Articles for Thursday (1/7)

[Tom McAndrew]

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What to expect from the 2021 college wrestling season

Here's a college wrestling primer with everything we know about what will be an unprecedented year on the mat.

www.ncaa.com

How some of the nation's best college wrestlers have kept sharp for 2021

COVID-19 put the world on hold in 2020, but the nation’s top college wrestlers never stopped training. Here's what you need to know about summer wrestling results and what freestyle wins could mean for the upcoming folkstyle season.

www.ncaa.com

Penn State back on the mat Jan. 16

STATE COLLEGE – Penn State’s wrestling program will open its 2021 season on Jan. 16 at Rutgers. The start of the season was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic nearly two

www.sharonherald.com

Rutgers wrestling schedule analysis: Best chance for Big Ten upset, Sebastian Rivera’s road to nationals

Inside the Scarlet Knights' loaded schedule, which begins Friday when No. 3 Michigan visits the RAC.

www.nj.com

Tom Elling on wrestling: Wrestling is back in the area

Wrestling is back! At least for a while and with several modifications. While I don’t have the abbreviated schedules for the area teams, I will bring those you as the season unfolds. You have probably read or heard that the number of pre-competitions have been reduced for this season only...

www.lockhaven.com

Husker wrestling opens season motivated to pick up where they left off

Nebraska wrestling opens its season Friday at home against Minnesota. The Huskers are No. 4 in the national rankings.

omaha.com

Wrestling Mailbag: Iowa's schedule, lineups, Spencer Lee and the Hodge, top recruits, more

The Register's Cody Goodwin answers your wrestling questions in his weekly mailbag. Or tries to, anyways.

www.desmoinesregister.com

Iowa wrestling program has unsettled business

Words don’t have to be said.

globegazette.com

For Iowa wrestler Spencer Lee, 2020 Hodge Trophy represents 2021 motivation

"I'm not going to say I didn't deserve the Hodge Trophy, but I'm also the only one that won the Hodge that didn't win a national title."

www.hawkcentral.com

High school wrestlers return to practice with more questions than answers about what lies ahead

Many high school wrestling programs will roll out the mats this afternoon for the first time in over two weeks, kicking off a frantic week of preparation that likely leads into a turbulent, abbreviated season in the weeks ahead.

www.pennlive.com

 

[regularfan]

The NCAA article is interesting to me and reading through the qualifications standards am I the only one who finds it odd we have no idea how this is going to work? At least I don't understand it.

They still haven't decided on how many people qualify, sounds like it will be 24 or 33. 8 teams are already out from what I can tell and eight more haven't released schedules yet: American, Drexel, Bloomsburg, Cleveland State, Edinboro, George Mason, CSU Bakersfield, and Stanford. Although these schools do appear on other schedules.

There is no real mention on how a conference's allocations will be changed based on schools not competing. Will they just take 7/17 bids (41%) of the bids from the EIWA or will they look at how many allocations came from those particular schools over the past five years., or will it not be changed at all.

Also, how can you confirm a wrestling is competing at a conference tournament for allocations (according to their power point) when it doesn't sound like wrestlers can earn allocations this year if they are going on historical data?