TBar1977 4,497 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 18 minutes ago, Full Nelson said: I agree. It occurred to me watching the Midlands semis and finals yesterday that the talent was better than any conference tournament besides the Big Ten. We get spoiled every spring by the spectacle of the Big Ten tourney and then NCAA feast. If you like college wrestling a lot, you get to see a lot of great match-ups at Midlands and scuffle. I'm psyched. What has come to suck is most dual meets. Wrestling has forever been top-heavy, but now it seems like the top 5 teams are WAY out ahead. All the great wrestlers are starting at or transferring to a tiny pool of teams. Most duals don't have many exciting matchups. Only the handful of meets between the top tier teams are exciting. Or transferring to..... What is good for athletes is bad for all but the most elite teams. Btw, brackets are out in floarena. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greatdane67 217 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 What happened to this tournament? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
77again 120 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 2014 Scuffle. 34 teams plus some unattached guys. Top 20 teams in order. Penn State Oklahoma State Minnesota Cornell Missouri Virginia Kent State Iowa State Oregon State Old Dominion Pittsburg Air Force Central Michigan Boston Ohio Chattanooga Hofstra North Carolina Pennsylvania Stanford Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TBar1977 4,497 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 Brackets ... https://arena.flowrestling.org/event/44c2f2ae-8a0d-40cf-9bac-2b52230245d5 The PSU freshman Joe Lee and Carter Starocci have really nice draws. I have Joe Lee getting to Fogarty in the round of 16 and if he wins that he gets Wentzel who has some very nice wins this year. Starocci should get to a quarterfinal with Spencer Carey who Mark Hall pinned with a body lock to his back in November. After that if he wins its probably Grello from Rutgers. Michael Beard has a tougher draw where he'd have to go thru Nick Reenan, then Nathan Traxler then to Dakota Geer, but let's see what happens. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LemonPie 1,368 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 I’ll take Cardenas over Traxler J. Lee - Ramirez is an interesting early round match Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HokieHWT 593 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 At least we won’t see any ducks since there is no one worth ducking Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
77again 120 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 22 minutes ago, HokieHWT said: At least we won’t see any ducks since there is no one worth ducking Way too harsh, but funny as hell. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TobusRex 2,108 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 Can't believe Joe Smith is the #1 seed at 174. I was SURE he'd be wrestling HWT..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marcus Cisero 342 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 18 hours ago, TBar1977 said: There are still some very good wrestlers in the event. Worth the watch imo. What else is on? A bunch of 3 loss teams in meaningless bowl games? no, you're right. I'm just disappointed - thats all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nhs67 1,991 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 149 and 165 redrawn. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TBar1977 4,497 Report post Posted January 1, 2020 Someone needs to tell Bratke that Carter Starocci and Shane Griffith are at different weights. https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/6630837-5-matchups-we-hope-go-down-at-the-southern-scuffle 1 82bordeaux reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bronco 231 Report post Posted January 2, 2020 On 12/31/2019 at 12:21 PM, Bronco said: I see Stanford has five wrestlers in the pre-seeds included one as the # 1 seed and two more as the # 2 seed at their respective weight classes. 125 lbs - Gabe Townsell # 4 seed 141 lbs - Real Woods - # 3 seed 149 lbs - Require van der Merwe - # 2 seed 165 lbs - Shane Griffith - # 1 seed 197 lbs - Nathan Traxler - # 2 seed When I wrote this van der Merwe was the # 2 seed at 149 lbs but I looked yesterday and this morning, and for reasons unknown to me, he apparently was bumped up to the # 1 seed at 149 lbs. I can't recall who WAS the # 1 seed at 149 lbs on the pre-seeds - but it wasn't van der Merwe. Require van der Merwe was defeated 4-3 by the # 8 seed (Milner of Appalachian State) in the quarterfinals. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Plasmodium 2,230 Report post Posted January 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Bronco said: When I wrote this van der Merwe was the # 2 seed at 149 lbs but I looked yesterday and this morning, and for reasons unknown to me, he apparently was bumped up to the # 1 seed at 149 lbs. I can't recall who WAS the # 1 seed at 149 lbs on the pre-seeds - but it wasn't van der Merwe. Require van der Merwe was defeated 4-3 by the # 8 seed (Milner of Appalachian State) in the quarterfinals. Boo Lewallen? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nhs67 1,991 Report post Posted January 2, 2020 9 minutes ago, Plasmodium said: Boo Lewallen? Apparently getting it wrong and calling him Bo Lewallen is not an appropriate mistake to make. Good on you for not making my mistake(s). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Plasmodium 2,230 Report post Posted January 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, nhs67 said: Apparently getting it wrong and calling him Bo Lewallen is not an appropriate mistake to make. Good on you for not making my mistake(s). People like to split hairs around here. Miss one little 'O' and you get eviscerated! It was probably Boo's dad. Understandably, he is a bad mood. 1 nhs67 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
