2026 NCAA Wrestling Championship Official Thread

SUPERPOKES

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Never moved lol. Man reading/comprehension is tough for you hicks. None of my family has ever been to Oklahoma. Do you honestly think sooner football fans don’t exist in other states???
You’re the typical Goon fan: didn’t go to school there, doesn’t have any ties to Oklahoma, probably doesn’t root for ou in any other sports, just follows them because the success their football team had when you were a kid.
 

TheJimReaper

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One thing DT seems to be elite at is getting helping his wrestlers beat guys they previously lost to. Landon avenged both his losses, Dean avenged his loss to OToole last year, Spratley finally got a win over Robinson, and Jax went from barely beating Seidel to majoring him
 

R.D.Carr

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Really enjoyed watching these matches. Apparently a great class is coming in for the 2026 season. Who do you all think the roster will look like? I know it's early, but just a projection? Also, an awesome showing but who was a disappointment or was hoping he would have shown better?
 

long-duc-dong

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I’m an Oklahoma football fan as well lol. Again I’ve lived in PA my whole life, hick. I did drive through Oklahoma once and felt like the people were living 10 years behind the rest of the country in terms of infrastructure/tech. Very children of the corn type vibes but then again that’s the Midwest in general.

 

SUPERPOKES

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Really enjoyed watching these matches. Apparently a great class is coming in for the 2026 season. Who do you all think the roster will look like? I know it's early, but just a projection? Also, an awesome showing but who was a disappointment or was hoping he would have shown better?
There’s only been about 50 posts predicting this. 😉
 
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One thing DT seems to be elite at is getting helping his wrestlers beat guys they previously lost to. Landon avenged both his losses, Dean avenged his loss to OToole last year, Spratley finally got a win over Robinson, and Jax went from barely beating Seidel to majoring him
Great night, with a foundation of young wrestlers ready to take over college wrestling with Jax, Sergio, Landon and Cody. Now we need Ladarius to totally commit to wrestling and then we would have 5 super sophomores if they all keep working. We have Rock 125, 133 Jayden, 149 Jordyn, 197 but needs to be a 184 White and HWT Dreshaun coming in and if they have the work ethic like our freshmen finalists we will be set at every weight except 184, 174 and maybe 165. It might be that Zack could be a fantastic 174 but then they should have let him cut the weight, time will tell. We are set at 125 thru 157 and 197 for a long time. Dreshaun should be outstanding at HWT but we need to see him against College HWT's. Dee with the right attitude and work ethic could still be National Champ. We need to get a super 174 and 184. I like the idea of Dee redshirting especially if Routledge can do real well next year. We have to move 1 or 2 levels higher as a team if we are to takedown Penn St. 149,165,174 and 184 are the weight, where improvement would be the easiest. In the next few months hopefully we will get good news like we got good news during this tournament.
 
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SUPERPOKES

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Great night, with a foundation of young wrestlers ready to take over college wrestling with Jax, Sergio, Landon and Cody. Now we need Ladarius to totally commit to wrestling and then we would have 5 super sophomores if they all keep working. We have Rock 125, 133 Jayden, 149 Jordyn, 197 but needs to be a 184 White and HWT Dreshaun coming in and if they have the work ethic like our freshmen finalists we will be set at every weight except 184, 174 and maybe 165. It might be that Zack could be a fantastic 174 but then they should have let him cut the weight, time will tell. We are set at 125 thru 157 and 197 for a long time. Dreshaun should be outstanding at HWT but we need to see him against College HWT's. Dee with the right attitude and work ethic could still be National Champ. We need to get a super 174 and 184. I like the idea of Dee redshirting especially if Routledge can do real well next year. We have to move 1 or 2 levels higher as a team if we are to takedown Penn St. 149,165,174 and 184 are the weight, where improvement would be the easiest. In the next few months hopefully we will get good news like we got good news during this tournament.
Zac getting his shoulder healthy should help a lot. Dude was an AA wrestling with a broken wing. The performance of the rest of the team overshadowed his amazing story.
 

R.D.Carr

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Brother, you're one of my favorites on here. I’m just messing’ with you. 😁
I know you are and I found the thread up top! Should have looked. Also, looked at the roster for wrestling. Lot of young wrestlers that, I guess RS this season. Austin Johnson was one, from PA. I remember there was quite a bit of hype about the wrestler from Japan. Man, seems like wrestling is very competitive with actually getting mat time.
 
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SlickWillie18

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Zac getting his shoulder healthy should help a lot. Dude was an AA wrestling with a broken wing. The performance of the rest of the team overshadowed his amazing story.
I’m curious to see what his recovery trajectory will be. Was speaking about it with my wife (who is a PT so this is an informed opinion) and she said depending on the severity of the injury, a high level athlete in a contact sport may need up to a year to be fully healthy. Obviously a ton of caveats since we don’t know the severity of the injury or anything like that, but a shoulder ain’t an ACL