I guess this is just where I deviate from a lot of people. I've been watching Dustin for two and a half years, and to be completely honest I see very few differences in his wrestling over the course of his college career.
The biggest one is he doesn't score with his tilts as much now as he used to, and this is what in my opinion has brought his scoring way down.
People seem to have this illusion that when Dustin was a freshman he was this takedown machine who shot fifty times a match, he wasn't. Nearly every big score he dropped on a guy was because he turned him like a top.
When Dustin and Brent finally meet up, in my opinion how the match goes down will depend on how
Metcalf approaches it. Dustin is going to do what he always has done.
From the feet he's going to stay in impeccable position, take his shots when they're there, look for his duck under, or for TD's off front headlock positions.
On the mat he's going to ride hard and look for his little cheap tilt from a tight waist when he's on top, and when he's on bottom he's going to do the slow methodical (frustrating as hell) tripod stand up that everyone on the Gophers does.
The argument that
Metcalf is going to beat Dustin because he's soooooo offensive from the feet baffles me. In the three matches Dustin has lost in college, a total of eleven points have been scored, Dustin scoring four, and his opponents scoring seven.
Hence my hyperbole about Dustin eating
Metcalf for lunch if he wrestles the "Iowa" style.
It would seem to me anyway, that it would be advantageous for
Metcalf to try and slow the match down, and win a close one. If he comes out and wrestles that aggressive style, that will open him up for mistakes, and while I don't see Dustin destroying him, I don't see
Metcalf winning.