74kg bracket at Olympic Trials:
Kyle Dake
Jordan Burroughs
Jason Nolf
Keegan O’Toole
David Carr
Mitchell Mesenbrink
Quincy Monday
Alex Marinelli
Alex Facundo
Tyler Berger
Jarrett Jacques
Maybe Meyer Shapiro, James Green, Alec Pantaleo and others…
Anyone interested?
A dual meet national championship would be the most exciting development in college wrestling history. Invest in this idea and it will take the sport to heights unknown.
Start thinking about 74kg at the Olympic Trials. Jordan Burroughs, Kyle Dake, Imar, James Green, Jason Nolf, Ryan Deakin, Mekhi Lewis, David Carr, Mark Hall... maybe Vincenzo Joseph, Alex Marinelli, Logan Massa, Evan Wick. I’m sure I’m missing some people too.
Could you imagine walking into a wrestling room and having the following as partner options on any given day: Gilman, Retherford, Nolf, Nickal, Hall, Cenzo, Taylor, Snyder, Gwiazdowski, Varner, Cael, Bekzod, Gomez, Espinal. 🤯
86 kg bracket at Olympic Trials:
David Taylor
Zahid Valencia
Aaron Brooks
Trent Hidlay
Alex Dieringer
Mark Hall
Max Dean
Chance Marsteller
Parker Keckeisen
Connor Mirasola
Evan Wick
Pat Downey
Maybe Carter Starocci (74 or 86)
This will also be a good time. 😉
I wonder what the NCAA viewpoint on an extra year of athlete eligibility would be if it was the College Football Playoff that was canceled the week of the semifinals. Would perspective be different?
4 hours flight from Nur-Sultan to Moscow and this was the guy who sits down next to me. And you know what, he is one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met. Wrestling unites us all. 🇺🇸🇷🇺
@wrestling
Perhaps college wrestling can use this extreme scenario as a learning opportunity? There needs to be more value added to the regular season. The entire year should be judged and rewarded based on a full body of work, not a single event alone. It’s an outdated model.
Iowa-Penn St Thoughts:
-Cenzo was baiting Marinelli. So smart. Ready for round 4.
-Doubted Kemerer. Boy was I wrong. He’s a go-getter.
-RBY was going to win that match. The man was ready to go.
- Brooks is going to ascend to the top tier of 184. Finals?
-Duals are the future. 🏆
O’Toole vs Mesenbrink is my most anticipated match in NCAA wrestling this year. Feels similar to Imar-Nolf round one. Could be a legacy defining series.
Calling all college wrestling program accounts, drop a link to your official team store so we can purchase shirts and support you for
#WrestlingShirtADayInMay
⬇️
I’ll start by buying a shirt from the first five programs who post.
Instead of removing the 33rd
@ncaawrestling
qualifier, why don’t we add an 11th weight class and keep 32 man brackets? Solves the oddity pigtail round and adds more qualifiers overall.
Added bonus: simplified dual meet criteria (total wins).
Couldn't be more excited to announce the release of this U.S. Women's World Team poster, designed by
@VicFran9412
! All proceeds from this poster will be donated to
@WrstleLikeAGirl
! Pick up yours today & support women's wrestling:
My heart goes out to the student-athletes impacted by today’s decision. Let it be known that a result next to your name doesn’t define you. Thank you all for your dedication to your craft and allowing us to witness your pursuit of excellence. 🙏🏼
There is no justifiable reason for a police officer to shoot someone in the back seven times. None. Period.
To my white friends, stop trying to rationalize the clear racism on display every single day in America.
To my black friends, I stand with you. This has got to stop.
Just noticed
@Stanford_AD
, who is noticeably not active on Twitter, congratulated three teams this month on winning national titles. But, not one mention of wrestling national champion
@shanegriffith7
. That’s what you call leadership
@GoStanford
?
#KeepStanfordWrestling
Annual reminder that the University of Texas does not have a wrestling team. Might be better at tackling (and life in general) if they had one.
#HookThat
Might as well give my picks for who I thought would win NCAAs tonight.
125: Lee
133: Gross
141: Pletcher
149: O’Connor
157: Deakin
165: Joseph
174: Hall
184: Brooks
197: Moore
285: Steveson
Team: Iowa
Heavyweights and lightweights drill at opposite ends of the room.
Don’t take someone else’s drilling spot.
Don’t eat in front of the lightweights before weigh ins. Yes, they can bring out their food and stare at it longingly. That doesn’t mean you get to eat your Subway now.
Probably safe to announce that I’m back with
@USAWrestling
at this point. 😉
Thanks to
@lbslater
for catching me in the act at the U.S. Open. Looking forward to working with my wrestling family again.
I don’t understand how the “leader” of our country could be so insentive and hateful. This is the opposite of leadership. He has shown his true colors time and again. We deserve better. If you have any sense of morality you will not vote for this man.
Has
@BubbaWallace
apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX? That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!
Congratulations are in order to
@pennstateWREST
👏
•2 4-timers
•4 national champs
•6 finalists
•8 wrestlers place in the top 5
•2 non-AAs make bloodround
•New NCAA Tournament scoring record
It’s the best team of all time. Appreciate seeing history in the making, folks.
Imagine a world where a wrestler is up by a score in the Olympic Trials finals with 30 seconds left, and instead of running to the out-of-bounds line, they walk to center mat and say let’s scrap here to decide this. Then they blast double the other guy for 4 to make the team. 💥
How would we feel about “ranking series” events for NCAA wrestling? Scrap the current allocation system. Make it simple. The more you wrestle, and the more you win, the more points you get toward final rankings. You don’t compete then you don’t get points to qualify for NCAAs.