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Finishing in 13th place of 14 teams in the Big 12 tournament is alarming, to say it politely. I hope our qualifiers bounce back in the NCAA tournament. Again our 2 best wrestlers only wrestled 2 matches. Hall wrestled 2 matches, winning 1 and then losing to the BIG12 Champ and #1 NCAA seed. Cardina...

I guess Cardinale medical forfeiting worked out. Him plus Carman and Conley are going dancing. WVU gets most qualified since 2012.

It was definitely a disappointing result, but looking at team score really means nothing. Not sure about the true health of Hall and Cardinale but when your best wrestler doesnt even wrestle a match and then your 2nd best wrestler on the team wrestles 2 matches (winning 1 by pin, losing 2nd by 3-1 t...

WVU Seeds for Big 12
Cardinale-1
Hall-4
Wolfgram-5
Titus, Hillegas, Horfeck, Joll, Carman, and Cooley-8 These guys have some work to do, especially Carman (Big 12 only has 4 automatics at 184).

The way each has wrestled in some matches this year I believe they can pull off some real upsets.

Can anyone name any state placer with a losing record?? To go a little deeper: Josh Dearth - park south (12-13) 6th, 1998 CJ Runion - Huntington (16-20) 6th, 2003 Zach Six - Oak Glen (22-34) 5th, 2005 Raymond Davis - Parkersburg (9-12) 6th, 2014 Danny Minihan - Huntington (18-21) 6th, 2015 “Watch o...

Seems I remember that if a wrestler scratches(moved to a different weight than seeded) after the seeding meeting they just get thrown into the bracket. I dont think they reseed after the original seeding meeting at WSAZ.

Total turn around this year!!!

WVU beat Pitt!!!

I agree that WVU should probably shut out a division II team but there are some great wrestlers at the division II level. I do have a question about GC. I think he won the state at 160 his senior year. If I am correct what weight was he recruited at to Glenville State? I'm not sure how any coach wou...

Its kind of hard to recruit against other Big 10 and ACC schools recruiting the same area as WVU. Watch a Big 10/ACC dual and see how that compares to the crowd for a WVU home dual. I really just think there is not much interest locally in college wrestling. I would like to see the amount of donatio...

Looks like iron is sharpening iron in the practice room. We have been discussing on this forum for a couple years the need for quality practice partners that are going to push each other. Looks like we are finally getting there!

He was offered the opportunity to stay on as VP but declined. I'm sure he will end up with a nice compliance job somewhere, as that is his wheelhouse.

Don't want to jump the gun but this is a nice way to start the season. Welcome to the rankings Sam Hillegas and Austin Cooley! The Mountaineers now have six wrestlers ranked by FloWrestling. #9 Killian Cardinale #20 Sam Hillegas #7 Peyton Hall #16 Anthony Carman HM Austin Cooley #17 Michael Wolfgram...

Medical forfeits are common in college. They don't count against your record so it seems a lot of times that wrestlers will take a medical forfiet when they feel they have wrestled enough. Go back and look at the medical forfeits from the Big 10 tournament the last few years and then those wrestlers...

WVU did great this weekend! Definitely not a rough start. Cardinale didn't wrestle last year until almost January and Jace didn't have bad showing. Upper weights were really impressive.

Totally agree Greco. Everybody on this site should know how hard wrestling is and the commitment that it takes, especially at that level. A lot of people were mad when Noah Adams hung it up which is crazy. You have to eat, breath, and sleep wresting to be successful at that level. There is no half w...

Talk is he is done with wrestling and will either go MMA or WWE.

Conley looks ready to go year one. Does Flynn usually go with the automatic RS for most freshman or what? I know Hall wrestled as a true freshman but it was the free year so it’d of been pointless not to with your best guy. I watched his Q&A he did last week or the week before and he said we wi...

Braxton wins and will face Hancock for Final X!

CONGRATS!!!!

Braxton has earned the #2 seed for the world team trials in Greco. Nicholas Boykin is the #1 seed. Boykin beat Braxton at 2019 US Open Wrestling Championships - 97 Kg Semis.

There will be people who celebrate this team performance and remind us that we are going in the right direction. I disagree but it is past time to argue. It is to the point that mentioning the direction of the program is like talking about current national/world events to the people who voted in th...

Zoey Salmons 2nd place All-American!!!!
Loralei Smith 8th place All-American!!!
Ale Evans 1-2

Also Zoey is ranked 20th at 106 and Loralei is ranked 25th at 144 by FloWrestling, USA Wrestling and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame!!!

Zoey Salmons 2nd place All-American!!!!
Loralei Smith 8th place All-American!!!
Ale Evans 1-2
Seth Holt 5-2
Nick Giompalo 3-2

Sorry dont know how other wrestlers from different schools did.

Yeah it’s big. If everone stays at 125 the weight class will be loaded. You lose Suriano but gain Spencer Lee lol. It’ll be interesting if Vito and Glory stay down since they’re both big 125s. Plus Courtney could go 133 since asu had the number one recruit redshirting at that weight. So should be a...

That is a huge boost to the lineup next year! Starting the season with 2 All Americans is awesome!!

I dont think that with wrestlers the facilities are as important as it is for say football players. Wrestlers are tough and gritty, most dont need fancy bells and whistles. They need a good weight room, nutrition, and recovery. I think the real issue with WVU is the wrestling partners. It all goes b...

WVU finishes 32 which isn't terrible. If we had Sullivan and Adams we are probably a top 25 team. I think placing 32nd is fairly terrible There are 76 Div 1 wrestling teams. I’m not sure how many didn’t qualify any but WVU took 4. Unfortunately 2 did not advance. The sum of 2 wrestlers put WVU at b...

WVU finishes 32 which isn't terrible. If we had Sullivan and Adams we are probably a top 25 team.

I agree with you on the BIG 10 medical defaulting so much…. With the rule in place I can understand Cassiopi taking the med forfeit but I dont understand Eierman. Do you just not believe in yourself, or does a Big 10 championship worthless... I heard Eierman has a torn ACL, that’s why he MFF’ed. If...