At 133? The only other potential intriguing option to me is Ronnie Ramirez if he goes in the portal. I don't think he will, he might wait and see if there's room at the inn next year. Who are the better options?
Portal April 1st
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Iowa is at the point they get what’s left, guys who’s med chart is a book. I’d take crook because it’s still an improvement over Peterson. If he gets hurt at least they tried to produce a good lineup
Guys with less health risk? Sure. There will be 10-12 of them. Guys that are better than him that are likely to jump in the portal? Unlikely unless Jax, Blaze, Davino, or Seidel enter the portal. If he's healthy, he's probably top 3-4 at the weight.
Ronnie Ramirez, JJ MComas, and Cael Hughes should all test the waters in the portal this cycle. That room is already both young and full and when they add the Raney's in, it's not getting any less full. None of them are going to be beating Jax out at 133 so unless he gets injured, they're only going to get mop-up duty to give him some in-season rest. Moving up to 141 isn't much better with Sergio Vega there.
I think Jax and Sergio both bump.
Take the chance on crookham, when healthy he is clearly a championship threat. He also has 2 years remaining which lines up perfectly with Paul Kenny coming out of RS.
I said he's a grad transfer and he said it doesn't matter. And it does because a grad transfer can enter the portal at anytime. Others must wait until April 1st. Typical with him
Totally agree, this timeline works perfect with Kenny. Hope we are reaching out. This immediately fills a need, then we can look to fill 165.
Might as well bring Stanich with him lol dont remmber how many years he's got left then redshirt nasir for a year
They did switch the rule though so grad transfers have to enter the portal before the closing date, so no more Buchanan or Teemer that basically skipped the portal dates and waited nearly the whole summer. At least that's my understanding of it.
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Unger (grad) declared a couple of weeks ago....so yea, even though it was said there's not difference for grads there seems to be a difference with grads.
Good grief, why is this never surprising to read anymore?
Like you said, good problem to have, sure wish we had the same. We'll struggle to field an AA competitive wrestler at a couple of those weights next year.
April 7 crookhma commits to Iowa
November 22 crookham injured
February 12 crookham returns
March whatever crookham hurt again and goes 1-2 at nattys
November 22 crookham injured
February 12 crookham returns
March whatever crookham hurt again and goes 1-2 at nattys
Every time he defends a shot and scrambles, I cringe watching what he does to his own knee to defend
Anyone can announce they are going in whenever the want. But it didn’t officially open until 4/1.
This is correct. They changed the rule last fall. No more open season for grad transfers. @Corby2 can apologize for calling me “typical” any time now.