Love and Basketball

An intrinsic guide to the 2024 NCAA D1 Wrestling Championships for the die-hard fan, the casual viewer, and those with a gluten allergy

Good morning, Good afternoon, and Good evening to the loyal Coach Dukes readers who have had their curiosity levels piqued enough that you clicked on my dumb ass instagram link. If you stumbled on this link naturally I will assume you work in national security and Coach Dukes has found himself squarely in the crosshairs of an FBI watchlist. To be honest the former surprises me more.

No the nazis did not kill 6 million people in the camps, no michelle obama is not a natural born woman, no joe biden did not *win the 2020 election, no jeffrey epstein did not kill himself, and no I did not get a contract extension to be the head beat writer for march madness for this website. The decision was handed down from my business partner **** (aliases include Boggs, Buddy, Tex,) and i'm pissed off to say the least.  We have brought on a few new hires who apparently no pumpkin ball better than me and I have been relegated to talking about college grappling for this website during march.

Writing about college wrestling takes a special kind of person. The goal is making a hard to understand sport interesting. If anyone reading this is familiar with current wrestling media you are aware it’s littered with dumb pussies who literally have never had an original thought in their life.  Example A would Flo Wrestling’s darling Christian Pyles who recently put out his march matness preview; a 1 ½ hour video on twitter breaking down these brackets.  Watching paint dry wouldn't do this video justice, it would put a cocaine addict to sleep. I have been blocked several times by Christina on twitter, both real and burner accounts. Really the main reason I accepted this wrestling assignment is I knew I would get a chance to publicy say, that guy is a piece of shit and no one likes him.

I loved Basketball. I never played and I dont know the rules, but id much rather find myself in that world. Wrestling is a lot like flying a kite, it looks pretty gay from a distance, so i don't suspect this written transmission will do as good in terms of numbers.  Anyway, enough about me complaining

Lets get into wrestling. If you’ve made it this far I assume you care so lets do something special. Lets start with my finals predictions 

125: Drake Ayala over Matt Ramos 7-6

133: Daton Fix over Vito Arujia UTB 3-2

141: Real Woods over Anthony Echemedia 7-5

149: Kyle Parco over Ridge Lovet 8-5 (OT)

157: Jacori Teemer over Levi Haines 11-6

165: Mitch Messenbrik over KOT 12-9

174: Carter Starocci over Ed Ruth 4-3

184: Bernie Truax over Keckeisen 8-5 (OT)

197: Brook over Hidlay 5-4

HWT: Younger Bastida over Colton Shultz 12-5

Team: Penn State by a Million.  If Iowa loses to Iowa State I'm jumping off my roof and into my neighbors driveway head first (not trying to hurt my proprty's re-sale value)

Notes for your potential pool: 

125: No one in the big 12 will do anything, pick big ten

133: Sam Latona from VA Tech is a sleeper

141: Cole Matthews may win it at the 18 seed

149: Watch our for 14 seed Dylan Demilio (s/o Charli always liked her videos and personality)

157: Robb from nebraska is the best pick if youre not going top 2

165: kind of like 21 seed caleb fish. He is mean

174: dont over think it take starocci 

184: Truax is the ultimate value pick 

197: If you arent taking brooks or hidlay its a guess. Rocky elam is nice

285: Younger is the actual top pick, Kerk is losing to schultz

Epilouge: Thanks for sticking in there I appreciate all of you

Coach Dukes