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OK STATE VS. WYOMING

Is Teague’s knee gonna be a long term thing or is sitting out tonight (and vs ASU?) precautionary?
It just looked like he just tweaked it. He was limping a bit walking off but then he was drilling on the mat during break before 165. I don't think he'd do that if serious injury.
 
lol at Hill shushing the crowd. Dude barely beat 149 pound backup in SV. And Cutter was more aggressive too.
Great match by Spratley getting a takedown near the end of the 3rd period and riding out for overtime. Then gets a go around for a great win. Clutch takedowns at the end of the 3rd period for each of his wins. Witcraft had a solid win. Jamison asleep at the beginning of the match and looked poor the whole 1st period. But gets a takedown late in the 3rd and then in overtime for the win. Ho showed no signs in over time of being wore down by his cut. Young was really disappointing in being asleep in the first period. He did not finish takedowns and gave up takedowns off his shots or off his opponent's shots. Sheets battled but lost in overtime off a weak shot. Too many wrestlers did not seem ready to wrestle in the 1st period. Our strength is in the upper weights. I liked Spratley and Witcraft not so much anyone else. I can't complain about Cutter Sheets he was small.
 
O’Brien fell for one of the classic blunders
1. Never get involved in a land war in Asia
2. Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
3. Never go upper body with Witcraft.
shocked the princess bride GIF
 
Great match by Spratley getting a takedown near the end of the 3rd period and riding out for overtime. Then gets a go around for a great win. Clutch takedowns at the end of the 3rd period for each of his wins. Witcraft had a solid win. Jamison asleep at the beginning of the match and looked poor the whole 1st period. But gets a takedown late in the 3rd and then in overtime for the win. Ho showed no signs in over time of being wore down by his cut. Young was really disappointing in being asleep in the first period. He did not finish takedowns and gave up takedowns off his shots or off his opponent's shots. Sheets battled but lost in overtime off a weak shot. Too many wrestlers did not seem ready to wrestle in the 1st period. Our strength is in the upper weights. I liked Spratley and Witcraft not so much anyone else. I can't complain about Cutter Sheets he was small.
Well mixed results on the back half. Amine didn't do much until the 3rd period where he had 2 takedowns and a stalling point and got a major. Hamiti was outstanding with domination and then got a quick pin putting his opponent on his back for 1 second. Plott wrestled unbelievably sloppy shooting and losing a leg, foot or ankle over and over again. Poor match by Plott but wins.. Surber wrestled out of control and sloppy also. But he did win. Hendrickson was great with lots of takedowns and got the pin with a Johny Thompson move. Easy win but not impressive.
 
Great match by Spratley getting a takedown near the end of the 3rd period and riding out for overtime. Then gets a go around for a great win. Clutch takedowns at the end of the 3rd period for each of his wins. Witcraft had a solid win. Jamison asleep at the beginning of the match and looked poor the whole 1st period. But gets a takedown late in the 3rd and then in overtime for the win. Ho showed no signs in over time of being wore down by his cut. Young was really disappointing in being asleep in the first period. He did not finish takedowns and gave up takedowns off his shots or off his opponent's shots. Sheets battled but lost in overtime off a weak shot. Too many wrestlers did not seem ready to wrestle in the 1st period. Our strength is in the upper weights. I liked Spratley and Witcraft not so much anyone else. I can't complain about Cutter Sheets he was small.
Guy looked way bigger and longer that Carter. That length gave him trouble in finishing shots
 
Announced crowd not even half full ... dissapointing. Utah V was close to this. :(
Pisses me off that the ticket office will do $2 tickets and concessions to women’s bb but not to men’s bb or wrestling.We can’t raise money like most schools and pay as much in NIL but we darn sure could try to get butts in the seats.

Not to mention this is DT’s first home dual and a HUGE recruiting weekend. HS football playoffs are tonight and small schools have started basketball so OSU needs to do all it can to get people in GIA.
 
Squad looked good and we were the better conditioned side which won us the close matches. Crowd was awesome, but I expected more attendance. I'm hoping Sunday will be larger. Gilmans intensity in the corner is fantastic. He was screaming at the ref to hurry up and begin Spratley's OT and they did not make that mistake again. Mark Branch is doing a fine job at WY those men showed up ready to scrap.
 
It’s gonna take some time. And it’s gonna take some bigger opponents. It was loud when it needed to be and in person it didn’t feel half empty. I want it packed too but just like every sport, winning comes first.
Fall break, deer season, hs playoffs, little league wrestling…lots to compete with this weekend.

My tickets were used, but I didn’t go because my private jet pilot is deer hunting and my little boy has his 1st Wrestling tournament today (Saturday.)
 
Fall break, deer season, hs playoffs, little league wrestling…lots to compete with this weekend.

My tickets were used, but I didn’t go because my private jet pilot is deer hunting and my little boy has his 1st Wrestling tournament today (Saturday.)
Another factor is we (Union) are hosting our open tournament today. So I’m sure there were some that couldn’t make it because of weigh ins this morning and wrestling today.
 
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Our fan base makes too many excuses. It’s a black eye for us. Simple as that. We talk a big game. We needed everyone to show up last night and about half did.

I drove my crew from Altus and we didn’t get home until 1am and all 3 of my kids are wrestling at 8:30 this morning.
 
It’s wrestling that is why it wasn’t full. If DT truly bringing the excitement back it should be packed. No excuses. A lot on this board love it but a lot of folks don’t. No different than tennis, golf, track, and etc. You can’t even get updates on ESPN app. I hate it for these sports in the future. I don’t see how they survive.
 
It’s wrestling that is why it wasn’t full. If DT truly bringing the excitement back it should be packed. No excuses. A lot on this board love it but a lot of folks don’t. No different than tennis, golf, track, and etc. You can’t even get updates on ESPN app. I hate it for these sports in the future. I don’t see how they survive.
Maybe… It’s growing like crazy all over the country for being such a “dying sport” though and we fill it for bedlam and Iowa later in the season. Schools with 1/100th history and resources are growing their base and fan involvement.

It’s just pretty unbelievable to me that we tie ourselves to the whipping post for soulless sports (at this point) like NCAA football and basketball but we can’t find enough time and resources to support THE ONE truly elite program at OSU.

Iowa averages somewhere around 14k per and that’s just due to them embracing THEIR tradition imo. It’s all about being trendy at OSU. Some of that OU little brother stuff people talk about IMO. We try really hard to be who we’re not.

Anyway… if wrestling does fail at OSU it will be because of us, not a lack of commitment from the admin and boosters. It’ll be because the people with the lightest load were too busy making excuses.
 
Maybe… It’s growing like crazy all over the country for being such a “dying sport” though and we fill it for bedlam and Iowa later in the season.

It’s just pretty unbelievable to me that we tie ourselves to the whipping post for soulless sports (at this point) like NCAA football and basketball but we can’t find enough time and resources to support THE ONE truly elite program at OSU.

Iowa averages somewhere around 14k per and that’s just due to them embracing THEIR tradition imo. It’s all about being trendy at OSU. Some of that OU little brother stuff people talk about IMO. We try really hard to be who we’re not.

Anyway… if wrestling does fail at OSU it will be because of us, not a lack of commitment from the admin and boosters. It’ll be because the people with the lightest load were too busy making excuses.
Biggest home opening crowd in over 20 years and you want to shit on people because it didn’t meet your expectation….yeah, that’s the way to get people on your side.
 
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