NCAA Division I Men's Wrestling Championships

Caden, you're one of the guys that had over 20-plus wins, as Brett said before we started, knocking on the door, knocking on the door so close.

So how are you using the last couple seasons, just sniffing the Nationals, just being right there and almost punching through? So how is that driving you this offseason? How is this driving you into this season?

Yeah, I'm kind of looking at it as like a major sense of like just having fuel and adding it to the fire and kind of just adding attention to detail and everything I do right now, whether that's diet technique, you know, conditioning and.

You know, it kind of fires me up thinking about it, that I've been so close for the last two years and haven't made it to nationals.

Yep.

Uh, multiple time Fargo All-American, national champ-

Yep

... all that stuff.

Mm-hmm

...

but you're thinking, I just, I wanna be a four-time All-American.

I just, I need to get on that podium.

Uh, the way this works is we generate a list off of, uh, Earl's Intramural rankings.

Uh, we each pick a wrestler who's currently ranked in the top eight or the All-American level to not AA.

We pick a wrestler who's ranked outside of the top eight who we feel will AA.

What's up, Kev? And then we pick our favorite wrestler to watch, and then after that we go to our dream matchup.

Cam Steed from Missouri, uh, is number three.

Number four is Jackson Smith, currently at Ohio State.

Number five is defending 197 All-American, coming down in weight here, Gabe Arnold from Iowa at number five.

Uh, perpetual favorite from Navy, Danny Wass comes in at number six.

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They said Colin Guy would never wrestle at 150 again, and he just All-American at 140.

149.

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All right, fine.

Uh, yeah, that's why I was just...

And it's interesting, it's kind of interesting the numbers we put on things that give them value across, like, everything, right? Outside of just champion, we're like, "Oh, well, you're top eight." That's just a completely arbitrary number, so you're an All-American or top eight is placer at the-

Mm-hmm

Go ahead

... like for a guy like Gabe Arnold, who lost first round and then battled all the way back and was an All-American, so like how did you...

How do you base off, like career impact score inter- is that like kind of y- you're saying like based on the big board? Like, and then now it's-

Yeah

Gotcha.

And based- And that'll reset every year as well.

So if you go to the NCAA tournament, uh, you weren't a top 250 recruit and you All-American your freshman year, you're gonna have a huge, uh, return on that first year because your expectation score was low.

Um-

Let's bring him on.

Chance Marsteller, World Team member, couple time All-American, wrestling guru.

What's up, Chance? How you doing?

Good, Bader.

Like I, I watch him with Bo now, and I can, I can tell when he comes home, like his hand fight's different, right? His thing- things are different, and I'm like, it's, he's really finally around.

It's hard to find super, super like-minded individuals.

Obviously it's Colin Guy, who's one of our club kids, who was an All-American for VTech, and it's so nice that they're down there together.

But also now with Bo, it's just like you got another person who just is willing to do everything, and I just, I'm excited to see how far those two push each other.