My thoughts looking only at the results. Would have been really nice to see some of these matches. Wish this were promoted more to get on Flo.
125 - Really happy with Mackall. He split with Schwarm last year so to have him dominate was encouraging.
133 - Small will be a nice fill-in until Gomez gets down to weight, but make no mistake, Austin needs to make 133 for us to be top 10.
141 - Would have been really nice to see how Parker or Gomez stacked up against Blockhaus and Lara.
149 - Degan is now 0-5 against Thomsen. Obviously a bad style matchup, but he needs to get it figured out if he wants to place high at Nationals.
157 - Unlike 141, I have no problem holding Carr out if he had a tweak. There was no one in this bracket that would have challenged him.
165 - Looks like we have 4 guys who are all very close. Will be a weaker weight, but at least Straw and Judge should be able to be respectable and allow Schumacher and Mulder to redshirt.
174 & 184 - Lumping these together as they wrestled high level guys and the losses were certainly not upsets. That said, both UNI guys are coming up a weight and I would have hoped to get one of these.
197 - At first I was disappointed here, but after doing a little research, this Sutton kid seems to be the real deal. I guess he just doesn't have the grades to go D1 but definitely has the talent. Hopefully Joel learns and progresses as the season goes on.
286 - Looking back, Grannon split with Isley last year, I was thinking he lost both. At any rate, it seems he was able to get a takedown and out from underneath this time which is progress. These two will be close every time.
Perhaps my biggest concern is Aden Reeves. I know he was off for an entire year. Here's hoping it's just rust and not a continuation of the injury.
