He's a counter wrestler, no offense of his own. An aggressive Iowa kid like Carter Happel will eat him alive.
Marinelli changed his mind. Virginia has some good kids at his weight. Krivus and year ahead of him and Coy a year behind him. I assume they our his friends. Seems to me all three will be around the 141/149 range. Could see one of them decide to go elsewhere. This all being said Happel is still a great recruit and I don't think people should be getting so down on him. People are treating it like he was the pound for pound best in the nation at his weight and that he has taken some giant dive in the past year. All his loses besides a couple have come from high level recruits that are going to top notch D1 programs. Get Happel in the room everyday with TnT and the top notch training partners that Iowa has and ur gonna have one special wrestler. Just like many before him have become with less acclamation then Happel.
In my post I said everyday, guess what I was trying to say is everyday year round (RS Year). But you do bring up a good point. Was also trying to make the point that after Happel made the cadet world team he became a must get recruit. Now that he has lost some matches to quality opponent's is this no longer true? Yanni a cadet gold medalist lost last night, is Cornell second guessing his talent? No need to answer these questions. I just refuse to think Happel isn't D1 starter material in the future who could find the podium. Go Hawks!
Fair enough, we won't for sure for a couple years. It just seemed like some posters dismissed this kid a little so Friday night I was thinking "WTF? This guy
