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That guy has three NCAA titles, three B1G titles, three PA HS titles, U17 Gold, U20 gold x2, two US titles, and Pan Am gold. If that's a lifetime of falling on the big stage, we should all be so lucky.

Was thinking about it. Everything he had gone through - the lifetime of falling short on the big stage. High school, NCAAs, Olympics, getting ragdolled last year as the overwhelming favorite, tore his knee three times... and it happened again to him training for worlds this year. When he was going for a ride to tech fall city yesterday, he could have looked like when he had Gilman at OTT. He could have seen his career flash before his eyes, given up, and he wouldn't be in pain anymore it would all be over. Instead he had the heart of a champion. You can't teach that. That's just big freakin balls.

I'll throw my hat in the ring. Here are my predictions for freestyle this year. For the record I know I'm going to be completely off for 90% of these predictions. But I'm going to let my Iran tinted glasses make the decisions. 57: Gold: Spencer Lee Silver: Tuskaev Bronze: RBY and Khndzrtsyan In all fairness I don't follow this weight class too closely but no Higuchi, Aman or Abdullaev have made this weight class a lot weaker. I feel like Spencer Lee is the most complete wrestler out of the field and if in form is the best guy on the planet. North Korea and Armenia are probably the two guys that can beat him but I think he will get the job done this year. 61: Gold: Uguev Silver: Blaze Bronze: Abdullaev and Abakarov Not much to say here Uguev is one of the most dominant wrestlers of his generation. Blaze is still too inexperienced to hang with him. The rest of the field is good but not as good as the top 2. 65: Gold: Amouzad Silver: Sujeet Bronze: Mamedov and Magomedov Very tough weight class to predict. But I think this is the most likely scenario to unfold. 70: Gold: Akmataliev Silver: Ochir Bronze: Heybatov and Ibragimov This weight class is a lot more stacked than I realised. A lot of really good wrestlers here. But I think Akmataliev wins worlds and Ibragimov goes on a tear before losing by pin to Ochir in the semis who then proceeds to lose a mind numbing match in the final. Khalili probably gets to repechage and drops a close match to one of Ibragimov or Heybatov and gets fifth. 74: Gold: Aoyagi Silver: Yazdani Bronze: Salkazanov and Sheriev No Sidakov and no Zhamalov apparently. Either way Aoyagi I think is the most complete wrestler here. Salkazanov is good but I don't know whether his gas tank will hold up. I'm hoping Amir Mohammad Yazdani has a good tournament since he beat Emami who ran the field at Asian Games. 79: Gold: Nokhodi Silver: Khaniev Bronze: Haines and Gharedaghi I think its Nokhodi's time to finally win a world title. Again 79 like 70 is pretty stacked with good wrestlers. Overall Nokhodi's experience makes him the most well-rounded wrestler here. 86: Gold: Ghasempour Silver: Ramazanov Bronze: Kadiev and Dzhioev Honestly could go either way here. I think Dake loses an early match to Dzhioev or Kadiev who then loses to Ghasempour/Ramazanov. In the final I'm hoping Ghasempour avenges the Paris Olympics loss and wins his third world title. 92: Gold: Hidlay Silver: Amanula Gazdhimagomedov Bronze: Firouzpour and Kurugliev Hidlay is the best guy in this weight class. Not much to say here tbh. Kurugliev being here makes things interesting though. 97: Gold: Snyder Silver: Sadulaev Bronze: Yazdani and Yoshida Very tough one. I don't see Yazdani, Yoshida or Tazhudinov winning worlds its between Snyder or Sadulaev. Either way I think Snyder will get the job done. Snyder looks very ready for worlds this year. 125: Gold: Zare Silver: Sharipov Bronze: Siyar and Kassimbek Zare is the best in the world. Kassimbek will definitely cause him problems though.

That's the reason that everyone should be a fan of Bo Bassett. This match is taking place a week after Bo won a world title on the other side of the planet. I would assume Bo has been spending 99% of this offseason focusing on freestyle. Between the travel and lack of folkstyle reps, I don't think anyone would really blame Bassett if he said he wanted a couple of weeks to gear of for folk and that he'd see Stanich at the All-Star. But Bo just doesn't give a rip. He'll genuinely wrestle anyone, anytime. He isn't afraid to lose. He isn't concerned about the circumstances I just mentioned above. He's taking on Stanich for his first official match and could start his collegiate career 0-1. Hats off to both Stanich and Bo though. They knew this dual was happening and they agreed to wrestle again in two weeks at the all Star to make this year a likely trilogy between them. These guys are dawgs. How great would it be if we had more guys willing to put it on the line like them.

Some interesting tidbits about Arash Yoshida. Only 22 years old. He's Iranian/Japanese. His father is a former Iranian wrestler (Javed Esfanjani). Left Iran and started a wrestling club (Ichikawa Koshti Club) outside of Tokyo. Where Arash and his brothers trained in traditional Iranian wrestling techniques. Another wrestler for Japan (Keyvan Gharedhdaghi) also has an Iranian father and Japanese mother and won the Asian Championships this year at 79kg in his first major senior tournament beating Olympic Champion Zhamalov. He also recently took Silver at the U20 Worlds. Unfortunately he had to pull out of the Senior Worlds due to a knee injury. Not sure if he trains at the same club at Arash Yoshida. *Shared from another.

Trying to be realistic for the USA finishes. Here are my quick picks for Gold and USA finishes: 57 - Lee (USA) 61 - Uguev (RUS) Blaze (USA) - DNP 65 - Sujeet (IND) Bassett (USA) - DNP 70 - Retherford (USA) 74 - Aoyagi (JAP) Green (USA) - DNP 79 - Nokhodilarimi (IRN) Haines (USA) - Bronze 86 - Ghasempour (IRN) Dake - DNP 92 - Firouzpourbandpei (IRN) Hidlay (USA) - Bronze 97 - Sadulaev (RUS) Snyder (USA) - Silver/Bronze 125 - Zare (IRN) Hendrickson (USA) - DNP

I think the US under performance is being exagerrated by folks here. Most of your guys are very very young competing against very experienced senior level guys. Its pretty natural for young wrestlers to struggle. A lot of the guys who have medalled in Iran's team have been competing at U23 circuit for 2 or even 3 years now. Karampour, Khari, Rahmani and Yousefi being notable examples. U23s is a big step up from U20. If anyone thinks guys like Basset and Lilledahl aren't future world medalists you would be lying to yourself. Also you guys sent a weaker team this year compared to last year for some reason. Why wasn't PJ Duke competing for the spot at 70? I also feel the excessive publicity and film that surrounds your guys has a negative impact tbh. Basset has been surrounded by media since he was like 15 so much so even guys in Iran knew about him at junior levels. I honestly like a lot of the US guys more so than the Russian team. Khaniev and Akhmadinov spent more time on the floor sleeping then wrestling against our guys. At least you guys wrestle to the final whistle.

All times Eastern, with local times in parenthesis. Saturday, October 31: Sacred Heart at Hofstra, 2:00 PM Western Wyoming at Wyoming, 4:00 PM Sunday, November 1: Air Force, Bloomsburg, Bucknell, Clarion, Ohio State, Utah Valley at Clarion Open, hosted by Clarion, 9:00 AM Drexel, Edinboro, LIU, Mercyhurst at Mercyhurst Invitational, hosted by Mercyhurst, 9:00 AM Army West Point, Binghamton, Brown, Franklin & Marshall, Lehigh, Penn, Princeton, Rider, Stanford at Princeton Open, hosted by Princeton, 9:00 AM Appalachian State, Campbell, Chattanooga, Davidson, Gardner-Webb, George Mason, Illinois, Maryland, NC State, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia Tech, West Virginia at Southeast Open, Salem, VA, 9:00 AM Bellarmine, Cal Poly, Lock Haven, Morgan State, Navy, Pittsburgh, Virginia at Navy Classic, hosted by Navy, 10:00 AM Gardner-Webb, Little Rock, Oklahoma State, SIU Edwardsville at Cowboy Invitational, hosted by Oklahoma State, 11:00 AM (10:00 AM) Kent State at Purdue, 1:00 PM American vs. Central Michigan at CSU Bakersfield, 2:00 PM (11:00 AM) Michigan at VMI, 2:00 PM Bloomsburg vs. Wisconsin at Kenosha, WI, 3:00 PM (2:00 PM) Mary at North Dakota State, 3:00 PM (2:00 PM) Northeastern State at Oklahoma, 3:00 PM (2:00 PM) American at CSU Bakersfield, 4:00 PM (1:00 PM) Central Michigan at CSU Bakersfield, 6:00 PM (3:00 PM) Bucknell at Iowa State, 7:00 PM (6:00 PM)

BO BASSETT 65KG WORLD CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!

Or like me!

We finally got ourselves a 65er!

That'd work ... but would Carl let them go up against an opponent from a top team so early in the season.

The only thing he is getting closer to by the day is the world championships.

I wouldn't repeat a rumor normally, but i have it on good authority that Flo's servers crashed when pyles plugged his vibrator into the austin electrical grid.

I am incredibly happy for Spencer Lee. Congratulations to him and all close to him. What an amazing accomplishment to add to an already amazing stack of accomplishments. Wish I could shake his hand and say so.

I was watching this interview which I highly recommend and David talks about how at points in his career where he made his greatest strides he always had someone at his weight that was pushing him (Kyle, JB, Yazdani). It got me thinking about this crop of guys at 133 and how for one of them to truly emerge above the others as the clear guy what they are going to have to do, but at the same time how much better each of them is going to make the other and I think it could very well create the best American wrestler we have ever seen.

Its not just between them. He sold camps and built a brand around being a Christian role model. You dont get to do that, make the mistake he did and pretend it didnt happen. I wouldnt want my mistakes broadcast either but I didnt build a brand around being a devout Christian and nothing ive ever done is even close to paying to cheat on my wife on mother's day weekend. Hell of a wrestler but he can miss me with the Christian schtick. Forever.

Dake wins with a flurry TD at end! 6-3!! Wow. To finals at 86kg. This is nuts.

Bo. My God, what a match. Down 10-3 at the break to Magomedov, Bo comes back to win 14-13.

man if only PSU could get a call.....

Good luck today, LJB

They can take advantage of loopholes, but we don't have to act stupid. Everybody knows what this is.

With every pejorative at your disposal, you go with this?

The hype is the best wrestler on the planet (for a time) is transitioning to a new style. That is exciting. He torched two world gold medalists in one tournament and now he wants to win an NCAA title and he's in the best wrestling room on planet earth. If you cannot get hyped up for that idk what to tell you

They never seem to have technical difficulties with their billing

I hope 49- Williams 57- Block

How folks who, "love" college wrestling but won't get FLO is strange...

I have a feeling it will be Stanich that guts it out

Looking forward to this if it goes down. Both are exceptional, but Bo seems to be on another level; I may be wrong, and Stanich looks to be in full beast mode. Get the popcorn.

Spectacular showing from Lee. No wrestling the past 16 weeks. He genuinely looked like he finally found his inner peace and knows what the latest tear may very well mean. If that's it then god speed he is mentally as tough as they get for everything he has battled and kept coming back for more.

just wanted to drop in and make a comment amidst all the miserable nerds squabbling about any number of things today... super pumped for Lee... been watching that kid since the cadet days... so pleased for him to finally get his senior gold medal...

Congratulations to both of them. RBY is going through a hard time with his mother at the moment and a kid on the way, to show out like he did is impressive.

It’s not just sports; It’s international competition. Would you pull against an American in the Olympics? Your statement couldn’t be more inaccurate in International Sports. That flag means everything. I want the USA to be the best in everything. I’m blown away that any of you would consider any other way at this level.

Kyle Snyder explaining to his wife that God gave him syphilis

Bassett was just ONE POINT away from being teched by Magomedov... but even after the break, the Russian was sucking oxygen deeply into his intake! Mags fuel tank was rapidly going towards "E"... D3

65kg bo vs magomedov and 97kg snyder vs sadulaev were both AMAZING matches bo stuck in there and wore him down. still gives up too many points haphazardly, but you can't fault his mentality or results really proud of snyder. i feel like this is the first win over sadulaev in a long while (discounting injury victories) where he was really just strategically and tactically so sound the whole way through amazing start for team USA, and both very winnable semis

Unless your Rocco...

This is why I don't consider Penn State to be as successful as a team like Oklahoma State in the truest sense. Hiding to manufacture ideal conditions is the opposite of what wrestling stands for.

Grade Report Time A+ | Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion B- | Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history D | inflation, and make America affordable again A- | Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far! B | Stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower A | Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips A | Defend our Constitution, our bill of rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms D | Prevent World War Three, restore peace in Europe and in the middle east, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country -- all made in America B- | End the weaponization of government against the American people B | Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders C+ | Rebuild our cities, including Washington D.C., making them safe, clean, and beautiful again. B | Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world A | Keep the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency A | Fight for and protect social security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age A- | Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations B+ | Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children B+ | Keep men out of women's sports C | Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again C | Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship F | Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success Solid B- with the biggest pain to citizens is the cost of the war in Iran. Finish the war and stop meddling to bring down costs.

Jim Kelly.

Just finished S2:E1 of Stilly Boys. It's honestly just unbelievable. Behind the scenes access to the program and the documentary style series is, if nothing else, just a joy to watch. I remember coming up and desperately trying to find wrestling content to consume. This often led to watching Vision Quest because there wasn't much else out there. This is just a shout out to how cool it is for DT and the program to put such a professional quality content out for free. Will any other coaches be willing to admit that it's a great idea and recruiting tool and follow suit? Which teams would you actually be interested/willing to sit down and watch a series on? And before @ionel says it.. Yes, the PSU dodgeball doc would be legendary.

I also posted on this issue, asking if the US is a responsible host. Both your post and my own have been read over 200 times, and curiously enough, neither one has even one comment. I wanted to leave a comment on this post to let you know that I think the entire global wrestling world should be in an uproar over this issue, and the total lack of interaction on this issue is maddening. The attitude of "ignore it and it will go away" is unacceptable. I ask readers to imagine the reaction on these forums if a wrestler from the US were denied a visa in a country holding a UWW competition. The UWW should inform the US government and USAW that future tournaments will not be scheduled in the US if they continue their petty visa refusal policy for age level wrestlers. One can understand US policy in fearing overstays, but the letter from the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) clarifying the issue should have been enough to immediately change the situation. I guess we set the precedent during the World Cup in soccer when the athletes from Iran were not permitted to sleep in the US and had to travel back and forth to Mexico between competitions. Sport is supposed to transcend politics and bring people together. Congratulations to Iran for taking the U23 team title in both Freestyle and Greco Roman.

grndat

184- Waylon Cressell 141- Raney 149- Seth Mendoza is ten, but I’m uber high on him. 157- Daniel Cardenas 165- Noah Nininger 165- Alessio Perentin 197- Justin Rademacher 285- Cade Ziola

You're concerned that a relatively young adult smoked weed and isn't capable of training and leading people? I mean I have led teams of 250 scientists across the globe and good god I did way worse things in my 20s.

I proudly ponied up. They have delivered for years. And the new version is the best yet.

I think the US is very close to clinching. Up by 30.

greco fans are different...