HS Recruiting News
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My guess is maturity, time will tell. I’ve coached football and wrestling seen kids like him with exceptional talent , keep him in the room be positive see what happens.
This sounds positive, but I wonder if you even watched the match that I was talking about?
I hate to type this with Blair hanging around but this was a bad 6 minutes for us with Hughes getting teched in fast fashion by Bouzakis and Sprately getting beat by Lilledahl soundly. Sprately wrestled poorly and tried to muscle the high schooler out of bounds which worked a few times but got taken down several times and then thrown for 4 at the end. Hard to see much positive in those 2 matches.
Bad finals so far with Thompson losing 6 to 2 to Berge of SDSU. Thompson was ahead on criteria 2 to 2 and seemed lose focus and gets double legged to his back. These are 2 out of 3 matches and so I hope our guys do better in the next matches.
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I do have some good news to report. Carroll quickly teched Aiello who teched the new Minnesota HWT commitment from Wisconsin. Carroll looked very good.
Sprately lost 4 to 1 to Lilledahl who will be a senior in high school this next year. Also he is committed to Penn. St. Lilledahl seemed to gain a lot of confidence after the first win. Sprately had to wrestle 3 matches before this series. The wrestle off between Sprately and Witcraft should be interesting.
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Thanks for keeping the updates coming @Harleycowboy. Your insights and perspective are appreciated!
Thompson wrestled unbelievably horrible and got teched in a minute and 1/2. Lost 2 double legs for 4 each and then basically quit and gave up a takedown and lost the tech. I will say this after the first 3 2nd matches our coaches did a very poor job of helping our wrestlers do better in their 2nd matches.
Not surprised , you might let Hughes have some time in college room before you give up on him same goes for Thompson. Spratley looked good all day, challenge tournament was tough, definitely is an advantage to sit out. Like to see that match when spratley was fresh. Blair’s right relax a little . 4 in the finals great day.
I have not given up on Hughes or Thompson they are our hope for the future. Bouzakis is older and a super recruit last year but he did wreck Cael. That does not mean Cael won't be a National Champ during his career. Thompson lost to an older opponent, but he did wrestle terrible this last match. This does not mean Thompson might be a National Champ before his career is over. Also big news Carroll won by tech fall in 16 seconds at HWT. A takedown and 4 leg lases. Blair is not right he just defended the Pokes without probably ever even watching the match that I was commenting on. You at least were not attacking but here is my concern being in our room has not been a good thing for the majority of our top recruits in the last 4 years.
As mentioned in the previous post Christian Carroll wins by tech fall in 16 seconds. He is a World Team Member! But with 4 finalists I was hoping for more but the 3 who lost had 3 matches before the 2 out of 3 Championship matches
Last 2 years definitely, bad judgment on who was recruited, but that’s on the coaching staff. Now Iowa has to deal with that. Great talent in the room now, let’s see what happens. Do think everyone wrestled good today. After seeing spratley for the first time was impressed, with a little improvement mid AA possible, but you’re right have to develop.
You’ve got to keep in mind that this is freestyle, leglaces don’t transfer to folk style.
If you are referring to me, I did not watch. To me, it only sounds positive
Christian is a pretty good spokesperson for the program. Not bad at wrestling too.
You all just do not know how to lose. These kids get beat in a tournament and you all are ready to give up on them. Don't be so disappointed in yourselves that you didn't place in your conferences to make states!!!!!!!
Put them on ignore. It’s like they are not even there.
It’s so funny, right? There’s a real “championship or we are extremely disappointed in you” vibe here sometimes. 2nd place is pretty dang commendable. Maybe they’re Iowa fans in disguise!
Started about 9:00.
Manibog lost his quarters match to the 5 seed
Sheets lost his first conso match and is out
Plott won his quarter
Mower won his first conso but lost the second and is out.
Surber won his quarter
Haas won his first conso and is starting his second now.
Doucet won his first conso and is on deck.
I thought this funny...........................
Surber just won the first match against Cardenas last years world team member 10 to 0. Big win.
Plott in the finals was getting smoked by Kharshla 9 to 0 and was getting gut wrenched over and over and fought off the last one. The match went on Plott got the next takedown and went way up on score with a bunch of leg laces which he could have done for an hour but he got a tech but was challenged and the match went on and Plott got an exposure off of his opponents shot and won by tech. Great comeback!
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Plott has a heck of a leg lace and got 10 points in a row from it.
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Kharchla was in some pain, Dustin had that lace tight! What a comeback. He definitely needs to get the first td and avoid the gut wrench.
Cardenas mostly did the shots and Surber was able to expose Cardenas back.