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Dear Diary, Woke up today in my unwashed bed feeling unrested on account of my severe sleep apnea. Arthritis in all my joints kicking my 350 lb ass. Made a pot of my third favorite coffee. Had the extra money on account of not having to purchase hair care products anymore. Read the morning newspaper, which I still have delivered because I’m old as shit and act like it. Spent a little time dreaming about my third ex-wife getting run over by a cement mixer. Could have been a tanker truck, but my memory isn’t too good thanks to diabetes and high blood pressure slowly putting holes in my brain. Spent three hours trying to take a shit. Scored myself two new flaming hot hemorrhoids, which only adds to my baseline, irrationally high anger. Good news is I stole a gallon of cooking wine from my neighbor and hoping to catch a buzz off it later. If not, I can always huff spray paint while reading the stack of mail from collections. More good news is there’s a thread complaining about FRL on my favorite forum. Going to spend a little time there with my people - those who have all the same issues I do. We can complain together for a while, and then it’s off to coach wrestling where I can take out all that anger on a couple dozen high school kids. We’ll put this day in the win column. Couldn’t ask for more.

Jimenez — who just won a boys 106 pound state title in AZ and a bronze at Pan Ams — is headed to Lehigh. Lehigh has a club team. Huge pickup for them!

I was high on Yianni for a while, but he just hasn't made improvements for several years now. I'm over the Retherford/Yianni/Lee era and ready for Alirez to take over.

Rumor is that Musukaev has been training in Ann Arbor...

I mean they both rested during that time. Clearly it was gamesmanship, but too many people acting like he pulled out a gun and shot Lee in the kneecaps. If a fake injury is all it takes to tech our rep, we have bigger problems.

After further review the call on the mat has been reversed and I would agree with that.

I gotta stand up for my guys Sloan here. He has wins over Buchanan, Cardenas, Elam, Allred, Surber, Bockman, Joles.. Put some respect on his name. Those are as quality of wins as anyone in the weight class.

wonder what sort of douchebag tweet Gilman is drafting right now

He’s wrestled in PR each time they’ve had an event to determine their national team. Can the Amine brothers say as much? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hahaha, that is a little import that Mexico brought in from Iran. The first time I heard it was way back at worlds in NYC. It is this little plastic horn that EVERY Iranian section brings, and it traditionally gets used to a tune/beat of toot toot toot "IRAN!" toot toot-toot-toot toot-toot-toot "IRAN!" Mexico fans seem to have come up with their own slightly simplified version for making themselves known.

And now if it's free you also can't criticize. Tell me, in your utopia where only praise is given is the currency lollipops? And I love that the flo ride or die defenders always insist no one on here could do better. It's simply not true. Unless you're saying we can't afford the camera angles and useless office space. Here's the real deal: people listen to the show because they love wrestling not because they love flo. There are things to appreciate about flo. Their consistent content is the number 1 reason. It's not because no one can do what they are doing. there are better podcasts, the ufc fight pass wrestling match broadcasts were high quality and more reliable. Flo has brand recognition and they show up to work. Good for them. That doesn't mean we all need to never say an ill word about them.

He ran into an Illinois boy

true and agree…see plenty of dirtier tactics than that every year at worlds

Penn State lets America down again. #Sad

Ollie seems like he's trying to do a character of a guy who people thought was cool on Long Island. He comes off as inauthentic

It's just a problem with podcasts in general. When you make yourself do them on a set schedule they tend to move towards "welp we better fill the time" and away from "damn I am so excited to talk about this stuff"

Has the original poster acknowledged their mistake? OP consistently asks others if they will admit their errors. Some of us do admit when we're wrong.

I didn’t think it was too bad considering there’s nothing really coming up until conference tourneys, but I’ll admit Ollie was kinda annoying. I liked him when he was first on like a year or 2 ago before he disappeared for awhile. Since he’s come back he seems to be trying to force the humor which isn’t really working IMO. I do like Tyler though, I think he could be a decent replacement for Ben if they don’t bring in someone completely new. Overall I’m not sure if they need 4 people on at a time anyway, it’s kinda a lot.

10, 2, 3 is the highest seeds the 7 could beat on the way to the final. That happened 6 of 13 times. There was also a UR, 2, 3 combo. So beating 2 and 3 happened 7 of 13 times. But just beating 2 with any other combination happened 12 of 13 times. That makes sense since in the 12 seed era (10 of the 13 years) the 2 would get UR, UR before meeting the 7. In the 16 seed era (2 of the years) it was UR, 15. And last year it was 31, 15.

Hopefully varsity before she graduates. New coach Brazel Marquez is doing an amazing job.

I remember I was walking around the far side of the mats from this mat for some reason. What a roar from the Ohio U crowd!

It'll v.likely be our reps for those weights?

Has anyone noticed how much better Venezuela is doing in wrestling that past results would suggest. Pan Am Championships 57 - Silver 74 - Bronze 86 - Silver 97 - Bronze 125 - Bronze Pan Am OG 74 - Semifinal 86 - Semifinal 97 - Fighting for semifinal spot 125 - Fighting for semifinal spot I just don't remember them being all that proficient in wrestling. Times they are a changing. mspart

Kessell? Oh wait, you said wrestlers.

Two finalists qualify. Two bronzes wrestle for the final spot. https://olympics.com/en/news/pathway-to-paris-2024-wrestling-qualification-system-explained

Meh. I want better sport. The sport is enhanced by having more high level athletes competing in it. In my mind, we're better off having Gomez rep Mexico then whomever they would put out in normal circumstances. Also, it's not really cheating so much as one might argue a lack of competitive spirit.

Son of vuvuzela.

Discussing 8th seeds making it, wasn't rob rohn also an 8 seed when he won in 2002?

Thanks for that link. Some interesting items. Cuba has qualified five athletes in Greco. In freestyle, they have zero qualified now, but four athletes have a shot at the Pan Am qualifier. Honduras (!) qualified a wrestler in Greco and they have a shot for another one in freestyle. Puerto Rico has a freestyler qualified (Seabass) and three more still have a shot. Mexico, Venezuela, and Canada each have three alive in the Pan Am qualifier. I haven’t looked at the women’s brackets yet, but I’m sure they’re interesting as well.

Lee won 12-2.

Also, I know it is Folkstyle and they aren't the same thing... but for shits and giggles I went and seen how Wrestlestat compares Gomez and McNeil... and they're saying it is very much a match, which I believe. Respect what Gomez has done, but he has exerted a shit tonne of energy to get that win, whereas McNeil has been on the mat like 65 seconds total.

Johnny D also got handled by Gomez when last they wrestled. He can STFU.

So Anthony Valencia beat Torreblanca. The same Torreblanca that was like 15-0 against Blue Dragons Jr.

Last year's final results:

Mexican.

It looked like they were administering CPR to Argentina on Mat B. Glad to see he was resuscitated to immediately give up 4 points and lose.

Valencia looking...thick.

Something looked suspicious there.

gomez with a hall of fame strategic lung timeout - that was crafty

Richards by tech over Costa Rica, 14-1.

You might like the series JD & Tyler did when they visited a bunch of colleges and stayed at wrestling clubs to raise money for wrestling clubs in Maui

Percival from Ohio put a beating on him in quarters.

Mallory (Montclair St) was DIII guy. Peckham was his club coach as he did not have a HS team. Only competed in Mass States once, his senior were he won. He ended up winning four NCAA titles (1 DI and 3 DIII)

I'm always at NCAA's....#45, 39 in row, and Mallory was D2 (Montclair State)....his coach was Jim Peckham, who along with Bill Wieck (Mt. Carmel,ILL.) coached some of the USA teams in the early 70's.

I witnessed it....the reaction was ......WOW, and near the top of this page the question was asked about 7th seeds taking first.....well, the year Daniels won it a 118, Kenny Mallory won it at 134 and was the 8th seed. He beat Frank DeAngelis in the finals who was unseeded.

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