Manning is a habitual whiner and like a poor man's Tom Brands. I think it was Morgan MacIntosh match he was complaining that Morgan was intentionally trying to hurt his guy - he looked like a real a-hole then. He's just a ad nausea whiner and very irritating to me.
I think Nick was content to dominate his friend and not run up the score, just my opinion. Red is a quality opponent but Nick has had his number since latter days of high school.
Not good enuff for the Big10. They wanna keep their $50M from Penn St since they’ve doled it to Delaney in bonus money and withhold any Big10 wrestler of the match awards. #Indianapolisisadump
I noticed the same thing about Kerk grabbing his left hamstring. He was noticeably stiffer the remainder of the match. Hopefully it was minor. Announcers talked about his opponent finally getting to his offense and it was obvious it was because Kerk wasn't the same.Great match overall, especially with 3 starters out.
Beard got hosed. Really a shame the ref influenced the final result like that. Great showing by Beard regardless.
Kerk was grabbing at his left hamstring. Looked like he tweaked it on one of his 3rd period shot attempts. I could see him favoring it throughout the remainder of the 3rd. Hopefully nothing that lingers.
Big Ten Dual Champs! Now lets go win the next two championships and sweep all of the team awards.
Haters gonna hate. Move forward and keep winning. New season coming up soon after the Rider match. It’s all about preparing now….I’m ready to head to Nebraska and the Big Ten tournament and Michigan for Nationals. PSU always has a HUGE following for the Gold.
Certainly entitled to you opinion. But the reason I think it’s BS is that Beard had the leg up for nearly a 10 count with Schultz pushing off the whole time. Schultz stopped, Beard collected himself for a 2 count, and he immediately got hit with a stall and point. Then Schultz pulls off the mat and Beard gets hit with another? It’s nonsense, and we got hit often in this dual with it, including ludicrous calls on Brooks and Lee. Nebraska didn’t get hit at all for fleeing the mat, which is why I suspect Kerk made such a big show of pulling Lance back in at the end of the first period rather than trying for the takedown at the buzzer.
Love Beau and he tries hard. Simply too small for 149 against the better guys. Big heart tho.
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Just my opinion: I notice the chatter and background noice much more at BJC than at Rec Hall. My theory is that the Rec Hall crowd is predominantly long time season ticket holders. Many of these long term fans are former wrestlers, coaches, and refs (I sit among at least 4 former wrestlers and 2 coaches). This type of fan watches closely as if studying. It’s a quiet environment during hand fighting and riding time. The volume bumps up quite a bit when they see a move coming and reaches a crescendo when the move is executed.
good observation. You can see that when watching on TV as well. Thanks to Histone, my son and I made the long trip up from Henrico Va yesterday to watch the match. He is in his upper 20s and hasn't been following since his active days participating in HS. (I did the same thing - let the sport go for a few years). So Taylor/Ruth/Nolf/Bo are his measuring stick. Had fun conversations trying to get him updated. Couple more notes:
