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2025 NCAA Wrestling March Madness

No respect for my Alma mater, @Gellar. About what I’d expect from a Hawk! 😂

I kid, buddy.

Today’s round was brutal. Lilledahl, Kasak…heart breaks for Kasak in particular after last year. There are some absolutely incredible matches tonight. Looking forward to it.

We Are Penn State!
Kasak’s win in the blood round gives Psu 10 All Americans. Only the 2nd time that has happened. The other time was Minnesota.
 
Hamiti with the big win. Having Taylor as a coach payed off. They had a good game plan against Haines. Hamiti’s defense just planted Haines to the mat.
 
One man left standing for my Beavers, but he'll be in the top six. I see his next match is against a PSU wrestler, and I remember the general idea of that dual meet a couple months ago.

QQ
 
I couldn’t help but notice AJ Ferrari make it a point to shake the Iowa coaches hands after the match. I have a feeling there will be more than one Ferrari in the Iowa lineup next year.
 
I couldn’t help but notice AJ Ferrari make it a point to shake the Iowa coaches hands after the match. I have a feeling there will be more than one Ferrari in the Iowa lineup next year.
He needs it. His lack of stiff competition and quality practice partners showed up and the Finals. Hopefully he was humbled a bit at the finals, he needs that most of all.
 
In other news of the slightly more intriguing variety, the rumor mill is at full speed with news that Ono may be enrolled at PSU and planning to compete for them next year. I think there is some debate over what his name being in the student directory means, definitively, I.e. some say you need it to have access to the facilities to train, whereas others indicate he is listed as a student with an email address etc. Would be very interesting, to say the least…
 
In other news of the slightly more intriguing variety, the rumor mill is at full speed with news that Ono may be enrolled at PSU and planning to compete for them next year. I think there is some debate over what his name being in the student directory means, definitively, I.e. some say you need it to have access to the facilities to train, whereas others indicate he is listed as a student with an email address etc. Would be very interesting, to say the least…
I saw that last night as well. The Iowa boards are all up in arms about it!🤣 if you want a good laugh just go on their forums. Some of those posters take the award for dumbest sports fans ever.

There probably hasn’t been one the quality of Ono but the experiment of taking lifelong freestylers and transitioning them into folk style in college has not been overly successful. It will be interesting to see what weight he goes. I can’t see him at 125. 133 on an hour weigh in will be tough. Usually international weigh in is the day before.

I hope he succeeds. It’s crazy to say this but He doesn’t really have a spot in Japan with the hammers they have at 57 Kg and 65 kg. Will he seek U.S. citizenship?
 
I saw that last night as well. The Iowa boards are all up in arms about it!🤣 if you want a good laugh just go on their forums. Some of those posters take the award for dumbest sports fans ever.

There probably hasn’t been one the quality of Ono but the experiment of taking lifelong freestylers and transitioning them into folk style in college has not been overly successful. It will be interesting to see what weight he goes. I can’t see him at 125. 133 on an hour weigh in will be tough. Usually international weigh in is the day before.

I hope he succeeds. It’s crazy to say this but He doesn’t really have a spot in Japan with the hammers they have at 57 Kg and 65 kg. Will he seek U.S. citizenship?
Yeah, I’ve been hearing he would go at 133. It’s a fascinating turn of events, for sure, because Japan already kind of has our number lately, so it’s not like there is an obvious expectation that coming here would make him a better freestyle wrestler. Perhaps he just wants to prove to himself he can do the folk style thing, or add some new accomplishments to his resume. But you’re right, it’s not the easiest transition.
 
@Gellar - how long do you think Hawkeye faithful and donors will continue to stand behind Brands? Seems to me he should be on the hot seat. They’re losing ground to OkSt and Nebraska, and it seems like they routinely limp into Big Tens and NCAAs the last few years. I know he just signed a massive extension, but….what’s the sentiment in Iowa City?
 
50:50 would like to see the brands gone. More would like to see different assistant coaches. I think Teemer and to a lesser degree Parco soured a lot of people. The sentiment is they payed them and they never showed up.

If they moved on from the Brands’ who would they go after? A lot of fans are mad they didn’t go after David Taylor. I think Coach Schwab at UNI would be to close to the Iowa style we already have, plus he has 2 kids in high school and I could see him wanting to stay put until they are done.

Personally, I don’t think there is anyone out there that is available that is better. The “Iowa Style” no longer works because most of the colleges have an Iowa guy on their staff and all the kids are at peak physical conditioning. Now the style and rules allow for the rolling and ankle passes and that just doesn’t work well against the Iowa style.
 
Pretty boring matches through 3. Ayala deserved to lose but that wasn’t stalling in OT, he was circling back in bounds. They should have been hit with a double stalling, Aysla for the second time earlier in the 3rd period and not even went to OT.
 

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