***NCAA Wrestling - Session 3 (Friday, 11am CT)***

Need weights 165, 184, 197, 133 and 157
Mastny will be wrestling 197 right? I think he has a chance to be really good. Is Sawyer all the way down at 184 now? I’m not even sure how he looks. And we have gotten nothing from Tate Naakt.

I’m not sure if we just aren’t developing or injuries are adding up.
 
All this disaster talk and ISU is in 7th. Came into the tourney projected 5th. The only reason this is considered a disaster is because Elam is wrestling with a blown out knee which no one knew about.
It does suck seeing Michigan ahead of us though and Stanford right on our heels.
 
Well, this tournament stunk. I was afraid back in November we were peaking too early and that seems to be the case.

That said, getting that Iowa monkey off our back was huge despite finishing behind them in Cleveland. I imagine the staff will tweak some things like they did after last season and the program will continue to take steps forward. It’s nice to be competitive with the promise for more after the KJ dark days.
 
It just sucks now that the transfer game just got all the much tougher for us... other teams' coaches are going to use our track record with transfers against us to sway kids their way.
 
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I’m old enough to remember when @TheJackWePack5 and @CyCity told me Carroll wasn’t a HWT and I didn’t know what I was talking about.

2025: Sucks hard to hold 197, eventually has to give it up.
2026: Top 12 HWT with a shot at the podium
 
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Mastny will be wrestling 197 right? I think he has a chance to be really good. Is Sawyer all the way down at 184 now? I’m not even sure how he looks. And we have gotten nothing from Tate Naakt.

I’m not sure if we just aren’t developing or injuries are adding up.
Mastny is class of ‘27. Unless he pulls a Jax
 
An ISU team starts the year with 8 “returning” all Americans.

Ends year with only four guys still alive Friday afternoon at NCAA.

Baffling.
 
I only count 3 returning AAs. And one of those 3 was up a weight so he wasn’t really returning either.
In my view, if you have AA'd in your career, You're returning. But I guess if you want to play semantics, that's what a message board is for.
 
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Need weights 165, 184, 197, 133 and 157
I have a hard time believing half of our team for next year is currently in a different singlet. But I could be wrong.

Seems like Grice could have a very good hold on 33. Guy makes the round of 16 after only wrestling the last 4 weeks of the season. Bright future there.
 
Boy you've flipped the script. That is exactly the thing you'd have said in the past. I love Dresser, but there is no other way to categorize this tournament other than a clunker.
I am disappointed in the tournament so far, but a champ and 4 total AAs would still be a pretty good tournament considering Rocky blowing out his leg. Let’s see what the guys alive can do tonight and how they finish before calling the entire tournament a disappointment
 
I am disappointed in the tournament so far, but a champ and 4 total AAs would still be a pretty good tournament considering Rocky blowing out his leg. Let’s see what the guys alive can do tonight and how they finish before calling the entire tournament a disappointment
Fair enough.
 
I have a hard time believing half of our team for next year is currently in a different singlet. But I could be wrong.

Seems like Grice could have a very good hold on 33. Guy makes the round of 16 after only wrestling the last 4 weeks of the season. Bright future there.

I’m just telling you those are the weights we need, and we need all American caliber kids at those weights. I’d love it if they are in the room. But I don’t think they are
 
I’m just telling you those are the weights we need, and we need all American caliber kids at those weights. I’d love it if they are in the room. But I don’t think they are
I guess I'm pretty high on Grice as far as being AA caliber.