***#3 Iowa State at WVU (Friday)/#18 Pitt (Saturday)***

[cycloneman003]

Big time Sam!

Love the passion on the board here, but a lot of people missing sight or the fact college wrestling is a damn long season. There are highs and lows. You can’t peak every weekend and you’re almost certainly going to be banged up at some point. We’re banged up and probably mot training to peak right now, but we keep showing character!

At the end of the day there is a lot of talent on this team and all that matters is March

 

[peatyscotch]

Collectively hitting the wall. Hope they can get it together to finish the year.

Exactly what wall are our guys hitting?

 

[CyGold]

Wrestling like ass tonight. Bastida had it. The only thing he couldn’t do.

Respectfully disagree. The team as a whole wrestled better tonight. YB proved he can beat that guy providing he finishes the match. Huge win for Sam. He's on a roll!

 

[ca4cy]

Every match we lost, they were ranked higher than us.. 125 we are at 4th string, 133 and 141 we saw a great battle and I saw some hope from Casey, 174 is what it is right now

And Sammy beat #5, which probably moves him into the top 8.

We looked waaaaaaay better tonight than we did last night. Pitt is scrappy.

 

[jctisu]

Pitt should be ranked higher

But we did not look good this weekend, either day.

Agreed I am wondering how Pitt is ranked 18th. They had three top-10 guys in the final few weights alone.

 

[buf87]

Pitt is solid. With Phillippi, Matthews, Nico B and Pitzer, they are going to make noise at Nationals

 

[jctisu]

Respectfully disagree. The team as a whole wrestled better tonight. YB proved he can beat that guy providing he finishes the match. Huge win for Sam. He's on a roll!

We can disagree, and it’s a matter of opinion. From what I saw both meets were similar in a lot of ways. Just think they are all running a little bit on fumes at times. They will be fine in March I am confident in that. Just not aggressive enough imo.

 

[clonedude]

How is Pitt only #18 with all these ranked guys?

Yeah…. I don’t understand wrestling rankings at all. Pitt looked like a top 10 team to me. Lots of ranked guys.

 

[OKClones]

Big time Sam!

Love the passion on the board here, but a lot of people missing sight or the fact college wrestling is a damn long season. There are highs and lows. You can’t peak every weekend and you’re almost certainly going to be banged up at some point. We’re banged up and probably mot training to peak right now, but we keep showing character!

At the end of the day there is a lot of talent on this team and all that matters is March

You’re right but are you seeing this with Penn State and Iowa. No! We may be #3 ranked dual team but we’re 5-12 tournament team right now. JMO.

 

[HouClone]

Pitt looks top 8.

 

[stuclone]

I’m very encouraged with tonight’s results. Redding looked good against a top 10 kid on a back to back weigh in, Casey got some swagger back in that third period. Hopefully that is momentum to get aggressive Casey back. Yonger had a lapse in judgement, but give me Yonger in a rematch in March. Sammy just beat the 5th ranked guy (who beat Schultz earlier this year). The main weak point from the weekend for me is honestly 174. That’s the weight I’m most concerned about right now, but love where the team is at

 

[ca4cy]

Agreed I am wondering how Pitt is ranked 18th. They had three top-10 guys in the final few weights alone.

Is that their dual ranking? They'd have to be higher in tournament rankings, wouldn't they?

This weekend was a tune up for March with tough competition and back to back weigh ins. I'm sure that's how the coaches approached it.

 

[Rogue52]

I like hitting a wall in a win.

 

[enisthemenace]

**** that was so clutch.

 

[jctisu]

Pitt wrestled very well tonight and they have some dudes. Getting out of there with a W was a good thing. Sam with a great match against a very good opponent.

 

[TheJackWePack5]

I thought our guys looked better at 125, 133, 141 and 174 and yet we lost all 4 of them.

They all wrestled better tonight.

 

[ISU22CY]

Every match we lost, they were ranked higher than us.. 125 we are at 4th string, 133 and 141 we saw a great battle and I saw some hope from Casey, 174 is what it is right now

Coleman..2 matches in a row of let down with bonus in the grasps

Yonger…don’t care the guy was ranked higher our guy is better but let himself check out at the end.

 

[peatyscotch]

Every match we lost, they were ranked higher than us.. 125 we are at 4th string, 133 and 141 we saw a great battle and I saw some hope from Casey, 174 is what it is right now

Thanks StuClone for bringing some sanity to this conversation. We knew coming it that we do not match up well against Pitt. I am proud of our guys for fighting hard. Yes, we saw some mistakes, but we we also saw some grit. Move on.

 

[JM4CY]

We can crap on these team all we want but I honestly freakin love these guys.

 

[jctisu]

I thought our guys looked better at 125, 133, 141 and 174 and yet we lost all 4 of them.

They all wrestled better tonight.

Casey wrestled much better and that was good to see. Really wanted Yonger to pull that out, as I thought watching that if he didn’t wrestle a rather tentative match he would’ve won.