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Same concept, 133 edition. Podiums listed below. 2010 2017 2019 2023 1st Jayson Ness Cory Clark Nick Suriano Vito Arujau 2nd Daniel Dennis Seth Gross Daton Fix Roman Bravo-Young 3rd Frank Gomez Nathan Tomasello Stevan Micic Michael McGee 4th Jordan Oliver Stevan Micic Luke Pletcher Daton Fix 5th Tyler Graff Kaid Brock Austin DeSanto Aaron Nagao 6th Dan Mitcheff Eric Montoya John Erneste Jesse Mendez 7th Boris Novachkov Zane Richards Ethan Lizak Sam Latona 8th Steve Bell Scotty Parker Roman Bravo-Young Kai Orine

It was the best of days. It was the worst of days. I was 10. I was stuck. I just could not break 1:00.0 in the 100 yard freestyle. It was summer so we were swimming long course where the equivalent is 1:08. My coach got an idea. Instead of my normal warm up of 500 - 1,000 meters he wanted me to swim non-stop for the entire hour warm up session. And I was just dumb enough to do it. I swam a 1:06 that day. I was elated until my coach burst that bubble telling me he had just discovered I was a distance swimmer. Dammit. What followed was a series of late Sunday sessions when everyone else had gone home, but I was stuck waiting for the last event, the 1,500 free. Some meets the officials didn't even stick around. They just left the keys on the blocks with a note saying to lock up when I was finished. Many miles, and few accolades later, my shoulders are killing me and my flexibility is shot. But at least I can bring a bit of culture into an uncultured world.

As a swimmer I was trained to hate divers... But God help me, I love the Triple Lindy.

As a spectator it's hard to agree with him. Rules: Folkstyle makes sense to people who like fighting. Wrestling definitely is a combat sport. Folkstyle wrestlers transfer to MMA and submission grappling more successfully. Folkstyle rules are less reliant on the officials' judgement. Not having to release a hold before getting more back points is something Freestyle could learn from. Can we limit subsequent rolls to only 1 point each? People fly around the world starving to make weight just to have a 90 second match that could have been competitive. League: The Olympics had 6 weights with 16 wrestlers in each and a repechage which isn't as many matches as consolation bracket. NCAA championships has 33 in 10 weights. A consolation bracket. 7 minute matches. Less passivity/stalling points. Less referee stoppages. More accurate calls about who is doing the stalling/passivity. No grounded out of bounds stoppages. We want more wrestling. Freestyle matches have shorter time limits. They more frequently end before the time limit. There are many times fewer events to watch. It's hard to even find results of national championships held in the major countries like Japan, India, Iran, let alone the minor ones. Google and AI engines can't find them even in those languages. Way easier to find NCAA division 2, 3, and high school. With so little wrestling going on, the freestyle seeds are always way off. They only seed the top 8 which doesn't make sense in a 32 person world championship tournament where unseeded people regularly win. Difficulty: Being a folkstyle wrestler is excruciating - more conditioning, more weigh ins. More rematches mean you both have to adjust. Plus with the skills to be an a NCAA champion, you usually make team USA as long as there isn't another NCAA champ knocking you out. You can wrestle freestyle against similar talent in Japan or the Caucasus region get world level accolades. Or just the Americas and Europe -- You dominate really poor programs and get world level accolades. You don't have to wrestle 25 matches in 4 months. You make weight 3 times in a year on average. Then knock off these guys who are "champions of entire continents". Africa doesn't have any countries trying. The truth is there are hardly any countries developing wrestlers at all let alone talent that wouldn't get teched by the top 5 countries. So that's why wrestlers like freestyle but fans like folkstyle. Some fans get hooked in by the glamour of the Olympics and the mystique of the best foreign wrestlers. With the USA training Freestyle more than in the past, much of that mystique is going away. The competition level is actually lower internationally than in the US in college Jore Volk won u20 gold. He is 51-17 so far in college (2 years). 7th in ncaas. Bennett Berge got u20 silver and u20 bronze. He is 63-19 so far in college (2 years). 4th in ncaas. Ben Keuter got u20 gold and u20 silver. He is 24-10 so far in college (2 years). 8th in ncaas. Nick Bouzakis got u20 silver. Ranked 7th, never past round of 12. Meyer Shapiro got u20 gold. Reached 3rd place. Camden McDaniel got u20 bronze. 20th seed, got 8th. Matt Singleton got u20 bronze. Got 7th Zack Ryder got u20 silver. Redshirted his only year so far Justin Rademacher got u20 bronze. Only been a true freshman. Did not qualify. Jacob Cardenas got u23 Silver three times. In NCAA got 4th twice. Isaac Trumble got u23 gold. In NCAA got 4th. Tanner Sloan got u23 silver. In NCAA got 2nd. Anthony Cassiopi got u23 gold and bronze. In NCAA got 3rd. Jay Aiello got u23 bronze. In NCAA reached round of 12. Sean Fausz got u23 silver. In NCAA reached round of 12. Richie Lews got U23 Gold without any international experience. In NCAA reached round of 12. Ty Walz got U23 bronze. In NCAA reached 4th. Youseff Hemida got U23 silver. In NCAA reached 6th. Braxton Amos got u20 gold. Qualified but did not reach round of 12. 7th at big tens. Stevan won seniors a few years after college. Reached 3rd in NCAAs. Sebastian Rivera won the Olympics and got 2nd at the senior world championships. In NCAA Reached 3rd twice. Myles Amine got 3rd in senior world's. Got 1st-3rd four times in the european championships. Bronze in the Olympics while still in college. In NCCAs got 2-4th all five years. Thomas Gilman got gold, silver, silver, bronze in sr world championships and olympics. Got 2nd-4th in NCAAs. Bekzod Abdurakhmonov went to college in the US. In community college had 84-8 record. In NCAA had 74-17 record. Was 3x bronze medalist in world seniors and olympics. Our best: John Smith and Jordan Burroughs had more success internationally than in college. OK state just wrestled China in freestyle and won by a large margin Two-time NCAA qualifier Konner Doucet bested Habila Awusayiman 3-0. Awusayiman represented China at the 2024 Olympics in Paris at 97 kg. Incoming freshman Ronnie Ramirez also grappled with a 2024 Olympian in Zou Wanhao at 61 kg, with Ramirez capturing a 4-3 win. Iowa State transfer Casey Swiderski wrestled Shen Tao at 74 kg — about 163 pounds — with Swiderski winning via a 12-1 tech. Cody Merrill took on U23 Asian Championship bronze medalist Narenmanduhal at 92 kg, with Merrill cruising to an 11-0 tech. Alex Facundo wrestled U23 Asian Championship gold medalist Cao Nan at 86 kg and Facundo beat Nan 4-1. Dee Lockett dropped his bout to Lu Feng. Lockett is a U17 world champ and a U20 silver medalist. He picked up a senior gold medal at the most recent Pan American Championships. Feng is a U23 Asian Championship gold medalist and represented China at 74 kg at the 2024 Olympics. Joey's not really laying out pros and cons. He has an opinion.

I know, I know. I already did a returning points thread. But now there is more. This time I am including redshirts. For a returning redshirt I used the points (and weight) scored the last time they wrestled. More data = more fun. So here we go. Returning AA's Lets zig a bit before we zag. This one is about career honors rather than last year's points. 133 returns the most total AA honors with 15 from 12 wrestlers. 197 has the most AA's per wrestler with at least one career AA (1.8). 141 has both quality and quantity with 8 wrestlers who have earned an average of 1.75 AA's per. No weight has more than one returning champ, but 141 is also home to the only 2 time champ in Ohio State's Jesse Mendez. Only 184 and 197 do not have a returning champ. Note: AA honors may have been earned at a different weight than the 2026 weight listed for the wrestler on wrestlestat.

Best Wrestlers in Maryland History https://www.jerseywrestling.com/news.php?story=Best Wrestlers in Maryland History Jaxon Smith added a medal to the list in 2025 with his sixth place finish 184 pounds. Youssif Hemida became a two-time NCAA All-American in 2019 for the Terrapins. Hudson Taylor became a three-time All-American in 2010. Maryland's Two-time All-American Jimmy Sheptock was a national finalist in 2014. Gobel Kline and Bob Kopnisky were two-time All-Americans and NCAA champions in the 1960s. The top five wrestlers in Terps history produced twelve All-American medals and two NCAA titles. They include two NCAA champions, four finalists, and a three-time All-American! Check out the best Maryland wrestlers of all-time ranked by NCAA medals! Here are the top five! Rank - Name - Year - Score - Medals #1 - Hudson Taylor - 2010 - 29 - 3,3,4 #2 - Gobel Kline - 1969 - 25 - 4,1 #3 - Bob Kopnisky - 1965 - 23 - 5,1 #4 - Jimmy Sheptock - 2014 - 18 - 6,2 #5 - Ernie Fischer - 1954 - 12 - 2 #5 - John Asper - 2012 - 12 - 6,6 There have been 21 All-American wrestlers who have won 30 medals in Maryland history! http://www.jerseywrestling.com/ncaa_team_profile.php?team=Maryland === Like and follow us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/jerseywrestling/

I don't think Ahmad Javan is really good at 61kg but I agree with the rest of what you said. I feel like you are underestimating your US guys. Wyatt Hendrickson, Vito and Zahid Valencia are gold medal threat wrestlers alongside Spencer Lee. It's going to be an interesting worlds especially since neither David Taylor and Yazdani are competing at 86kg it looks super open. I think Kadiev, Ramazanov, Kadimagomedov, Ghasempour and Valencia are competing which is crazy.

I posted 17,883 videos of liberals crying. I don’t believe you. plus. As the only center right Hamas supporter. Your weird stories are so twined up you have a rough time with keeping your narrative straight. Didn’t you worship grog or gronkowski or some god for a few hours but since no one bought that trolling and responded you dropped it

Is this why you attacked el luch? Because you knew Chuck was Lying?

Amos Mutke, the “Egg Noodle Assassin” is an all-time great.

Well... since we're in the pool: Whatabout the TRIPLE LINDY?!? D3

I don’t know Jimmy. But I think he’s poking fun at you because you say it isn’t in the news and it continues to be. what’s to call him out for?

They’re just imo trying to fix their image. Tell me some life coach didn’t tell her to look less like the angriest Karen scowl face corpse on the planet and just please for the love of god try to look a little more like-a-ble? I mean all of a sudden the Ds are on TikTok lol ….. wasn’t TikTok the super insecure crazy app that needed to be shut down?!??? Embarrassingly lose an election to the worst candidate ever and things change ha just my 4 cents. (Inflation lol)

One of these. ?

Not meant to be a joke but still hilarious.

They made them (the claims) over and over and over again. From all of the liberal politicians to all of the liberal media outlets. That is one thing the liberals are exceptionally good at slandering their political opponents. They get their marching orders, and they all repeat word for word what they are told to say. Kinda reminds me of the Stepford Wives.

They made the collusion claims publicly.

This is a thread about Kamala not running because she is unpopular and would likely lose …. And yet you keep talking about California seceding from the us which will never happen.

I think the walls are closing in.

I think USA, Russia and Iran are pretty balanced in seniors tbh. I think Russia has 2 powerhouse wrestlers (Sidakov, Sadulaev) whilst Iran and USA have 1 each (Zare, Lee respectively). However, Russia's team seems a lot weaker with less depth and even Sidakov and Sadulaev are competing against Valiev and Tazhudinov so gold isn't guaranteed for them. Whereas I think USA and Iran have more depth across the 10 weight classes. Iran's guys are pretty experienced at this point relative to their ages. I think its ultimately going to come down to whether USA and Iran win the weights they are expected to (57, 125) and whether they can get guys on the podium in the other weights. Russia will struggle a lot this year imo as 74 and 97 are quite deep weights nowadays and arguably the best russian guys don't even compete for Russia anymore.

Twice

You out did yourself there pj! Sure MP and I wished you had dropped a finfall in there somewhere but really outstanding. We should have a music thread pinned to the top with all these tunes dropped in. Maybe @nhs67 can wake up @BobDole and make it happen.

Reddit is only good for p0rn and hearsay. also as noted above. Every president since the beginning of time has separated parents from kids when caught doing illegal stuff. Stuff ranging from dui to assault or illegal immigration or anything in between. All babies cry every night. Noting that this particular baby cries every night ads no value to the opinion piece.

Maestro. You are a very talented man. Captured beautifully. Though my wife was a little freaked out.

finfalls...

According to Brian Swaw, Ruth didn't get another year and so it'll be Kelly at 174 and Moore at 184.

And finally a table. Horizontal change represent consolidation in a weight. For example, 184 gained points from both 174 and 197. Vertical change represents dispersion from a weight. For example, 197 gave up points to 174and 285. Reading in both directions shows both sides of the coin. For example, 157 gave up 33.5 points to 165, but received 31 from 149.

Next a Sankey Diagram for the more linear in the crowd.

Pretty Picture Time Speaking of moving around weights, here are two ways to visualize the movement of returning points between weights. First a Chord Diagram. The color of the chord represents the previous weight. The destination weights are listed within the colored sections. The numbers around the outside are the point totals (also represented by the width of the chords).

If you're gonna lie about Flo's (of all people) predictions I'm sure you're willing lie about your own.

So you do know who he is then?

So are you predicting him to beat Haines? Or is Flo? Which is it?

Yes your assumption is correct. The parties have moved on.

A guy I bike with who is a Penn wrestling benefactor said they are trying to get everyone to "match" that $20mil. (my friend is quite well-off, but not $20mil donation wealthy)

... or they could've said it's "possibly a viking, snowplower, lobster, sailor, sweeper, any of these possibly?

Looks like the right got their marching orders to distract from the Epstein mess

Every guy knows that.

It is observably factual that you come on here. Yell a lot. Then disappear for a while.

They are merging with Penn State

Let me ask you this one time. What is Nick Suriano?

Why can't you see Ruiz beating Haines? Didn't they have a 1 TD match last time they met?

Show me any evidence I've ever sang Braeden Davis' praises at all