NCAA Wrestling Finals on ESPN 3/19 7p.m. central time(Watch the heavyweight at 9:40ishp.m.)

[JustOnce]

In college they can give you a scholarship to pay for your school for 5 years; although you can only compete for 4 of those 5 years. So in football incoming freshmen often redshirt to get stronger then they have years 2-5 to play in games. In wrestling really good wrestlers sometimes use their redshirt year whenever their is an olympic trial going on that season so they can focus on training for the olympic style and not focus on the college style. Snyder (world champ) was going to sit this year out so it wouldn't count towards his 4 years of active eligibility, instead he is competing but he didn't wrestle in any of the "unimportant" matches.

So, basically they are sitting out a year, nice thanks

 

[Meathead Jock]

oh so it would be world champ vs world champ at lower weight class if they both go through?

I usually never watch heavyweights, usually watches under 74kgs and below, are they done I'd imagine at this point tonight?

Nope the heavyweight guy didn't choose to compete for the world championship.

So it's a 2 time NCAA heavyweight champion
vs
a 1 time NCAA runner up (he got upset last year at 197lbs) &1 time youngest world champ at 213lbs for the USA.

 

[Meathead Jock]

So, basically they are sitting out a year, nice thanks

Yup, but still practicing with the team 99% of the time.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Wrestling is so boring to watch. I'd still encourage others to watch. They almost pulled wrestling out of the Olympics because no one was watching and its not good for business.

Yea and I didn't exactly steer people to an exciting match, it was a let down and kinda boring, but the semi-finals worked out to set up the final that everyone wanted all year.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Anyways the mods can move this; I just was jonesing to talk some compete sports with the void left for tonight and I think this might be a guy we see fighting in the near future.

 

[Chas2105]

Yea they love the heavyweights. He said something about he started to take speech/communications classes to prepare to be more comfortable for either career. He is on a 88 match win streak right now which is unheard of for a heavyweight in the NCAA to my memory.

Carlton Haselrig (Pitt-Johnstown) won his last 123 matches at heavyweight. He is also the only 6 time NCAA Champion. 3x division II and 3x division I.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Carlton Haselrig (Pitt-Johnstown) won his last 123 matches at heavyweight. He is also the only 6 time NCAA Champion. 3x division II and 3x division I.

Great first post; welcome to sherdog.

Cool, I didn't realize that they used to let you compete in both.
"His six titles were unprecedented and will remain so because the NCAA no longer allows wrestlers to compete in both division tournaments."
I'll have to check out his old videos, I see he started MMA in his mid 40's and lost to Shawn Jordan when he was 46 years old and retired.

 

[KOByFootStomp]

If he was smart he would go the WWE route and still train MMA. People who come from WWE to the UFC get much larger contracts than those who climb the ranks in the UFC. He will make more in the WWE while he is young and if he decides to switch to MMA he won't have to prove himself to get to the UFC, he'll just cut to the front of the line, get a title shot after 2 fights and make more than 95% of the UFC roster.

 

[Cooliox]

lay n pray like a bitch.


lol. not really but somebody had to say it.

 

[Meathead Jock]

If he was smart he would go the WWE route and still train MMA. People who come from WWE to the UFC get much larger contracts than those who climb the ranks in the UFC. He will make more in the WWE while he is young and if he decides to switch to MMA he won't have to prove himself to get to the UFC, he'll just cut to the front of the line, get a title shot after 2 fights and make more than 95% of the UFC roster.

This might be true, I hope he goes right to MMA though. Although even Bobby Lashley has made your path work out for himself nicely

 

[Chas2105]

Great first post; welcome to sherdog.

Cool, I didn't realize that they used to let you compete in both.
"His six titles were unprecedented and will remain so because the NCAA no longer allows wrestlers to compete in both division tournaments."
I'll have to check out his old videos, I see he started MMA in his mid 40's and lost to Shawn Jordan when he was 46 years old and retired.

I believe only the division II champion was invited to compete in both. Haselrig also went on to play in the NFL and made it to the Pro Bowl, after not playing at all in college. I followed him since he was a Pennsylvania Wrestler.

 

[Bogeyman]

Kindergarten ping pong is on the other channel if you're interested, it will be followed by secondary school badminton.

 

[arrmike]

I believe only the division II champion was invited to compete in both. Haselrig also went on to play in the NFL and made it to the Pro Bowl, after not playing at all in college. I followed him since he was a Pennsylvania Wrestler.

But! A-level mumble mumble

 

[Almighty One]

NC State or high school? From the couple of interviews I heard (He was one of Front Row Brians first guest ha) he seemed real polite.

NC State

yeah he was a nice guy and well spoken

 

[Meathead Jock]

NC State

yeah he was a nice guy and well spoken

Pretty cool; every year they line up what they consider to be the most exciting match as the last match of the tournament. This year it is Gwaiz vs Snyder (world champ at 19 years old) from Ohio State; i'm real excited for it tonight.

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

wow tied with 9 seconds left..

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

ur boy lost..that was a really good match though