Oddly a freebie year might be good for the sport.

I would like to hear others' thoughts on this, but if wrestlers are given a freebie that would essentially stack up a serious amount of talent next year and probably the year after that before things normalize. Two things could happen: 1) A LOT of competition; and 2) Maybe a lot of transfer portal action creating parity among the lesser programs. It could work to make more teams competitive and actually create more interesting duals and weight classes. The bigger programs might have a hard time stacking up their weight classes and asking really talented guys to sit out a year or two - sort of forcing the landscape to spread the wealth sort of speak.

I might add the NCAA could respond by expanding the NCAAT field to 48 for a year or two.
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Posted: 10/08/2020 at 9:38PM

Winter Athletes May get a Freebee year like football ..... -- hokietony 10/07/2020 12:02PM

Oddly a freebie year might be good for the sport. -- Hokie Flyer 10/08/2020 9:38PM

I’m not sure how I feel -- Rokie08 10/09/2020 02:55AM

9.9 -- VTwinsdad 10/07/2020 7:42PM

I don’t think I like it -- Rokie08 10/07/2020 6:14PM

If it does happen, you will see the most loaded fields ever .... -- hokietony 10/07/2020 7:15PM

Key question will be if NCAA temporarily bumps schollie limit -- UpperQuad 10/07/2020 7:31PM

Even if they bump scholarship limits... -- HokieJack 10/07/2020 8:17PM

It could also create an uneven playing field -- UpperQuad 10/07/2020 9:31PM

If interested, you can listen here (and they talk senior nationals). -- dallasvt 10/07/2020 1:08PM

Oddly a freebie year might be good for the sport.

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