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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

I looked it all up at different times and kept notes. The accomplishments are all true. Thanks for reading through it. Why can't someone write an article surveying a hundred wrestlers, coaches, and journalists? I'd hope it would have reasons and specific questions built into the survey. Instead of just "Which style is better A or B?" Flo could be tabulating stats on all the matches the top ten D1 programs wrestle drawing some conclusions from them. They could tabulate stats on the top 10 Sr. freestyle events. How many passivity calls, how many ref stoppages total, how many takedowns that continued out of bounds. It would be closer to the stats available to football, baseball, and basketball fans. With all the events in a match in a database, they can easily show the differences in scoring per period or per weight, etc. While not an exact science, they could also list all the moves performed in each match. All in a database.

I'm also a fan of the 2004 bracket: 1st Zack Roberson Iowa St 2nd Josh Moore Penn St 3rd Johnny Thompson Oklahoma State 4th Darrell Vasquez Cal Ploy - SLO 5th Travis Lee Cornell 6th Foley Dowd Michigan 7th Mark Jayne Illinois 8th Matt Sanchez Cal State Bakersfield Thompson had won it the two years prior. Lee had won it at 125 the year before. Thompson pinned Roberson in the Big 12 conference finals. Notable non placers were Derek Moore (won it at 141 three years later, lost here in blood round); David Hoffman lost in rd of 16, later was an AA under head coach Tom Brands at Va Tech; Scott Jorgenson who lost here in blood round to Thompson 3-2 never placed but worth mentioning that he fought for the WEC/UFC bantamweight title, losing by decision to Dominick Cruz. Overall honors for the top 8: Roberson 3x AA (in order of senior finish back) 1,4,7 Moore 2x AA (2,3) Thompson 4x AA (3,1,1,2) Vasquez 2x AA (5,4) Lee 4x AA (1,5,1,7) Dowd 1x AA (6) Jayne 2x AA (7,7) Sanchez 2x AA (5,8)

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

Fanbase doesn’t prefer a style as much as they prefer the college team-based system. You could change the style from folkstyle to amish rakefighting and there’s still a built in team component and tribalistic following that appeals to more people. Olympic sports don’t draw as well as professional sports - not because of their rule sets - but more people are going to dial in to watch North Carolina or Texas anything over Team USA. There’s varied rule sets internationally in a lot of different sports vs. a U.S. domestic version. The U.S. pro sport (save soccer) will almost always outdraw an Olympic-type of comparative event.

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.

As soon as his big brother Gable finds out, he's going to take that personally https://www.instagram.com/p/DNIvoySxs4E/?img_index=3&igsh=anpoamdydm0yaTgy

I was surprised at the lack of depth in the brackets at 141. These were the four I thought were the toughest. 141 2009 2012 2015 2018 1st J Jaggers Kellan Russell Logan Stieber Yianni Diakomihalis 2nd Ryan Williams Montell Marion Mitchell Port Bryce Meredith 3rd Nick Gallick Boris Novachkov Devin Carter Joseph McKenna 4th Zach Tanelli Kendric Maple Dean Heil Jaydin Eirman 5th Alex Krom Michael Mangrum Kevin Jack Nick Lee 6th Chris Drouin Hunter Stieber Chris Mecate Kevin Jack 7th Kellan Russell Michael Nevinger Lavion Mayes Sa'Derian Perry 8th Frank Molinaro Darius Little Anthony Ashnault Chad Red

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There, but for the grace of data, go I.

Little Rock 125: Jeremiah Reno 133: Dillon Cooper 141: Brennan Van Hoecke 149: Jaivon Jones 157: Brock Herman 165: Matt Bianchi 174: Kodiak Cannedy 184: Brock Delsignore 197: Stephen Little 285: Josiah Hill

If someone thinks voting is slavery…. Should they even get a vote ?

But that logic runs into problems since Sadulaev destroyed Taylor, the same Taylor who owned the rivalry against Yazdani. Saduleav is really strong and has excellent balance, body movement instincts. I see him figuring out Yazdani, especially this older and injured version. I think Yazdani is going to find 97kg a wake up call compared to what him and Taylor feasted on for years at 86 kg. He's going to have to beat people like Snyder when before it was rolling up Deepak and Amine to get your guaranteed silver/bronze.

For sure I'm just saying that for Yazdani the only thing that matters is an olympic and world title. Beating Tazhudinov in Asians and then losing to him at worlds and olympics is meaningless. Tazhudinov is entering his prime whilst Yazdani is slowly entering out of it so by the time they meet I'm worried it might end up a mauling by Tazhudinov.

Yeah I think the US guys' biggest problem is translating their style to international wrestling initially but I think that's largely being overcome with FS being more integrated into US wrestling from an earlier age. Also the new gen of coaches like J'den Cox are going to be passing on their knowledge as well so I don't think its going to be a major problem by the 2028 olympics as you said but I think you guys will still be a force this year too. When it comes to Iran light weights they are incredibly inconsistent one tournament they look unbeatable and another one they look like its their first time wrestling on the mat. Ahmad Javan is quite young and I think he has potential to be a medal threat at 61kg but that largely hinges upon him not being leg laced back to Iran every time he gets taken down. Considering he isn't Mazani as well I'm curious to see his performance. His province Khorasan Razavi has been doing quite well in the lighter weight classes at junior levels domestically so it would be nice to see their hard work bring home a world medal.

the stretch from Richmond to Philly is pretty much a haze of traffic anxiety. IDK why and it seems silly but i normally feel home free once i get to jersey. As far as 18 wheelers go, I was on i81 a lot and holy hell it feels like its exclusively 18 wheelers blocking traffic. Made me realize the worst road is a 4 lane road. i95 is generally wider so you can get around idiots, there are only so many mistakes someone can make on a 2 lane road, but 4 lane roads always have some.....tard going 40 in left lane while you get killed killed by a tard on meth doing 200 in the right lane.

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

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I went to an amish rakefighting match once and loved it. But that was before the Elkhart incident and all of the rules changes.

Kendric Maple and Mike Grey were also in the 2010 field but DNP. I'm thinking 2012 might be in the mix as well. 133 AAs that year were Logan Stieber Jordan Oliver Tony Ramos Chris Dardanes Devin Carter BJ Futrell Zach Stevens Steve Keith DNPs were Joe Colon, Cody Brewer, AJ Schopp, Mason Beckman, Ca$he Quiroga, Nick Arujau. That's a pretty thicc bracket. 2022 was pretty good too.

Rake fighting? Count me in! Great point actually. A big part of the fun is tuning in to my team wrestling a collegiate season. Freestyle is cool but way less organized and less accessible. Is this an AI post or did you actually look all that stuff up? Tons of great comparison info here. And agreed, it’s an opinion, I’ve long said it would be interesting to hear from D1 wrestlers across the board what they prefer rather than having a tweet here and there kick off debates.

As an athlete, of course freestyle is a lot more fun than folkstyle.. it's a lot easier physically. But as a spectator, I appreciate the grind, conditioning, toughness and various techniques required to succeed in folkstyle (getting out from bottom, tough rides on top, finishing cleanly, etc.) Folkstyle is just a much more complex version of wrestling than freestyle, and for that reason, it is my preferred style to watch.

But the star of the portal is Josh Moore. Went from the coach of cancelled program to the coach of another MAC Ohio program. He hired Devin Schroeder and brought in the most new transfers in all of college wrestling this year, while also retaining several of their own portal entries. Athlete NCAA Accolades 2025-26 Year Weight WS Rank Transferring From Entered Portal Transferring To Ruben Lorenzana SO 125 183 Cleveland State 0 January 27 Kent State Parker Pikor FR 125 215 Cleveland State 0 January 28 Kent State Nicholas Molchak SR 133 136 Cleveland State 0 April 22 Kent State Jordan Decatur SR 141 88 Kent State 1 April 9 Kent State Landen Duncan SO 141 162 Cleveland State 0 January 27 Kent State Jahan Isaacs FR 149 217 Kent State 1 April 11 Kent State Stone Pomeroy FR 149 317 Kent State 1 April 11 Kent State James Chance SO 157 43 George Mason 0 April 23 Kent State Chris Earnest JR 157 52 Campbell 0 August 4 Kent State Reese Stephen FR 157 108 Cleveland State 0 January 28 Kent State Steven Duffy FR 184 205 Cleveland State 0 February 18 Kent State Javon Lewis FR 184 215 Kent State 1 April 2 Kent State Ryan Dimmick FR 285 150 Kent State 1 March 21 Kent State

these teams have the largest numbers of incoming transfers: Kent State 8 Bloomsburg 7 Oklahoma 6 Clarion 6 Oklahoma State 5 Chattanooga 5 Sacred Heart 4 Rutgers 4 Ohio State 4 Iowa State 4 Glenville State 4 Buffalo 4

only added some that weren't mentioned already: 125: Nico Provo (Stanford), Tyler Klinsky (Rider), Conrad Hendriksen (Oklahoma) 133: Aaron Nagao (Penn State), Max Leete (American), Gable Strickland (Lock Haven) 141: Jack Maida (American), Pat Phillips (F&M), Eric Howe (F&M) 149: Joey Zargo (Wisconsin), Jimmy Nugent (Central Michigan), Caleb Tyus (SIUE), Jacob Silka (Citadel), Dylan Layton (from Cleveland State to RIder), Dashawn Farber (Lock Haven) 157: Jackson Arrington (NC State), Sloan Swan (Wyoming), AJ Rodriguez (Maryland) 165: Connor Euton (Iowa State), DJ Shannon (Michigan State), Mason Reiniche (Oregon State), Jake Slotnick (Hofstra), Seamus Casey (Wyoming) 174: Sal Perrine (Ohio), Joey Arnold (Edinboro), Tanner Lofthouse (Utah Valley) 184: James Rowley (Purdue), Zayne Lehman (Ohio), Dominic Solis (Maryland), Tomas Brooker (App State) 197: Gavin Nelson (Minnesota), Justin Rademacher (Oregon State), Martin Cosgrove (Penn) 285: David Szuba (Rider to Arizona State), Josiah Hill (Little Rock), Ryan Catka (Virginia), John Meyers (Clarion), Thadd Huff (Bellarmine)

I'm with you there - but admittedly I'm biased as a former wrestler who's best skill by far was Leg riding on top and rolling around; terrible translation to Freestyle

Here’s a more complete version of the match. George Hackenschmidt and Joe Rogers went two rounds. The bout in between (according to a comment) features Joe Carroll vs. Peter Gotz. And at the end, there's the trophy presentation.

Folkstyle for me...

Interesting way off capping your NIL potential

Yeah you're right. Bad take on my part, letting my disdain for pyles style of pontification develop into unfair criticisms. i'm not backing my off characterization of Pyles as void of insight and in a constant state of universal pandering, though that was a stupid time to crowbar it in.

proof?

More folks should move to the Jerseys ... it keeps them out of the nice parts of America.

I guess it was just alleged. Does the media have short term memory loss because of political ideology or the good good weed is now legal everywhere ? gina carano had to sue to work again for something far less egregious

That is awful but what the heck kind of argument could the thread turn into? Maybe you had something in mind?

So, where is the tournament held for the next five years after penn state in 2026. Someone told me state college again 2027 then Iowa? Nebraska

Trump has brokered peace deals all over the world. He deserves this. Will the grudge holding leftists see his actions for what they're worth or will they hold onto their hate.