I say we take a long hard look at the Silva kid from Florida. Throw in Sasso and an 84 pounder and I like it!
Mejia?
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im just hoping the early commits and later de-commits from mejia, jrent, Teasdale, and Troy don't influence the staff to not push for early commits. Some do stick.
Unfortunately for Stoll its hard to work at improving and getting better when he is working at recovering. The time missed because of injury really puts a damper on what he could have accomplished when his time is done at Iowa. I feel for the kid and hope he is able to find some success and finish his career strong.
Mejia is a good kid and tough competitor, it's not easy to be a 4x CA state champ. However against top-level talent he hasn't fared as well. Plus, I don't know that he has the size to make it up to 133. at 133 I think he's a 2-3x AA at best (not that there's anything wrong with that). At this point I think it's doubtful that we see him in the Black and Gold, team should focus $$$ on areas of bigger need. We have enough guys close to Mejia to take up the slack at 133 over the next few years. Love the kid, just don't know if it would be a good fit, even with Perry now in house...
I would think 41 this coming up year. He looked small at 66kg last month.
What does anyone think of Montalvo from California coming in for 184 for the Hawks? Not many people talk about him.
Already state what I thought earlier in the thread. But here we go again
Stoll, will he be healthy? Odds are against a heavy w 2 knee injuries.
Warner, he will be in the mix to be a high AA from the start
Cash, who knows. He had a good NCAAs at 197. Although the only reason he made it to the dance in the first place was due to another wrestler injury defaulting. As I said before I'm interested to see how he does at 84. One would think he has to be better but did he have quality win vs any top 25 last year? I honestly don't know the answer.
According to the 'Wrestlestat Rankings' he beat the #11 and #17 guys at NCAAs.
Every time we talk about this guy I think about grocery stores in Michigan.
I want Silva extremely badly. I think he has the potential to be a multiple time NC. I do not know if we can get him.
With all due respect, I wasn't impressed with his State Finals match this year. Kid is very solid, but wouldn't be blowing the doors off top 10 competition.
You literally just mentioned 2 of my favorite available recruits in the class. I LOVE Silva and I think Montalvo is extremely underrated. I was saying Montalvo was under rated when he was not rated at all. Now he is at least in the top 20 for his weight class (He was #19 on Intermat last month). Silva and him both have sky high ceilings.
Teske is the best wrestler in his grade coming out of the state of Iowa. He just dominates the state. He beat one of the west twins in a great battle last season. It was one of the few times Teske was challenged. Teske has great shot selection on his feet and turns people at will. I think teske has high ceiling but have seen him working out in Ames. Not sure he wants to go 33 and 25 looks locked up for few years. I also think 25 will be weak weight next year. Who wants to cut down for a year only have to gain weight the following year to earn a spot. If I'm a father of any of the wrestlers at 33 I would tell them battle it out to try and win the stop over the next couple years. Not cut down for season than try gain weight the following offseason and compete at different weight
Hmm thomsen hammers both wests a handful of time. Teske was losing the majority of the match and came back and won. Besides being a cadet runner up last year teske doesn't have much of a national resume. Thomsen is a numerous time Fargo and s32 medal winner including a cadet runner up finish.
It's possible that Teske is better but from a resume stand point it's not close. We may get to see this match go down this weekend at northern plains.
I would like to see Thomsen become an absolute hammer on top this year and working on his bottom game. Working tilts, bars, and legging constantly. Going for back points and then pins.
He already has a great TD arsenal.
He already has a great TD arsenal.
Could mean a lot(dresser working on him) or could mean nothing(just a proximity issue). Hard to say at this point. We knew Dresser was going to make in state recruiting more interesting, just maybe not from the very start
I think there is a good chance based on what I know and have been told (call it an educated guess), that the following scenario plays out. Teske commits to Iowa State, and this board goes absolutely bonkers. People can't believe that we could lose him to Iowa State...yada yada yada. Iowa then gets their mark, and all the people that were throwing our coaches under the bus start talking about winning championships. Similar to the situation with Kemerer and Stroker. They are targeting more people than just Teske, and let's just wait and see how it turns out. Things change and I could easily be wrong, but that's the way I see things going down.
I won't go bonkers about losing Teske but 133 will be a hole starting this year with no potential finalists in sight. 149 will be a hole unless Nelson can make it still after a redshirt or we get Sasso. In my opinion 184 won't be what we need to get back on top starting this year and our future 184 isn't going to get it done either. We have a LONG way to go. Silva would take 133 off this list and Sasso would take 149 off. Those 2 would be huge gets for us.
I agree that we definitely have holes to fill, and need to land some kids
That's because Dresser wants him obviously, and it's about 10 minutes north of fort dump.
Only rumors, but I've heard he is very much interested in being a hawk.
I'm guessing with Ames only being an hour away has more to do with it than anything.
He's going to a lot of open tournaments this year is about all that boy is doing
They didn't wrestle folkstyle there that I'm aware of.
That said, I put them on the same level. Really good or even excellent recruits. At least one step back from elite.
Could it be that we are still in on Teasdale as well? He flipped once. Let's get him to flop back! I'm not counting that out of happening until he signs his LOI with PSU.
We aren't talking about Thomsen and West. I think we all agree Thomsen > West. Not really a debate.
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