, the two seed beats him. 12 to nine beats Lachlan McNeil nine to five. And then as a sudden victory match against Shane Van Ness and beats him eight to five, dude.
00:31:00
Cokeley Brothers
And I mean, this is a guy that we saw, uh, at the start of the year, we thought he was going to be a 41 pounder. He says, I'm bumping up to 49. He takes a loss to, uh, Utah Valley's David Evans, like week one. And it's like, Hmm,
00:31:16
Cokeley Brothers
He'll be another guy. And then, and then especially with how 149 panned out, it's like, yeah, this way, this way it's total chaos. Like you wrestle, you wrestle this bracket 10 times. You're going to get, you know, however many different results with Shane Van Ness being the champ of basically all of those brackets.
00:31:36
Cokeley Brothers
And instead, Aiden Valencia just goes out there and wins it. So.
00:31:40
Reese
So he lost to Evans again. no, no, no, no. no Utah Valley is Big 12. Did he win? ah Oh, he's in the ACC. That's right. He lost to Guy or Biscons.
00:31:51
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. he He took third guy and Biscons took first and second.
00:31:52
Reese
Yeah.
00:31:56
Reese
That's right. That's so confusing.
00:31:56
Cokeley Brothers
I don't, uh, why?
00:32:00
Cokeley Brothers
Cause of the locations.
00:32:01
Reese
It's just because, yeah, Stanford, I mean, i don't know. I just, you know, it wasn't that long ago where it wasn't this way.
00:32:07
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:32:10
Reese
Utah Valley in the big 12, Stanford in the ACC.
00:32:10
Cokeley Brothers
I get it.
00:32:10
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:32:13
Reese
It's just very confusing.
00:32:15
Cokeley Brothers
And it's crazy to think about, ah Van Ness and Valencia wrestled in in the duel at the the journeyman collegiate duels. And Van Ness beat him 10-4, I think.
00:32:28
Reese
Yeah, that is crazy.
00:32:28
Cokeley Brothers
So, i don't know.
00:32:31
Cokeley Brothers
Just the the kid went out there.
00:32:31
Reese
you You take away one takedown, know,
00:32:33
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:32:37
Reese
Or I guess you reverse. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:43
Cokeley Brothers
Pretty much.
00:32:43
Reese
Similar, similar result.
00:32:44
Cokeley Brothers
Pretty much. But... I really thought he was going to shoot himself out of that match. The way he was getting in on Vanessa's legs.
00:32:52
Reese
Valencia?
00:32:54
Cokeley Brothers
yeah i thought he was I thought he was going to exhaust himself.
00:32:55
Reese
Wow. What do you, i mean, you know why he didn't exhaust himself.
00:33:03
Cokeley Brothers
Because he didn't have to make weight.
00:33:05
Reese
No, the stoppages.
00:33:08
Cokeley Brothers
Oh, the blood.
00:33:09
Reese
Yeah.
00:33:11
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, even still, I just kind of thought, i don't know.
00:33:14
Reese
There were a lot of stoppages, bro.
00:33:17
Cokeley Brothers
There were, there were, you're not wrong.
00:33:17
Reese
And a guy like Aiden Blunt, yeah, I mean, he's going he'll replenish. He's young.
00:33:25
Cokeley Brothers
As long as work.
00:33:26
Reese
Really?
00:33:27
Reese
Yeah.
00:33:27
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, you're right.
00:33:28
Cokeley Brothers
Uh, I did really,
00:33:29
Reese
I think you, I think if there weren't been the, there hadn't been the stoppages, I think probably a different, different outcome. My guess not taking anything away from them, even though I i kind of am.
00:33:38
Cokeley Brothers
there's, yeah, that's, I think that's totally valid.
00:33:42
Reese
Yeah.
00:33:43
Cokeley Brothers
I think totally valid indeed. Um, I really did think the Matt, the guy to beat Van Ness to, to stop his run was going to be Casey Swiderski. And we saw that we, that was probably, that probably had the exchange of the tournament in that, that sudden victory period.
00:33:59
Reese
Easily good. I watched that. I've seen that. I've watched that exchange probably 30 times and I showed it to like a bunch of people.
00:34:06
Cokeley Brothers
It's great.
00:34:08
Reese
was, I don't know. It was awesome. So cool, dude.
00:34:11
Cokeley Brothers
It was, it was super cool.
00:34:12
Reese
mean, especially after so eight and a half minutes of wrestling.
00:34:17
Cokeley Brothers
Right. Like they basically said, hey, screw write outs. We're figuring this out right now. I don't want I don't want to leave it up to the judges. And they duked it out, dude.
00:34:26
Reese
Yeah. There was a bunch of like people arguing online about goal. Casey should, why did he, Why did he shoot in so many times and give Van Ness those opportunities? And, you know, why did he turn and run at the end and give up that takedown? it's like, bro, he's exhausted.
00:34:45
Reese
And, yeah, he's just – he did what fans – and just – he did exactly what every wrestler dreams of doing and that's in that situation.
00:34:57
Reese
You know, but only, like, a finite amount of them can actually – well, actually –
00:34:58
Cokeley Brothers
Right.
00:35:03
Reese
pull the trigger and, you know, just go, just take the title for, for Banff.
00:35:06
Cokeley Brothers
Dude. Yeah. I mean,
00:35:08
Reese
That was, that was a Banff title fight right there. That was, was, just it was epic.
00:35:11
Cokeley Brothers
for sure. And like you, you, you, you've been in the room before where coaches are like, all right, we're doing live situations and like, you got to empty the tank. Like that's, that's basically what, what that was like.
00:35:21
Reese
Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:24
Cokeley Brothers
You got to go out there and you have 30 seconds and you're Somebody's got a score. And that's exactly what we saw.
00:35:32
Reese
Yeah.
00:35:33
Cokeley Brothers
And I loved it.
00:35:34
Reese
We kind of saw it again between Valencia and Van Ness.
00:35:35
Cokeley Brothers
thought of was awesome.
00:35:37
Reese
It kind of happened again. And so and it's like, man, that's just like Shane Van Ness.
00:35:39
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:35:43
Reese
He's kind of ah like he invites – dude, that dude is so – he's pretty underrated as far as like entertainment value. he's He's kind of must-see every time he steps on the mat.
00:35:52
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:35:56
Reese
So I'm going to miss him after next year.
00:35:57
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. I... Yeah. We got one more year.
00:36:01
Reese
Yeah.
00:36:02
Cokeley Brothers
We got one more year. And it's going to get... Wait's going to get tougher for him. So we'll see. um
00:36:07
Reese
Yeah.
00:36:09
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. ah All right. Backside. Some guys. Some guys we saw fall. ah Carter Young loses in the blood round of to Ryder Block. Jackson Joy loses a Colin Guy.
00:36:27
Cokeley Brothers
Jacob Frost loses to Cross Wazalewski. And some dudes that... Dude, the Big Ten showed out at this weight.
00:36:39
Cokeley Brothers
Between Ryder Block, Chance Lamer, Lachlan McNeil, and Shane Van Ness. I mean, having four on the podium, Block needed a... or was it block or Lamer? One of them needed a bid to get into the tournament.
00:36:51
Cokeley Brothers
They both wrestled each other for ninth place at big tens. Uh, and they, they're both on the podium. Lamer taking fourth block block, taking six.
00:37:03
Cokeley Brothers
Um, Oh my goodness.
00:37:04
Reese
Yeah, Lamer was... you win He went Insano, Captain Insano.
00:37:10
Cokeley Brothers
Dude, i don't want i don't wanna hear I don't want to hear it from any Nebraska fans ever again about Chance Lamer or any disrespect. That guy put on for that team.
00:37:23
Reese
Try it.
00:37:23
Cokeley Brothers
So he will his his name will be echoed in in the in the annals of Nebraska wrestling history as a one-year wrestler taking fourth place at one of the most chaotic waits.
00:37:29
Reese
Yep. That's commendable. That's commendable. That's big time, like, commendable. When you come in a senior, you're in your, like, sixth, seventh year. i don't know.
00:37:42
Reese
you're at You're deep in your college career.
00:37:45
Cokeley Brothers
You're at your third school.
00:37:47
Reese
You're third school, and you come in, and you've – I mean, that was the first time you podiumed, right?
00:37:52
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:37:53
Reese
Yeah, and it did it he did it all at Nebraska. He did it for Nebraska, and that's awesome. you know It's awesome when you see a transfer – their last year eligibility go out like that. And, you know, he probably had a, mean, I assume he had a a good time in Nebraska and probably appreciated.
00:38:11
Reese
i mean, there's, you know, nothing like going out there. I'm sure going out there and competing for a big 10 school and getting to compete in front of those crowds, especially in Nebraska. They, they love their sports.
00:38:21
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:23
Reese
So that's awesome.
00:38:24
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:38:25
Reese
Let's love to see that.
00:38:28
Cokeley Brothers
It was great. It was a feel-good story. Same with Ryder Block. um even Even with a sixth-place finish, the I'm sure plenty of people have seen the interview of him afterwards where he told Terry to say, remember where you were at last year? Because he promised himself after sitting on the couch watching NCAAs last year that he he wanted to be... He would rather be Anywhere else but there, but he especially wanted to be on the podium.
00:38:54
Cokeley Brothers
And you could tell that that's like, that's the reason that we saw this guy go up a weight class and and perform this year.
00:39:00
Reese
So he's He's a sophomore, right?
00:39:05
Cokeley Brothers
He shoot dude.
00:39:06
Reese
Or is he a junior?
00:39:07
Cokeley Brothers
He might be a freshman.
00:39:10
Reese
Oh, really?
00:39:12
Reese
Hell, dude. I mean...
00:39:12
Cokeley Brothers
Well, I don't know if last year last year he wrestled six matches.
00:39:15
Reese
He's kind of like... would say he's like
00:39:20
Reese
was did he Was he not a freshman a couple years, two years back? Was he not?
00:39:25
Cokeley Brothers
So he was a, he redshirted in 2024, 2025.
00:39:28
Reese
Oh, that was his freshman year?
00:39:29
Cokeley Brothers
twenty twenty five He went, he went two and four and he wrestled second semester. So I'm not sure that might, that might just be a burned year. I don't know.
00:39:38
Reese
Okay.
00:39:39
Cokeley Brothers
ah And then this year's a sophomore. So he might have a medical to use for last year, but either way, let's get, there's two more years at least a writer block.
00:39:49
Reese
Well, i that's a dude who was a – I'd say he was a blue chip and, you know, people kind of lost faith in him and now he's – he had a sneaky, sneaky year and then he came out and – what did take?
00:40:05
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:40:05
Reese
Six? Yeah. I think – and I think he's going to be – you know, he's kind of established himself as – he'll be in that conversation.
00:40:07
Cokeley Brothers
Sixth, sixth place.
00:40:15
Reese
Who knows? Maybe he'll get even better –
00:40:16
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:40:19
Reese
He was right there to beat Shane Van Ness at Big Tens. so
00:40:23
Cokeley Brothers
Dude. Oh my goodness.
00:40:26
Reese
Yeah.
00:40:27
Cokeley Brothers
He was, he was indeed. Uh, yeah, man. I I'm excited. I'm excited for him. And yeah, that's 149. All right.
00:40:38
Reese
I got to blow my nose.
00:40:39
Cokeley Brothers
157. Blow it out, dude. Blow it out. Maybe mute yourself. 157. Landon Rabideau gets the job done. Wins 4-2 in the finals over Entrell Taylor. Avenges a loss from earlier this season where they wrestled each other in the Oklahoma State-Nebraska duel where Entrell Taylor won it in write-outs.
00:41:00
Cokeley Brothers
um Responded to his cell it responded to ontrell celebration from back in December with the celebration of his own Which was exactly the same Pointing at the center of the massive get over here on trail through his through his ankle bands Adam said you can have him and Landon said I'll take him with my title and and he he yeah
00:41:16
Reese
There was an interesting discussion, argument, debate, whatever, um on flow. like after Did you listen to the post-tournament flow radio live?
00:41:27
Cokeley Brothers
No, haven't no
00:41:28
Reese
They argued about this specific thing, the ankle band thing, because cpu was like CP was like, oh, yeah, that's like, you shouldn't be doing that. Not cool. Team point. like You shouldn't be doing that, period.
00:41:40
Reese
And Spade, Raider, Bray, all of those dudes were like, Who cares? They're not going to do anything to you. And like, oh, I mean, I'm with i'm i'm on that.
00:41:50
Cokeley Brothers
Yes. yes
00:41:52
Reese
I don't care. i didn't care. i kind of liked it. You know?
00:41:56
Cokeley Brothers
Right.
00:41:56
Reese
It didn't bother me.
00:41:56
Cokeley Brothers
With.
00:41:59
Cokeley Brothers
With the way the rules are, if they're going to hit you for a team point for the headgear thing, same situation with the ankle bands. So I understand from rules perspective.
00:42:06
Reese
Yeah. I mean, that's probably unprecedented, using your ankle bands as a weapon like that.
00:42:14
Cokeley Brothers
And it's also extremely ineffective. It doesn't really do much to your gut to to your opponent.
00:42:17
Reese
It's ineffective. Exactly. and it's like, well, like they they just wrestled.
00:42:20
Cokeley Brothers
um
00:42:22
Reese
They just got done beating the shit out of each other. Like it's ankle bands.
00:42:26
Cokeley Brothers
Right. So, I mean, dude, totally.
00:42:26
Reese
It's not.
00:42:29
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:42:29
Reese
And that and the headgear shouldn't be a point period.
00:42:30
Cokeley Brothers
I, I'm, I exactly, I would love, dude, there's a, there's a reality where the rules committee really just kind of totally reshapes the rules this year.
00:42:35
Reese
You throw your headgear at him.
00:42:42
Cokeley Brothers
This, I don't know. Do they do it every year? Is it every two years?
00:42:46
Reese
I think it's two years.
00:42:48
Cokeley Brothers
every two years.
00:42:48
Reese
I don't know
00:42:49
Cokeley Brothers
So I think we're, we're with, we have what we have right now. And then we'll talk, we'll talk about it next off season. So maybe we need to write down dude, but really it's just like reward aggression, reward risk takers and, and score points or encourage scoring points.
00:43:02
Reese
know. Yeah.
00:43:08
Cokeley Brothers
And then also just let guys express themselves a little bit. Like, yeah, if we're going to let, if we're going to let Jess Strickenberger unload a clip on Troy Spratley, we can, we can let somebody drop their head gear off by their coaches.
00:43:19
Reese
yes
00:43:20
Cokeley Brothers
You know, I feel like.
00:43:20
Reese
That was a point that Piles made. He was like, they were like, is that okay? And he was like, absolutely not. Not okay. You shouldn't be doing that. Unloading the clip.
00:43:31
Reese
i I also thought the clip thing.
00:43:32
Cokeley Brothers
yeah just let them do it.
00:43:34
Reese
What did you say?
00:43:36
Cokeley Brothers
Let them do it. Like I get that. i I wouldn't do it myself and I wouldn't want my athletes to do it, but.
00:43:39
Reese
I would never do that. I find it in poor taste. I think it's a little like, I don't know, trashy.
00:43:44
Cokeley Brothers
And I totally agree. ah I totally agree that it's not that's like not a great look.
00:43:47
Reese
Yeah.
00:43:49
Cokeley Brothers
But if that's what a guy wants to do, it's not hurting anybody. Just whatever. Let them let them drain the clip, I guess.
00:43:53
Reese
It's not. guess.
00:43:57
Cokeley Brothers
But
00:43:58
Reese
I don't know. Is that something you do in your spare time?
00:44:01
Cokeley Brothers
but and West Virginia, what else do you got going on?
00:44:03
Reese
You know? have No.
00:44:06
Cokeley Brothers
You know?
00:44:06
Reese
No, like, not trying to throw any shade towards Jet Stricken Burger.
00:44:13
Cokeley Brothers
no not no No, no shade yet, please. don't
00:44:16
Reese
Please.
00:44:17
Cokeley Brothers
No shade. We don't want we don't want to fade. ah
00:44:19
Reese
Yeah.
00:44:21
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. um Anyway, Landon gets the job done. He beats P.J. Duke. Kind of. Kind of. Kind of beats him.
00:44:32
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know. I personally say, because I myself have been in PJ's position a fair amount of times, that that's a takedown. And that if it isn't, that referees, if they're going to be cautious to call takedowns in the first place, then continue to do so in overtime and let the position really play out before you fully call the three.
00:44:52
Cokeley Brothers
So that, because I mean, dude, he was at least in danger of getting scored on very like so close. So if there was if there was any...
00:45:00
Reese
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:45:02
Cokeley Brothers
Go ahead.
00:45:03
Reese
What matches are you talking about?
00:45:06
Cokeley Brothers
PJ Duke, Landon Rabideau.
00:45:07
Reese
no No, no, no, What matches are you talking about that you've been in? Any specific...
00:45:12
Cokeley Brothers
Where I've had a guy locked up in a cradle and and Will Coakley is screaming from the corner, that's two.
00:45:15
Reese
that I'm down to a hip? Yeah. Um, have you any like specific ones that come to mind or no?
00:45:20
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:45:25
Cokeley Brothers
o I don't... Uh, there was one at Allen, Texas, my senior year. Against Brayden Redland.
00:45:34
Reese
Oh, yeah. They didn't call Wait, wait, wait.
00:45:36
Cokeley Brothers
There's that one.
00:45:37
Reese
Your senior year?
00:45:38
Cokeley Brothers
No. Yeah. What are you thinking of?
00:45:41
Reese
Yeah, and then you try to throw him in a headlock.
00:45:42
Cokeley Brothers
you You have something in mind.
00:45:44
Reese
No, the only match I'm thinking of is...
00:45:45
Cokeley Brothers
That was in sudden victory.
00:45:47
Reese
ah Now, I know. But the only the only match that I think of... You didn't put him in that and a cradle, but you splayed him, was Hunter Shelton. And it took them a while to call takedown there, I felt like, from what I remember.
00:45:56
Cokeley Brothers
Oh, call the pin. They
00:46:00
Reese
And then they called him Pin. Pin.
00:46:02
Cokeley Brothers
they didn't call the pin.
00:46:03
Reese
They call the pin?
00:46:05
Cokeley Brothers
No. Dude. Yeah.
00:46:07
Reese
Well, obviously I'm misremembering that.
00:46:08
Cokeley Brothers
i don't want to talk about it. Yeah. But, um, dude, that, that like, yeah, they didn't.
00:46:14
Reese
Maybe that's what it was. They didn't call the pin. there Yeah.
00:46:19
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Uh,
00:46:23
Cokeley Brothers
Dude, that like you got to feel for PJ Duke there because. e
00:46:29
Reese
I told Cooper, our nephew, I told him this yesterday. After our little workout,
00:46:37
Cokeley Brothers
huh.
00:46:39
Reese
which, by the way, he's like, this his teammate is like, all his teammate's like, oh, Michael. He was telling me this about this dude named Michael who had taught him all this stuff.
00:46:51
Reese
I thought he talking about a coach. So I was like, I'm not going mightnna step on his coach's toes you know and be like, that's wrong.
00:46:58
Cokeley Brothers
Sure.
00:46:59
Reese
Then I found out it's teammate who you know was like a 15, 16 year old.
00:46:59
Cokeley Brothers
Sure.
00:47:03
Reese
And I'm like, oh shit. Well, don't listen to that kid. Listen to me. Anyway, i told him yesterday, i don't feel anything, any type of bad for, i just don't.
00:47:10
Cokeley Brothers
Yes.
00:47:15
Reese
I don't feel bad for any of these dudes who might, who may or may have not gotten shafted by bad officiating because, and PJ Duke,
00:47:26
Reese
I think feels the same way. He said in his post press or whatever that it's on him.
00:47:28
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:47:30
Reese
And that is. one You got to beat your opponent and the officials every time.
00:47:37
Cokeley Brothers
And you're totally correct.
00:47:37
Reese
Three and a half.
00:47:40
Cokeley Brothers
However, and, and, and like, I i understand that. I just like, if there is a match that I can like point to and say that the wrong choice was made or the wrong call was made or that like,
00:47:58
Cokeley Brothers
this is a problem with our rule set. It's the the semifinals match Duke and and Landon Robidoux. Like that needs to be handled differently.
00:48:13
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. You're muted.
00:48:14
Reese
You're talking about the early, the early takedown.
00:48:15
Cokeley Brothers
You're muted.
00:48:18
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. So if they, if, if, the if, if you call the takedown prematurely, But afterwards, it's because you you call it and you stop action because it's sudden victory. But he's got a cradle locked up. Or at least maybe his hands aren't locked. But he's in position.
00:48:32
Cokeley Brothers
He's got an angle on his opponent when he's on his hands and knees. That's a scoring exchange. And maybe maybe Landon does find a way out of it. And he ends up winning the match. Awesome.
00:48:42
Reese
Probably not.
00:48:43
Cokeley Brothers
Cool. Probably not.
00:48:46
Reese
He's probably getting rolled and cradled.
00:48:46
Cokeley Brothers
Probably not.
00:48:49
Reese
to He's getting rolled right to his back like David Taylor.
00:48:51
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:48:53
Reese
And David Taylor has PTSD flashbacks right there on the mat in the corner.
00:48:59
Cokeley Brothers
okay
00:48:59
Reese
He's like, I can't be here. I can't be here. He runs out, runs out there.
00:49:04
Cokeley Brothers
Bubba Bubba
00:49:05
Reese
in
00:49:09
Cokeley Brothers
ah yeah man I don't know I ah it's because like people talk about Landon winning a national title as's freshman year but that's in my final match like they'll say that and my response will be I disagree with the call but PJ Duke is absolutely right when he says that you got to beat the wrestler and you got to beat the ref
00:49:23
Reese
no
00:49:30
Cokeley Brothers
um
00:49:31
Reese
I guarantee you, dude, 20, 30, 40 years down the line, people aren't going to remember it.
00:49:31
Cokeley Brothers
And like, I heard him say that.
00:49:39
Cokeley Brothers
No, probably not.
00:49:39
Reese
Maybe they will. People would seem to remember the Nolfe Heidle. Semi.
00:49:45
Cokeley Brothers
That one sticks.
00:49:45
Reese
Which I'm shocked.
00:49:46
Cokeley Brothers
That one does stick.
00:49:47
Reese
That one sticks for whatever. I didn't even have a problem. Obviously I was like.
00:49:51
Cokeley Brothers
Dude.
00:49:53
Reese
Milf won the match. It wasn't a takedown.
00:49:56
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, I think it stuck with me.
00:49:56
Reese
I don't even really remember what the exchange was.
00:49:59
Cokeley Brothers
It stuck with me because of how heartbroken Aiden was afterwards.
00:50:03
Reese
That's what I think. That's the main thing is everybody stuck on. Is the fact that they just wanted to see Heidle get it done. After making the finals as a freshman.
00:50:10
Cokeley Brothers
Dude. Talk, talk about a set of brothers who like were right there to win national titles and neither of them.
00:50:18
Reese
I know. And those are, those are just like two just winners, man.
00:50:20
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:50:23
Reese
Just win. And then they didn't win, which was just kind of so just shocking.
00:50:25
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:50:28
Reese
Frickin' Nennie Lyons.
00:50:31
Cokeley Brothers
Awesome guys. But anyway, do you think Duke hurt himself in the quarters? Marston Cannon.
00:50:40
Reese
I don't know. Then he, he kind of smashed to get third, right?
00:50:42
Cokeley Brothers
Cause he kind of did like a, you got, yeah, but like he got to the corner after this quarterfinals match and like had his hands on his knees and kind of like rock back and forth and like kind of made a face said something to his coaches and then, and then kept walking off.
00:50:57
Cokeley Brothers
No limping. No, like, no, like, uh,
00:50:58
Reese
Yeah, it could have just been like a little tweak or whatever.
00:51:03
Reese
It happens. These things happen with Denise.
00:51:03
Cokeley Brothers
He's probably fine.
00:51:04
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know. I thought maybe it maybe maybe it affected his match against Landon. But maybe Landon's just...
00:51:09
Reese
Probably.
00:51:10
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe he's just that guy. So... um Meyer Shapiro was in this bracket. He lost Ty Water 6-5. I think you called that one, didn't you?
00:51:21
Cokeley Brothers
Or at least said it was going to be a match.
00:51:23
Reese
i I had Ty Waters on my fantasy team. And yeah, I think I picked him to win the match in my brackets. And then I kind of think I might.
00:51:30
Cokeley Brothers
That was a good call.
00:51:32
Reese
I even had Waters to beat on trail. And then it was like Waters and Larkin in the finals. Because I wanted to see that i wanna see that. I didn't get to see it at Big 12, so I wanted to see it. like That would have been awesome, I think. That would have been way more exciting match than what we got.
00:51:54
Cokeley Brothers
Probably. Dude, Keenan Webster in in the in the quarters, wrestling on trail. Taylor gets, gets the match tied up to two to two effectively with writing time, but also gives up the takedown with five seconds left on trail. Taylor.
00:52:07
Reese
bro this tournament definitely made me like i realized i was like man and on trial is like
00:52:08
Cokeley Brothers
Kind of clutch.
00:52:15
Reese
when it When it's time, like he's pretty unstoppable.
00:52:18
Cokeley Brothers
He wins.
00:52:19
Reese
He's tough. that He's just got that like explosive. like You can't hold him. That's what makes this folk style game so so good is because you can't hold him down, man.
00:52:31
Reese
So hard to hold him.
00:52:32
Reese
cannot believe. i didn't didn't have the angle to see if Robidoux had back points or not. I still haven't seen really any kind of video. of the exchange, but I can't believe he got any back points.
00:52:32
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:52:46
Reese
the Based on the way Antrell was like, he got out of that, and then somehow, Robert, put him back onto his back.
00:52:54
Cokeley Brothers
Back on his back.
00:52:55
Reese
I don't know how he did that. But, dude, yeah. Like, Antrell, I'm like, kind of feeling, I feel like, he'll probably right back in the finals next year.
00:53:05
Cokeley Brothers
Right back in there. Yeah, 100% or at least will be a title contender.
00:53:06
Reese
Yeah.
00:53:09
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, I totally agree.
00:53:10
Reese
Like, I just don't see how guys like, Webster or Larkin. I mean, Webster or Waters, maybe Larkin too. I don't see how those guys beat on trail.
00:53:21
Reese
I don't
00:53:22
Cokeley Brothers
Webster could do it. i gotta i got I think Webster is going to continue to and improve and impress, but I don't know. We'll see. Let's take a look at this backside here.
00:53:33
Cokeley Brothers
ah Cam Catrebone beats Larkin in the blood round, 7-3. Impressive. Impressive for the Michigan, the Wolverine. ah Shapiro beats Daniel Cardenas.
00:53:49
Cokeley Brothers
Four to one continues to widen the gap in that series.
00:53:50
Reese
That match was wild.
00:53:53
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, four to one, but full of action. um Webster beats Kai Owen. Brandon Cannon beats Jude Swisher. And then from there, Cannon Webster almost majors Meyer Shapiro.
00:54:07
Cokeley Brothers
Shapiro medically forfeits out to eighth place.
00:54:09
Reese
Did you watch that match?
00:54:10
Cokeley Brothers
Catcher bone takes seventh.
00:54:11
Reese
we didn't We didn't save for that match, did we?
00:54:12
Cokeley Brothers
ah I don't I don't feel like I watched that. Because it must have been bad.
00:54:17
Reese
That would have been like after we left or don't know.
00:54:22
Cokeley Brothers
No, that's, that's a dog bone match, isn't it?
00:54:26
Reese
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We left, don't know. Maybe, were they close to being done by the time the semis were over on the backside?
00:54:31
Cokeley Brothers
They were like at the same time. Yeah.
00:54:34
Reese
They got done at the same time?
00:54:35
Cokeley Brothers
I think we just, I think we just didn't watch it.
00:54:36
Reese
We just missed it.
00:54:38
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. I'm kind of, it's the Shapiro train is kind of sad right now. It's not, we're not, there's not a big party going on the Shapiro train.
00:54:43
Reese
Yeah.
00:54:46
Reese
Yeah, how's a global... How's that global dude? How's he doing?
00:54:46
Cokeley Brothers
So I think I might get off at the next stop.
00:54:51
Cokeley Brothers
ah he'll He'll he'll stick. He'll ride. He'll ride with with Shapiro till the end of his days. And that's that's great.
00:54:56
Reese
Yeah.
00:54:56
Cokeley Brothers
I respect that. um It's just I feel like the color around Myers wrestling has just continued to gray over the last couple of years, which is I didn't mean to put the wording that way, but yeah.
00:55:14
Reese
LOL. What happened to Waters? Do you know?
00:55:18
Cokeley Brothers
Waters, waters lost a brand in Canada six.
00:55:19
Reese
Is he hurt?
00:55:21
Cokeley Brothers
and he's like, I'm done, I guess.
00:55:23
Reese
You don't he was hurt?
00:55:26
Cokeley Brothers
Huh?
00:55:26
Reese
don't he was hurt?
00:55:28
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know. have no idea.
00:55:33
Cokeley Brothers
Good question. Uh, and Duke.
00:55:34
Reese
Big, big Ty Waters fan, if you can't tell.
00:55:38
Cokeley Brothers
Yes. Reese loves tie, which is great.
00:55:38
Reese
I like, I like Larkin too.
00:55:39
Cokeley Brothers
That's a great guy to be a fan of Larkin.
00:55:41
Reese
What'd you say? Yeah.
00:55:43
Cokeley Brothers
ah
00:55:43
Reese
Yeah.
00:55:44
Cokeley Brothers
Duke, would for the second time in this bracket, just texts Brandon Cannon. Beats the brakes off of him.
00:55:51
Reese
Yeah, that that'll never be a match.
00:55:53
Cokeley Brothers
ah do No, I think Cannon's going to be up at 65 next year.
00:55:55
Reese
Oh,
00:55:59
Reese
oh well, Duke probably will. I mean, I guess he's redshirting.
00:56:04
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:56:05
Reese
Well, maybe. i don't know.
00:56:06
Cokeley Brothers
And Cannon, probably. would assume so.
00:56:10
Reese
Then I hear that KSAC is too big for 57 now.
00:56:11
Cokeley Brothers
Right?
00:56:13
Reese
Yeah.
00:56:15
Cokeley Brothers
BS, dude. He's wrestling 70 kilos. 70
00:56:19
Reese
yeah I'm guessing it'll be a 57.
00:56:21
Cokeley Brothers
kilos is 154.
00:56:22
Reese
What
00:56:23
Cokeley Brothers
Who told you he's too big for 157? Who said that?
00:56:28
Reese
do you think? I really only get my information from one source, and that's just Flow Radio.
00:56:31
Cokeley Brothers
Ryan?
00:56:35
Cokeley Brothers
Mike? Oh.
00:56:37
Reese
No, Flow Radio.
00:56:39
Cokeley Brothers
Flo, shut up. He's wrestling 70 kilos. How's he too big for 157? I don't understand that at all.
00:56:43
Reese
No, no, dude. Powell's was like, I interviewed him and he looked humongous. That's what Powell said, which means little.
00:56:49
Cokeley Brothers
I don't want to. I have little faith in piles understanding of weights.
00:56:52
Reese
Yeah,
00:56:56
Cokeley Brothers
have little faith.
00:56:57
Reese
and then, yeah, you never know with people, you know, Ryan Deacon was a 57 pounder, so.
00:57:01
Cokeley Brothers
And like. Yeah, like i don't the eye test when it comes to weights and and like body composition, it's hard. It is not easy.
00:57:10
Reese
Yeah, it is.
00:57:10
Cokeley Brothers
I'm not saying that like piles is terrible at it. I'm just well, maybe.
00:57:13
Reese
Some people have, some people have less dense bones than others.
00:57:18
Cokeley Brothers
Right. But dude, Barry Davis, ah Barry Davis has a skill where he can just pick you up and knows he like within five pounds what you weigh, which is maybe less impressive, but like, yeah, yeah.
00:57:26
Reese
That's pretty cool. He could be a carny.
00:57:34
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. That's one 57 pretty fun weight. Pretty, uh, pretty unbelievable outcome really, but it happened.
00:57:43
Reese
What, 57th Nibaba do? Yeah, that was a... But you know what?
00:57:46
Cokeley Brothers
Just, yeah.
00:57:48
Reese
One less Nittany Lion.
00:57:52
Cokeley Brothers
no, I mean like I needed that for the narrative. So, uh, one 65, we can kind of cook through this one.
00:57:56
Reese
Yeah.
00:58:00
Cokeley Brothers
Mitchell Mezenbrink beats the breaks off of Michael Caliendo. Um, only guy he didn't bonus this year was Bryce Heppner who has another year, by the way, what the heck?
00:58:12
Cokeley Brothers
Um,
00:58:12
Reese
and Buy seven or half a year. That's pretty crazy.
00:58:15
Cokeley Brothers
Bryce Heppner has another year. And I really think the only reason mit Mitchell didn't bonus him is because the stretcher was brought out to carry Bryce Heppner off of, off of the, the, out of the arena.
00:58:25
Cokeley Brothers
And he got up and said, let me finish this match with like a whole two periods left and finish the match.
00:58:31
Reese
Yeah.
00:58:34
Reese
Those situations, I'm like, I never know what to think.
00:58:35
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
00:58:38
Reese
you know ah The cynic in me is like, Was he playing it up?
00:58:45
Reese
um And then the other part of me is just like, maybe he just found a way.
00:58:45
Cokeley Brothers
It was, it was weird.
00:58:50
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, I don't know.
00:58:50
Reese
Who knows?
00:58:51
Reese
We'll never know.
00:58:51
Cokeley Brothers
It like
00:58:52
Reese
Bryce Heppner rules. He's the only one who knows.
00:58:52
Cokeley Brothers
it he
00:58:55
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, I don't know. It was weird. ah
00:58:57
Reese
He also never didn't give up a takedown the whole tournament.
00:58:58
Cokeley Brothers
It.
00:59:01
Cokeley Brothers
Price. I didn't give a take on the whole tournament.
00:59:02
Reese
Why? i Pretty cool.
00:59:05
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, yeah.
00:59:07
Reese
And he said, it sounds like he's like, so I got all this information from his interview and it sounds like he's very much open to shopping around.
00:59:14
Cokeley Brothers
Hmm.
00:59:21
Cokeley Brothers
Oh, interesting.
00:59:21
Reese
If I were him, I would stick at UNC because the only, there's, there's the first guy to get you on the podium.
00:59:24
Cokeley Brothers
Dude.
00:59:29
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. and And Rob Cole.
00:59:33
Reese
He's doing something.
00:59:34
Cokeley Brothers
Rob Cole gets it done. He's got he's got something figured out. So whether it's.
00:59:39
Reese
Yeah, I mean, they need to...
00:59:40
Cokeley Brothers
his, his recruitment eye or how he employs his assistants to develop his athletes, whatever it is, he's got, he knows something.
00:59:51
Cokeley Brothers
So.
00:59:52
Reese
They just need a like a blue chip, that one blue chip guy, like middleweight, and that could really spark something. Man, I can't believe they tied Northern Iowa.
01:00:02
Cokeley Brothers
Mm hmm.
01:00:04
Reese
This has got to be a pretty historically bad tournament for them. No, at least recent times.
01:00:09
Cokeley Brothers
Mm hmm.
01:00:13
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe. I guess without having Keck. so
01:00:16
Reese
No kek, yeah. After four years of kek, that's...
01:00:19
Cokeley Brothers
Five years Keck.
01:00:21
Reese
Five years of kek. Drew Foster before that.
01:00:26
Reese
Yeah.
01:00:27
Cokeley Brothers
Lots of other talent sprinkled in there.
01:00:28
Reese
Taylor, Lujan.
01:00:31
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. They'll have ah Volker back next year.
01:00:32
Reese
That one guy...
01:00:34
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:00:35
Reese
Booker will be back. They need to they they need some some guys.
01:00:40
Cokeley Brothers
hu Maybe one of the bigger surprise non-All-Americans is Lederian Lockett, who loses on the front side to Cesar Alvin, gets pinned ah in spectacular fashion.
01:00:47
Reese
Yeah.
01:00:52
Reese
Yeah. That was another situation sequence I watched a lot was that that exchange.
01:00:52
Cokeley Brothers
ah
01:00:59
Cokeley Brothers
Very... Yeah, that kickover and...
01:01:01
Reese
Bummer.
01:01:03
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:01:04
Reese
Big time bummer, but you know what?
01:01:05
Cokeley Brothers
And then...
01:01:06
Reese
what What can you say other than
01:01:09
Cokeley Brothers
Runs into senior season. One last run. Andrew Sparks on the backside. And who who just goes boom, boom, boom, boom. boom And and ah
01:01:16
Reese
Did you see that match?
01:01:19
Cokeley Brothers
nobody beat him 10 to three.
01:01:22
Reese
That's bonkers.
01:01:23
Cokeley Brothers
I don't think we were in the arena for that one.
01:01:26
Reese
What?
01:01:29
Cokeley Brothers
That would be like session three.
01:01:30
Reese
Oh, yeah, yeah, That would have been... That was... Yeah, yeah,
01:01:34
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:01:37
Reese
I mean, the way he beat a Raujo on the backside, that was pretty insane. He was just, man, he was just in a tough spot there.
01:01:42
Cokeley Brothers
That. Yeah. Yeah. The Roger's a tough. That's it. That's a tough like round two backside matchup.
01:01:50
Reese
you know.
01:01:52
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Yeah. Dude. I forgot he lost to Parco. My goodness.
01:01:56
Reese
Frickin' Parker, man. And that's a guy who should have AA'd, blew it.
01:02:02
Cokeley Brothers
Against Gallagher.
01:02:03
Reese
Yeah, but good for Gallagher, I think.
01:02:07
Cokeley Brothers
Patty. Yeah. Ohio state kind of got two all Americans this way between Patty and Heppner. Um,
01:02:12
Reese
Yeah.
01:02:13
Cokeley Brothers
And they're both St. Ed's.
01:02:15
Reese
That's pretty cool.
01:02:16
Cokeley Brothers
So shout out St. Ed's. ah Yeah, that's this way. Blaze just kind of slid. He lost to Ruiz two to one, which was interesting and then didn't wrestle for fifth. Sparks takes fifth. Hefner takes seventh over Gallagher and Alvin takes third over Ruiz.
01:02:33
Cokeley Brothers
Boom, boom, boom. Everybody shakes hands with Mitchell Mezenbrink except for Michael Caliendo because he shook hands with him 18 times prior to that at the start and finish of their nine matches. So if you have a problem with it, kick rocks.
01:02:44
Reese
Yeah.
01:02:46
Cokeley Brothers
174. Levi Haynes. 2-1 over Chris Minto. Stall call, right?
01:02:55
Reese
Yeah.
01:02:55
Cokeley Brothers
Penn State won two national titles on stall points.
01:02:59
Reese
They they were de deserved.
01:03:00
Cokeley Brothers
Hmm. Hmm. Interesting. Curious, really. Um, no, probably deserved.
01:03:06
Reese
don't even care. I mean, you know, I don't care to see them win, but they were deserved. Yeah.
01:03:10
Cokeley Brothers
Probably deserved. Uh, Bento. I know it's hard to stay in the center of the mat and, and wrestle in that hand fight with, with Levi Haynes. But if you got it, it's what you gotta do What you gotta do to win a national title, right? It felt like he did not have as much fight as he could have.
01:03:23
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know if maybe his elbow was bothering him or it's just like, that's Levi Haynes and that's what you wrestle. I don't know.
01:03:31
Reese
I don't know.
01:03:31
Reese
He looks so freaking big, dude.
01:03:32
Cokeley Brothers
So,
01:03:34
Reese
Minto did.
01:03:34
Cokeley Brothers
He's huge.
01:03:35
Cokeley Brothers
When did he ever wrestle 157?
01:03:36
Reese
So big.
01:03:38
Cokeley Brothers
Dude.
01:03:39
Reese
I don't know.
01:03:39
Reese
But I'm like wondering what his dad and dad.
01:03:39
Cokeley Brothers
But then I also, i look at his dad.
01:03:42
Cokeley Brothers
i look at his dad. He's got a big old dad.
01:03:44
Reese
you think he You think he'll go up another weight? I think he will. I think he'll go up another weight class.
01:03:50
Cokeley Brothers
Oh, we're talking about Minto.
01:03:53
Reese
Who are talking about?
01:03:55
Cokeley Brothers
Haynes looks big too.
01:03:56
Reese
Oh, Haynes is big, yeah. But not as big as Minto.
01:04:00
Cokeley Brothers
No, Minto could definitely go up a weight class. It could be, a
01:04:02
Reese
I bet his dad is a big man Yeah.
01:04:06
Cokeley Brothers
Well, yeah, I mean, we his brother's big too.
01:04:08
Reese
yeah
01:04:08
Cokeley Brothers
ah Christian Minto. ah Shoot. I had something.
01:04:15
Reese
Christian and Christopher.
01:04:17
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, that's ah but just about as bad as Edward and Edmund. Yeah.
01:04:21
Reese
Yeah, that's bad
01:04:24
Cokeley Brothers
crap levi haynes pin tech tech tech to one uh oh simon ruiz that sucks two seed two two seeds did not place and they were both cornell wrestlers whoops uh he loses in the blood round to carson hartschla that is a brutal blood round matchup uh when your other options are
01:04:26
Reese
bad.
01:04:42
Reese
Ruiz, yeah. His heart's a kind of... He went he went prettyat pretty tough.
01:04:50
Reese
He went hard there in the backside.
01:04:50
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, took fourth.
01:04:51
Cokeley Brothers
Kennedy took third. Yeah.
01:04:54
Reese
many times does he add? Is this his second time?
01:04:58
Cokeley Brothers
Karchler, I think this is his second. And both times he's beaten a Cornellian in the blood round, that s SOB.
01:05:04
Reese
Dang.
01:05:06
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Steed takes fifth. Wask at sixth. Mantanona at seventh. And Gaetan at eighth. MJ. Way to get it done.
01:05:14
Reese
Hey, stock, cashed, and yeah, I'm sitting pretty right now.
01:05:14
Cokeley Brothers
Reese, that that one's for you.
01:05:21
Reese
I got a lot of money.
01:05:21
Cokeley Brothers
Heck yeah.
01:05:22
Reese
Big old farm.
01:05:23
Cokeley Brothers
Dude, Oklahoma, I think, had three guys in the blood round. No AAs.
01:05:28
Reese
Oklahoma?
01:05:30
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:05:31
Reese
Soldano, Mora, and who?
01:05:32
Cokeley Brothers
They Schubert, Saldano, and Mora.
01:05:34
Reese
Oh, Schuber. Schuber.
01:05:36
Cokeley Brothers
Lost 2-1 to Wask.
01:05:38
Reese
Freaking Soldano.
01:05:42
Cokeley Brothers
Saldano. Yeah.
01:05:43
Reese
He was so close. He had it. He had that.
01:05:46
Cokeley Brothers
I know.
01:05:47
Reese
but And then that dude ended up taking what? Fourth?
01:05:50
Reese
Or fifth?
01:05:50
Cokeley Brothers
Fourth.
01:05:51
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:05:52
Reese
Fourth?
01:05:52
Cokeley Brothers
Campos. Fourth.
01:05:53
Reese
He took fourth?
01:05:55
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:05:55
Reese
No, no, no, no. Did he really?
01:05:58
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, he took fourth place.
01:05:59
Reese
Wow. That could have been Saldano.
01:06:02
Cokeley Brothers
And he...
01:06:03
Reese
Saldano was, a that would have been cool
Team Performances and Notable Matches
01:06:06
Reese
for him. Is he dumb?
01:06:07
Cokeley Brothers
Dude. Yeah, that's it. ah He might be trying to get a medical maybe. So he might be back.
01:06:14
Reese
That match, dude, you and I were watching that match between him and Campos.
01:06:18
Cokeley Brothers
Yep.
01:06:19
Reese
Intense. That was intense.
01:06:21
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:06:21
Reese
But, like, two challenges, I think, reversed or two calls reversed.
01:06:24
Cokeley Brothers
is
01:06:26
Reese
Maybe just one. But, like, Saldano, like, going to Kirsch.
01:06:28
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know. It was a mess.
01:06:35
Reese
that right? Kirsch?
01:06:37
Cokeley Brothers
Kish.
01:06:38
Reese
Kirsch, yeah. Going over to Kirsch, like, you know, just like...
01:06:39
Cokeley Brothers
Roger.
01:06:42
Reese
pointing to his elbow, like, man, and then, and Kiss just, boom, slap, gives him bit, that big old and pops him right in the head, and then, boom, right in the chest, and he's like, get your head out of your ass, and i don't know, I was, I liked it, I was like, but it's, yeah, um, the only reason I was even invested in that match, obviously, Sammy, you know, is because he was on my fantasy team, and, uh,
01:06:49
Cokeley Brothers
Pops him in the head.
01:06:59
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, that's sometimes that's what you need. Sometimes that's what you need. I liked it.
01:07:10
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, it was Yeah.
01:07:13
Reese
on that, uh, yeah. If anybody out there was listening or any of our listeners, if if you were on the wrestling room, um, turn any fantasy pool and you, and you won money, good for you.
01:07:22
Cokeley Brothers
Turning pool.
01:07:28
Reese
Congratulations. I'm happy for you.
01:07:29
Cokeley Brothers
Congratulations. Yeah.
01:07:30
Reese
Yeah.
01:07:31
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. I hope you spend it well.
01:07:33
Reese
Yeah.
Michigan's Unexpected Success at the Championships
01:07:35
Cokeley Brothers
um Alex Facundo, DNP, loses to Colin Kelly in the tiebreaker three. think it should just be one or two.
01:07:49
Cokeley Brothers
Did they go to a second set of writeouts? Did they really? No. No. He just... What happened here? Whatever. He lost to Colin Kelly.
01:07:59
Cokeley Brothers
That's rough. Guyton beats Colin Kelly. Man, Fakundo really should that weight. Or won that Colin Kelly match and then probably beats Guyton. And then he gets smashed against Wask.
01:08:09
Reese
Wait, oh, on the backside.
01:08:11
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:08:14
Reese
You never know.
01:08:14
Cokeley Brothers
I guess that's really where he should have not lost, which was the front side against Mantonona. But Mantonona, dude, Michigan locked in for the postseason. Props to them, man.
01:08:24
Reese
Yeah, well, I mean, what did they outperform their seeds, you would you say?
01:08:30
Cokeley Brothers
The expectations?
01:08:32
Reese
Well, so they had three, foures four AAs, four AAs?
01:08:33
Cokeley Brothers
a
01:08:37
Reese
One, two, three, four. Maybe five?
01:08:42
Cokeley Brothers
They had five. McNeil, Catrebone, Mantanono, Mantanono, get Ali.
01:08:44
Reese
Oh, McNeil, yeah.
01:08:48
Reese
That's pretty good.
01:08:49
Cokeley Brothers
That's pretty dang good, dude. They had six qualifiers. Diego Sotelo was their other qualifier, and they had five All-Americans.
01:08:55
Reese
wow that's nice
01:08:56
Cokeley Brothers
and they took, drumroll please, they took seventh place.
01:09:02
Reese
seven plays man that's insane like the level the standard now man it's it's crazy that's a trophy team
01:09:04
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:09:07
Cokeley Brothers
Five placers, six qualifiers, seventh place. Dude, yeah. did That would have been a team in 2022 or 2023.
Stanford's Growth and Achievements Under Chris Ayers
01:09:15
Cokeley Brothers
That's a team that that takes second place.
01:09:18
Reese
that's it oh really wow
01:09:21
Cokeley Brothers
I'm pretty sure.
01:09:22
Reese
I mean, it's a trophy team for sure.
01:09:22
Cokeley Brothers
Hang on.
01:09:23
Reese
I can think of like 2018 that gets you more than a trophy in 2018, maybe even probably some other years too.
01:09:24
Cokeley Brothers
No.
01:09:33
Cokeley Brothers
It doesn't get you a second place. I think Cornell took second with 70-something points, and they scored 66. So they're probably a trophy team. ah Yeah, and they took it.
01:09:42
Reese
Yeah, the team, the team's situation's crazy and probably
01:09:47
Cokeley Brothers
I do...
01:09:47
Reese
Foreboding. Ominous.
01:09:49
Cokeley Brothers
I'm mixed.
01:09:49
Reese
<unk>
01:09:51
Cokeley Brothers
i'm I'm mixed on it, because, like...
01:09:53
Reese
Mixed two.
01:09:54
Cokeley Brothers
Well, there was a stat, like some certain, i think it was like,
01:09:55
Reese
I'm kind of excited.
01:10:00
Cokeley Brothers
think it was like a certain number of teams had half of the AAs and it was a small number. And, uh, but also 31 teams had at least one all American. And so I think it's a situation where you're seeing, ah ah a condensing of the talent at the top. So you're having like eight teams that are really, really, really good.
01:10:20
Cokeley Brothers
And then you see just a barren wasteland of a middle class of teams. And then you have the lower class where it's like, man, we're really fighting to put together one all American.
01:10:31
Cokeley Brothers
Like we hang on that. Rather than seeing teams that were like, we're a top 10 team and we have four All-Americans.
01:10:33
Reese
Yeah.
01:10:37
Cokeley Brothers
You just don't really see that anymore.
01:10:41
Reese
How many All-Americans did Stanford have?
01:10:46
Reese
Four?
01:10:47
Cokeley Brothers
Provo, Knox, Valencia.
01:10:47
Reese
Five?
01:10:50
Cokeley Brothers
Is that it?
01:10:55
Reese
Surely they them. Is that it? that That got them sixth place?
01:10:59
Cokeley Brothers
think that's it.
01:11:00
Reese
Pretty good.
01:11:01
Cokeley Brothers
somehow i got them sick Well, because they had Concilio.
01:11:04
Reese
Parco and...
01:11:04
Cokeley Brothers
I don't really know if he scored much. Parco scored a lot. Cardenas scored a lot. Oh, Posada. Posada much surely placed. Right? Hello, Angelo? Where where where are you?
01:11:16
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, he took sixth. Okay.
01:11:17
Reese
Oh, okay.
01:11:18
Cokeley Brothers
For all Americans.
01:11:20
Reese
Four A's, sixth place finish for Chris Ayers.
01:11:20
Cokeley Brothers
um I forget about him.
01:11:23
Reese
That dude knows what he's doing.
01:11:24
Cokeley Brothers
Good for him.
01:11:26
Reese
You're not Chris Ayers fan.
01:11:27
Cokeley Brothers
riding off the their recruitment of Rob Cole when he was there for two years or whatever.
01:11:31
Reese
Whatever, dude.
01:11:35
Reese
I'm impressed.
01:11:36
Cokeley Brothers
Provo and Cardenas were recruited by Rob. I'm pretty sure. I don't know about the rest.
01:11:42
Reese
And you know what? Provo is developed. He's been clearly developed further, much further.
01:11:49
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, 100%. Definitely.
01:11:50
Reese
And, you know, like a work yeah, exactly.
01:11:51
Cokeley Brothers
And Chris Ayers showed at Princeton.
01:11:54
Reese
He did it at Princeton.
01:11:55
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:11:55
Reese
He's doing it at Stanford. I like that. That dude, I like that guy.
01:12:00
Cokeley Brothers
I will put my rage aside and say, good job, Chris.
01:12:04
Reese
He's not Princeton anymore. You can like him.
01:12:07
Cokeley Brothers
I am, it's complicated. I'll need to, I need to figure it out.
01:12:11
Reese
He seems like a chill guy.
01:12:13
Cokeley Brothers
i don't know how to feel. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. 184.
Max McAnally's Victory and Competitive Dynamics
01:12:20
Cokeley Brothers
The weight of weights. Not really. ah But Max McAnally.
01:12:26
Cokeley Brothers
Boom, gets the job done, gets the takedown on Rocco Welsh.
01:12:33
Cokeley Brothers
Staves off that last push from Rocco and wins a national title, collapsing ah Michael Kemmerer's knee in the process and possibly tearing all of the ligaments in it. I don't know, remains to be seen.
01:12:46
Cokeley Brothers
ah
01:12:46
Reese
No, that's what had to happen for him to win, and so be it.
01:12:49
Cokeley Brothers
Had to happen, that's it's a necessary sacrifice. Angelo Ferrari, I am right. I'm still right about what I said.
01:12:58
Reese
You are.
01:13:00
Cokeley Brothers
Angelo Ferrari gave up no takedowns this year. Zero takedowns. However, he took sixth place. Whoops. So um
01:13:09
Reese
to Two serious injuries, though, apparently.
01:13:13
Cokeley Brothers
between the brothers or for for both on Angelo?
01:13:16
Reese
Just Angelo. That's what his brother said.
01:13:18
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. ah What, AJ said that?
01:13:23
Reese
Yeah. And and that they they both they were being interviewed side by side.
01:13:24
Cokeley Brothers
i then whatever. that at this
01:13:28
Reese
And AJ was like, you know, I'm just, I got this little tweak in my knee and what this guy is going through is so much worse, so much bigger and
01:13:29
Cokeley Brothers
okay.
01:13:39
Reese
You know, you still he still found a way to take sixth place and was right there to make the finals. And if he had been healthy, he would have ran away with it, yada, yada, yada.
01:13:49
Cokeley Brothers
I still, I'm taking that with a grain of salt. It's coming from AJ Ferrari.
01:13:51
Reese
I think he was hurt.
01:13:52
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know.
01:13:52
Reese
You don't think he was hurt critically, seriously?
01:13:54
Cokeley Brothers
No, I mean, dude, I don't know if there was something with the ankle, but we saw the KT tape on his shoulders. I mean, either he's really trying to portray that he's hurt or he is hurt.
01:14:01
Reese
He was shaped up.
01:14:05
Cokeley Brothers
I would lean towards the latter.
01:14:06
Reese
don't think he would – yeah.
01:14:07
Cokeley Brothers
He's wrestling for Iowa.
01:14:07
Reese
Yeah.
01:14:08
Cokeley Brothers
So, um
01:14:09
Reese
He's not portraying that he's hurt.
01:14:12
Reese
It's preposterous.
01:14:12
Cokeley Brothers
right.
01:14:12
Cokeley Brothers
I think it would be like, if if that's the case, then like I've lost all faith.
01:14:15
Reese
he said He sat in the same spot the whole finals, which is more than you can say about his brother, who had had to just wander around the floor all finals and just...
01:14:16
Cokeley Brothers
So I don't think it's the case.
01:14:24
Cokeley Brothers
Okay, brother. if Dude, if you weren't there, if you if if you were watching on the TV, I don't know if you could see it, AJ Ferrari and Ladarian Lockett were in like a like a ah contest to see who could get closer to the stage while cheering on their guy at 157.
01:14:45
Cokeley Brothers
And security comes by, and you guys need to back up, you can't be here. And then...
AJ Ferrari and Ladarian Lockett's Event Behavior
01:14:51
Cokeley Brothers
30 seconds later, their skirt they're scooting their way right back up to the stage. And AJ Ferrari's walking all about the arena. And like sometimes he's walking normally. Sometimes he's cheering his guys on, bouncing around. And then sometimes he's he's with Coach Manning and he's hobbling. he's got he's got ah He's got a problematic knee. So just...
01:15:09
Reese
this is This is the one.
01:15:18
Cokeley Brothers
Yes. Yes. I think,
01:15:20
Reese
Maybe like this.
01:15:25
Cokeley Brothers
yeah, I think, uh, I think the only thing I would have done is I would have put my arms just a little bit more wider to like accurately reflect it.
01:15:25
Reese
Youth ball.
01:15:34
Reese
Yeah, get those shoulders a little more wider.
01:15:36
Cokeley Brothers
But like that was, that was pretty spot on other than that. So, um,
01:15:41
Reese
Who's
01:15:43
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. So Angelo medically forfeits to sixth. Uh, Aiden Sinclair takes third. Caleb Campos takes fourth. Um, Zach Ryder is at eighth.
01:15:54
Cokeley Brothers
Bo Mantenona. Brock Mantenona is at fifth. And Eddie Nietenbach is at seventh. So not bad.
01:16:02
Reese
at eighth?
01:16:05
Cokeley Brothers
Zach Ryder. My bad. I think I said that in the wrong order. Uh, Tragic ah finish to the season and his career for Silas Allred. Shattering his leg in the quarterfinals against Rocco Welsh.
01:16:22
Reese
Shredded.
01:16:22
Cokeley Brothers
ah
01:16:23
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, that sucked. But it gave Zack Ryder placement. he ended He ends up placing.
01:16:29
Reese
Yeah.
01:16:31
Cokeley Brothers
Cool for him because he fought off a serious injury with his shoulder. Probably. I guess if I'm being skeptical about Angelo's, I should be skeptical about everybody's. But... I mean, no, they' they're but they're both probably injured because ah most people are injured at this point the season.
01:16:45
Cokeley Brothers
um Yeah. Interesting weight class. i Dude, Aiden Sinclair, man.
01:16:55
Reese
What a beast.
01:16:56
Cokeley Brothers
He's got to be like, he's got to have, he's hand he has he has the highest ceiling out of this entire weight.
01:17:02
Reese
Think so? Yeah, you're probably right.
01:17:03
Cokeley Brothers
I really think so. I really think so.
01:17:05
Reese
It's insane to me.
01:17:06
Cokeley Brothers
He wrestled last night. go ahead.
01:17:08
Reese
bolted my mind how this guy in high school was like known as like a defensive wrestler. you know a lot of go-behinds and whatever. And now he's like... I mean, he's pretty much the most offensive guy at the weight other than maybe McAnally.
01:17:25
Reese
But it feels like – I mean, he he definitely has more ways to score. I think it just – I think it speaks
Offensive vs. Defensive Tactics in College Wrestling
01:17:30
Reese
less to even his development and more to the fact that we're just at a point right now in college wrestling where it's just like guys are just scared, man.
01:17:40
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:17:40
Reese
Scared to attack.
01:17:40
Cokeley Brothers
Defense is king. Yeah.
01:17:42
Reese
Yeah. Yeah.
01:17:44
Cokeley Brothers
yeah um
01:17:46
Reese
ah Welsh, I mean, that's a guy who got by the skin of his teeth, got through a lot of the of his close matches. And you know what?
01:17:56
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:17:56
Reese
It came to Biden. I was not sad.
01:17:59
Cokeley Brothers
Mm-hmm.
01:18:01
Cokeley Brothers
No.
01:18:02
Reese
The right guy won, in my opinion.
01:18:03
Cokeley Brothers
Mm-hmm.
01:18:05
Reese
I love that that attack. McAnally should use that attack little more. don't know.
01:18:10
Cokeley Brothers
It's the same thing. i think it's the same one he used at Worlds. It's pretty good.
01:18:14
Reese
Well, was it?
01:18:14
Cokeley Brothers
It's pretty dang good.
01:18:15
Reese
i thought the Worlds one was more like a straight on, like, more of like a pick. The Worlds one was like just a shot, right?
01:18:22
Cokeley Brothers
I guess maybe.
01:18:23
Reese
when would Wasn't it like a head inside? inside like, sticking?
01:18:27
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe I'm misremembering. I don't know.
01:18:30
Reese
And this one was like, boom, he just just would dart in and kind of come up like a high kind of.
01:18:30
Cokeley Brothers
Um. Hmm.
01:18:36
Reese
don't know, it was nice.
01:18:39
Cokeley Brothers
I think, yeah, I don't know.
01:18:40
Reese
same Same takedown he he did against Carter.
01:18:40
Cokeley Brothers
I'd have to rewatch.
01:18:45
Reese
to to take Carter down.
01:18:45
Cokeley Brothers
Right. Okay.
01:18:47
Reese
Look at this.
01:18:47
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. I mean, yeah that's, that's great. I'm happy for you. Oh,
01:18:54
Reese
you' happy a late You're happy that a ladybug is on my apple?
01:18:58
Cokeley Brothers
that's a ladybug. I thought it was a seed. Okay.
01:19:00
Reese
No. It's a ladybug.
01:19:03
Cokeley Brothers
Well,
01:19:03
Reese
Boom.
01:19:04
Cokeley Brothers
and that's that's not making it anybody it still just looks like a seed to me dude stop stop it stop quit showing me your apple that you've been eating stop put it away put it away
01:19:05
Reese
See the head?
01:19:10
Reese
Look at that. That's a ladybug.
01:19:16
Reese
Who's a bitch?
01:19:20
Cokeley Brothers
dude tough finish for dylan fishback uh going i think one and two at ncaa's james conway ah dude who do you lose to on the front side Oh, Sodano.
01:19:32
Cokeley Brothers
And then on the backside, in the blood round, who does he run into? Aiden Sinclair. That one sucks.
01:19:37
Reese
Oh, Conway? Yeah.
01:19:39
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Yeah. Because, I mean, he really couldt he he really was all-American level guy.
01:19:44
Reese
What? Is he a senior?
01:19:48
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, I think so. Maybe not. Hang on. Hang on.
01:19:58
Cokeley Brothers
I remember earlier this year, i was looking at all the rankings and there was a James Conway and a Jay Conway. One wrestled for Missouri.
01:20:07
Cokeley Brothers
It's 57 pounder, I think. um
01:20:09
Reese
Jimmy.
Career Reflections and Future Prospects of Wrestlers
01:20:10
Reese
Right?
01:20:11
Cokeley Brothers
Nope. Also a James.
01:20:12
Reese
Jimmy Conway. Jimmy.
01:20:14
Cokeley Brothers
Nope. James Conway was a senior.
01:20:16
Reese
Jimmy.
01:20:17
Cokeley Brothers
ah Rylan Rogers, I think he's back again next year. Blood round finisher.
01:20:24
Reese
He back.
01:20:25
Cokeley Brothers
Could be solid for Lehigh. And Caleb Campos, he's got one more year and he says that he will be sticking at American. I'm sure plenty of people were given him some phone calls.
01:20:37
Cokeley Brothers
Um, oh, who was I going to mention? Who was I going to mention? Shoot. It's gone race.
01:20:51
Cokeley Brothers
Crap. ah Um, Okay. Well, then that's, that's this weight. Let's move on. Let's, we gotta, we're running, we're running long here. 197, Josh Barr.
01:21:02
Cokeley Brothers
Done. Kind of, I don't know.
01:21:04
Reese
Yeah. Weird way. Super weird way.
01:21:07
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe. Dude.
01:21:08
Reese
Colton Hawks. Completely and totally bizarre. Made the quarters.
01:21:13
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Sonny Sasa, what the heck, man? Yeah.
01:21:16
Reese
Sonny Sasso i had a tough one. Tough outing.
01:21:19
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. no
01:21:23
Cokeley Brothers
Joey Novak, solid for for Wyoming. Cody Merrill could be the answer to Josh Barr in the coming years. I don't know. We'll see. um Maybe.
01:21:36
Cokeley Brothers
If it is somebody.
01:21:38
Reese
Cody Merrill.
01:21:38
Cokeley Brothers
But yeah. Yeah.
01:21:39
Reese
I think that he probably started a picking up more bonus points. You know, that this this freshman year felt like, ah you know, one where he's going to have a lot of close matches.
01:21:52
Reese
and And now from here on out, he'll probably start separating himself a little more.
01:21:57
Cokeley Brothers
Definitely, definitely could.
01:21:58
Reese
Maybe.
01:21:59
Cokeley Brothers
We'll see. Yeah.
01:22:00
Reese
Yeah.
01:22:03
Cokeley Brothers
Dude, I didn't even realize Branson John lost round one to Dean Bechtold. And then wins, beats Schaefer from Kent State, beats Rocky Elam 11-4.
01:22:15
Cokeley Brothers
Dude, poor Rocky. Beats Maxed Out four to one and then Colton Hawks 5-1 and tiebreakers to place.
01:22:22
Reese
Yeah.
01:22:23
Reese
Pretty cool.
01:22:23
Cokeley Brothers
Ridiculous.
01:22:23
Cokeley Brothers
Ridiculous.
01:22:25
Reese
rocky Rocky had his... He's had his AA's, you know, back in 20... Back in the Obama administration.
01:22:35
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, it's good to... It's just Rocky. you had to see that You had a career. Time to move on.
01:22:41
Reese
Yep. Time to move on.
01:22:42
Cokeley Brothers
I'm sorry. um
01:22:42
Reese
Okay.
01:22:43
Cokeley Brothers
Feel good story of probably the whole tournament is Gabe Arnold, which... Gosh darn it, Reese. Christian Powles was right.
01:22:54
Cokeley Brothers
He was the 97-pounder Iowa needed all along.
01:22:57
Reese
How long?
01:22:59
Cokeley Brothers
it But ah I don't like the way it happened.
01:23:02
Reese
Seventh place.
01:23:03
Cokeley Brothers
I don't like it at all. Huh?
01:23:06
Reese
Seventh place.
01:23:07
Cokeley Brothers
Seventh place. Dude.
01:23:10
Reese
Amazing.
01:23:10
Cokeley Brothers
ah Babe Sollers. Come on, man. You can win that match.
01:23:16
Reese
Yeah.
01:23:16
Cokeley Brothers
It's okay. Everything's okay. um If he's going to lose to somebody, I'm glad he lost to Gabe Arnold. And then I'm glad Gabe didn't lose to Remy Cotton.
01:23:28
Cokeley Brothers
Man, that would have, I would have, oh my goodness.
Team Performance Evaluations and Rankings
01:23:32
Cokeley Brothers
Rutgers, eight qualifiers, no All-Americans.
01:23:39
Reese
Wreckers.
01:23:41
Cokeley Brothers
Rutgers, no places.
01:23:42
Reese
Yeah, tough. Scott Goodell probably time. Time to boot him.
01:23:47
Reese
Give him the boot.
01:23:47
Cokeley Brothers
Hang it up.
01:23:48
Cokeley Brothers
Hang it up, Scotty.
01:23:49
Reese
Yep.
01:23:52
Cokeley Brothers
um and That's kind of all I have to say about this weight. Steven Little, good third place finish for Little Rock. Awesome to see for that program. I think he's got one more year. so Maybe he can let it ride for one last year.
01:24:08
Cokeley Brothers
Uh, okay. Heavyweight, Isaac Trumbull five to zero controlled final, uh, win over younger Bastida. um also beat Tegadali four to one in the semis. I heard that this was controversial and I didn't see it, which I was weird.
01:24:22
Cokeley Brothers
How did I not see it?
01:24:22
Reese
That hurt too, man.
01:24:23
Cokeley Brothers
Oh, we left.
01:24:24
Reese
We left, yeah.
01:24:24
Cokeley Brothers
We left. Why did, why did we leave?
01:24:27
Reese
Because it was late.
01:24:27
Cokeley Brothers
Was it late? It was late.
01:24:29
Reese
Yeah.
01:24:30
Cokeley Brothers
We left. It was late.
01:24:31
Reese
We left. It was late.
01:24:33
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. ah And. On that. um Yeah, this way was so so AJ Ferrari got bodied in the semis, took the slide, got just destroyed, made some accusations, the accusations against younger rescinded those accusations.
01:24:46
Reese
We have dirtied.
01:24:54
Cokeley Brothers
And now they're going to fight each other at real American freestyle.
01:25:00
Reese
fate
01:25:01
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. ah your Your champion, ah Christian Carroll, placed. He got stalled out against David Zuba. Oh, my goodness.
01:25:12
Reese
that's what happened i was wondering what happened
01:25:15
Cokeley Brothers
Dude, it like with he got stalled out with 30 seconds
Ben Keeter's Dual-Sport Journey
01:25:20
Cokeley Brothers
left in the second period.
01:25:23
Reese
wow 30 seconds left in the second period
01:25:24
Cokeley Brothers
It went so his his dude his leg. His leg must not have worked by then or whatever was like significantly hindering him.
01:25:33
Reese
Yeah.
01:25:34
Cokeley Brothers
I Suba must have just driven him out. He must have he must have Colton Schultz the the crap out of him. And and that was it.
01:25:40
Reese
Right. Weird.
01:25:42
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. Good. Dolly takes third.
01:25:43
Reese
But he got the, he got the, you know, I said he, I mean, he plays.
01:25:44
Cokeley Brothers
Do set takes fourth. Huh? Yeah.
01:25:49
Reese
So a lot of knees, a lot of banged up knees, man.
01:25:49
Cokeley Brothers
Gets the job done. Ben Keeter.
01:25:52
Reese
This way.
01:25:53
Cokeley Brothers
Yep. Ben Keeter takes fifth, goes in for some surgery last week and his heart stops during the surgery.
01:26:01
Reese
Yeah, that's crazy.
01:26:01
Cokeley Brothers
But, but do you,
01:26:03
Reese
But on another note, why were you telling me that this dude was done?
01:26:09
Cokeley Brothers
because that's what I heard last year. can, unless you know what time for me to to own up to my mistake.
01:26:14
Reese
that's not the narrative anymore.
01:26:17
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe I'm wrong.
01:26:18
Reese
He's back.
01:26:19
Cokeley Brothers
ah but I could have sworn Ben Keeter returned to football. I could have sworn that he said a phenomenal multi-sport athlete with Keeter committed to play football and Russell Keeter was a member of the football team in 2023, but has wrestled since then. He told reporters last October on Iowa Wrestling Media Day that he planned to return to Iowa football program in 2026. But...
01:26:44
Cokeley Brothers
but I suppose that plans have changed. Ben Keeter provides update on plans with Iowa wrestling, Hawkeye football. please Plans to return in 2026, but before returning to the gridiron, he's focused on his redshirt sophomore season after undergoing surgery.
01:27:01
Cokeley Brothers
dadadadadahdah During his first year. i don't know. This is what I read. this is what I read. He had so he had hip surgery in 2025. Wanted to give it one last ride this year. Got fifth place, and then he was going to go back to football in 2026, which is this year.
01:27:15
Cokeley Brothers
But I guess that plan has changed, I guess. I don't know.
01:27:21
Reese
It's changed.
01:27:24
Cokeley Brothers
don't know, dude.
01:27:25
Reese
wyoming Wyoming had a record three All-Americans.
01:27:30
Cokeley Brothers
Yes. 84, 97 heavyweight. Boom, boom, boom.
01:27:34
Reese
Pretty cool.
01:27:34
Cokeley Brothers
Good for them.
01:27:35
Reese
Mark branches.
01:27:36
Cokeley Brothers
Um, Mark Branch is good. ah Penn State breaks a team record once more with 181.5 points. They can't keep getting away with this.
01:27:49
Reese
They could be better.
01:27:50
Cokeley Brothers
But they might for one more year.
01:27:51
Reese
Next year.
01:27:52
Cokeley Brothers
And then maybe another year. I don't know.
01:27:54
Reese
Maybe after
01:27:55
Cokeley Brothers
Oklahoma State takes second place. David Taylor is starting to realize his full potential with 131 points. Nebraska in third place with 105. Dude, tell you what. If Angelo Ferrari wrestled on that backside and took third place,
01:28:09
Cokeley Brothers
Iowa might have beaten Nebraska.
01:28:12
Reese
Really?
01:28:12
Reese
Oh, yeah. Well, if AJ would have wrestled too, though.
01:28:12
Cokeley Brothers
Eight points.
01:28:14
Cokeley Brothers
Eight points. Would AJ have wrestled if Angelo wrestled?
01:28:18
Reese
I said, you know, if AJ... Yeah, exactly. you know AJ could have wrestled too.
01:28:22
Cokeley Brothers
you think AJ and Angelo were like, let's just call it good. It's a wash.
01:28:26
Reese
That's a wash.
01:28:28
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe.
01:28:28
Reese
Wash your hands of it.
01:28:29
Cokeley Brothers
um Ohio State had a chance to take that fourth place trophy from Iowa, but just kind of didn't didn't realize it. um
01:28:38
Reese
Nope. They peaked at the wrong times.
01:28:41
Cokeley Brothers
Stanford at sixth. Michigan at seventh. Iowa State at eighth. Even with a like not super impressive tournament. With Elam falling apart. Frost not placing.
01:28:54
Cokeley Brothers
Even still, you know, eighth. Not bad. Minnesota at ninth.
01:28:57
Reese
Not bad. All right.
01:28:59
Cokeley Brothers
NC State at tenth. Virginia Tech at eleventh. and so on and so forth. ah The top 12 teams, which includes Wyoming at twelfth. are automatically invited to the National Duels Invitational.
01:29:11
Cokeley Brothers
And we know that Penn State will not accept it, or we assume.
01:29:11
Reese
I'm taking
01:29:16
Cokeley Brothers
which means Arizona state will take that 12th spot, I believe, or that spot gets thrown back into the lottery.
01:29:17
Reese
that.
01:29:22
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know. And then they'd give a 13th through 24th, I believe lottery for the last four spots, plus two extra little filler spots of which Indiana is back in the running for.
01:29:36
Cokeley Brothers
So let's see if we get our Hoosiers out to the national duels.
01:29:37
Reese
Hey, question.
01:29:39
Cokeley Brothers
What's up?
01:29:40
Reese
Crickham, is he going to Virginia Tech? Is that happening?
01:29:43
Cokeley Brothers
Ryan said that, but I think it was just he was just positing a potential lineup.
01:29:47
Reese
Oh, okay.
01:29:48
Cokeley Brothers
I have no idea. I don't i don't have any leads on where Ryan Crookham is going. I am hearing word about people that we should expect.
01:29:53
Reese
he Did he graduate?
01:29:56
Cokeley Brothers
Yes.
01:29:57
Reese
Oh my word.
01:29:58
Cokeley Brothers
he He did redshirt.
01:29:59
Reese
Been there for four years?
01:30:01
Cokeley Brothers
Freshman year, where he took third. Medical redshirt last year, medical redshirt this year.
01:30:06
Reese
He's medical registered the last few years.
01:30:09
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah, dude. Think about it.
01:30:10
Reese
He's a sophomore still.
01:30:12
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:30:16
Cokeley Brothers
He's got three more years.
01:30:17
Reese
ah you
01:30:17
Cokeley Brothers
He's going seven-year wrestler.
01:30:20
Reese
So you have unlimited medical records or you get to. Is
01:30:22
Cokeley Brothers
You have two. You have two at most. I think they back-to-back.
01:30:25
Reese
that new?
01:30:25
Cokeley Brothers
I'm pretty sure. o No. don't think so.
01:30:29
Reese
Like within the last 10 years.
01:30:32
Cokeley Brothers
Maybe. I don't know. I'm not that well-versed in the... I don't know.
01:30:38
Reese
That's wild. Good for him, I guess, if he wants to keep doing what he's doing.
01:30:41
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:30:44
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:30:44
Reese
Maybe he'll go somewhere that will figure out how to not.
01:30:49
Cokeley Brothers
where they tell him, Hey dude, when you're wrestling at the Bloomsbury open, don't, don't sacrifice your need and not give up a takedown to a kid who wrestles for pit Johnstown or whatever happened.
01:30:58
Reese
Yeah.
01:30:59
Cokeley Brothers
I don't know, but like, yeah, we'll see.
01:31:02
Reese
Figure it out.
01:31:05
Cokeley Brothers
Figured out, or we're just not going to wrestle you until the postseason and then you can sacrifice life and limb for every match.
01:31:08
Reese
That's a good idea too.
01:31:12
Cokeley Brothers
Okay. We're, we just crossed an hour and a half. Very fun. Recap of NCAAs. um Closing thoughts, Reese.
01:31:27
Reese
My closing thoughts are I'm excited for next year. I think next year probably will be the first time in a long time we can have a real conversation about
01:31:38
Reese
Team race.
01:31:38
Cokeley Brothers
First place. Yeah.
01:31:40
Reese
Yeah.
01:31:42
Cokeley Brothers
It's possible. But if I could put money down right now, I would put a good amount of money on Penn State winning next year.
01:31:48
Reese
Same. Same.
01:31:49
Reese
Same, same.
01:31:49
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah.
01:31:52
Cokeley Brothers
Yeah. um
01:31:52
Reese
you didn't have to You didn't have to negate my closing thoughts, Simi.
01:31:56
Reese
Yeah.
01:31:56
Cokeley Brothers
No, because like it really depends on what Oklahoma State is able to do from 165 to 184.
01:32:03
Reese
Yeah.
01:32:03
Cokeley Brothers
If they can figure that out, we got it. We got a race on our hands.
01:32:09
Reese
We got a ball game.
01:32:11
Cokeley Brothers
Yep. um Any who? ah Real American Freestyle.
01:32:13
Reese
Oh, and my other closing thoughts are Duke sucks. Duke lost after winning, after leading that whole game.
01:32:19
Cokeley Brothers
Duke, Duke, the Duke, the basketball team, not PJ Duke.
01:32:24
Reese
Yeah, not P.J. Duke. Duke, the basketball team.
01:32:26
Cokeley Brothers
and And not Duke wrestling, even though oof they're rough. um Real American Freestyle had an event last year. I recapped that. There's no need for us to talk about it. Real American Freestyle will have another event on April 18th. And then on April 22nd, we see the US Open. So freestyle action is right there.
01:32:47
Cokeley Brothers
So gear up, Reese. Job's not finished.
01:32:53
Reese
Yeah. Well, who?
01:32:56
Cokeley Brothers
You.
01:32:58
Reese
For what?
01:32:58
Cokeley Brothers
The U.S. Open. For the U.S.
01:32:59
Reese
Oh.
01:33:00
Cokeley Brothers
Open.
01:33:02
Reese
We're previewing that right now?
01:33:04
Cokeley Brothers
No. All right. Have a good day. Bye-bye.