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God works in mysterious ways.

Jesus techs lower seeded Buddha. The holy war is still on track to meet in the finals.

Everyone wants to be the next Stephen A. Smith. I would be ok with one less rather than one more.

Yes. Spencer multiple times including today. . Tom Brands in Olympic final. And Retherford was teched with it by Japan in his first world final.

I naively went into this afternoon session thinking we were going to punch all 3 into the finals... Always blows my mind how good our athletes are domestically when I think about their training opportunities, workout partners, coaches and the team of people around them... makes me think no one in the world has that kind of support and then along comes a Bulgarian or whoever and I'm always put back into my place of just how good the rest of the world can be and how hard the Olympics actually are...

Not just any man, A Man

Excerpts: “As soon as I got called for an interview, I called Kyle and asked him what he thought and got his perspective,” Taylor said. Dake, the four-time world champion and 2020 Olympic bronze medalist, has a longtime friendship with Taylor. It’s since extended to a business partnership, too. Once wrestling rivals, Dake moved from Ithaca, New York, to State College in 2022 to train in the same room as Taylor and the rest of the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club. They’d raise their kids together here while chasing their own wrestling dreams. “With any decision, you have pros and cons, and we talked through those things,” Taylor continued. “The decision to take the job was a pretty time-pressing matter, so it wasn’t like we got to sit down and have lengthy conversations, but I tried to talk to him the best that we could.” There they were, two of the most prolific American wrestlers of all time, now trying to figure out how their wellness club in State College, the venture they spent the last 15 months planning and years longer thinking about during road trips, could get off the ground with Dake gearing up to compete in the Olympics and Taylor zig-zagging the country after accepting one of the most coveted head coaching jobs in wrestling.

I just can not believe Brooks took that shot. Just handfight! Make him prove he can take you down from his own shot in short time! Gah! And I wore a Team Brooks shirt today!

brooks is up next on mat C https://arena.uww.org/sport-event/show/1ef379e8-e875-691a-8523-7b7ebc03fc97/live

Greco has come to a close. The US took home zero medals (with all due respect to all Olympians). That puts us behind Chile (1), Denmark (1), China (2), and Kyrgyzstan (3). Tomorrow we'll get it crackin' as follows. MFS Spicy Spencer Lee -- gold medal match Dake -- Day 1 Brooks -- bronze medal match Paris Parris -- Day 1 WFS Helen -- bronze medal match Miracle -- Day 1

I’m not a PSU fan and I know you’re trolling but this is funny. ”Don’t go to Penn State, you might only get silver or bronze at the Olympics!”

As Taylor and Dake readied to open the doors to their wellness club this July, in a way it was like old times again. Taylor flew out to Colorado Springs to wrestle and hang out with Dake for a couple days in July. Later in the month, Taylor was back in State College, working the register and cleaning dishes at K2 Roots, the business he and his wife own that’s now connected to the wellness club. Dake was giving tours of the facility while Taylor said he sensed some surprised looks from customers that he was back in town. Oklahoma is his home now, but like the wellness club and the M2 Training Center that Taylor opened here and that will continue operating, Taylor’s impact on the wrestling community here won’t completely disappear. No, this wasn’t how Taylor envisioned his summer unfolding just a few months ago. Now, he’ll remain busy at Oklahoma State building his own program while being sure to watch from afar as Dake tries and fulfills his own Olympic dream. “Kyle’s mind is fresh and he’s hungry,” Taylor said. “It’s something that’s been driving him for a long time. … I keep telling him, ‘Man, I just want you to win in Paris.'”

In the ideal setting, Taylor and Dake’s spouses and parents, who supported them from the start, and their own kids would all be there with them in Paris, too. In Dake’s mind, that’s how this was always supposed to be. Instead, Dake, seated outside Penn State’s wrestling facility this summer, spoke openly about how he’s still trying to process what life looks like without his father, Doug, who died in April. Kyle fills pages of his journal with reflections about his dad. He’s always found it healthy to get his thoughts down on paper, whether it be the individual goals he’d scribbled out in ink in college, or now to share what he’s feeling. He talks about Doug with his wife, coaches and friends, too. From late December to April, as Doug’s health deteriorated, Kyle would go back and forth between State College and Ithaca, New York, trying to spend as much time with his dad as he could. He’d train at Cornell when he needed to, being welcomed back to the place where he first trained for the senior level. At the hospital, father and son would talk like they always did about how wrestling practice went and who Kyle wrestled with that day. “We were able to talk about pretty much everything,” Dake said. “He was like, ‘We’ve been doing this wrestling thing together for 30 years, so let’s keep it going.’ You got something to accomplish, so now go do it. I thought we would have had more time, but it just happened the way it happened. My perspective is that everything happens for a reason and in perfect timing. So that was his time that he needed to let go. I was hoping that he would live forever.” Nine days after Doug’s death, Kyle had to try and compartmentalize and take the mat at the Olympic trials. Tears flowed, the pain and emotion still so raw after his arm was raised. “I was just trying to be there for him any way that I could,” Taylor said. “I don’t think we talked anything about wrestling. When we talked then it was just about him and how he’s doing. I started telling him, ‘There’s nothing more that your dad would want than for you to go out and win the Olympics this year.'”

The same guys who in high school used to dream about careers in the sport are now both 33 with six NCAA individual titles, seven world championships and an Olympic gold and bronze medal among them. They swear it wasn’t all that long ago when they shared carefree summer days in which a teenaged Dake would do gainers off a 20-foot cliff into the water below while Taylor, the coveted high school wrestling prospect, was nervous just looking below. In early May, the two had no choice but to dive in as they approached their own career crossroads with the sport that first brought them together. Taylor would be introduced as Oklahoma State’s head coach on May 10 and has worked since then to try and tie up loose ends both with other business ventures and also with the friends and colleagues he left behind. “There were a lot of tough conversations,” Taylor said. “When I did accept the job, I wasn’t able to call all the people I wish I could’ve called before the news hit, but things move quick. It’s one of the highest-profile jobs in wrestling. … There’s a pretty large ripple effect with the decision that I made.” Taylor and Dake have worked together from afar to open their business in State College, all while Dake, the top-seeded freestyle wrestler at 74 kg, has his sights set on Olympic gold this August in Paris, where competition in his weight class begins Friday. “It’s almost like a grieving process in a lot of ways,” Dake said of Taylor’s departure. “It’s like, man, I just lost a guy that I talk to every day because he has other priorities now and he has other things he’s doing. … The proximity is just different now.” In an alternate universe, one that seemed realistic until the final seconds of what would be Taylor’s last match at the Trials, both would be getting ready to head to Paris. Like so many of the parallels of their wrestling careers — winning their first world championship together in Budapest in 2018, each securing a medal in Tokyo in 2021 — they’d do this one together, too. Maybe they’d head off into the sunset afterward. At the very least, they’d prolong whatever decisions had to come next. Both still say their bodies feel better now than they did in their early 20s. Dake says he’s 50-50 on training for the Olympics in 2028. The idea of competing in Los Angeles could make another training cycle a little more appealing, he said.

Higachi didn't wrestle a 1st round match. The bracket showed an Iranian there but I guess he didn't show up. Go DC!!!

Does Jimmy Cinnabon need to go to the College forum or hang it up?

Look at those twins!

This guy?

Jordan Burroughs is a great announcer. Fantastic voice. Knowledgeable of course. Keeps the dialog rolling. The play-by-play guy is excellent as well. They know their stuff, and Burroughs even giving Greco love. Gotta love that! Beats the guy with the Scottish accent at the Pan Ams. LOL!

Does brooks even lift?

AB won the spot and deserved to be the guy I think we need to stop saying DT would have won because we do not know that. I wanted DT to be the rep but if anything this should show he was not on the same level he was a year prior I still think Brooks was our best rep before knowing draws and everything.

The fact that there isn't a cold spray icon on this board is an international travesty

I would rather go back to work than watch greco

I started to reply with a real answer then I saw the poster

MFS 74kg MFS 125kg WFS 62kg

Former soccer player living his previous life. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

NBCSports.com you do not need to pay for Peacock if you have certain providers (there is a list and search function). I used my Hulu+Live credentials, for example.

Kurugliev breathing like the yellowfin we landed out in the canyon two wknds ago.

Amine dripping Soul-Glo all over the mat

Damn I love all wrestling and not to offend Greco purists but damn is it nice to have men's and women's freestyle on... so much more explosive and exciting from second to second...

commercials mid match is one of the most infuriating things I've ever experienced. At least keep the match showing in a small screen

He kinda looks like Bob Ross... Happy wrestlers... happy, happy wrestlers. D3

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Abakarov... Albania's pocket Abe Lincoln. D3

how have you managed to live this long

See you soon.

Kilometers Amine looking hirsute

The last time they wrestled it was 10 to 9 earlier this year.

Recap so far… Lee advances. Has Almaz Uulu next Cruz advances. Has Higuchi next (RBY still to go) Brooks advances. Has Ishiguro next (Amine still to go) Parrish eliminated Maroulis advances.

Lee's opponent was defensive the entire bout, only countering Lee's offense. Lee had a few decent scoring chances, but the guy was built like a fire hydrant. Very hard to score on. Looking for a big counter throw. Lee was definitely the better wrestler.

Amine on deck on C, RBY on deck mat A Cruz quarters in the hole A

Zou did not engage. Gameplan was to keep it close and try to steal it at the end.

Don't ya luv it when everyone crashes into a posting at the same time? D3

They need Borat in their corner... Very Nice! D3

Loved Helen’s finish in that single. India had no chance.

a LOT more action on this forum this morning! D3

He is next on C. You can find the bout order by clicking this link then setting the filter to "Wrestling" https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/wrestling

Why can’t Greco have its own competition? I don’t understand why I am constantly forced to watch something I don’t like.

Looks like for us LEHIGH fans, Darian Cruz will be Mat A in the 3rd match, Spencer Lee is the 7th match and RBY will be the 9th match. Mat B Dom Parrish will be the 2nd match. Helem Maroulis will be 5th match. Mat C...Aaron Brooks is the 3rd match. Come Right At-cha! D3

I have a better rule change. Add back four weights.