MLB 51 Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Caleb Smith is on fire. I hope he can keep it going through the B1G and NCAA tournament. 1 Quote Link to comment
Comish Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 43 minutes ago, MLB 51 said: Caleb Smith is on fire. I hope he can keep it going through the B1G and NCAA tournament. Lots of team Penn St defensive non-calls for stalling. 2 Quote Link to comment
MLB 51 Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 6 minutes ago, Comish said: Lots of team Penn St defensive non-calls for stalling. Hardy was robbed on that call at the end. He had Bartlett and probably would have erased the ride time point. 1 Quote Link to comment
Wistrom Disciple Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 5 hours ago, MLB 51 said: Hardy was robbed on that call at the end. He had Bartlett and probably would have erased the ride time point. Felt like our coaches being animated helped us because every questionable decision seemed to favor the home side. I was hoping for better from Silas though, he doesn't seem to be in as good of a position as he was last year. That said, I thought we performed admirably overall. Penn State with five top ranked guys was going to be a tough deal no matter what. 1 Quote Link to comment
Stumpy1 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 We really need to be better at riding guys out. We seem to give up the easy escape and it usually comes back to bite us in the a$$. I would also like to see some of our guys be more aggressive on their feet. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment
Xmas32 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Thoughts from the dual: 125--Man Caleb Smith is wrestling at a high, high level. I think Davis from Penn State is starting to get figured out a bit. We also can't discount that Smith is a grad transfer going against a true frosh. Smith was able to use some horsepower there to get the reversal and NF. 125 is wide open so Smith has just as good of a shot as anyone for potential AA honors. 133--Would've liked to see Van Dee go neutral in the 2nd as he kind of got the starch taken out of him by the PSU backup with that ball and chain ride after dominating the 1st period. Was nice to see a ride out but I'd be lying if I wasn't thinking bonus points there for Van Dee. 141--Brutal call there against Hardy when he should've been given a TD with about 30 seconds left. Who knows if Hardy would've been able to hang on and erase the riding time point but I would've liked to see him have gotten the opportunity. 149--Didn't love what I saw from Ridge. Seemed a little tentative against Kasak but ultimately he did what the elite guys do whey they don't have their A game which is gut out wins. 157--Haines is on another level now and I don't think this version of Robb is going to be able to beat him sans Haines making a couple mistakes. I thought Robb honestly wrestled pretty well and defended like heck but when a dude is shooting bullets at you non stop for 7 minutes eventually you're going to get hit a couple times. 165--Incredible defense out of Taylor, need him to get his offense going. Messenbrink just brings it man, what a gas tank. I'll be excited to see how he does next year at 157 once Robb graduates. Taylor at 157 is going to be a huge PITA for a lot of dudes with how tough he is to score on. Hard to not be excited for the future with him. 174--Welp, what are you gonna do haha. Good Starroci showed up and that's what happens. 184--Man, I can't imagine coaching Pinto. He's got brute strength and is mega explosive and almost impossible to stop. I worry about his gas tank tho. He definitely seems to fade late in matches but shoot, he's tough to score on. Truax had him in a bad way when he hit that double into a bear hug on Pinto and Pinto just noped out of it. 197--Brooks is awesome and Allred has regressed a little bit. No notes. Just tip your cap to Brooks and move on. He and Hidlay from NC State are on a collision course and it should be a great finals match with those two. HWT--It didn't matter who NU sent out here. Both guys were giving up bonus points. I understand why they had Nash go out there because he's just so much bigger and was less likely to give up a pin. Kerkvilet is going to be a really tough out for anyone and he appears to be on a mission this year. All in all, Nebraska is firing on all cylinders right now, they've looked great for the better part of a month. I just hope they aren't peaking too soon. They close out with Arizona State next week who have a few top end guys before rolling into the Big Ten conference tourney which is always a total meat grinder. 1 2 Quote Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I know very little about wrestling and admittedly, not a big fan. I just need Nebraska to beat Iowa at some point. 1 Quote Link to comment
Xmas32 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 Abbreviated thoughts from the dual. Some interesting officiating there at times... 125--ASU wins the toss up match, all of these 125 matches are razor thin affairs. Figueroa is a tough dude. 133--Nice win by Van Dee 141--Hardy did what he needed to do to control and get the win. 149--Tough beat for Ridge. I didn't love the 1st stalling call on him but at the same time, I don't think Ridge took a single offensive shot the entire match. These are the types of matches he'll need to win if he wants to get to the top of the podium. Hat tip to Parco, he scored on a great shot there. 157--Stiles really handled himself well. He had Teemer in a lot of trouble there and I thought it was a little bit chicken stuff that they let Teemer bail out into a potentially dangerous situation when he was a 1 count away from being in neutral danger. Meh. 165--Really nice job by Taylor pouring it on at the end and getting the nice win. 174--Snooze fest, nice job Bubba winning 1-0 haha 184--Solid job by Lenny controlling the match, no real fault there at the end giving up the TD when Lenny was trying to get bonus points. 197--Allred hammered that dude. Nice job getting a TF over a clearly overmatched opponent. HWT--Nash gets the FF'd with Schultz out of town for Pan-Ams I think? It's looking more and more likely that Nash will be the guy at HWT for Nebraska in the post season. Next stop: The boys get a little time off to rest and recharge and then it's Big Tens on March 9th and 10th in Maryland. GBR! 1 Quote Link to comment
Xmas32 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/article/2024-02-29/ncaa-division-i-wrestling-committee-releases-qualifying-tournament-allocations-2024 1 Quote Link to comment
Xmas32 Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Really good article from Corn Nation about how the non starters for Nebraska did. Dylan Guenther's stuff is really, really good. https://www.cornnation.com/2024/3/3/24088575/wrestling-how-did-nebraskas-redshirts-and-backups-do-this-year 3 Quote Link to comment
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