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ILLINI Wrestling recruits Braeden Scoles and Kannon Webster went Marvel Cinematic Universe yesterday in Wisconsin and ILLINOIS, respectively. That's exactly what it looked like given the destruction they wrought.  BRAEDEN SCOLES Scoles won his fourth Wisconsin State Championship in style. As you can see in the bracket below, he earned a #1 seed and first-round bye with his perfect regular season record. He then commenced to tech fall three wrestlers in a row to win the crown.  Each of the wrestlers he teched had at least 51 wins on the season. Moreover, he won his fourth state championship--no Larry Owings or Steve Marianetti in sight--by outscoring his opponents 58-9. This is what Braeden looked like on the podium holding his fourth bracket: Photo credit to Kewaskum High School. By the way, this is the paradigm for all podium photos: First place, big smiles; second place, no smile; third place, pretty big smile, fourth place, no smile; fifth place, a smile peeking out; sixth place

ILLINI IN THE FINAL RPI AND RANKINGS 133.  LUCAS BYRD  RPI 5  RANKING 10 141.  DANNY PUCINO RPI 24  RANKING 24 165.  DANNY BRAUNAGEL RPI 15  RANKING 19 174.  EDMOND RUTH  RPI 7  RANKING 8 184.  DYLAN CONNELL RPI 23 RANKING 22 197.  ZAC BRAUNAGEL  RPI 3  RANKING 12 PROP BETS Your good friends at the ILLINI Wrestling Blog and Forum and Beyond are sponsoring a contest in conjunction with the B1G wrestling tournament. The Winner gets two IWB&F&B t-shirts. Second place will receive one t-shirt. Here are the rules:  Pick "YES" or "NO" for each of the prop bets listed. Pick the order of the final team standings for the tournament (tie breaker).  The person with the most correct prop bet picks is the winner. Second place goes to the person with the second most correct prop bet picks.  The tie breaker is the final team standings for the tournament. Ultimate tie breaker is the closest placement of Rutgers in the final team standings.  These are the Prop Bets: Spencer

WHO:   B1G Wrestling Teams WHAT:  B1G Conference Tournament WHEN:   Saturday, March 4, 9:00 am (Central) to Sunday, Noon (Central), March 5 WHERE:   Crisler Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan WHY:  To Begin the Process of Dominating the Conference TV/STREAMING:   BTN, BTN+ ( subscription streaming service ), Fox Sports app LIVE RESULTS:  Trackwrestling.com TOURNAMENT CENTRAL LINK:   Here TICKETS:   ( $50 for Lower Level; $30 for Upper Level ; ILLINI Ticket Office may have promo code; ILLINOIS Ticket Office:  217-333-3470 or 1-866-ILLINI-1 ) PARKING:   Supposedly free ( Map )       AN OVERVIEW The conference tournament can be viewed from many different angles. There are the individual wins and losses, there is the team race, and there is the NCAA qualification function. Since everybody says—and I agree—that the whole year is won or lost at the NCAA tournament, we will look deeply at the NCAA qualifier function as it applies to the ILLINI. As long as they enter the