This Fridays meet vs Northwestern should be more competitive than it’s been in a few years as the Wildcats field a pretty salty lineup. NW has 9 ranked wrestlers (Flo/Intermat).
125 #1/#1 Spencer Lee vs #4/#3 Michael Augustino
133 #12 Brody Teske/ #17 Cullan Schriever vs #11/#13 Chris Cannon
141 #2/#2 Real Woods vs #10/#10 Frankie Tal Shahar
149 #8/#4 Max Murin vs #4/#5 Yahya Thomas
157 #17/#20 Cobe Seibrecht vs #9/#9 Trevor Chumbley
#165 #10/#10 Patrick Kennedy vs HM/#23 Max Mayfield
174 #17/#16Nelson Brands vs #21/#20 Troy Fisher
#184 #8/ #8 Abe Assad vs UR Jack Jessen
#197 #10/#8 Jacob Warner vs HM/ #28 Andrew Davidson
Hwt # 3/#3 Anthony Cassioppi vs #4/#4 Lucas Davidson
Straight away DeAugustino is a weird matchup for Lee. He lives for low scoring matches and loves to get real low and sit on his butt. Hoping we get the Purdue ref as MDeA racks up more stalls than a Carver restroom.
Hoping Teske is ready to go vs a scrappy Chris Cannon. Cannon is pretty good at holding a lead. Would love to see Teske aggressive early.
Hopefully Woods is back in the lineup. Tal Shahar is wrestling better than he ever has, Woods is fun to watch and I’d love to see him vs a game competitor who’s feeling good about himself.
Murin and Yahya has gone down to the wire in both of their previous meetings. I imagine Yahya will try to score early and get enough of a lead to stave off the last minute TDs by Murin. Always an exciting bout by those two.
Chumbley has looked great thus far scoring some upsets. Seibrecht didn’t look great vs Mike Carr (gives up his legs way too easy), Rathjen looked great battling the #3 ranked Coleman for 7 minutes. Did Rathjen earn the start or will Seibrecht get the nod?
PK was impressive vs Braunagel and should build on they vs Max Mayfield
Brands still doesn’t look right (perhaps still trying to fight his way back from injury). Would love to see him put the pressure on Fisher and break him for bonus.
Assad can open it up against the veteran Jessen. He should be thinking bonus points out of the gate.
JWar has had a pretty miserable season thus far. A bonus point win could go a long way to making him feel better about himself.
IMHO the heavyweight match is the match of the night. Lucas Davidson is a beast who looks to have grown into the Hwt spot better than last year. Cass has been the MVP thus far and these two should have a pretty good battle.
On paper the Hawks are favored in 7/10 (Murin/Yahya are split in the rankings) with 9 out of the 10 weights pitting two ranked wrestlers against each other.
Should be a good one
125 #1/#1 Spencer Lee vs #4/#3 Michael Augustino
133 #12 Brody Teske/ #17 Cullan Schriever vs #11/#13 Chris Cannon
141 #2/#2 Real Woods vs #10/#10 Frankie Tal Shahar
149 #8/#4 Max Murin vs #4/#5 Yahya Thomas
157 #17/#20 Cobe Seibrecht vs #9/#9 Trevor Chumbley
#165 #10/#10 Patrick Kennedy vs HM/#23 Max Mayfield
174 #17/#16Nelson Brands vs #21/#20 Troy Fisher
#184 #8/ #8 Abe Assad vs UR Jack Jessen
#197 #10/#8 Jacob Warner vs HM/ #28 Andrew Davidson
Hwt # 3/#3 Anthony Cassioppi vs #4/#4 Lucas Davidson
Straight away DeAugustino is a weird matchup for Lee. He lives for low scoring matches and loves to get real low and sit on his butt. Hoping we get the Purdue ref as MDeA racks up more stalls than a Carver restroom.
Hoping Teske is ready to go vs a scrappy Chris Cannon. Cannon is pretty good at holding a lead. Would love to see Teske aggressive early.
Hopefully Woods is back in the lineup. Tal Shahar is wrestling better than he ever has, Woods is fun to watch and I’d love to see him vs a game competitor who’s feeling good about himself.
Murin and Yahya has gone down to the wire in both of their previous meetings. I imagine Yahya will try to score early and get enough of a lead to stave off the last minute TDs by Murin. Always an exciting bout by those two.
Chumbley has looked great thus far scoring some upsets. Seibrecht didn’t look great vs Mike Carr (gives up his legs way too easy), Rathjen looked great battling the #3 ranked Coleman for 7 minutes. Did Rathjen earn the start or will Seibrecht get the nod?
PK was impressive vs Braunagel and should build on they vs Max Mayfield
Brands still doesn’t look right (perhaps still trying to fight his way back from injury). Would love to see him put the pressure on Fisher and break him for bonus.
Assad can open it up against the veteran Jessen. He should be thinking bonus points out of the gate.
JWar has had a pretty miserable season thus far. A bonus point win could go a long way to making him feel better about himself.
IMHO the heavyweight match is the match of the night. Lucas Davidson is a beast who looks to have grown into the Hwt spot better than last year. Cass has been the MVP thus far and these two should have a pretty good battle.
On paper the Hawks are favored in 7/10 (Murin/Yahya are split in the rankings) with 9 out of the 10 weights pitting two ranked wrestlers against each other.
Should be a good one
