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133 was obviously a priority early and still likely is, but is it possible that TnT are pretty comfortable with who we have in the room for 133? Doubt it - but can Murin, Stickley, Glenn (or Happel) make 133 the next few years and do any of them look good enough in the room to project as a high AA at 133 if we do not get a flip or stud next year?

Some/most/all schools have 9.9 scholarships to work with and have to proportion them out to areas of need. Any chance that TnT think we are OK at 133 with what we have in the room currently?
 
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They may be fine currently with what we have, but they were definitely recruiting for the future. Going hard after Teske/RBY and Teasdale earlier on.

Personally, I feel our best option is Murin (assuming he can make and hold the weight through 2020). He has the work ethic and mentality to succeed here. I have heard good things about him in the room thus far. I said in another thread that I think Murin will be 4x Top 4 AA, and I wasn't joking. Maybe a bit optimistic, but looking at his attitude and the room of killer lightweights we have, I absolutely expect great success from him. Class of 2020 has Robbie Howard from NJ and Beau Bartlett out of PA, also Sammy Hillegas from PA but think he will be bigger than 133 in college. I think both Howard and Bartlett are better than any of the 2019 prospects and worth waiting the extra year IMO.
 
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I think people are under selling stickley. The young man had above average season as gray shirt. Might not been highly recruited out of high school but beat everyone on the team last season. Stickley wasn't even in the wrestling room tell second half when most of the opens are over. Haven't heard much about him this fall but he had solid season last year.
 
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I think Stickley, Glenn, and Murin have all upped their games and I like all of their potentials. Unfortunately, we need a high AA out of 133 - not a qualifier/borderline AA. Not sure if any of those guys make it to that level (especially if Murin can’t make it to 133 or if it takes a lot out of him).
 
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The only 33 recruits in the class of 19 worth looking at in my opinion are Dylan d'emilio who might be to big now and Michael colaiocco. D'emilio was top 10 in the class in the beginning but took some loses and dropped quite a bit but he's a stud, watched his live go with pat McKee and was super impressed. Michael colaiocco doesn't ever get talked about but go watch his matches and you'll see he is solid in every position and is just very technically sound, he's won the beast of the east the last two years beating Kurt mchenry (who was giving up a lot of size) and gabe tagg who was an iron man champ (Robert Howard took 3rd in the bracket losing to tagg in the semis). He also took 4th at Fargo last year and he's a Blair kid so that can help with recruiting.i think the kid is going to transition very well in college if he's in the right program.

That being said if Murin can make 33 than that solves that problem, Murin is going to be good regardless but he would be a monster at 33
 
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Jackhawk87 said:
I think Stickley, Glenn, and Murin have all upped their games and I like all of their potentials. Unfortunately, we need a high AA out of 133 - not a qualifier/borderline AA. Not sure if any of those guys make it to that level (especially if Murin can’t make it to 133 or if it takes a lot out of him).
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Agree. Stickley was 3-3 last year, Glynn was 7-6. A lot of ground to cover between there and NCAA finalist. I'll take Murin only 'cause he's the new guy.
 
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SPOONER said:
That's not why we "lost" Mejia.
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Do you really want to go semantics? Are you saying Iowa magically knew he was having academic issues and let it
"look" like he left because of Teasedale, only to come back, but leave again? Do you know for sure that if he stayed an Iowa recruit the entire time without Teasedale's early "commit" that he wouldn't have stayed on track?
 
MSU158 said:
Do you really want to go semantics? Are you saying Iowa magically knew he was having academic issues and let it
"look" like he left because of Teasedale, only to come back, but leave again? Do you know for sure that if he stayed an Iowa recruit the entire time without Teasedale's early "commit" that he wouldn't have stayed on track?
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He left Iowa because he couldn't handle getting his a$$ handed to him in the room. I can't wait for Lee to make him cry.
 
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MSU158 said:
Do you really want to go semantics? Are you saying Iowa magically knew he was having academic issues and let it
"look" like he left because of Teasedale, only to come back, but leave again? Do you know for sure that if he stayed an Iowa recruit the entire time without Tea
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DayHawk18 said:
Yeah I don't know about that. Pretty sure it was $$$
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No it was getting broken in the room.
 
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TarpHawk said:
Agree. Stickley was 3-3 last year, Glynn was 7-6. A lot of ground to cover between there and NCAA finalist. I'll take Murin only 'cause he's the new guy.
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Stickley won more than 3 matches last year. He might have won 3 matches against his own teammates last year.
 
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MSU158 said:
Do you really want to go semantics? Are you saying Iowa magically knew he was having academic issues and let it
"look" like he left because of Teasedale, only to come back, but leave again? Do you know for sure that if he stayed an Iowa recruit the entire time without Teasedale's early "commit" that he wouldn't have stayed on track?
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It isn’t semantics. There is no scenario where he would be on the Iowa wrestling team right now. Iowa knew full well he wasn’t going to be eligible. They are not allowed to discuss publicly so no opportunity to influence how it “looked.”
 
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I believe 8-1 last year for stickley. I know he had close lost to Yates form uni. He also had big growth spurt after high school
 
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ak466040 said:
I believe 8-1 last year for stickley. I know he had close lost to Yates form uni. He also had big growth spurt after high school
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Yates beat him 20-2. Wrestlestat also has him losing to Edelen of Illinois and Cameron Sykora but not sure at which tournament those occurred.
 
Mpchillin said:
Yates beat him 20-2. Wrestlestat also has him losing to Edelen of Illinois and Cameron Sykora but not sure at which tournament those occurred.
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Per wrestlestat:
Stickley def #84 Wagner (Iowa) 9-5 (1-0)
#165 Edelin (IL) def Stickley 10-6 (1-1)
#55 Sykora (NDSU) def Stickley 16-3 MD (1-2)
Stickley def #84 Wagner (Iowa) SV 4-3 (2-2)
#44 Yates (UNI) def Stickley 20-2 TF (2-3)
Stickley def #239 Eades (UNI) 16-0 TF (3-3)
 
TarpHawk said:
Per wrestlestat:
Stickley def #84 Wagner (Iowa) 9-5 (1-0)
#165 Edelin (IL) def Stickley 10-6 (1-1)
#55 Sykora (NDSU) def Stickley 16-3 MD (1-2)
Stickley def #84 Wagner (Iowa) SV 4-3 (2-2)
#44 Yates (UNI) def Stickley 20-2 TF (2-3)
Stickley def #239 Eades (UNI) 16-0 TF (3-3)
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I now see why you have high hopes for him, another Lee in the making!
 
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mike tognetti said:
I now see why you have high hopes for him, another Lee in the making!
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And to think I thought my sarcasm meter was on the fritz. As usual thank you for your valued input. We eagerly await the next pearl of wisdom you swoop in and share with us. This board is a better place due to outstanding posters such as yourself.
 
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He won Luther open freshman division and was second at Dubuque open. I'm not sure what his record was last year
 
SPOONER said:
That's not why we "lost" Mejia.
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I agree that it's "mostly" semantics. The spirit of what MSU is saying is 100% dead on (speaking solely from an outsides perspective). There were a ton of other options for 133 out there during the time period between when he committed and when he de-committed and it seems like, not only did we not pursue those options fully, we even let two who were wanting to come here slip away, thinking we had our guys. No telling how much that hiccup cost us with other potential 133 guys that are now on their way somewhere else.

Hard to place blame, but hopefully a lesson learned: until their name is signed on the dotted line, keep recruiting to your needs.
 
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SPOONER said:
It isn’t semantics. There is no scenario where he would be on the Iowa wrestling team right now. Iowa knew full well he wasn’t going to be eligible. They are not allowed to discuss publicly so no opportunity to influence how it “looked.”
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I am not sure that "no scenario" was always the case. During the potential second go round, I was told directly by an HWC member that we were getting Mejia "for nothing", (meaning financially). Then a week later it hit the papers that he was coming and shortly after that it was all gone again.
 
Ok, I figured it out....

Last year, Stickley was wrestling for a club team, since he wasn't technically on Iowa's roster. Therefore, the club team that he was wrestling for does not have any "events" on their schedule since they aren't a D1 team. The only results that WrestleStat will show are matches vs D1 opponents.

So, he very well could have wrestled 10/20/100 matches last season, but WrestleStat will only know about the ones where the opponent was on a D1 roster.
 
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usarmyret2011 said:
I am not sure that "no scenario" was always the case. During the potential second go round, I was told directly by an HWC member that we were getting Mejia "for nothing", (meaning financially). Then a week later it hit the papers that he was coming and shortly after that it was all gone again.
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We were getting him untill he really really got his butt handed to him in the room and decided it wasn’t the “room” for him.
 
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andegre said:
Ok, I figured it out....

Last year, Stickley was wrestling for a club team, since he wasn't technically on Iowa's roster. Therefore, the club team that he was wrestling for does not have any "events" on their schedule since they aren't a D1 team. The only results that WrestleStat will show are matches vs D1 opponents.

So, he very well could have wrestled 10/20/100 matches last season, but WrestleStat will only know about the ones where the opponent was on a D1 roster.
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9 matches.

https://iawrestle.com/2017/04/12/justin-stickley-excited-to-resume-training-with-hawkeyes/
 
usarmyret2011 said:
I am not sure that "no scenario" was always the case. During the potential second go round, I was told directly by an HWC member that we were getting Mejia "for nothing", (meaning financially). Then a week later it hit the papers that he was coming and shortly after that it was all gone again.
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Which btw, had nothing to do with grades.
 
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