The Pan Am Games

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

Snyder with a wicked ankle pick for two. Torres responds with a dramatic double for four. Go behind and two guts for Snyder. Now 8-4 USA. Second ankle pick that Snyder turns into a double and a leglace. 12-4. Break. USA up 12-4. 

Torres is an athlete, but still raw. 

Go behind after a bad Cuban shot, and Snyderman wins 14-4. USA! 

[MPhillips]

Parris 2-0

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

Mason Parris up against Diaz (Venezuela). Diaz is 34 years old. He's the Venezuelan Bruce Baumgartner. Parris with a point for passivity and another point for a pushout -- or was it the hammer fist that got called against the Anti-American Venezuelan?

2-0 at the break, USA. 

Almost fisticuffs at the end. Mason wins 2-0. No handshake from Venezuela. Like he had a chance. 

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

Shot of Zac Braunagel in the crowd from the Fan Cam. Can't miss that big old lumpy head. 

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

Zane with the two-minute tech fall. Single to a leglace. After a bad Colombian shot, a reshot and three gut wrenches. GO USA! 

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

Anthony Valencia gets beat 7-2 by Venezuela for bronze. 

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

3-0 for Berger at the break against the Cuban (Maren). The Cuban is 36. "That shot was well-stuffed by Berger, and who doesn't like a well-stuffed burger." Berger wins 3-0. Four for four for the Greatest Country in History! 

[bnwtwg]

25 minutes ago, ILLINIWrestlingBlog said:

who doesn't like a well-stuffed burger

This message approved by Foreheads For Retherford PAC

[mspart]

Great day!

mspart

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

This video shows highlights of Zane Richards of the United States winning the Gold Medal match at 57kg at the Pan Am Games of 2023. He wrestled Oscar Tigreros, the Olympian and 2x (now 3x) Pan Am Silver medalist. Tigreros beat the Cuban in the semifinals, while Richards beat NCAA Champion Darian Cruz of Puerto Rico in his semi. The announcer is a Scot.

 

 

There were Cubans at every weight, but no Cuban champions. Good day for America!

[bnwtwg]

If you told me post 2016 OTT that Zane was going to be the Pan Am games rep (and champ) but Anthony Valencia was going to place 4th for another country after getting rocked by the US backup at a non-oly weight I would have laughed at you. I would have laughed SO. HARD.

[nhs67]

20 hours ago, nhs67 said:

UWW Arena

https://arena.uww.org/weight-category/1ee77e46-d788-63c2-9ca9-77de8a91698b

Just as a reminder on where to find the brackets, gents.

[nhs67]

https://arena.uww.org/sport-event/show/1ee77e46-d788-63c2-9ca9-77de8a91698b/live

Mat A
3rd - 68 KG WFS - Forrest Molinari VS Honduras
4th - 65 KG MFS - Nashon Garrett VS Peru
5th - 86 KG MFS - Mark Hall VS Canada
7th - 50 KG WFS - Erin Golston VS Ecuador
8th - 57 KG WFS - Xochitl Mota-Pettis VS Brazil
11th - 65 KG MFS - Nashon Garrett/Peru Winner VS Chile
12th - 68 KG WFS - Forrest Molinari/Hondura Winner VS Chile
15th - 86 KG MFS - Mark Hall/Canada Winner VS Brazil/Puerto Rico/Mexico Winner
16th - 57 KG WFS - Xochitl Mota-Pettis/Brazil Winner VS Ecuador/Canada Winner
17th - 65 KG MFS - Nashon Garrett/Peru/Chile Winner VS Argentina/Bolivia Winner
18th - 68 KG WFS - Forest Molinari/Honduras/Chile Winner VS Venezuala/Canada Winner
19th - 50 KG WFS - Semifinals... not sure how they're doing the Round Robins... the only other time USA should be on Mat B is POSSIBLY #20 on Mat B for the semifinals.

This does not include Repechage, btw.  All topside Repechage should be on Mat A as well.

[nhs67]

They copied me.

[Wrestleknownothing]

This just in from Nittany Lion Wrestling Club:

Kyle is currently a two-time Olympic Medalist and seven-time World medalist with four golds, and he is on the longest Olympic and World medal streak in American history at nine-in-a-row. Congratulations

[nhs67]

WFS 50 KG - Erin Gholston loses toe the lady from Ecuador via 4-0 Decision.

Despite losing she is now placed in the 2nd position of the semi-finals for the bracket below.  She will face the winner of Cuba and Venezuela in the semifinals.  The lose of Cuba and Venezuela will meet the lady from Ecuador in the other 50 KG WFS semi-finals.

WFS 57 KG - Xochitl Mota Pettis was Pinfelled by a lady from Brazil in 2M7S.  She was up 5-4 at the time.  Brazil faces Cuba in the semi-finals.

Mota Pettis is still alive for Bronze, but needs Brazil to win the semi-finals.

WFS 68 KG - Forrest Molinari is in the semi-finals.  She has won both of her matches via Tech without allowing a single point (yet).

Molinari is still alive for Gold.

MFS 86 KG - Mark Hall faces Puerto Rico, and former North Carolina, wrestler Ethan Ramos in the semi-finals.

Hall is still alive for Gold.

MFS 65 KG - Nashon Garrett in the the semi-finals.  He has Argentina's Agustin Destribats.  Garrett won his first match via 12-4 Decision over Peru and his second match over Chile via 10-0 Tech in 1M22S.  Destribats won his first (and only) match over Bolivia via 11-0 Tech in 0M55S.  I believe the winner will end up facing Alejandro Tobier of Cuba in the finals.  Tobier has Albaro Comacho of the Dominican Republic in the semi-finals on the bottom side.

Garrett is still alive for Gold.

65 KG looks to be the deepest weight, right?

[moodybooty]

I was surprised to see Nahshon gassing up at 65KG, but I’m glad he got it done!

[nhs67]

7 minutes ago, moodybooty said:

I was surprised to see Nahshon gassing up at 65KG, but I’m glad he got it done!

He didn't get a full camp in.  Lee was a late-ish scratch.

[nhs67]

86 KG - Mark Hall has Cuba's Yurieski Torreblanca in the finals.  Hall lost to Torreblanca via 14-4 Tech at the Pan-Am Championships in May.

Torreblanca VS USA since 2017:
- 2017 Pan-Am Championships beat Gabe Dean via 6-4 Decision
- 2018 Ivan Yariguin lost to David Taylor via 4-4 Decision
- 2018 Pan Am Championships lost to David Taylor via 3-2 Decision
- 2018 Worlds lost to David Taylor via 8-0 Decision
- 2019 Pan-Am Games beat James Downey via 7-2 Decision
- 2019 Worlds lost to Myles Amine via 3-2 Decision
- 2020 Pan-Am Championships beat Alex Dieringer via 2-1 Decision
- 2020 Pan-Am Olympic Qualifier lost to David Taylor via 8-0 Decision
- 2023 Pan-Am Championships beat Mark Hall via 14-4 Tech

Torreblanca has been around for damn ever.  He is 34 years old.

https://uww.org/athletes/torreblanca-queralta-yurieski

65 KG - Nashon Garret has Cuba's Alejandro Tobier in the finals.

Tobier VS USA since 2014:
- 2014 Pan-Am Games beat Frank Molinaro via 10-0 Tech
- 2016 Pan-Am Championships lost to Frank Molinaro via 4-2 Decision
- 2016 Pan-Am Olympic Qualifier beat Frank Gomez via 8-3 Decision
- 2017 Worlds beat Frank Gomez via 11-2 Decision
- 2018 Cerro Pelado beat Robbie Mathen via 10-0 Teceh (???)
- 2018 Cerro Pelado beat Anthony Ibiaw via 10-0 Tech (???)
- 2018 Pan-Am Championships lost to Logan Stieber via 10-9 Decision
- 2019 Pan-Am Games beat Jaydin Eierman via 10-0 Tech
- 2019 Worlds beat Zain Retherford via 10-9 Decision
- 2023 Pan-Am Championships beat Sebastian Rivera via 10-0 Tech
- 2023 Pan-Am Championships lost to John Diakomihalis via 4-1 Decision

Tobier has been around a while.  He is 35 years old.

https://uww.org/athletes/valdes-tobier-alejandro-enrique

[nhs67]

50 KG - Erin Golston lost her semi-finals match via 11-0 Tech in 3M23S.

She will face Venezuela for Bronze.

57 KG - Xochitl Mota-Pettis will face Cuba for Bronze.  The lady from Brazil won via Pinfell in 1M46S while up 4-0 against the lady from Cuba.

68 KG - Forrest Molinari has Venezuela's Soleymi Hernandez in the finals.

Hernandez VS USA since 2017:
- 2018 Pan-Am Championships lost to Victoria Francis via Pinfell while down 11-9 at 75 KG.
- 2023 Ibrahim Moustafa lost to Alexandria Glaude via 4-3 Decision
- 2023 Pan-Am Championships lost to Forrest Molinari via 12-5 Decision

Hernandez won the 2022 Pan-Am Championships at 68 KG and is 29 years old.

[Dark Energy]

Anyone have a video of Nahshon’s loss by fall?

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

Sorry for being absent today. Had to get ready for the ILLINI dual with SIUE. Then, there's been follow up on National Singlet Day. Y'all picked up the slack! Lots of great educational posts from NHS here. Love to hear about the prior histories of the wrestlers. That kind of information makes the present-day matchups even more exciting. It seems that day one saw the new Cubanos, but day two saw some of the old war horses. Cheers! 

[nhs67]

Good Morning Gents,

I might not be able to follow as closely as yesterday, but here is who we have on tap for the day...

53 KG WFS - Samara Chavez

62 KG WFS - Kayla Miracle

76 KG WFS - Kylie Welker

60 KG MGR -Ildar Hafizov

77 KG MGR - Kamal Bey

Also here is the UWW Arena:

https://arena.uww.org/weight-category/1ee77e46-d788-63c2-9ca9-77de8a91698b

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

Well, it looks like I screwed up the start time. Worse yet, I may have told others the wrong start time. On top of that, I missed Kamal Bey winning in the first round with Bey Bombs--all four pointers. Now, I don't see any wrestling on the video page. 

Hafizov is already in the semis. Bey has to beat a Mexican to make the semis.

On the Women's side, Chavez is in the quarters against a Cubano. Kayla Miracle is in the quarters, and will probably face Brazil. 

Is anybody else having problems watching this? 

[nhs67]

14 minutes ago, ILLINIWrestlingBlog said:

Well, it looks like I screwed up the start time. Worse yet, I may have told others the wrong start time. On top of that, I missed Kamal Bey winning in the first round with Bey Bombs--all four pointers. Now, I don't see any wrestling on the video page. 

Hafizov is already in the semis. Bey has to beat a person from Mexico to make the semis.

On the Women's side, Chavez is in the quarters against a Cubano. Kayla Miracle is in the quarters, and will probably face Brazil. 

Is anybody else having problems watching this? 

We aren't allowed to say words such as Polak, Mexican, American, etc.

It's wrong.