OSU also just had Collica at 149 who was the 2 seed got eliminated this morning after getting upset last night. Ouch.

# 2 seed Kemerer from Iowa was pinned...

"It looks like the top seeds got through but there is no stopping Penn State, barring some major upsets. Iowa and OSU have to be happy with their performance but they just don't have the firepower to stop Penn."

No to put too fine of a point on it, but Penn is an Ivy League school in Philadelphia (and Trump's alma mater) and Penn State is a sports factory in the middle of the state. Anyway, carry on...

Edit: Before the giant alumni base of PSU starts roaring, Penn State is also a fine university.

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"Honestly, triathlon is a pussified version of duathlon on that final run."- Desert Dude

I am going to go ahead and say that of the three of us commenting on this thread, nobody is going to nit pick that too much.

Good point.

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"Honestly, triathlon is a pussified version of duathlon on that final run."- Desert Dude

No to put too fine of a point on it, but Penn is an Ivy League school in Philadelphia (and Trump's alma mater) and Penn State is a sports factory in the middle of the state. Anyway, carry on...

To be honest I didn't know that.

I guess it's safer to say PSU (unless there are more schools that can't think of a unique name...)

Quarterfinals looked like a fun round. Glancing through the brackets I am noticing that it doesn't look like there will be many big team match ups in the semis and finals. I see two Iowa-Penn State matches in the Semis, but other than that there isn't much. I don't know if it would matter when Penn State already has a 14 point lead though.

Yes, Penn is the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State is Pennsylvania State University.

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"Honestly, triathlon is a pussified version of duathlon on that final run."- Desert Dude

Cornell had four wins today in their last matches: two Peterson pins, a straight fall, and an OT decision.

Crazy that the OT win was their undefeated #1!

Palacio (over Kemerer) is one of the most entertaining wrestlers around. He doesn't dominate like Retherford, Nolf, or Nickal, but he manages to create crazy situations that he always takes advantage of. He is a killer on bottom, nobody can out scramble him in neutral. You gotta hit a blast double to take him down. He is his own worst enemy at times.

Realbuto looks as good as he has ever: two 2nd period TFs and a 1st period fall in the quarters.

Dean looks uncharacteristically sloppy. Dechow has always wrestled him tough.

Womack ("Bama") is a calmer version of Palacio.

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"Go yell at an M&M"

Some call it "State Pen[n]".

When I was in college, the Philly school was always called "Penn", but I hear more people call it "UPenn" these days.

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"Go yell at an M&M"

Maybe they're trying to distance themselves from their Alumni President...

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"Honestly, triathlon is a pussified version of duathlon on that final run."- Desert Dude

Gilman loses at 125 semis in sudden death. Former hawkeye turned SDSU jackrabbit (my wife cheered for them in the 90's) SETH gross wins and advances to finals. I hate Iowa. Now if Duke could also lose in The tourney...

I said this in a different thread, but I am a HUGE fan of Gross. Having wrestled him before will do that. His story is interesting too. Did some stupid things his freshman year at Iowa and got kicked out. Told Bruno at SDSU that it wouldn't happen again and I think he has redeemed himself to some degree.

My Gophers have shown pretty well. Lizak dominated that match, and with Gilman losing, I would think he has a great chance to be a national champion now.

So how did you do against him?

I wanted to wait until tomorrow so I could humble brag haha. I won 11-10. I was senior and I think he was a freshman at the time.

MIZ----------ZOU

Great match but a tough loss for Gross today. Must have been how he felt back in HS against you.

Mrs sphere and I are both surrounded by Penn State grads at work. The cult-like adoration for all things PSU is a little unsettling. Multiple PSU-themed weddings already, and a PSU themed baby name to boot.

We call them Liontologists. Seems fitting.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

HAHA. He was also pretty undersized then too. I think he would kick my ass up and down the floor now if we were to rematch.

I was dissappointed with Lizak's match at 125. Didn't do a whole lot and never really took any chances to try to win the match.

Wow did Penn State dominate. 5 titles is incredible.

And Duke loses in basketball. My weekend is complete

Take that shit to the March Madness thread!!


Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Iowa still produced the best moment of the tourney when Cory Clark threw Terry to the mat after he won.

Meh- I suppose, but Clark didn't want to do it. If you watched the replay, Brands says "Throw me" and Clark says no, but he tells him again, and he does it. Trying to show that they are as fun as PSU? :-)

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"Honestly, triathlon is a pussified version of duathlon on that final run."- Desert Dude

I feel your pain. I know a couple who are good friends and both graduated from PSU. They're not obnoxious like some folks I see who have their cars plastered with decals and stickers, but when they get together with their old college chums, it's like they are back at Happy Valley again.

I told one of them once that I never really cared for Paterno (this was pre Sandusky scandal) and Penn State's program, and they looked at me like I had two heads.

BTW, Liontologists is awesome.

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"Honestly, triathlon is a pussified version of duathlon on that final run."- Desert Dude

If you know Terry that is what makes it fantastic.