ILLINI Recruiting







There are a lot of exciting days when you report on ILLINI Wrestling, and one of those is seeing recruits visit the O&B. A group of absolute stud blue-chip monsters visited the campus over the weekend and got to see the unranked Fighting ILLINI football team become 3-0 and the new #24 team in the country. 

That Altmyer kid is pretty good. His receivers may be even better. 

But even that group might could not hold a candle to the Avengers Assembled by the ILLINI coaching staff for this glorious picture:


Photographs from Jaxon Penovich's Instagram Feed


I see a group that will win tons of All-American honors and wrestle for Championships. No shocker that the first actual commitment comes from Fargo Gold and State Champion Wyatt Medlin. And the guys had some time to fool around during the pictures:



The first actual commitment ... Wyatt Medlin!



We didn't have access to a single of Aaron Stewart but found the picture below on Twitter. It was from his first official home visit from the ILLINI staff. Apparently, Mr. Stewart is also a football star! 


ILLINI Wrestling Twitter Feed


We love, love to watch the Raneys wrestle, and hope that they both make it into Orange and Blue singlets. When watching Fargo and National Duals for ILLINOIS and future ILLINI wrestlers, we also keep an eye on folks like Scoles, Bennett and the Raneys because they are great wrestlers, and they might be inclined to become ILLINI one day. Of course, Braeden Scoles and Ryan Bennett did just that. 

Another person we love to watch wrestle is Dom Munaretto. Seriously, there may not be another character like him on the planet. We would pay to see him eat chili. This is 100% fact because we know that he does everything in his own unique style. 




Finally, we want that sign for our office walls. The ILLINI Wrestling Blog and Forum and Beyond Plus's headquarters would look so much better. 








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