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57kg: Spencer is pretty clearly the best guy at the weight. 6 weeks ago I thought his toughest match would likely be RBY in the semis with Musa Mekhtikhanov, and Chonsong Han also being tough outs. RBY strikes me as the toughest stylistic matchup with his ability to create from space and his speed, they did hit at a ranking series and Spencer got up earlier and RBY socred late however those scores seemed more of a result of Spencer completely shutting it down. I really like RBY's trajectory but I do not see him beating Spencer. Musa Mekhtikhanov is very skilled but he does not have anything specific that makes me feel as though he can score enough or do enough to beat spencer and lastly Chongsong han who we have 4 matches to look at at the Asian championships but in those matches he looked very dynamic. He presents a similar style to Zhou that has historically given Spencer issues and he will come in unseeded. North Korea only sends guys they have supreme confidence in so in my mind Han has to be a threat to medal. Now I mentioned 2 months ago because Arsen Harutyunyan was previously expected to go 61kg, which is where he generally wrestles during none Olympic years but he has decided to make the cut to 57kg. Harutyunan is very very talented he is a 3x senior world bronze and 2x u23 world champ as well as winning senior euros last year and teching RBY. To me however he has always looked his best at 61kg. He will give Spencer all he can handle for the first 3 minutes, but if the match is close going into the second I expect the wheels to really fall off, he does not have particularly great cardio at 61kg and it seems to get significantly worse after the cut to 57kg. Predictions: (not accounting for full brackets) Gold: Spencer Silver: Harutyunan Bronze: RBY Bronze: Han 61kg: This weight is super deep, however it really lacks that final boss type guy at the top. Some people may look at Uguev as that guy but he has yet to win a medal at 61kg pacing 5th twice. Uguev and Suda are the two biggest on paper favorites going into this followed by a huge tier of guys who if they were to upset either would not be shocking Abakarov, Tairybek Uulu, Yessengeldi, Jax, Ahmad Javan, Udit. Now in my opinion I think Jax is going to win this weight, However I think his draw will be important. Uguev I believe is a great matchup for Jax. I do not think Uguevs high c is super effective against Jax he seems to almost always score off of guys own high c's and his head hands has improved immesely so if Uguev gets to it, it will likely because Jax was ready for it. The guys that worry me the most for Jax are Abakarov, Suda and Uulu. Abakarov has a great ability to counter score coupled with great strength and explosivity which are all qualities I think you need to beat Jax. Uulu shares these traits, and Suda seems like a mini Ono with less power but more length. Now I think Jax can beat all of these guys but in a bracket setting where he could potentially wrestle all 3 I think thats where things get very difficult. I am going to predict he either does not hit all 3 or beats them all probably because I'm biased and he's my favorite guy to watch but I truly believe he can get it done. Predictions: Gold: Jax silver: Suda bronze: Uguev bronze: Uulu 65kg: I have been pretty pessimistic about Real's chances at this weight. I think for his first full year training free he has been incredible, but I worry about him being able to get to his positions against some of these guys, and I still worry about the second period for him. Amouzad and Kiyooka are the returning Olympic finalists and have both looked the part this year not taking any losses. They are far and away the favorites to hit again in the finals. The next tier of guys are Sebasitan Rivera, Sujeet, Ibragimov, Tevanyan. I think Real can beat most of those guys, but with how the seed are he is going to have to more than likely wrestle one of Amouzad or Kiyooka first and then get drawn back in where he would more than likely need to beat at least two of these guys which I just do not see at this moment. If I were to pick 2 guys to unseat Kiyooka or Amouzad It would be Seabass or Sujeet. Seabass was very close to knocking off Kiyooka last year and I think has the arsenal and style to also potentially give Amouzad fits. Sujeet is very young but has most Indians do has a crazy motor and good offense if he can keep it close with Amouzad late I think he could take him out, I do not think he can beat Kiyooka. Sujeet could hit Amouzad in the quarters and Seabass could hit Kiyooka in the semis. Predictions: Gold: Kiyooka Silver: Amouzad Bronze: Seabass Bronze: Sujeet 70kg: This weight is very deep. Similarly to 65kg there are a ton of guys that can medal here and there are one or two top guys but they do seem beatable although Kaipanov could change the view of that very easily here. Kaipanov and Amir Yazdani are the two gold favorites to me followed by a huge tier 2 of Kazyrk (russian nats champ), Akmataliev, Rassadin, Aoyagi, Adreasyan, Dudaev, Gomez, Heybatov, Kemertelidze, Ochir, Duke. Needless to say PJ is going to have to battle out there. I think you can condense this list based off of the past years results though, Ochir has not looked great and neither has Dudaev. Adreasyan is very strong and does not break position but PJ will be in a match with him and if he can get a lead I feel confident he could hold on. Rassadin,Aoyagi,Akmataliev,Gomez are the ones I worry about for PJ. All of them are dynamic and will probably be able to hold up in the hand fight with him. Overall I think we are a year or two away from PJ medaling but this will be invaluable experience for him. Predictions: Gold: Kaipanov silver: Akmataliev Bronze: Aoyagi Bronze: Gomez 74kg: God this weight is awesome. Your gold favorites are Valiev, and Sidakov but to me this weight has 5 potential champs and 2 sleepers. Those 5 are Valiev,Sidakov,Carr,Salkazonov,Takahashi. The sleepers are Emami and Khaniev. Khaniev may be a bit off of peoples radar but he was the 70kg u23 champ last year and is super slick and creative. He struggled with Takahashis athleticism in the ranking series final and I think he would also struggle with Carr but I could see him potentially knocking off one of the other guys. Sidakov lost to Valiev at Euros in a crazy final sequence and then was thought to be out for the year but he was able to recover much quicker than expected. In his wrestle off I thought he looked good but certainly beatable. Valiev of course infamously lost after the match on a fleeing the hold call at the olympics which I have never seen before to the eventual champ Zhamolov. He has not lost since. So to me Valiev is probably a slight on paper favorite. That said the Japanese Burroughs amazes me every time he wrestles and David carr made him go life and death. If you wrestle this weight 10 times you probably either get Sidakov winning it 10 times or four different champs, and that is why I am so excited for it. Predictions: Gold: Takahashi Silver: Valiev Bronze: Sidakov Bronze: Carr 79kg: This weight is far more wide open than I originally thought. When levi lost to Kougi I was not very optimistic that he would medal but once I looked deeper into the entries I realized Kougi may just be one of the top 4 guys at the weight and I think that is a result Levi could potentially reverse. This weight has two very good guys at the top with Usmanov and Nohkodi and Usmanov is an absolute monster at 79kg historically but he looked pretty human at Euros. Nohkodi of course beat JB last year and is great as well but he missed nearly the entire year recovering from and Injury so I think it is possible that he is not quite at his best. After those two guys the medal contenders to me are Evloev, Kougi, Gamkrelidze, Levi, Mykhailov. To me these are all winnable matches for Levi. Evloev is super tricky, he is incredible in a crackdown and floats his hips super well but he has taken some bad losses and that is certainly a match levi can win, and Mykhailov lost to Ruiz a month ago so thats another guy I feel good about Levi going up against. Gamkrelidze is never a guy that impresses me a ton and perhaps I am underrating him but thats another match I feel ok about for Levi and we have seen the Kougi matchup and that seems winnable. Predictions: Gold: Nohkodi Silver: Usmanov Bronze: Levi Bronze: Gamkrelidze 86kg: This weight from a pure highlight reel standpoint is going to be asburd. Seems as though Ramazanov is out which is definitely a big deal although he would not have been my pick to win. Excluding Ramazonov my favorites for gold are Ghasempour, Kadiev, Zahid, Kadi. Throwing Kadi in may be a stretch but I would have included Ramazonov and Kadi had him dead in the water until his lungs stopped working so I am going to throw him in. The 4 guys I mentioned all have very contrasting styles. Ghas is a brick shit house thats going to push and pull and look for his high C. Kadiev has his own offense but really thrives when you are in on his legs and if you do not finish quickly he is probably going to score on you, he has an insane feel and crazy hips/rubber knee stuff. Zahid is going to use your pressure against you and can also blow through you from space, and Kadi is as explosive as they come, well at least for 4 minutes. Other medal contenders are Kentchadze (world gold at 79 last year), Dhizoev, Dauletbekov. (I do not think Ghas is going to be able to make the weight effectively that is factored into my predictions) Predictions: Gold: Zahid Silver: Kadiev Bronze: Ghas Bronze: Kadi 92kg: I could be foolish but to me this weight is a 2 horse race I think its Trent and Firouzpour. Of course 4 guys medal so the guys that could sneak in for Bronze to me would be Nurmagomedov,Kurugliev,Punia,Akturk. I really want to pick Trent the dude works so damn hard but I think that Firouzpour may be the most underrated guy in the world right now. Predictions: Gold: Firouzpour Silver: Trent Bronze: Kurugliev Bronze: Nurmagomedov 97kg: The battle we've wanted since 2023 Taz vs Sadulaev. As someone who once rooted for Sadulaevs downfall I am now really hoping he can get it done, it would be a great story. I will say I think Azarpira could have his say on if this matchup actually happens, but it is definitely and outside shot. Rounding out the medal threats are Snyder, Yoshida, and Magomedov. I view this weight as the big guys tier 1, Azarpira tier 2 and then Yoshida and Snyder tier 3. Predictions: Gold: Sadulaev Silver: Taz Bronze: Azarpira Bronze: Snyder 125kg: A lot of people seem to be writing Wyatt into the finals, I am definitely not that confident but I do think there is a world that his style gives Zare fits. If Wyatt makes the finals I think it could be a 50/50 matchup but I think navigating the bracket will be difficult for him. Zare is obviously the guy to beat. Then you have Wyatt, Munkthur, Meshvilidishvili, Sharipov. I like Wyatt to beat all of those guys, but they are all good enough that if he takes a risk and it results in a chain of points they could shut it down and it will be difficult for him. Munkthur is the biggest worry for me. Munkthur and mesh are same side so assuming Wyatt is on that side (lets hope) one of the two will not win bronze. Predictions: Gold: Zare Silver: Wyatt Bronze: Meshvilidishvili Bronze: Sharipov

They are who we thought they were.

Predictions will be biased for team USA. 57kg Gold- Spencer Lee Silver- Harutyunyan Bronze- Aman Bronze- Mekhtikhanov 61kg Gold- Uguev Silver- Abakarov Bronze- Suda Bronze- Forrest 65kg Gold- Amouzad Silver- Kiyooka Bronze- Sujeet Bronze- Rivera 70kg Gold- Kaipanov Silver- Yazdani Bronze- Kazyryk Bronze- Gomez 74kg Gold- Sidakov Silver- Valiev Bronze- Carr Bronze- Takahashi 79kg Gold- Nokhodi Silver- Usmanov Bronze- Gamkrelidze Bronze- Haines 86kg Gold- Valencia Silver- Ghasempour Bronze- Kadimagomedov Bronze- Kadiev 92kg Gold- Firouzpour Silver- Hidlay Bronze- Kurugliev Bronze-Maisuradze 97kg Gold- Tazhudinov Silver- Sadulaev Bronze- Azarpira Bronze- Snyder 125kg- Gold-Zare Silver- Hendrickson Bronze- Meshvilidishvili Bronze- Sharipov

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Doesn't it get old being proven wrong over and over and over and......

57 RBY isn't going to medal. Stop it. Spencer is win or bust, and honestly I feel for the guy in that regard in a way that is just brutal. Imagine being the absolute best in the world, and it's just doing your job. After losing the biggest match of your life.... again. We do not appreciate Spencer Lee. I do not want him to become the Kolat of this vintage. 61 Pump the brakes. Let's be happy with a win before we declare gold. 65 If Woods wins a match or two, it's a success. IL is rooting for you! 70 Gomez is being touted as a medal favorite... unless he puts himself on his back or gets gassed. Again, IL is behind you but the copium is already getting strong. Duke? See Forrest and last sentence. 74 Carr is a strong medal threat. Slick as it gets and he has found F-U mode it feels like. That's a good thing. 79 I have literally no clue what to expect, other than we will reflect on these results much more positively in 2028 than we will in a couple weeks. 86 Zahid is a medal and finals threat. The question everyone wants to know is if Taylor has patched up the gaps. 92 Same as 79, Hidlay and Haines can go nuts and win world titles or BBQ but until 2028 these two weights are, well, weighted less. 97 Taz will destroy everyone in his path. How do I know this? Because he did so at worlds last year on a surgically repaired bum shoulder, ya know... the kind of injury that instantly ends wrestling careers. Snyder will either silver or bronze depending if he has the same half as Sadulaev. 125 Zare will beat the ever loving shiit out of Hendrickson if they meet up. And you can check my receipts everyone knows I love Pindrickson like he loves Trump. But there are levels and chonky Gable is not Zare. Medal likely, finals possibly depending on draw.

57 - lee 61 - suda as he has momentum 65 - no one repeats at 65, but Kiyooka wrestled Amouzad and Amouzad couldn't really do anything to him. I will take Kiyooka 70 - No clue , maybe Aoyagi 74 - Takahashi - pure hunch 79 - Usmanov - Nokhodi is bound to win this weight at some point as he has been right there these past few years and probably should have won in 2024, but he hasn't wrestled a tournament or even an official match since last years worlds. 86 - Ghasempour 92 - Firouzpour - reasonably confident 97 - Tazudinov - I think he will win and win in style 125 - Zare - the only guy who could actually wrestle him for 6 minutes was Akgul and he is gone. Someone would need to score big points on him very early and put him in a huge points hole( or tech him) to beat him and while it seems he has a match like that once in a while, I don't see it happening in this field.

Well sure ... but just think if he'd wrestled a kid named "Carl."

Probably the wrong panel dont you think? I mean if we asked an intermat poster panel if they ever saw rv do any thing wrong on Epstein Pedo Island and they all say "no" it doesnt mean rv is pedo clean ... right rv?

So you don't care about the list if Trump's name isn't on it??

Saying a homeless drug addict is a bane to our society has been considered violent speech by the loony lefties. Saying a woman is not a man and a man is not a woman has been characterized as violent speech by the loony lefties. Saying that you want someone dead and/or are wishing for that is considered as violent speech by the loony lefties if it was applied to Kamala or Biden or Newsome, or Pritzker or Walz (you can keep naming names). But when applied to Trump, it is not violent speech. The rules are the rules and they must apply all the time. One cannot just say this was not violent when one calls all other speech violent when aimed their way. I agree it was in bad taste and not the way we want our leaders to speak. But we have had to live by the loony left rules and that it was violence against the president. As we have heard many times, their violent speech demands a physically violent reaction. That is how the colleges play it, that is how the left plays it and it is eggregious behavior to try to change the rules in the middle of the game because it is aimed at someone you hate. Situational rules are stupid and idiotic. Imagine any other thing in society with situational rules. We can see the results in big city real violence and quote "crime reduction efforts." Situational rules are not rules. They allow one group to do what another group cannot. mspart

I'm not even a "trump supporter", and I feel fighting, especially at my age, to be extremely stupid, but I'd take that action from Walz any time any day.

Those are exactly the type of boats they typically use. You should watch To Catch a Smuggler: Tropical Takedown. Reality show about catching the drug runners and the type of boats they use. Besides, you are assuming that it's the only boat they are using. As for bombing of the alleged cartel members from Venezuela, as much as I want to see those criminals taken down, not sure I am in agreement with indiscriminately just bombing the boat. My hope is that there were extenuating circumstances that called for this to happen, but if not, I don't think it is a "good thing" so to speak.

Over under Alabama shoots Kalen DeBoer into the sun for Lane Kiffin?

He thinks he’s trolling when we all know he’s just plain wrong/stupid/ a liar/ woke

Why are you so worried about if those committing crimes are liberals or conservatives?? Maybe spend more time worrying about crime and how to stop it...PERIOD!

A touch off-topic but the point is...D2/D3 added interest and variables that made the NCAA's even more interesting. Article written for last months AWN.... My, How Things Have Changed My how things have changed! My time frame reference is 1968-1984, which I believe was the Golden Era of wrestling. That’s when college wrestling was the most healthy, robust, and deep. There were lots of opportunities to wrestle collegiately, more intangibles, and rules that apparently offered more pinning opportunities. That 16 year time span averaged 63 falls/13 OT’s per tourney vs 32 falls/26 OT’s per tourney for the last 16 years on the championship side of the bracket. My, how things have changed. There were no tech falls, no video reviews, no bricks, no grad school competitors, no 7th year seniors, no Olympic redshirts, no transferring without penalty, no choice to avoid mat wrestling, no “cheap tilts,” no touch falls, individual dual matches could end in a draw, and for years you could only wrestle back if you lost to a semifinalist or finalist. Matches were 2-3-3 vs the present 3-2-2. Overtime was 1-1-1. Here is a very small sampling of the scores from that period. Cleo McGlory (U of Okla) 21-4 in ’68, Steve Dildine (Alabama) 27-3 in ‘70, Don Rohn (Clarion) 26-6 in ’73, Gary Breece (U of Okla) 24-2 in 74, Nabil Guketlov (Montclair St.) 26-9 in ‘75, Mark Churella (Mich) 34-4 in ’77, Shawn Whitcomb (Mich St.) 30-7 in ’79, Charlie Heard (Univ Tenn-Chatt) 32-12 in ‘83, Joe Gibbons (Iowa St) 32-0 and Melvin Douglas (Univ of Okla) 35-5 in ’84. That’s a lot of wrestling, fans loved it, and those guys refused to be pinned! Why are those kinds of scores are no longer allowed? My, how things have changed. The top 2 finishers, plus 2 wild cards in D2 and the D3 NCAA Championships (college division prior to ’74) were invited to compete in the D1 NCAA until ’92, and it made a difference. Consider this abbreviated list of D2/D3 wrestlers who stood at the top of podium in d1: Rich Sanders (Portland St.), Stan Dziedzic (Slippery Rock), Wade Schalles (Clarion), Joe Gonzales (CSU-Bakersfield) Carlton Haselrig (Pitt-Johnstown 3x D2/D1 NCAA Champ) and D3 NCAA Champ Ken Mallory (Montclair St.). The powers that be fixed that in 1992. Go away, you have your own tournament! How different would the individual D1 results or the team scores have been, post ’92, if undefeated (131-0) 4x D2 NCAA champion Joey Davis (Notre Dame (OH), or any of the other 3x D2/D3 champions and the wild cards competed? Freshman and multiple time NCAA champions are not unique in a field of 78 or so. There were four freshman champs from ’68 to ’84 (approximately 350 schools), 13 in the last 16 years (approximately 77 schools), and 21 total since ’85. In ’78 they awarded 6 AA’s (1.65%) from a total field of 363. Now they award 8 AA’s (10.39%) from a total field of 77. Perhaps limit AA to top 6 or even top 3 or 4. Though largely no fault of their own, the estimated number of college wrestling programs at all collegiate levels has dwindled from 777 in 1972 to 273 total programs in 2025. Restricting the NCAA to only D1 since ‘92, along with the progressive rules changes, has diminished the sport. Wouldn’t allowing D2/D3, Junior College, and even NAIA into D1 add more suspense, depth, breadth, excitement, interest, and viewership and unite the entire wrestling community? There are some positive changes in the current rules. Riding time in OT has value and eliminates supposed unbiased officials from deciding victors via Referees Decision. Another positive change is the Double Elimination bracket. This type of consolation wrestle-back offers a truer outcome for those wrestlers eliminated in the championship bracket, and every single competitor other than the finalists receive a chance to come back and place. And probably the biggest bright spot today is that NCAA wrestling is televised on BTN, ESPN and other conference networks instead of only ABC Wide World of Sports as a 10 minute, once-a-year, heavily edited, side note. That has added to the amount of money wrestlers now command in college, and how nice to see a financial reward FINALLY for so much hard work in a sport that has few equals as far as physical challenges and the amount of work it takes to be an NCAA champion. My how things have changed.

Melvin "McKinsey Math" Miller

It's not really about being grad vs undergrad. It's about only using 8 semesters in school.

Rowing, toeing. Same thing.

I responded before seeing the page or two of arguments on the topic. Carry on

Nope, absolutely not. I've already said what Obama did was wrong, so you'll have to present an actual justification instead of a lame "whataboutism" (shout out @Interviewed_at_Weehawken)

To me if they have the data it’s like taking out the criminals running the terrorists from Iran.

No, I was always against them. I just didn't have an account to condemn them ON HERE. And then I said I was pretty sure I had condemned them on here anyway, even years after the fact. We have a reading comprehension crisis in this country.

I refused to vote for Romney and took the same approach.

Or it was going to make a drop with another boat.

I heard congress is working on passing a happy tax ... that'll teach those nasty folks.

Seems like a lot of people are hurrying to post how unafraid THEY are about immigrants. Just like a non-afraid person would. Y'all know that fear and anger are emotions and the more you try to convince us that you aren't fueled by these things the more you prove that you very much are! If you were intellectually honest or emotionally mature you would know this. If you had unbiased information, you would use it. Not self-reporting studies that try to prove predetermined points.

The bad police officers should be held accountable 100%...and for the most part they are. But to blame the actual police for the defund the police movement is such an asinine take it's actually laughable. The democrats and the MSM are 100% to blame for the defund the police movement. Spin it all you want, play your mental gymnastics all you want, the democrats and the MSM are solely responsible for the attitude towards police officers (and now ICE). You can kick and scream "but but what about that one bad one!!" all you want but it doesn't change the facts. Bottom line is I cannot for the life of me understand how someone who has half a brain can argue AGAINST trying to make cities with high crime more safe! Hats off to the DC mayor for going against her party and clearly doing what is right for the people of DC even if it means getting help from the bad orange man. I can only hope some of the other big cities do the same, or figure things out on their own so the NG doesn't need to be sent in.

Obama thought it was ok to extrajudicially assassinate American citizens. Not a lot of complaints about that...

His dad, KC, is the head coach at Embry Riddle and was a 2x NQ for Boise State.

Did Obama follow the law when doing so? Yes. If not, they rectified the situation hastily. That you have a hard time understanding that means you’re either not intellectually honest(my guess) or not equipped to have the conversation. wWhen in the history of America was it ok for masked agents of the government to arrest people, some of them citizens, for the crime of not being a citizen and have no repercussions? Answer 45&47. The reason you’re rooting for a strong man is that you don’t want the burden of having to think for yourself. It’s messy I get it. You want them to punish the people you think should be punished. But for what? That’s the thing. You don’t even know. So you listen to dear leader and get mad at the people they tell you to get mad at. Cuz nothing unifies morons like a common enemy. Meanwhile they get rich before some of them inevitably go to jail. Which is how it always ends. Your station in life changes not one bit. But you’re convinced that you made a difference by making sure others couldn’t reach your level of success. Building is so much more rewarding. I recommend it. Beats being a bigot or a troll or both.

I like to stay in my lane. Control what I can control and let other people control their own back yard. It's a good general rule to live by

Oh good, he recovered. Still went about a week then. He's old and frail with collapsing health. I'm just gonna eat my popcorn and watch it keep sliding.

The cartel leaders control the politicians. With boat fulls of money. Damn you’re dumb.

Free —-> iPhones gift cards flights medical care wic K-12 school Humanitarian parole free housing / hotels the right not to get prosecuted for about anything short of murder they’ve got it rough

The "cartels" arent anything like they're portrayed in movies. The drug cartels are more of a "market" than gangs. A huge % of the country is involved, all the way up through the most prominent politicians. Therefore, the only way to wipe out the cartels would be to overhaul the entire government and culture itself. Impossible? No, but not practicable either in the short term. It could take tens to hundreds of billions per year for decades to actually clean this up. Maybe even more. You have to change the culture and a lot has to come from within through incentives. Military has limited effect when half the country or whatever is part of or benefitting from it.

I don't know if they want special treatment. I'd say a solid 99.9% come here to find a better job, escape extreme poverty, or to get away from violence. They can't get social services or welfare of any kind, so they're pretty self reliant.

Just like your emotions drive 110% of the BS you spew. Make more shit up and hope it sticks.

Nobody fears any of the above. They want special treatment, and saying no to their request isn't fear.

Was that English? I thought you were supposed to be educated.

You make no valid points in any of your posts.

If Wild Turkey is involved VT is the clubhouse leader

Always an excuse for a piss poor culture. They don't have to steal a damn thing. There are soup kitchens, non-profits all over that cater to the poor and feeding them, but please continue to blame every problem on "wingers" and not the people committing the crimes.

back in my day it was all about your Top 8

What your guess on the top ten teams in the new rankings.

I enjoyed the first event. I looked around at the rest of what my fox offering included, and there wasn't really anything there for me. So I unsubscribed to the annual plan and will resubscribe on a monthly plan whenever the events are announced. If the events were already laid out on a monthly basis for the next year, I would just keep the annual plan, but it's not clear to me how often they will compete.

Tito has definitely suffered brain damage.

Maybe. Either way, the SEC sucks.