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(10-22-2019 07:44 PM)Lambert58 Wrote:  https://kentstatesports.com/news/2019/10...rsday.aspx

The wrestling season starts on Thursday!

Nice. Should be interesting to see who wins some of the weights tonight.

I watched a FloWrestling (Zeb Miller) video of some interviews with Andrassy and some footage of practice. During those videos Jim said that last year was the craziest year of his coaching career with 5 or 6 (I can't remember which) season/wrestling career ending injuries. JA mentioned that Monico had a major knee injury, Barreiro suffered a shoulder injury, & Billy Bolia I believe had a knee injury and those ended all 3 of their wrestling careers. Monico & Barreiro would have placed at MAC and qualified for NCAA. Kyle Conel had a knee injury, that JA said Nick Bedelyon won the MAC and was an All American with, so he could have wrestled with it, but chose not to. JA also mentioned that Conel seemed like he didn't want to be in Kent all of last year and he wishes him well at Penn State this season.

Blake must be really talented to be projected as the starter over Jake Ferri (redshirt junior).

The only question mark I have is that Tim Wallace isn't on the roster and JA didn't mention him in those videos. He had a heck of redshirt season last year, so maybe he got hurt at the end of the year? He wrestled a lot of matches, so it doesn't seem like it happened at the beginning or middle of the season.