May 13, 2026 4 min read
Formidable Freshmen
2026 was the year of the freshman in college wrestling. Three true and one redshirt freshman took home four of the ten individual titles. Among the eighty All-Americans, with sixteen…
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April 30, 2026 7 min read
5 in 5 – What Might That Look Like?
Last week the Division I Board of Directors directed the Division I Cabinet to advance a concept that would allow athletes five years of eligibility. Current athletes would be grandfathered…
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April 20, 2026 7 min read
Who Wore It Best? – Ranking the Rankers 2026
If you spend any time on the various wrestling forums (and I know you do – how else would you find this?) then you have probably spent some time complaining…
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April 7, 2026 9 min read
Orange is the New Black and Third is the New First
FloWrestling’s Kyle Klingman recently wrote an article examining NCAA tournament scoring anomalies (Is 3rd Better Than 1st…). One of the main concerns expressed in the article is that third place…
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March 31, 2026 5 min read
Grading The Expected Points Model
It is time for introspection and to hand out some grades. I Go To Extremes Every year there are outliers. Wrestlers or teams that show up, or not so much.…
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March 27, 2026 12 min read
The 3 Point Takedown – Folkstyle’s Sea Change
The year was 2023 and there was a plague upon the land of folkstyle wrestling. Scoring at the NCAA tournament was down – a lot. After hitting a near-term peak…
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March 24, 2026 7 min read
Expectations – 2026 NCAA Tournament Viewed Through the Lens of What Could Have Been
Expectations are funny things. There is no universal standard for them. We can both look at the same set of facts and data about the world but develop wildly different…
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March 10, 2026 2 min read
Can Penn State Score 200 Points?
Yes That is the short answer. Pretty unsatisfactory though. I will require more detail. Let’s start by making some assumptions about seeds and bonus. That comes to 192 points if wrestled…
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February 25, 2026 3 min read
Youth Will Be Served (or I can’t stop thinking about the 133 bracket this year where there are four freshmen ranked in the top six)
With all the talk of freshman studs possibly winning this year I thought I would take a look at the history of freshman at the NCAA tournament. But before we…
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February 20, 2026 5 min read
Hello, Chaos My Old Friend
As mentioned previously there is a lot of focus this year on the 133 bracket. And for good reason. There are a lot of experienced inexperienced wrestlers in that bracket…
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