All of a sudden, Minnesota's lineup looks really solid

[MSU158 2,040]

Add 2 big transfers, Gable and bump up half the lineup and BOOM!

 

125: Russell

133: Lizak

141: McKee

149: Thorn

157: Bleise

165: Allar

174: Skatzka

184: Webster

197: B. Steveson

285: Gable Steveson

[southend 243]

BAM!

[Housebuye 2,452]

Solid

 

Still shocked McKee has never AAd. Hope he makes it this year

[headshuck 2,626]

Krone was looking strong at the end of last season. It will be interesting to see how 174 shakes out now.

[TobusRex 2,108]

Looks like a top 10 team to me

[MNRodent 233]

Skatzka had been pretty solid but not spectacular his first two years.  Had a bad NCAA tournament last year.

[LemonPie 1,368]

Have to imagine 197 is Dylan Anderson or Garrett Joles

 

I could see Krone beating Webster

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[ConnorsDad 596]

Webster by a large margin @ 184 unless he is hurt still.

[MNRodent 233]

Eggum working the free agent market to go along with a great draft.

[MSU158 2,040]

Solid

 

Still shocked McKee has never AAd. Hope he makes it this year

He is still a bit too freestyle centric. However, I would expect him to make the podium before he is done.

[boconnell 1,632]

He is still a bit too freestyle centric. However, I would expect him to make the podium before he is done.

He's better in FS but similar in both.  Incredibly dangerous and weak defensively.  Sound wrestlers can pick him apart all the times they don't get pinned.  He's like Eierman with much less of his own offense.  

[Housebuye 2,452]

He's better in FS but similar in both. Incredibly dangerous and weak defensively. Sound wrestlers can pick him apart all the times they don't get pinned. He's like Eierman with much less of his own offense.

I wouldn’t say he is weak defensively in free. He did get a junior world silver at a lower weight.

 

If you mean weak like Stieber, then I get your point

[MSU158 2,040]

He's better in FS but similar in both. Incredibly dangerous and weak defensively. Sound wrestlers can pick him apart all the times they don't get pinned. He's like Eierman with much less of his own offense.

Huge difference between the 2 is his exposure defense. Chest wraps and head pinched galore. None of that translates.

[superbowlhomeboy 235]

Would love to see Krone in the line-up somewhere. I was impressed by him stepping up and filling in wherever needed last year and was glad to see it pay off with a trip to ncaa’s.

[boconnell 1,632]

I wouldn’t say he is weak defensively in free. He did get a junior world silver at a lower weight.

 

If you mean weak like Stieber, then I get your point

Yes.  Very dangerous with counter offense but no thought at keeping guys off his legs.  Against the best guys he is letting them on his legs to go for exposures and they are finishing shots for 2.  

[WillieBoy 713]

Hope it works and Minnehaha becomes a top 5 team again. Good for the Sport to have more competition for the top ranks.

[Peso 331]

That's a line-up that can make a lot of noise.  So many tough programs.  I don't know if there are more or less than in previous cycles, but there are a lot of really tough teams in the top 10 at DI's.  Just a few decades ago if you had 6 AA's, you were winning the tournament.  That's when we had a few hundred more teams...in NAIA alone.  In some ways, it was like a 4A program against a 5A program with equal athletes and coaches.  When you began the college wrestling season with 400 more per weight class, in all divisions, the top of the top was probably a bigger piece of the athletic pie than what we have now.  Now, however, we put the best athletes on the mat we have ever put out.  The rules are the best they've ever been in my opinion.  I'm beginning to lose the argument with myself about which era is the best.