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Also spitballing here, Cael's entire staff gets fired and is replaced by Cary Kolat!

Vincent placed at national tournaments, and was on championship dual teams. He was a F'g stud since 8th grade. He was just unfortunate that he had studs at his weight in highschool that were nationally ranked too.

A " small" correction there, OMW... Newton HS in Sussex Co. NJ + Blair Academy(PG?) Dist. champ & Reg. runner-up... so he qualified for the NJSIAA state tournament. https://www.njherald.com/story/sports/high-school/wrestling/2019/01/22/newton-s-ayres-shaping-pride/4155747007/ But I laud you for picking up on Chris's accomplishment for LEHIGH! My late wife and yours truly were in attendance at PENN ST/Bryce Jordan Arena in 1999. to witness Chris getting AA honors (6th). His losses were all close bouts (5-3 to runner up Clint Musser Penn St QF... 4-3 in the consi-SF to Bryan Snyder of Nebraska who finished 4th... and Minnesota's Chad Kraft, 2-1 in the 5/6 bout.) Bonus (IF my memory of it was correct... ) was that Chris, after getting his medal on the podium, proposed to his then GF and future wife, Lori. What a way to end your collegiate career, eh? D3

Also - U23… lol

Ah yes that’s the year the Iranians did not get a visa for Albania. Attenuated

Crypto? Do you mean that Yanni's Bitcoin account is UP? D3

Pat Christenson (University of Wisconsin) was an NCAA champ (167) in 1977. Prior to that, he had never placed at the NCAA nor did he place at the state meet while in high school (Wisconsin). Came out of nowhere.

He is a u23 world champ, that's certainly trumps any Pan Am accomplishments.

Jealous and vindictive is what he is. Couldn't beat him. Can't be him.

Funny how the wingers talk about justice for girls that have to, heaven forbid, compete against a trans once or twice in their life. Trump surrounding himself w little girls publicity stunt when signing that one. But no justice for the girl rape victims. Hypocritical pieces of toilet trash. Make me sick. RELEASE THE FILE!!

Hell yah. An American flag though!!

Something seems off with all this hyping up of Hendrickson on the Iranian wrestling thread at the intuitive level. The logical part of my brain is asking if he that good why he is not getting his own thread on the main international thread where all the homerism can run rampant for a wrestler who as yet has no international credentials to speak of (though I guess he is likely to have done well in an attenuated competition like the pan am).

If Garrett Thompson, currently at Ohio, was the #4 seed at 174 and won 2 matches at NCAAs this past year, ever gets on the podium he might be a good answer - never even qualified for PA states. He's got one year left at Ohio to try and AA

Hell ya. Go for it. Maybe a burning flag or two for the Libtardos.

Your real alternative would be to have what I already have. No need for me to risk anything. I live in the greatest country on the planet.

No need to work harder anymore. I’m retired and living the dream.

Yea let's say Geno is out of the picture, maybe not formally retired. He's 100% not going past 2028. Same with Gable, he may try LA olympics but that's it for freestyle wrestling for him. Parris is out of the picture as well for now. As for Hendrickson I think he's #3 in the world now, after Zare and Masoumi. Maybe #3 Iranian (who is that?) can challenge him? I don't think so. As for the rest - Deng I think is also retired. He's 37. Kurbanov, the 3x Russian champ, Henrdickson teched the only time they met. Manashvili I think he'll manhandle. I think Meshvildishvili will give him a good match but lose on points. I think he's clear #2 this year - and before Masoumi and Zare both compete, and before maybe Geno comes back or someone else enters the fray. The new Turkish big guys are promising, and also Kurbanov may actually improve

Are you okay just with those emojis? What do you think about putting your emoji next to Bob’s? I already suggested it - do you agree?

See? I’m out here risking my life for a real alternative - and you won’t even risk your royal butt cheeks. If you ever do make it to Iran for a rally, the regime might skip the juice box and hand you a diaper instead.

Finding a real alternative is worth making your royal ass work a little harder - not everything in life comes with a comfy flush.

Brian Picklo is likely the best answer for that. Brock Lesnar would also be a good choice as I think his best HS finish was 3rd in SD (not a powerhouse wrestling state).

Yeah, that was really my intention. Most of the people the fit my original question are likely not known outside of fans of the program they wrestled for. Not many 1x low AAs backgrounds are well known by general wrestling fans. I was originally wondering how many walk-on type guys that maybe loved the sport but didn't start until high school/never had high level coaching before college made huge jumps and actually saw success at the D1 level.

They say because of his shoulder surgery he is advised by his medical team not to cut weight. I get this as if he develops a more muscular build the additional strength afforded by stronger rotator cuff muscles will offer additional stability. In any case apparently he is now about 100kg. The counter argument is that whilst his shoulder will be more stable with more muscular support at 97 kg - his opponents will be also be much stronger and will subject his shoulder to greater stress. I mean Ghassempour found out that Kyle Snyder is in a different class from strength point of view a couple of times that they wrestled. I think there will be some mileage if they got Reza Yazdani to help him build up to that weight as he was a smaller more muscular build and he might have some tricks to pass on. Who knows what might happen- he may pull of a great comeback or things may end up disappointing. I guess the Iranian wrestling establishment are just letting him rehabilitate and see how things pan out ….

I think team USA has two amazing stars this year- Wyatt Hendrickson and Zahid Valencia. They will achieve the greatest of the greatest feats in wrestling. They are unquestionably unique and unparalleled. The likes of their talents has never been seen… Anything I missed out there?

I’d bet a lot of money Wyatt beats Deng