2026 NCAA Championship Session VI Thread

Nitlion1986

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Luke isn’t exactly wrestling, haven’t seen any real shots
It is tough to make yourself shoot if your target is on his knees sliding backwards, or standing and always stepping backwards. I mean sure Luke could take a desperate shot, get extended and give McGowen his only shot at winning. But damn, that sounds like a really poor plan.
 

LB99

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Really bummed for Shayne and Rocco tonight and our other guys who came up short.

Was just thinking there’s no shame in Rocco losing a close match to McEnelly. In the beginning of the year, with the talent at 184, I would have been thrilled if you told me Rocco would take second.
Rocco has to develop some offense. He can’t rely on pulling rabbits out of hats late in matches every single match. It will bite you at some point and it did tonight.
 

Nitlion1986

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McGowan should have been stalled out a second time. The coaches need to insist that the refs call stalling. That has to be a point of emphasis going forward. Most of the matches tonight suck and are boring because the refs refuse to call stalling.
Two guys wrestling their assses off trying win, Shayne v Valencia and Jax v Davino were both entertaining as hell.
 
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johnstownsteel

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Looking ahead and at a couple young kids at or close to being st PSU... Henckle I see as a Levi type kid, grinder that just gets sh it done. Jayden James folks.... that's the one I think is gonna be Jason Nolf type special. Gonna be a scoring machine. I like the heavy weight kid that will be coming in. Mirasola might be in trouble in his own room eventually let alone what other teams have. We got a great young 125 lber to replace Luke eventually. And I think you're gonna see some huge hauls in recruiting next few years cuz....well ....cuz Cael doesn't lose.
 

Hotshoe

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If memory serves me right, Cael has yet to get 5 individual national champions in a single year. Obviously we were robbed at 157, though. McEnelly seems like a good guy and Valencia wrestled well so I am not especially pissed there.
2017, 5 National Champions.
 
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Efejle

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From North Carolina. Moved up here 5 or so years ago to wrestle for Bishop McCort with Bassett. Bassetts Dad recruited him really. They even had a year penalty for the wrestling program
And I recall more than a few being critical of the other d6 coaches for being vocal about it. They were correct. McCort runs a crooked, recruiting program and ******** right they should not be allowed to wrestle in the same district where everyone else develops the kids they actually have that grow up there. **** McCort
 

Nitlion1986

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If memory serves me right, Cael has yet to get 5 individual national champions in a single year. Obviously we were robbed at 157, though. McEnelly seems like a good guy and Valencia wrestled well so I am not especially pissed there.
Twice
 
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SRATH

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What an amazing year. Lots to be grateful for and yet lots to work on. Barr keeps getting better MM gets better Levi gets better. Luke gets better. The template is there, both for freestyle and folk style. Great freshman class…….the guys who rolled and the guys who redshirted. Rocco was an upgrade. Ono, who knows but he certainly appears to be fun to have around.

Wow!
 

mcpat

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If memory serves me right, Cael has yet to get 5 individual national champions in a single year. Obviously we were robbed at 157, though. McEnelly seems like a good guy and Valencia wrestled well so I am not especially pissed there.
Your memory is serving you left. He’s had five twice - 2017 and 2022.
 
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Efejle

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Vega is Zahid Valencia and Forrest is Randy Lewis. They have two great wrestlers. The others were beneficiaries of biased referees and stalling.

And they still don't have any championship guys after 157.
 

Tri-Power65

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I admit that not everybody is Mitchell Messenbrink, and there is a time to simply make sure you win the damn match.
Not sure i saw an Iowa effort out there. Shayne got outwrestled, Levi was tactical and always present, Rocco wrestled like he has against a really good opponent, Josh physically dominated an opponent who was going to do nothing until the very end and scored a TD and a reversal, Luke wrestled an opponent that retreated for 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
Nope not a single Iowa effort.
Don't confuse him with facts.
 

MPPosterDeuce

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Terrible stall call there on Devino imho - he's on bottom trying not to give up RT ADV.... escapes in 36 seconds and you hit him with bottom stalling???
I wish they would use common sense and consider a motive. It made zero sense for Davino to stall in that situation. It’s a 1pt match and it’s in his best interest to get up and out as quickly as possible. He’s not stalling.