Dean wins comfortably. 6-2
You post this just after a Dean vs Nickal match is posted. I know, nitpicking....Dean is too solid. Nickal has not wrestled an opponent close to Dean's level. Nickal wrestled very well at a weak weight this year.
Yada yada yada then...crablegs1 says:
"Dean is too solid. Nickal has not wrestled an opponent close to Dean's level. Nickal wrestled very well at a weak weight this year."
Sure he wrestled someone close to Dean's level...... he wrestled Dean! And you do realize that is Bo the summer before he entered PSU don't you!? He was not near the the wrestler he is today even during his RS year. He also was not close to a true 84 KG guy.
There is no doubt that Dean could slow him down...as stated he is strong as a bull and maintains position. The video shows that Dean would have a hard time finishing on Bo just as Bo may have finishing on him. I think it would be a toss up, low scoring bout with most $$ on Dean as it should be.
The match I would love to see if Bo goes 184 next year is Bo vs Nolan Boyd as I think the kitchen sink get tossed just as Bo and Brian Realbuto. Brooks and Bo going upper body may be interesting t
But I doubt it will happen next year as I believe Bo stay's 174 next year.
Dean is too solid. Nickal has not wrestled an opponent close to Dean's level. Nickal wrestled very well at a weak weight this year.
Week weight......that's what a lot of detractors say about Zain and 149. Do you call Sorenson first looser?? I would think T&T would love to have Nickal on his team! Nickal lost two matches that are on him for going for broke when he didn't need to. Can't fault him too much for being aggressive.
Anyway....like him or not that's a judgment call for each to decide. I think if anyone is to consider an NCAA runner-up a looser, it should be the wrestler who placed second!
Touche. (I was thinking about next year in folkstyle.)
Then maybe 2-1. Don't think Bo is going to move up.
don't think anyone said they didn't like him or would not want him, I just think he is a notch below retherford and nolf.
I don't know BD...your folks spent a lot of time putting Sorensen down this season and he was clearly the second best at the weight. You guys kind of dug your own grave with the weak weight. Also, a true freshman and a RS Freshman meeting in a title match and it's not little guys? BTW, Myles Martin made his own breaks in that match.
You do realize Bo was still in High School when this match took place right? Just a couple months after winning a 170lb. State Title. I would bet on more than two pts being scored in a future match.
Not really, dean finished 3rd @ ncaa and hall is a cadet world champBo was a very accomplished freestyle wrestler compared to Dean at the time.
Kind of like Mark Hall beating Jason Nolf except Bo didn't win.
Bo was a very accomplished freestyle wrestler compared to Dean at the time.
Kind of like Mark Hall beating Jason Nolf except Bo didn't win.
Actually it was later this summer (Summer of 2014) that Dean placed Bronze at JR worlds. But he was coming off of a 3rd place finish at NCAAs. I think chiefs analogy was pretty good, Nolf/Dean both were very inexperienced with freestyle.Not really, dean finished 3rd @ ncaa and hall is a cadet world champ
Nice try bit not really....
dean placed 3rd at jrs the year prior.
Oh Snap! Either you have a memory like a card catalog or your internet research team's 21 minute response time to a multi point attack just set a new record. Treating a rookie poster like......a rookie poster, nice rep'in for the HRBo had just won a champions tourney in Turkey at 84kg a few weeks prior in May.Took fifth in Cadet worlds and was the guy who beat Mark Hall. This isn't even counting his Fargo titles.
Gabe just started after his true freshman year in college.
I don't have any trouble rooting against him. He may be a fine young man and all, but he's not OUR fine young man so................ if he takes a few lumps here and there, I can handle it.I'd take Dean, just because I believe he has more of his "man strength"
But the way Nickal lets it all hang out, can't root against the kid. Didn't consider Martin but he'll also be a contender next year!