To Return or Not to Return, That is the Question

[pawrestlersintn]

I know several of you take great delight in seeing me start a redundant thread. But, it probably is the best way to keep a running tally of seniors who plan on returning, or not, for their senior senior year. Please post any news that you see, whether it be tweets, IG messages, news accounts, etc. with updates. I will edit this first post with those updates.

PSU
Returning: Nick Lee (141, source: personal interview)
Not Returning:

Iowa
Returning: Spencer Lee (125, source: pre-injury interview), Jaydin Eierman (141, source: Tweet), Marinelli (165, source: Tweet), Kaleb Young (149, source: Tom Brands says so), Michael Kemmerer (174, source: IG)
Not Returning:
Unknown: Austin DeSanto

Michigan
Returning:
Not Returning:
Unknown: Logan Massa, Myles Amine, Stevan Micic, Kanen Storr

Rutgers
Returning: Seabass Rivera (133?, Source: Tweet)
Not Returning:

NC State
Returning: Hayden Hidlay (174, Source: podcast), Tariq Wilson (149, Source: Tweet), Nick Reenan (, Source: Tweet)
Not Returning:
Unknown:

Pitt
Returning: Jake Wentzell (165, Source: Tweet)
Not Returning:

Rider
Returning:
Not Returning: Jesse Dellavechia (157, source: Tweet)

VT
Returning: Korbin Myers (133, source: Tweet)

 

[pawrestlersintn]

 

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[Dogwelder]

That’s a cool photo of Eierman, framed to show the text “wrestling champ” from the huge “... wrestling championship” banner behind him. Good thing for him the banner did not instead say “... NCAA championship”, which would’ve made the photo unusable.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

I enjoyed SHP's take on this:

 

[Mat Burn]

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Yeah he needs another year in the room to learn how to finish shots. I guess the last two years @ Iowa did not help that skillset.

 

[psuflyguy]

I think it’s great that Eierman’s grandkids will get to watch him wrestle in college.

 

[NoVa Lion]

I think it’s great that Eierman’s grandkids will get to watch him wrestle in college.

Eierman is 24, not having grandkids any time soon. Thanks for playing though.

 

[pennstaterincarolina]

He’s a little older that that. https://hawkeyesports.com/roster/jaydin-eierman/

Eierman is 24, not having grandkids any time soon. Thanks for playing though.

 

[Sportfan2017]

He’s a little older that that. https://hawkeyesports.com/roster/jaydin-eierman/

He is 24. He will be 25 on May 2nd. Born May 2 1996

 

[NoVa Lion]

He’s a little older that that. https://hawkeyesports.com/roster/jaydin-eierman/

You flunk Math 101.

 

[pennstaterincarolina]

Did you not check the source I linked?

You flunk Math 101.

 

[NoVa Lion]

Did you not check the source I linked?

Yes, and he is 24 and will be 25 in May. You have now flunked Math 101 for the second time.

LOL, missed that so I flunk Reading Comprehension 101.

 

[impalanut]

looks to me like he is 115

 

[Mat Burn]

Damn then he really needs Geritol.

 

[Dogwelder]

Did you not check the source I linked?

From the source:

• born May 2, 1006

 

[KCLion]

Yes, and he is 24 and will be 25 in May. You have now flunked Math 101 for the second time.

LOL, missed that so I flunk Reading Comprehension 101.

NoVa no get joke, LOL!!

 

[Dogwelder]

looks to me like he is 115

You fail math or something.

 

[pennstaterincarolina]

He had a reaction to the Mount Merapi eruption that causes is body to age very slowly.

Yes, and he is 24 and will be 25 in May. You have now flunked Math 101 for the second time.

LOL, missed that so I flunk Reading Comprehension 101.

 

[impalanut]

missed a 0

 

[pawrestlersintn]

This is going to be more difficult than I thought, if we can get 14 messages sideways due to an age joke. It's going to take me forever to weed through. 🤣

 

[NoVa Lion]

This is going to be more difficult than I thought, if we can get 14 messages sideways due to an age joke. It's going to take me forever to weed through. 🤣

Nature of the board, and you are the worst offender, but we love you for it.

 

[RoarLions1]

I'm returning next year .

 

[Dogwelder]

I'm returning next year .

But you may have to sit in the bench. There’s this John Brooks phenom who might start.

 

[Nitt Fan]

I'm returning next year .

Me too. Might even go to Detroit.

 

[STAND with PRIDE]

It reminded me of a twitter fued between PD3 and AF2.

 

[7brwnpsu]

This is going to be more difficult than I thought, if we can get 14 messages sideways due to an age joke. It's going to take me forever to weed through. 🤣

Start a side thread for the jokes from this thread.

When dogwelder wrote "from the source" I thought he was Mrs. Eierman's Obstetrician.

 

[RoarLions1]

But you may have to sit in the bench. There’s this John Brooks phenom who might start.

He's not in my weight class.

 

[CoastFan]

He’s a little older that that. https://hawkeyesports.com/roster/jaydin-eierman/

According to that birth year, he was born a full 60 years before the Battle of Hastings.

From the source:

• born May 2, 1006

History buffs will recognize that’s 60 years prior to the Battle of Hastings.

 

[McScoreley]

Just a reminder guys, our guys can all do this later on. Brooks has a chance to be a 4 timer, Carter a FIVE (him and Ferrari are the only two that in theory can do it now) All our freshman this year will be freshman again next year. Michael Beard is 4 years out of high school and a freshman next year.

Iowa guys want to run it back and that's their right. Eierman and Kemerer were right place, right time scenario (6th year senior in the free year) Guys like Cenzo/Mark/Kollin/Pletcher/Lugo, etc. got screwed over the worst. Chris Ayres' recently tweeted about how BS it is that Kolodzik can't even get his 4th NCAA tournament and he has a LEGITIMATE grip.

You guys said it yourselves, Iowa probably isn't totally satisfied with this tournament. I know Cael isn't, based on how he was acting with Joe Lee, you can tell he was NOT gunning for 2nd this year. Dude is MANIACALLY competitive. Funny enough in his "Do you have a plan?" interview with Pyles, he even said, we won the Scuffle, we can win NCAAs. Yes that was a PUNT year but in his mind, he could get his guys so ready for NCAAs that they can still win. He does NOT like losing. What do you think brought him to Penn State in the first place? He wasn't happy with 5th place at 2011 Worlds (literally something he did off of a bet)

I imagine Cael is more focused on getting our guys to be the best they can be rather than hoping Iowa has anyone not come back. Sit back, he has a plan and I can't wait to see what it is.

 

[Dogwelder]

According to that birth year, he was born a full 60 years before the Battle of Hastings.

History buffs will recognize that’s 60 years prior to the Battle of Hastings.

60 years! Cael can invent wrestling 6 times in that span!

 

[backdrft76]

My girlfriend is 37 and she's a grandma, so it's almost the same thing as the Eierman situation.

Yes, she lived a few years in Pennsyltucky.

 

[Phantom of the Palestra]

Fun Facts about Jaydin Eierman:
Left Missouri because Connor McCloud was getting close to finding him.
Thinks Minnesota calling their pro football team Vikings is in really poor taste.
He was starting to get really really bored before someone invented the internet.
Still waiting for Hollywood to do a decent adaptation of Beowulf.

 

[psuflyguy]

Eierman is 24, not having grandkids any time soon. Thanks for playing though.

hy-per-bo-le.

 

[82bordeaux]

Fun Facts about Jaydin Eierman:
Left Missouri because Connor McCloud was getting close to finding him.
Thinks Minnesota calling their pro football team Vikings is in really poor taste.
He was starting to get really really bored before someone invented the internet.
Still waiting for Hollywood to do a decent adaptation of Beowulf.

Ancient Cael telling ancient Nick Lee that Eierman thinks he will be the only one standing...

 

[GogglesPaizano]

PAwrestlersnt - I agree. In the era of an extra year for Covid, no adjustment to the 9.9, and the portal, this is a relevant question.

Not only do you have older guys wondering when their career will end due to burnout, bodies breaking down, the reality that not everyone can compete in freestyle down the road, there is the reality that very few wrestlers are getting full rides and college is expensive as hell. I'll bet some kids are already starting to contemplate what their student loan balance really means. Usually a freshman versus a 6-7th year senior might have a different interpretation of that ugly reality.

Likewise for the top recruit who has to sit behind a hammer for another year, maybe just maybe the portal looks a little more enticing.

We will have to see, but for guys like Marinelli and Eireman after the question is left to 'season' for a few more months they may well feel differently than in the immediate aftermath of this year's tourney.

With no disrespect intended, I think Eireman's window for winning an individual championship just slammed on his fingers. Nick will be even stronger next year and I don't think he has any shot against Yanni either.

Both Hawks acheived one ultimate goal of winning a team trophy. With what PSU, Cornel, a young OSU team, a healthy tOSU and the rest of the Ivys returning stronger, next year will be a blood bath. Despite being 2022 pre-season favorites I do not see the Hawks defending next year, so a goal of a repeat is both less sure and less compelling than this past year's.

This wasn't meant to focus on Iowa necessary, and was intended more as only a speculative illustration. Nationwide, I expect we will see some big surprises in the next 6 months, and some kids revising what they state today.

 

[Larryrise]

I'll go ahead and call it now: Young and Kemerer won't return.

 

[nittinsc]

That’s a cool photo of Eierman, framed to show the text “wrestling champ” from the huge “... wrestling championship” banner behind him. Good thing for him the banner did not instead say “... NCAA championship”, which would’ve made the photo unusable.

Is he wearing Max Weldons in that photo?

 

[johnstownsteel]

I think it’s great that Eierman’s grandkids will get to watch him wrestle in college.

Not sure a out all that but have heard that he a Levion Mayes get together for breakfast and a cup of coffee Saturday mornings...

 

[Eastern HWT]

According to that birth year, he was born a full 60 years before the Battle of Hastings.

History buffs will recognize that’s 60 years prior to the Battle of Hastings.

Battle of Hastings - 1066 (one thing I remember of European History!