Youth movement

[Truzzcat]

Just a thought experiment to show how rare this young crop of talent is. There is always a lot of turnover after the Olympics and while we had a rare group that held on for 2-3 cycles, I still think it is very promising for the future. While I am a bit pessimistic about how this team does at worlds, I think the future is incredibly bright for team USA.

 

18-year-old world teamers: Duke,Jax,Blaze (Bassett has beaten Valencia 5x's)
19-year-old world teamers: Lilledahl (Valencia beat woods 2x) (Joey Blaze took 4th)
20-year-old world teamers: N/A (Stanich is in the convo to make this team if he goes seniors IMO)
21-year-old world teamers: Barr, Haines
22-year-old world teamers: MM

2022 worlds (first year post trials that had a challenge tournament):
18-year-old world teamers: N/A
19-year-old world teamers: N/A
20-year-old world teamers: N/A
21-year-old world teamers: N/A
22-year-old world teamers: Yianni,Vito (Yianni was the only one to win a spot)

[mspart]

Yianni was the next coming when he entered college.   He did great in college but never had the promised success in the world scene.  Duke, a HS'er, beats him to make the World Team.    Now that is really something.    How would it be to be that good in HS?   Wow!

mspart

[bnwtwg]

On 6/17/2025 at 2:06 PM, mspart said:

Yianni was the next coming when he entered college.   He did great in college but never had the promised success in the world scene.  Duke, a HS'er, beats him to make the World Team.    Now that is really something.    How would it be to be that good in HS?   Wow!

mspart

Silver at the toughest weight in the world to break a 20 year drought isn't successful?

[AgaveMaria]

A decade ago we were discussing the same stuff with Snyder, Burroughs and co.

Time flys & we are having fun.

Good luck to all our guys & gals.

Edited 16 hours ago by AgaveMaria

[mspart]

On 6/20/2025 at 8:00 PM, bnwtwg said:

Silver at the toughest weight in the world to break a 20 year drought isn't successful?

Yes it is, but for the average guy, not a 4 time NCAA champ with the wrestling chops few had.   He has not been successful at making the team consistently.   I'm just saying with his promise and expectations, he was not as successful as he might have otherwise been. 

He's only been to one world championships, which means he only made the US World team once.   I'm not saying he is a bad wrestler by any stretch.   He had some injuries and that stopped him some I expect.   The one trip he did make he made the most of it taking silver. 

There are other like caliber wrestlers that just didn't do it for whatever reason.   He is not alone in that regard.  

mspart