I'm just guessing here, but I think Brown wrestles 197. I think he was fairly light for 215 last year.
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I'm just guessing here, but I think Brown wrestles 197. I think he was fairly light for 215 last year.
Is that what you remember about that whole debacle?
Honest question, what does the outside think of that situation? Being from FH i know what went on and completely forgot about that.
One of many things I remember about it. Sorry that mentioning the reporter was triggering.
Not at all, I really dont know what most of the wrestling community thought of the situation, my son is the same age and wrestled with them so I dont hear many other opinions about it or how much anybody really knows is all. It effects me 0%.
The slur was the straw that broke the camels back but in a different way than most think. Bassett had been waging war with the school board and his Ranger Pride club years before, threatening to move to BMc if they didn’t give him what he wanted. Strayer was the varsity coach and had the school board’s full support. Papa Bassett was the JH coach but wanted to run the show at varsity with ‘his’ club kids. Wasn’t going to happen and time was running out before the first wave of kids entered HS. The slur incident gave them the reason they needed to switch schools (along with in-class learning during Covid, spiritual circulum, blah blah blah) even though the incident was investigated by the NWACP and no wrong doing was found. BMc, with decades of shrinking enrollment and financial strain, was open to any and all ideas that would promote their school brand. The flip was made, immediate recruiting violations, followed by wrestling success. FH was better off without them so a win-win. Later Iowa would get a taste of Poppa’s desire to move up as a coach.
Ill pull a bo nickel on this one. Pretty fair assement from an outside source, but alot more went on, the racial slur was a joke of a complaint.
The whole thing did start with the boosters vs Bassett when he was JH coach though, my wife was one of the boosters.
Berlin if not mistaken. They built a pretty good little program there for a while.
That’s a big pickup. Tsarni is the real deal
Post from FloWrestling
U17 World medalist and the #4 recruit in the class of 2027, Ignacio Villasenor, has committed to wrestle for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
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For OSU I see:Post from FloWrestling
U17 World medalist and the #4 recruit in the class of 2027, Ignacio Villasenor, has committed to wrestle for the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
2025
3 Ladarian Lockett. 174
5 Landon Robideau 157
6 Sergio Vega 141
2026
2 Jax Forrest 141
4 Dreshaun Ross 285
5 Jordyn Raney 149
6 Jayden Raney 133
And now:
2027
4 Ignacio Villasenor
It‘s clearly a two team race going forward- OSU and PSU.
Big pickup and the least surprising as well. Pretty sure everyone knew he was going there once he moved to Stillwater from CO. He had an incredible U20 trials but a not so good showing at Fargo. He didn’t place losing to Nick Garcia 6-0 and then pinned by Paul Kenny. When he’s on he’s elite but definitely needs more consistency
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Flo did a "1st day of calls" with Joe Bachmann this year.
They didn't show Penn State as one of the callers, however the kid did make it a point to talk about NCAA success being a factor and citing what Penn State was doing (always having finalists/champs) as something that sticks out to him.
They didn't show Penn State as one of the callers, however the kid did make it a point to talk about NCAA success being a factor and citing what Penn State was doing (always having finalists/champs) as something that sticks out to him.
Not sure how everyone else views the influx of international guys into the college ranks, but I find this pretty cool. It’s not a novel concept anymore (see Abe, Uetake, Bastida, Ono, etc.), but high level international guys coming into the NCAA ranks is only going to make the matches that much more fun IMO.
I think it's great -- it also speaks well about our product, that top foreign guys want to learn our style and training techniques.
We should reciprocate by sending Lockett, Forrest, and Vega to, say, Azerbaijan for 4 years.
And the Ferraris to Iran.
Still safer than Iowa.
I gotta admit, Hayden Schwab’s recruitment is as funny as I hoped it’d be
So, the dad has been a PIA for a long time? Probably no reason to think that will change anytime soon.
The 2026 class is a great recruiting haul by Taylor.
It's not as good as 2025 or 2026, and doesn't have the senior-level star power of those classes. With a few notable exceptions, its better talent is primarily concentrated in the lower weights.
I wouldn't call it a down year -- 2025 and 2026 were exceedingly good. It's a pretty good class. Strong class for 125-149, maybe up to 157. A few intriguing HWTs if they don't go football. Kinda sparse in the 165-197 range beyond the best guys like Miller or Tsarni or Singer.
And then what happened, lol?
No. 1 Pound-for-Pound Wrestler Christian Carroll Flips to Oklahoma State
Carroll flipped from Penn.pistolsfiringblog.com
