You’re right, we should be rooting for him to lose instead
High School Individual State Championships Thread
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Well said. If I recall correctly, he is #2 in PA and Sasso's brother is #1. I think he plays football as well. Probably has not wrestled too many opens to get noticed nationally. Let's see how he ends up this year.
NJ states should be moved up a week to the current week of Regions, so it doesn't conflict with B1Gs. It would be the same weekend as NY. NJ should also get rid of the 30 match rule limit (through 1st weekend of Feb), or modify it to 35-40 or 30 weigh-ins.
Yes, please. And get his brother Brandt (also class of '26) too.
Exactly. Support our commits and team members, regardless of what they're ranked. As for scholarships, the new NCAA rule requires at least 20% of a full scholarship now, so no more smaller partials (I'd guess everyone will figure out ways around this at some point):
Everything you need to know about the new college wrestling rules ahead of the 2022-23 season
Here’s what you need to know about the 2022-2023 NCAA bylaws and how they might impact the upcoming season.
www.ncaa.com
Scholarship regulations
Rules around athletic and academic competition follow precedent, but the new financial and monetary rules around scholarships are a little more complicated. Starting in the 2022-23 season, any member of a men’s wrestling team on an athletic scholarship must receive at least 20% of a full scholarship.
Athletes receiving athletically-related need-based aid at an institution that offers such funding do not need to receive at least 20% of their costs, but they still must demonstrate financial aid as any non-athlete would be required to do. Wrestlers in their final two years of eligibility who have not previously received aid at any institution may also receive less than 20% of athletically-related financial aid.
I am going to disagree with you guys and shortening the NJ wrestling season. Yes, it stinks that it is same weekend as BigTens, but that is no reason to shorten the season by another week. The NJSIAA already shortened the season by a week about 8 years ago(NJ states were always the same weekend as PA--this weekend) but College B-ball wanted Boardwalk Hall this weekend.....And even though they barely sell any tickets, the MAAC conference ponied up big bucks for the arena.
Hermes wins his quarterfinals matchup by fall and moves into the semis as well.
Yeah I remember that changing but he could even be walking on, receiving other types of aide, etc… like you said there are certainly workarounds and I doubt it truly negatively impacts anyone.Yes, please. And get his brother Brandt (also class of '26) too.
Exactly. Support our commits and team members, regardless of what they're ranked. As for scholarships, the new NCAA rule requires at least 20% of a full scholarship now, so no more smaller partials (I'd guess everyone will figure out ways around this at some point):
Everything you need to know about the new college wrestling rules ahead of the 2022-23 season
Here’s what you need to know about the 2022-2023 NCAA bylaws and how they might impact the upcoming season.
Scholarship regulations
Rules around athletic and academic competition follow precedent, but the new financial and monetary rules around scholarships are a little more complicated. Starting in the 2022-23 season, any member of a men’s wrestling team on an athletic scholarship must receive at least 20% of a full scholarship.
Athletes receiving athletically-related need-based aid at an institution that offers such funding do not need to receive at least 20% of their costs, but they still must demonstrate financial aid as any non-athlete would be required to do. Wrestlers in their final two years of eligibility who have not previously received aid at any institution may also receive less than 20% of athletically-related financial aid.
Packer loses 5-2 in his semifinal. Didn’t seem to have much offenses this tournament. Appears to be very strong but hopefully focusing on wrestling will be beneficial for him long term.
Too bad. I was hoping to see how he would do against Hogan. Packer had a good record and lots of pins. I think he relies on his strength and doesn't do as well against other strong wrestlers. It's a good starting point, but there is no guarantee he'll develop further. Nevertheless, we need more talent at 197. I look forward to seeing what he can do and hope he doesn't become another that we don't hear about. I've searched Youtube but can't find any wrestling videos of him... strange.
I hear ya and don't disagree, but the B1Gs conflict is less than ideal when our coaches can't attend NJ states. Gotta figure out something.
Pritzlaff at OH states as well with Pollard.
Agreed 100%.
Seems like he is very raw in terms of his wrestling development but is very gifted/strong athletically. We’ve had an issue of being undersized at some of the upper weights recently aside from
Bulsak so hopefully once he gets in the room and dedicates himself to wrestling he can continue to progress.
He looks like a hammer on top. Just got the pin to get into the 3/4th match.
Congrats!!! Conner Harer 2X State Champ
Max Hermes 120 and Dillion Campbell 126 will wrestle in the D3 Ohio State Finals
Max won his semifinal by MD and will wrestle for his 3rd state championship tomorrow!
Packer loses the 3/4 match in OT. I think you guys are right about the dedication to wrestling. He spent a lot of time practicing football, rather than being 100% dedicated to wrestling like a lot of these guys are.
I get the logic but this didn’t stop Jimmy Mullen from being the top heavyweight recruit in the country
Junior from Legacy Christian HS in Ohio. He has taken an official visit to Rutgers, Purdue and Va Tech.
Pretty sure he’s the exception, not the rule. He would have been a 4xer which obviously very rare
Packer finished only 4th, ut oh. Totally under the rankings radar, ut oh. Has to be developed, big ut oh. Despite all that, he has good strength and athleticism and may be better than other 197 recruits from recent years.
I agree but that’s not the point. Get good wrestlers who want to be better wrestlers. Caring about football shouldn’t be a red flag. If Packer was an elite wrestler no one would care that he plays football but because he’s not ranked nationally, his caring about football is being perceived as a problem. Kind of silly IMO
I don't think jimmy will ever start or wrestle at VTech. He went to VTech for football.
Max wins 6-1 on this takedown to win his 3rd Ohio state championship! Congratulations Max!
Max’s brother, Abe, who is a sophomore won his 1st state championship at 113 right before Max so something to keep an eye on in the future.
Funny most football people see it the exact opposite way. Jimmy was a low d1 recruit for football until VaTech offered for both (mainly wrestling). VaTech was the only P5 offer. If he wasn’t a huge wrestling prospect his football skill level is at the Patriot level. Wish him well but I don’t think he sees the field.
I tend to agree but we’ll see how it plays out. Kyonte Hamilton was in a similar situation and played himself into a football friendly situstion
Yea saw Jimmy play 3-4 times and thought he’s a nice player but not P5 level. Didn’t dominate and wasn’t even the best dlinemen on the field. As I said earlier I wish him well. Seems like a good kid and tough as nails.
Watch his interview in the other thread, love this kid
Good call. Sounds like he's all business! 3x Ohio state champ.
Great catch here hope he opens the floodgates for Ohio recruits.
Shawver was a somewhat under recruited kid out of Ohio as well and he turned out pretty nicely
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