The best thing coming out of these simulations of the Jet's work is the wrestling conditions in alternate dimensions. A dimension in which the mat is elevated above a pit of lava and a dimension in which takedowns are worth negative points. The Jet only wishes he could take credit.
The Jet's 2025 PIAA AAA 152-Pound Predictions--An Unassailable Truth
The Jet has seen dominant champions. The Jet has seen bracket-breaking upsets. The Jet has seen unfathomable heartbreak in the blood round.
What The Jet has never seen--not in this dimension nor in the 14 billion others he has traversed--is The Jet being wrong.
At 152 pounds, the competition is fierce, the margins razor-thin, and the heartbreak inevitable. But do not fret, dear reader, because The Jet has already seen how it all ends.
Champion: Maddox Shaw (Thomas Jefferson, W-1)
In every known reality where Maddox Shaw wrestles this tournament, he wins.
In dimension-XR-349, where wrestling is contested on a floating platform above a pit of lava, Shaw still won.
In timeline ZY-85B, where takedowns were worth negative points and wrestlers had to strategize by actively avoiding scoring, Shaw still won.
In this reality--the one you, unfortunate reader, are confined to--Shaw will win again.
34-2. A tactical genius on the mat, with elite scrambling ability and an offensive arsenal deeper than a college philosophy professor. The Jet has consulted the multiverse. There is no need to overcomplicate this.
Maddox Shaw is winning gold.
Runner-Up: Cade Campbell (Nazareth, NE-1)
The Jet has long respected Nazareth wrestling.
The Jet has also long respected 36-5 records entering Hershey.
Campbell will plow through the bracket like an avalanche, leaving a trail of broken dreams and shattered title hopes in his wake. But then, in the finals, he will collide with a force greater than himself.
Maddox Shaw is inevitable. Cade Campbell will be second-best.
He will not like it. The Jet does not care.
3rd Place: Gavin Carroll (SE-1)
The Jet admires a man who refuses to quit.
Gavin Carroll will lose a heartbreaker, plummet into the consolation bloodbath, and instead of drowning, he will learn to breathe underwater.
He will battle through match after match, fueled by equal parts rage and despair, and by the time Saturday afternoon arrives, he will be standing on the podium in third place.
And yet, despite all his effort, he will still spend the next year wondering what could have been.
4th Place: James Whitbred (State College, W-2)
The Jet sees a dark horse in this bracket.
Whitbred is only 16-4, which means absolutely nothing to The Jet.
Because The Jet does not care about quantity of wins. The Jet cares about quality.
Whitbred will torch the early rounds, fall to Campbell, then claw his way back to fourth place in the most grueling tournament of his life.
5th Place: Nathaniel Replogle (Central Bucks West, SC-1)
Replogle is 33-7, which means one thing and one thing only—this man does not lose to scrubs.
He will go to war in every match, drop a close one in the quarters, and then take out his frustrations on every poor soul in the consolation bracket.
By the time he finishes beating his last opponent for fifth place, he will collapse to his knees, stare at the rafters of the Giant Center, and whisper, "next year."
6th Place: Owen Woll (NE-2)
In dimension-PZ-932, Woll actually won the entire bracket and was awarded a gold medal made of actual gold.
Unfortunately for him, this is not dimension-PZ-932.
Here, Woll is good enough to place, but not good enough to stand atop the podium.
His consolation run will be brutal, and by the time he finishes in sixth place, he will feel like he has aged ten years.
7th Place: Caden Shearer (Gettysburg, SC-3)
Some men are simply too tough to be denied a medal.
Shearer will have multiple near-death experiences in this bracket.
He will survive at least one overtime thriller, one controversial stall call, and one opponent who thought he had him beat but didn't realize Shearer was built for this exact moment.
Seventh place will not feel good. But it will feel better than ninth.
8th Place: Darius McMillon (W-4)
The final man standing.
McMillon will wrestle like a man trying to outrun fate, but fate is undefeated.
He will win, lose, win again, then lose again, before dragging himself onto the podium one last time.
By the time he receives his eighth-place medal, he will let out the deepest sigh of his life.
But he will be a state medalist, and that is forever.
Final Jet Observations
- Maddox Shaw is winning. The Jet has seen it. The Jet has accepted it. You should too.
- Cade Campbell will fight valiantly but will be forced to accept reality.
- Gavin Carroll will wrestle back like a man with something to prove.
- Whitbred is dangerous and will ruin someone's weekend.
- Nathaniel Replogle will wrestle through sheer anger.
- McMillon's eighth-place match will age him 15 years.
The Jet has spoken. The data is absolute. The results are set in stone.
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