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I don't have a dog in this fight, but a couple issues at 120: The 6 seed, Griffin, was a finalist last year, shouldn't he be the 2 seed? The 9 seed, Hand, beat the #1 ranked kid at AAA 120 this weekend. I think he should up in the top 3, 4, 5 seed somewhere. Just my opinion... With a very basic und...

Agree on the redshirt if we are to believe that wrestlers are IMPROVING while at WVU. Watching some of the weight classes I am not sure all of our wrestlers are getting better during their time at WVU.

In a previous post Jon Perkins said "So playing sports in high school was not much of option for me because I did not have a set of parents that provided private welfare, they only provided what parents are obligated to provide, things like food, shelter, and limited clothing and instilled in m...

Was there supposed to be a compliment in there somewhere? If there was you have to dig deep to find one. You have the right to be critical, in fact I welcome criticism, but in order to do that you also have to give credit where credit is due. My recollection is that you did not like criticism when ...

Much to the chagrin of many, rumor has it that Shane Lyons is going to try to lure Coach Flynn away and start a wrestling powerhouse at Alabama. He has been rumored to brag that he can guarantee Coach Flynn will have the Crimson Tide in the top two of the SEC in his first year.

Maybe he and his brothers will come to WVU?

Great to see the team working in the offseason! How nice would it be to take a trip to Spain to watch some of the Mountaineers in the World Championships? Thank you for the report Kyle. Lets Go Mountaineers.

Great to see the team working in the offseason! How nice would it be to take a trip to Spain to watch some of the Mountaineers in the World Championships? Thank you for the report Kyle. Lets Go Mountaineers.

There will be people who celebrate this team performance and remind us that we are going in the right direction. I disagree but it is past time to argue. It is to the point that mentioning the direction of the program is like talking about current national/world events to the people who voted in thi...

Ok so in a regional tournament the 2 and 4 placed wrestlers are in opposite sides of the bracket however the 2nd place region kid has an R2 and the 4th place kid has an F2z. Shouldn’t that 4th place kid be R4? 1 and 4 from each region are on same side of the bracket but in different quarters 2 and ...

Overview, Cardinale and Hall are in regardless of performance at Big 12. If they need to take a medical forfeit or get caught in something funky, causing either of them to finish outside of the top 6 or top 4 respectively they have a good enough resume that they still get a wildcard. Wolfgram needs ...

If anyone can point to a season in the last ten years where they have had this many HS All Americans, multiple time state champions, and Top 100 recruits in the lineup then I am more than willing to hear them out. So my projected Dual record is 11 wins with 7 losses. As far as the conference and na...

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25-11
Cardinale, Hall, Wolfgram win

Hope we can regroup at Big 12’s in 2 weeks

WVU hosts Wyoming tonight for the final dual of the season. This is the final tune up for the Big 12 Championships. The Mountaineer's are coming in on a hot streak, winning their first big 12 dual of the season versus Utah Valley 21-16. Below is the Wrestlestat prediction. Ranking number is the wres...

Northern Iowa got lucky we will bounce back and beat Utah Valley and then Wyoming. No way we go o’fer in conference. We’re headed in the right direction. A very knowledgeable fan said this is one of the best teams we’ve had in a long time.

Good question. I’m sure I will think of examples that contradict this one but one example that state may be more difficult at the AAA level: Logan Grass won WSAZ every year he wrestled while he did not win the aaa state title every year.

Why is this even a question right now? Who is currently the more dominant wrestler, Raike or Wright? Raike. Raike placed at Fargo. Wright did not. Raike placed higher than Wright at Ironman. Raike placed at Powerade. Wright cut weight and got away from the guys who beat him at Ironman but still ran...

I have a different spin
If it is a season award then it goes to Raike. Derek outperformed Gage at Fargo, Ironman, and Powerade.
If it is a career award then we look back to last year when Gage whipped Derek twice.

Either way both are very good representatives of WV wrestling.

Thank you for posting early. Happy the dates work out so wrestlers don’t have to choose between going to wvu camp and going to Fargo. There’s much talk about strengthening our RTC, will these camps work on Freestyle? Greco? Or all Folkstyle?

When, Where, and Why did he scram? This was supposed to be the guy who took over 149. Qualifier and All American according to some.

So what are the rumors this year? Obviously the team is in for a horrible season. Anyone with half a brain knew that when Amos not only didn’t use his extra year, he didn’t even comeback for his rsSR year. Then Sullivan disappearing pretty much destroyed any descent dual season we could of had this...

Who said this would be the best wvu in a long time?? John Perkins This team is bad. Could we seriously not find a transfer anywhere for 197? Flynn & Company didn't recruit Amos and ran off Williams. It’s a shame cause is everyone comes back this year then we’re a pretty descent dual team. With ...

I have read the above discussion and did not attend the match (thank goodness). I know and like Anthony Carman and his family, but have two comments regarding the commentary about his match. First off, how does one make two mistakes and give up 8 points in near fall points? Did he tap out of both o...

Correct. Really need our wrestlers to get qualified this spring and summer. We will not attract a top RTC coach if there are no eligible athletes. Really need our coaches to strongly encourage the wrestlers to do more than smoke drink vape and find reasons to miss workouts/lifts. And before John get...

Thank you Kyle Bratke.

He’s difficult to understand but I think he’s saying that we will look good against Glenville, Cleveland St, Chattanooga & VMI.

I do believe Bearhugger is correct in that in order to draw better recruits to Morgantown they need a BIG name associated with the program in some way. I believe the best way to do this is to hire someone to run the RTC. Someone like a Troy Steiner, Mike Zaddick, or my personal pick would be Tony N...

After the whooping Ohio University put on the Mountaineers it appears that Raike made a very good choice.

Glenville vs WVU Glenville enters the dual ranked #31 in Division 2 WVU enters the dual ranked #55 in Division 1 Individual Rankings are for their respective divisions Probable Matchups 125 #30 Meloni, Kevin JR vs #155 Colton Drousias 133 #44 Easton, Devin FR vs #84 Garett Lautzenheiser 141 #126 Ful...