Sr. Worlds... Day 1

[okokzach]

5 minutes ago, boconnell said:

Are there new mat assignments yet?

• Duke up in 5 on Mat B
• Valencia up in 5 on Mat D
• Forrest up in 9 on Mat A

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

8 minutes ago, Dark Energy said:

He did not look good

I think back to his match with Hilger and my friend who said "Great match! 34 points in a heavyweight match!" and my reply was something like "terrible match.  Unless something improves drastically, no one who gave up double digit points to Hilger is going to medal at Worlds."

[Grecojones]

The Wyatt match was a surprise. Other than the Gable win are there any other data points pointing to medal level performance? It looks like the Hilger match was a return to the norm unfortunately. 

[oldschool]

duke vs kaipanov (defending world champ)

jax vs suda (asian champ; arguably #1)

first real gold medal tests for these young guns. let's see how how they do....

[ScottishSteel]

Voinovitch up on Mat D for those waiting for the Team USA wrestlers to go

[D3 for LU]

Mat D
Upcoming Matches
FS - 70 kg    1/8 Final    84    (ARM) Arman ANDREASYAN (5)    (SRB) Viktor Stiven VOINOVIC (15)
FS - 70 kg    1/8 Final    85    (MGL) Tulga TUMUR OCHIR (25)    (BUL) Mihail Iliev GEORGIEV (27)
FS - 86 kg    1/8 Final    86    (USA) Zahid VALENCIA (5)    (ALG) Fateh BENFERDJALLAH (15)
FS - 86 kg    1/8 Final    87    (JPN) Hayato ISHIGURO (7)    (UKR) Mukhammed ALIIEV (26)
FS - 61 kg    1/8 Final    88    (IND) Udit UDIT (5)    (KGZ) Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (15)
FS - 61 kg    1/8 Final    89    (UWW) Dzmitry SHAMELA (7)    (UKR) Kamil KERYMOV (23)
FS - 125 kg    1/8 Final    90    (MGL) Lkhagvagerel MUNKHTUR (5)    
FS - 125 kg    1/8 Final    91        
FS - 70 kg    1/4 Final    92        
FS - 86 kg    1/4 Final    93        
FS - 61 kg    1/4 Final    94        
FS - 125 kg    1/4 Final    95    

[okokzach]

5 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

I think back to his match with Hilger and my friend who said "Great match! 34 points in a heavyweight match!" and my reply was something like "terrible match.  Unless something improves drastically, no one who gave up double digit points to Hilger is going to medal at Worlds."

It was match 2 and he wrestled like he had nothing to lose. We saw him be extremely disciplined against Gable and Kerkvliet at NCAAs, so I believe he's capable of wrestling smart when needed. He looked worn out in the first period today. Very uncharacteristic. Whatever the problem, that was a huge bummer 

[oldschool]

Duke in the hole on B and Zahid in the hold on D

[oldschool]

are flowrestling brackets not loading for anyone else? https://www.flowrestling.org/nextgen/events/13260381/brackets

[ScottishSteel]

Just now, oldschool said:

are flowrestling brackets not loading for anyone else? https://www.flowrestling.org/nextgen/events/13260381/brackets

Working for me

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

2 minutes ago, okokzach said:

It was match 2 and he wrestled like he had nothing to lose. We saw him be extremely disciplined against Gable and Kerkvliet at NCAAs, so I believe he's capable of wrestling smart when needed. He looked worn out in the first period today. Very uncharacteristic. Whatever the problem, that was a huge bummer 

Agreed, a bummer.  I also was very underwhelmed by his win over a chunky 97kg Egyptian in RAF.  

Back to the other matches, he stood up on Hilger and was thrown for big points.  That's not wrestling with nothing to lose.  That's idiotic.

Against Gable, there were times he would have given up four in free but folkstyle scrambled out.  This happened at least once, maybe more.

Listen, I'm a big Wyatt fan.  A kid I coached was on the Air Force Academy team with him. I've always been a fan.   I cheered loudly when he beat Gable.  He has not looked good the last few times I have seen him.

[shiraz321]

Aoyagi runs over akmataliev..unless one of those laces was out of bounds

[D3 for LU]

6 minutes ago, oldschool said:

Duke in the hole on B and Zahid in the hold on D

We're going to be VERY busy soon...

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[oldschool]

1 minute ago, ScottishSteel said:

Working for me

may be because i'm using a vpn; thanks

[bnwtwg]

9 minutes ago, Grecojones said:

The Wyatt match was a surprise. Other than the Gable win are there any other data points pointing to medal level performance? It looks like the Hilger match was a return to the norm unfortunately. 

No. He was 7th on the ladder and not expected to move up until everyone cleared out at once (Gable retired, Parris football, Gwiz retired, Zillmer moved down, Kerk torn ACL, Bradley retired).

[shiraz321]

Aoyagi avenges his loss from asian champs to akmataliev. Meanwhile turkey's new 125 loses to south korea. Huuuge step down from akgul

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

18 minutes ago, Grecojones said:

The Wyatt match was a surprise. Other than the Gable win are there any other data points pointing to medal level performance? It looks like the Hilger match was a return to the norm unfortunately. 

U23 World Champ.  I think U20 5th.  People saying he doesn't have much freestyle experience, but he's been good enough to make two teams.

Edited 5 hours ago by Interviewed_at_Weehawken

[bnwtwg]

1 minute ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

U23 World Champ.  I think U20 bronze maybe.  People saying he doesn't have much freestyle experience, but he's been good enough to make two teams.

U20 5th. Unfortunately showed there are levels at the senior stage. Not the performance anyone expected including UWW considering they put him on the press conference stage with Zare.

Edited 5 hours ago by bnwtwg

[D3 for LU]

2 minutes ago, shiraz321 said:

Aoyagi avenges his loss from asian champs to akmataliev. Meanwhile turkey's new 125 loses to south korea. Huuuge step down from akgul

Agreed!

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[oldschool]

1 minute ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said:

U23 World Champ.  I think U20 bronze maybe.  People saying he doesn't have much freestyle experience, but he's been good enough to make two teams.

fair enough; i just feel like he looks so much more solid positionally in his folkstyle than freestyle

[Truzzcat]

here we go PJ!

[D3 for LU]

DUKE IS UP on MAT B!

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[D3 for LU]

TD DUKE! 

Right Away!!!

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[oldschool]

PJ DUKE ON FIRE  let's gooooooooo

[D3 for LU]

ANOTHER TD!!!

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