2026 NCAA Championship Session V Thread

[gimb14]

Updated team scores prior to 7th places matches. Wanted to get these in before someone posts incorrect scores from PSWC. Note: my scores include the results for the ferrari's FFing out.

Penn State	161.5
Oklahoma State	117
Nebraska	99.5
Iowa	88.5
Ohio State	84.5
Stanford	61.5
Michigan	58
Iowa State	52
NC State	40.5
Minnesota	39.5

 

[CowbellMan]

It's as if last night's drunk ref/replay crew is this morning's hung over ref/replay crew.

The Cannon match didn’t help. Watters had Cannon’s leg entirely and wasn’t cradled by Cannon. Under review the TD was upheld.

So Cannon had less of a TD than Duke but was still a TD.

 

[flyinorvi]

Schedule conflict with his Saturday prayer group?

 

[Tom McAndrew]

 

[FrankTanks]

Are PJ & Marcus up again this round?

Yes. Running through the 7th place bouts now and then will do the 3rd and 5th place matches.

 

[psu0408]

When AJ won the NC as a freshman, I thought he had the potential to be a 3 or 4 time champ. Malignant narcissism took over and he never got close again.

 

[NittPicker]

I know it's probably some kind of tradition but the OkSU singlets are weird. An arrow on the back pointing down to the wrestler's butt??

 

[trufan]

Schedule conflict with his Saturday prayer group?

That or he's HITTING THE WEIGHTS HARD

 

[WexfordWarrior]

Delete (until I think of something interesting to say.)

 

[dbldoofus]

That or he's HITTING THE BUD HEAVIES hard

FIFY

 

[El_Jefe]

Is AJ finally out of eligibility or does he have 1 more year?

He has next year.

He theoretically could apply for a medical shirt for the car crash and get 2028 too. It would be against NCAA rules for medical shirts, an abomination, and a complete mockery of the medical shirt, but we can't rule it out because NCAA. But IMO it's extremely unlikely now that he cannot be a 4x champ.

 

[Reiterate]

I know it's probably some kind of tradition but the OkSU singlets are weird. An arrow on the back pointing down to the wrestler's butt??

A tramp stamp of sorts

 

[CowbellMan]

Is AJ finally out of eligibility or does he have 1 more year?

Too bad “earning the privilege” wasn’t applied a couple of years ago. If it was, he wouldn’t be here.

these two are an insult to the rest of the competitors. In last night’s semi and the finals of the Bigs, AJ waved his hands for stoppage immediately upon being taken down despite no actual injury. Consistent lung breaks. On and on.

Just leave already.

 

[MPPosterDeuce]

Is AJ finally out of eligibility or does he have 1 more year?

He has one more and he’s actually trying to get another one on top of that. He feels that driving recklessly and almost killing people warrants a medical waiver.

 

[PSU Mike]

OSU getting more good luck - Wasilewski in concussion protocol.

 

[Random4598375]

What medical does AJ have? ***** move. At least Angelo actually has been battling injury for the last two months.

 

[Lahoff24]

College wrestling is the best except for the lack of consistent officiating, especially when it comes to intentional inaction. I.e. stalling.

One thing that I think we are seeing way too often is the 0-0 first period. Three minutes and nothing. My solution is there has to be a stalling warning given. Or two if a ref cannot determine who the guilty part is. Subjective, but isn’t most stalling calls.

if after a trial period, if the problem persists, start awarding a stalling point instead of a warning.

 

[PSU Mike]

Beau pins Gaitan

 

[Misalorales]

Let's go Van Dee

 

[Brian LB-U]

He has next year.

He theoretically could apply for a medical shirt for the car crash and get 2028 too. It would be against NCAA rules for medical shirts, an abomination, and a complete mockery of the medical shirt, but we can't rule it out because NCAA. But IMO it's extremely unlikely now that he cannot be a 4x champ.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t AJ also make a mockery of the Olympic Redshirt rule by not even bothering to compete? I cannot wait until both of them are finished.

 

[Cali_Nittany1]

@Lil Nicky Scarfo
Your 3rd place celebration meme on HR. I wish I had access to JT's 83 accounts to give it more likes. Great stuff.

 

[El_Jefe]

Can we leave the gay-baiting to HR? That's their thing, and maybe we should let them have it.

 

[pish69]

Shapiro another soft one. Forfeits his 7/8 match

 

[Reiterate]

What medical does AJ have? ***** move. At least Angelo actually has been battling injury for the last two months.

He tore something

 

[ElDuce]

Byrd was #1 wrestler 133 two weeks ago, finishes eighth.

 

[gimb14]

looks like all 5th place matches before 3rd place matches

 

[gimb14]

He tore something

a lip?

 

[tullfan68]

He’s either still recovering from that brutal beat down he took last night or he realized there’s no interviews for folks in the consis, so he decided to check out.

will he at least come out and do his split for the fans??

 

[Cstroke]

He tore something

His cooter?

 

[gimb14]

will he at least come out and do his split for the fans??

The can't even get all the way down split?

 

[PSU Mike]

Arnold taking it to Branson John.

Nice finish, Gabe.

 

[Efejle]

Guns has it correct: 8 scoring wrestlers right?

 

[District 4]

The Refs didn't take off the reversal?

According to the broadcasters is a brick is thrown the refs review it from the match if a second brick is thrown then it goes to independent review wtf is that about

 

[Reiterate]

a lip?

Delete

 

[tullfan68]

ESPN is plain stupid using that clown as their floor mike and n ot Shane Sparks.
It's obvious he doesn't have Shane's knowledge.

true that guy has no idea!

 

[Cstroke]

Is Gabe wearing Willie’s timberlands?

 

[Misalorales]

Gotta say, good for Gabe Arnold. Didn't see him placing at 197

 

[tullfan68]

so what's with the 10 minute comm during last night matches?

 

[Efejle]

Gabe Arnold All American. Impossible to not feel good for that kid. Right on Gabe!

 

[Bob78]

Think about the big picture for a few minutes.

In a regular season match, you only have the 10 wrestlers competing one time.

In a tournament, they can compete quite a few times. And the way the consolation brackets are set up, a wrestler that loses in the opening round and then makes it all the way to the 3rd place match would have more matches than a wrestler that never lost (including the final). But if you scored it the same as a regular season match, then the wrestler that won all those consolation matches would/could score more points than the wrestler that took 1st place. Is that really what you want?

So they had to come up with a mechanism to make winning on the championship side more valuable than winning on the consolation side. It's actually a pretty sound system.

People know the scoring system for regular duals because they are 90% of the what fans watch. By comparison, most don't know the intricacies of the tournament scoring because they only see that a few times a year.

Thanks, Tom. I did think about that briefly, but figured (apparently incorrectly) that the placement points would take care of rewarding the Championship side.
I appreciate the explanation.
I didn't understand what the I Love Lucy gif was trying to me, so this helps!