***Soldier Salute (Dec. 29-30, Coralville)***

[theshadow]

Looks like 6 entrants for Iowa State:

125 - Caleb Fuessley
141 - Drew Woodley
157 - Ben Monroe
165 - Grant Stotts
165 - Carter Schmidt
197 - Rowan Udell

 

[NWICY]

Looks like 6 entrants for Iowa State:

125 - Caleb Fuessley
141 - Drew Woodley
157 - Ben Monroe
165 - Grant Stotts
165 - Carter Schmidt
197 - Rowan Udell

Reserves, underclassman looking for out of room competition?

 

[WhizzerClone]

I understand the Soldier Salute is on B1G+, but they moved all sessions, including finals, of the Midlands on to B1G+ as well. Watch viewers plummet. I always enjoyed the broadcast on BTN.

 

[WhizzerClone]

$35 Holiday offer isn't terrible for 70 B1G wrestling duals. Top duals everyone wants to see will be live on BTN I would assume though.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Can't wait until all the Big Ten stuff moves to Peacock next year. So much cheaper...

 

[theshadow]

Well, the 6 ISU entrants are no longer listed and are not in the brackets. When Dresser mentioned some of them as going to the Scuffle, I wondered if they'd bag this tournament.

 

[cloneconeramone]

Excellent. Add them to the scuffle brackets!

 

[crablegs]

$35 Holiday offer isn't terrible for 70 B1G wrestling duals. Top duals everyone wants to see will be live on BTN I would assume though.


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I’d say that is a damn good deal! Thanks for sharing!

 

[WhizzerClone]

As to be expected, Iowa is getting lit up about sending their starters to the Soldier Salute while everyone else is sending 2nd or 3rd stringers.

 

[matclone]

Here are the brackets:

https://www.trackwrestling.com/predefinedtournaments/MainFrame.jsp?newSession=false&TIM=1672327740133&pageName=%2Fpredefinedtournaments%2FBracketViewer.jsp&twSessionId=nfieptthyd

 

[buf87]

I see Echemendia is wrestling 149 at Soldier Salute

Also I see Cory Land of UNI got beat 1st round. Wonder what is up with him lately. I thought he would be real tough

 

[JM4CY]

As to be expected, Iowa is getting lit up about sending their starters to the Soldier Salute while everyone else is sending 2nd or 3rd stringers.

 

[CyCloneRastlinG]

As to be expected, Iowa is getting lit up about sending their starters to the Soldier Salute while everyone else is sending 2nd or 3rd stringers.

Glad we didn’t send our guys to this JV tournament. I hope they are going to SS instead as mentioned above.

 

[theshadow]

Glad we didn’t send our guys to this JV tournament. I hope they are going to SS instead as mentioned above.

5 of the 6 guys originally listed for Soldier Salute were mentioned by Dresser as going to the Scuffle.

 

[CyCloneRastlinG]

5 of the 6 guys originally listed for Soldier Salute were mentioned by Dresser as going to the Scuffle.

Good, it kills me not seeing our full squad go to SS year over year. We’ve made massive improvements to our schedule though over years past when we skipped

 

[matclone]

Ech comes back from early 6-0 deficit to win quarterfinal match 11-10, to include riding time point.

 

[HouClone]

As to be expected, Iowa is getting lit up about sending their starters to the Soldier Salute while everyone else is sending 2nd or 3rd stringers.

Yeah, I see some of the Hawks justifying this crap due to the Midlands cancelling last year as well as saying that the prestige will pick up. Uh, no.

 

[fitzgev]

Yeah, I see some of the Hawks justifying this crap due to the Midlands cancelling last year as well as saying that the prestige will pick up. Uh, no.

I am assuming the proceeds go to support military veterans, which is obviously great. Northwestern screwed up falling into the pandemic panic as late as Dec 2021 when they cancelled a second time.

That all being said, Midlands has been the best tournament in the Midwest and it only hurts the wrestler's competition and spectators opportunities to watch top level athletes mid-season when Iowa tries to start up a competing tournament against it. While I grew up a Hawkeye fan and still want to support them when not competing against ISU, this current administration makes it really hard to support when they continue to take selfish actions that hurt their role as ambassadors for the sport. Coach Gable was always trying to elevate the sport and promoted the sport outside of Iowa City. I just don't see that out of the current staff and I would be surprised if the Soldier's Salute tournament attracted better competition going head to head against the Midlands when they continue to project the "us against the world" attitude with other NCAA schools. If they moved it to earlier in the season, I think it would have a better chance, but even that is iffy with their perception outside of Iowa City. Their fans keep saying how they live "rent free" in other's minds when people criticize, but in reality they are only hurting their own cause if they expect others outside of Iowa City to support their startup events when they don't reciprocate.

 

[buf87]

I thought Riggins would be better. Is 165 the wrong weight for him?

 

[cyclonenation5]

I thought Riggins would be better. Is 165 the wrong weight for him?

He wasn’t great at 157 at the Harold Nichols either.