Week 2 of the 2025-26 NCAA D1 college wrestling season has officially come and gone. And while much of the week felt like a prelude to the National Duals Invitational, there were still plenty of notable results worth commenting on, which is exactly what this blog will do.

Well look who came crawling back: me, to my computer, after waking up at 4AM Sunday morning to return home to Austin, Texas after a wonderful time of wrestling and sandwiches in New Jersey, my home state, and also perhaps the most powerful state in the union.