So I guess what I'm trying to ask is when did you in the practice room, because something tells me you would blow through people in high school, but when in the practice room did you decide to just let it kind of fly a little bit?

I would say...

Towards the end of my red shirt, my red shirt year, because the beginning of my red shirt year, I was kind of like I was new kid, new kid on block.

So, yeah, I want to create a lot of offense with the best guys.

But I was still thinking like, hey, this is like I'm in a college room now.

So and then then I wasn't going out there.

I wasn't competing.

And I'm curious about, What changes in your mindset when you're trying to move forward, trying to create a reaction? Is that something that you've always done? And kind of like what's your process of working through that?

What's this season looking like for you right now?

Yeah, so far we've been doing a lot of stuff during preseason, a lot of conditioning, a lot of just to see where guys are at because we got a lot of young guys coming in.

And so we just want to see what what they're made of and just mold them into who who are what our culture is and how we do things.

And I feel like we're in the right direction.

leading up to this season, and it's going to be a great season.

How important is it to you guys where you are in the Big Ten conference, elite wrestling conference, and then you will have opportunities to test yourselves early in the season? Like Angel Taylor, for a guy like you, how beneficial is that to not just kind of have weaker opponents, but you're going to challenge yourselves early to get ready for the season?

Yeah, I think it's the perfect way to do it to get the tough matches early to just kind of gauge where you're going to be where you're at early in the season gauge where your gas tanks that gauge where your where your timing of your offense and all of that is that so I think it's a great way to start the season getting Oklahoma State first or second.

in wyoming they're a tough squad too so just getting them and yeah and then going right into vegas so then that'll be

What did you figure out, and when did you figure it out?

I would say after the first time we wrestled him in a duel, he had got in on my leg early.

And that honestly, it took a lot out of me.

I was, I think I was fighting, fighting that takedown off for like a minute or so.

So that took a lot out of me.

So I had to learn how to just not let him get in on my legs and try to wrestle his match.

You know what I'm saying? I want, I want to go in and wrestle my match and wrestle forward, move forward.

So when you look at, okay, I'm thirsty, it's 10 o'clock at night, and then not breaking the