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FIVE count'em 5 gold medals for the USA D3

I mean. Then it must be true. You’re super convincing.

Wow... Slappy the Armenian is wrestling in the repechage match. I thought his DQ would disqualify him from the rest of the tournament. I guess not, eh? D3

We have 3 medals at this weight since 2000, and only one of them is gold. I'm a Stars and Stripes homer as much as the next guy, but to say a "great shot at gold" is pushing it for me.

I get your point. But I don't think guys at that level think that way.

Blaze made easy work of this tournament- he has senior level class. Also, congrats to Puerto Rico's Omar Ayoub (by way of Ohio and Nebraska Huskers), who brought home Bronze hardware in this same weight class!

Its just boring. They tried a lot of rule sets for Greco. Actually I am in a way impressed by FILA/UWW, they managed to keep GR in the Olympics somehow. It is the only olympic sport women can't participate in. How did they pull it off? Im sure it's not because of the immense audience it draws. We were never going to have 24 or 30 weight classes or whatever ( 8/8/8 10/10/10 or even 7/7/7) no matter now competent or incompetent UWW may or may not be. The days of 10 weights per style or even 8 were when womens was not included. We already have the most weight classes of any sport. Im no fan super fan of UWW and they can barely even film a wrestling match properly in some of their recent tournaments ( some of the camera angles at 2023 worlds and this years junior asians were shocking) but out of all the sports in the Olympics that have weight classes, wrestling has the most with 18. If we could go 9 and 9 with FS and WFS I would take it. Unfortunately my real assumption is eventually it will all be replaced with beach wrestling, which I am not a fan of.

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Little known fact: rv put the s&i* in the bull. One of his part time jobs.

125: Mcgowan, Rivera, Sotelo 133: Seidel, Yarbrough, Ayoub 141: Mendoza, larkin, Evans, Clark 149: Busgens, Kade brown, Cartella 157: Catrabone, Larkin, Millard 165: Ruiz, Church, Scoles 174: Augustine, Arujao, Norman 184: Dellegatto, Sinclair, Mcdonell 197: Bechtold, Lawrence, Hogan 285: Doucet, Pitzer, Carroll

I have no doubt he can make it, my question is how does he keep that level of performance while losing 16lbs of functional mass? I don't know that he does, or can. Similar to Trumble and Bastida, his best weight might be a 235/240lbs HWT that drops to 213lbs for MFS.

I assume Joey McKenna is still in the mix as well? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ohio accounted for 3 of the 61kg wrestlers: Blaze (US/Perrysburg), Brown (Canada/St. Eds), Ayoub (Puerto Rico/Dublin Coffman). Looked like the Ohio state tournament out there.

We're now up to 8-0 w/ less than 10 secs left. D3

SlipperyPete's pbp Period 1: It appears the wrasslin' season has returned to action! I missed the first couple days of this tournament, but here's Blaze's match. Here we go! Hand fighting & tying up. Blaze presses forward a bit. Collar ties, hand fighting & snaps. Khateri gets to a leg, but Blaze fights out of it & keeps moving forward. Blaze has Khateri in the zone & on his knees. Stoppage & restart. Tying up again. Blaze tries a throw by. Khateri gets a passivity warning. Blaze presses forward again & drives Khateri to the edge & out, 1-0. Back to neutral. Tying up & hand fighting. Khateri gets a 2nd passivity warning & goes on the clock. Blaze presses forward again, reaches for an ankle, but doesn't get there. Blaze takes Khateri out again, 2-0. Neutral restart. Blaze gets a shot clock point, 3-0. Blaze presses forward again. He shoots, but no luck. He has Khateri on the edge, but Khateri circles back in. Blaze keeps coming & gets another step out, 4-0. Blaze presses forward again & drives Khateri out, 5-0. 22-sec left. Khateri shoots & gets a leg, but Blaze fights him off. Back to their feet. Blaze reaches for a leg again, but no luck & that's how the period ends. Period 2: Back to action. Khateri reaches for a leg, but no luck. Tying up & hand fighting. Blaze presses forward, drops to a low single, elevates the leg & takes Khateri out, 6-0. Back to neutral. Tying up & hand fighting again. Khateri snaps & reaches for a leg, but can't finish. Khateri pushes forward. Blaze circles back to center. Blaze tries a drag, but can't finish. Blaze presses forward again. Snaps, hand fighting & collar ties. Khateri shoots, but no luck. He shoots again, but isn't close. Khateri tries a double, but no luck. Blaze drags. Khateri drops to a leg. They're on the mat & Blaze circles behind for the TD, 8-0. Blaze adds a gut for the tech! Marcus Blaze TECH Ahora Farhad Khateri 10-0 Marcus Blaze is the U20 61kg champion!

This is a very specific description lol

Why should Greco be cut that's ridiculous. The shouldn't have cut the wrestling weight classes for any of the styles to begin with. If FILA wasn't a corrupt organisation with stupid rule sets we wouldn't be in this position to begin with. We need to preserve as many of the martial arts in the olympics as possible. They are some of the purest forms of sport and competition we have.

The DQ wasn't for brutality, it was for three cautions. So he wasn't punted from the tournament.

Not a bad summer for Stanich... (world medals in parentheses) US Open Andrew Collier, TF 10-0 Mason Gibson, TF 10-0 Connor Ritonya, FALL Michael Olson, TF 11-0 Smokey McClure, TF 10-0 Daniel Zepeda, DEC 8-8 Bo Bassett, DEC 5-2 (U20 Bronze; Cadet Gold) Pierson Manville, DEC 6-0 U20 WTT Bo Bassett, DEC 3-2 (see above) Bo Bassett, LOSS 3-2 (see above) Bo Bassett, TF 10-0 (see above) U20 Pan-American Championships Erick Vera Olave (Ecuador), TF 10-0 Angel Ramirez Guardia (Peru), TF 10-0 Diego Peraza Aguilar (Mexico), TF 10-0 Yandro Soto Rivera (Puerto Rico), TF 10-0 U20 World Championships Abdullah Toprak (TUR), TF 18-8 (U23 Bronze; U20 Bronze; 2x Cadet Bronze) Omurbek Asan Uulu (KYRG), DEC 9-3 (U17 Gold) Alessandro Dante Nini (ITA), DEC 3-3 Amal Dzhandubaev (RUS), DEC 3-1 Reiji Uchida (JAP), DEC 4-3

As season quickly approaches I’d love to hear everyone’s Top 3 dark horses at every weight, someone ranked currently outside the top 7. I’ll start. I know some of these are obvious. 125: Provo, Rivera, Renteria 133: Blaze or Ono, Davino, Ragusin 141: Blaze or Ono, Jack, Valencia 149: Echemendia, sorta lost on this weight 157: Larkin, Swensen, Arrington 165: Brignola, Sparks, Ruiz 174: Facundo, Mantanona, 184: Sinclair, Dean 197: Merrill 285: Mriasola, Catka,

I think Jordan Burroughs helped usher in the “Golden Age” for USA wrestling and was followed up by Snyder, Dake and Taylor. It is pretty incredible that we got to watch 4 of the top 6 American wrestlers of all time compete at the same time! And J’Den Cox has an argument to be in the top 10 all time. Unfortunately, this era is starting to come to an end (I know DT and Cox are the only ones officially retired, but the point still stands). However, you can’t help but be impressed with what our young guys just did! Duke, Blaze, and Forrest are doing things I never saw anyone their age do before! Could they and others bring in an even better golden age? You can never predict anyone to have the long lasting success like JB and Snyder, but I think some of these guys have the talent to do it. I’m interested to see if any of these guys can make a run at 7+ senior golds!

I don't mind the Birden over Paddy pick. Or is it Cannon over Paddy?

Jaxon Joy, Fr. 149, Cornell

Ayoub was four time finalist, two time Ohio DI champ (four different weights I believe? 113-144).

Over a few years. Not so much boss. 0.0001% not sure if that is relevant to you but it’s a small number. Mass starvation is a bigger number usually. What your touting is emotion

It's not pushing it to say Blaze or Forest have a great shot at gold. Also who won medals since 2000 in this weight class has exactly zero to do with who will win medals in the future. It's completely different wrestlers going forward than it was before these guys were born.

157 Kannon Webster is the closest "outside of top 7 is a dark horse" as long as we all agree that 125 cannot be included in this conversation

But we can't have weights that match UWW. Because we have low participation. Because the weight class doesn't fvcking exist.

100% Ohio State bias but I’ll go with Cannon at 157 and Birden at 165.

I’m going to go extremely biased and say Gavin Nelson (Minnesota) at 197 and Max Magayna (NDSU) at 174. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Aiden Brenot 184 NDSU. Round of 12 last year as a RSFR. Imo has a very high ceiling.

Never said it was wrong. But the usual suspects cannot bother to read what they post and take it a step further and read what is referenced in what they post. Instead they latch on to what they want to believe is true. The funniest part is that they are complaining about education while showing their own lack of education.

Your first sentence perfectly describes the IDF, as reported by our own government and intelligence agencies, including the Trump administration. The aid is not making it into the strip. Israel can say it "shipped" however much it wants, but they know they're only letting a fraction of it into Gaza. This is well documented by a variety of independent observers on the border, but you plug your ears because you won't believe anything that goes against your ideological priors.

Recently got back from UT visiting my son and my sister. Both are doing well. They live right on the Wasatch front which is incredible to look at . To be able to see that everyday coming out the front door is just heaven on earth. mspart

Up until his match with Rahimi he had won every match via 10-0 tech, with all ten points in each match being off of shots. For the NCAA Folkstyle season a large part of it is based around conditioning. They will wrestle anywhere from 20-40 matches in a few month span, with their conference championships having up to 6/7 matches in a two day span and the NCAA finals also have up to 6/7 matches in a two day span. Cardio/conditioning is a large part of training. It is also a reason some of our guys come right out of Folkstyle and do extremely well, even though they would not have been training Freestyle very long. Snyder came off a 2nd place finish his first year of college at 197lbs (~89 KG) and won a world title at 97 KG. Cox came off his season for the 2016 Olympics and dropped from 197lbs (~89 KG) and won a Bronze at the 2016 Olympics at 86 KG, purely off stingy defense and cardio. It's a thing.

Fifty bucks is fifty bucks.

Rademacher is the new hot pick @ '97

That is a good one!! Here's one my brother in law told us. Flat Earth Society - It is gaining recognition around the globe. Thank you thank you, I am here from time to time. mspart

Crooked Bill and Hillary are worth $250,000,000 I think they’ll be ok

Or rv could find them a 60 hr/wk part time job.

When you believe news sources that have been shown to continually and maliciously falsify their reports for a political advantage, I'd say the degree of gullibility on your part out weighs most of the free world. Israel has shipped 1.3 million tons of aid. Where is that aid? What happened to it? Apparently the Gazans are not eating it because they are starving. What say you? mspart

sorry to Martin Cosgrove - not a great spell chjekker

McEnelly is coming up on B... FOR the gold medal. D3

Who gets Citadel job? Luke Welch promoted?

His matches against Bassett really speak volumes. It's an open secret that dude is as old as the "cadets" from IND and should be actually competing in the Master's division, meanwhile Stanich can't even shave yet. Solid stuff from the young gun. Also, he was a true frosh AA. His only losses were to the national champ, a couple AAs at NCAAs, and some high school kid named Jax Forrest. Only fools would still be sleeping on him.

Has a brother who coaches locally which further solidifies Bing getting first dibs on NY studs

I think a lot of it boils down to I am not confident in real at all and do not really think he is our best guy. He earned it he made it through the process but I would definitely prefer Jesse or Stanich as our guy maybe even Brock I think his style would do well internationally.

Congrats to Stanich! I'm officially a fan! Also with that win, USA has clinched the team title!

How dare you! Donald Duck is quite real. Speaks just fine for a duck. And is not that hard to understand. I get that you're politically supercharged... but ripping on Donald Duck is over the line. Too far.

Great list! I've added a few others in RED I'm interested to see how they do coming back