Is this the event that last year had high level high school and female wrestling too?
Drexel has that 5 yr plan w internships built in. Could sound like this is it for him there if he doesn't pursue graduate school.
Penn has a very strong dual team. Currently on paper we are pretty good underdog.
I looked at the matchup on Wrestlestat. It had Penn winning 24-7 but many individual matches were close decisions. A couple upsets and RU could end up winning the dual.
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Penn is good but not 8 match wins out of 10 matches good vs us. I see it being extremely close.WrestleStat | Dual Compare Pennsylvania vs Rutgers
A little ugly but room for hope here. Alvarez vs composto. Heilman/Silva vs colaico. Turley bounces back. Not sure what to expect 49-65.
Winning only 2 matches would be disastrous. Need at least a 5-5 split and there's a path to that by winning a bunch of the toss up matches. Don't think we see Composto so that helps lol.WrestleStat | Dual Compare Pennsylvania vs Rutgers
A little ugly but room for hope here. Alvarez vs composto. Heilman/Silva vs colaico. Turley bounces back. Not sure what to expect 49-65.
Nothing out about HS or women's wrestling.
That is Fri, the 4th is a Sunday. Maybe one day for the HS and one day for college?
Silly to have them on different dates. Guessing it's a typo and both are Sun 12/4, but who knows. I can't imagine them paying for the venue just for HS matches.
They did three mats last yr.
Plenty of room to have 6 mats and Grapple at the Garden always had HS wrestling at the same time.
Eek.😯 That would be an epic let down. However, I also don't think we're going to have a very good squad this year. We lost our best and didn't bring in much.
Dual wise I think we will be fine, but I agree, on paper this looks like our weakest team in a while as far as Tourney time goes. Need Turley and Poz healthy because they were injured at best and ran out of gas at worst in Poz's case.
There's another way of looking at that. Year over year improvement in each individual is what I've always looked at as an indication of program success. This scenario assumes the returners are better this year. I only see two weights weaker and four to seven stronger.
The problem with this is tournament scoring. Those two weights we are weaker scored a large majority of our points at ncaas.
Wow penn is tough!! Had no clue they had almost everyone in their lineup ranked in top 20.. def more excited for this dual now..
Our team is def a stronger dual team this year but not sure how we r going to make up Seabass and Bulsak’s points at nationals..
Please explain why you think the team won't be very good. Sammy replaces Seabass, Janzer replaces Bulsak and White replaces MVB.
Yeah not taking that bait. I say one criticism about a kid and you, Harley and the cheer squad pounce. Nice try though. You're not looking for opposing opinions here, you're looking for everyone to fall in line with your cheer squad.
I mean, we lose two high scoring guys, dual and tourney style. That will hurt for sure.
Nope not looking to pounce. This team has depth and 7 kids returning. Just wondering why you think the team won't be good. The wrestlers will be in their correct weight classes this year.
This used to be a place where you could discuss wrestlers' strengths and shortcomings. That time has passed, I'll leave it at that. If you want to shoot me a message on the conversation feature, I have no problem discussing it there. But here, no way, where if it's not sunshine and roses you become meat for the wolves. I will say this, it's going to take a lot to go right just to make Top 20 at NCAA's.
they brought on Jordan Borroughs and are Done with Cornell just dominating IVY
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to believe we take a step back. I like what we have overall but there’s question marks everywhere. Shawver we should know what we’re getting. Admittedly I know very little about the 133 group. We haven’t seen Alvarez wrestle in a while. White is a first year starter. Clark wasn’t good last year but should improve down a weight. Oneill wasn’t good last year. Which Turley are we getting? Which Poz are we getting if he goes? Soldano a true freshman. Janzer a year removed at a weight class he didn’t excel at last time we saw him. And Boone needs to get his cardio in order if he wants to be an impact wrestler.
Last years team expectation vs results wise was very disappointing.. Turley injured, Sammy couldn’t make weight, Poz struggles… that said, I think this years squad will do better dual wise.. not sure if we can match last years ncaa finish tho.. we need guys to step up and lots of question marks..
