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Iran dives a thte legs on the restart an dMcEnelly steps aside and stays center McEnelly takes it 5 -5 on criteria!

Amen

I also play a little disc golf, and it's funny seeing an amazing athlete completely baffled by the way most discs turn hard to the left. It's also amazing to see (not that I doubted their genuine friendship before) that guys like DC aren't just friends when they can have fun on podcasts or in good times, but that he took the time to fly out and visit Ben in his home. I really hope this doesn't come out wrong, but as far as the wrestling community is concerned, Ben is the best person that could go through such an arduous ordeal. Between his absolutely positive outlook on most aspects of life, his support from the wrestling, MMA, and even the disc golf community, and how beloved he is by all has been so apparent over the past 2+ months. I'm not sure how many of you know (I nerded out on disc golf for a bit), but Ben has custom discs from one of the sports biggest brands Discraft. He also has a course on his property and holds an annual pro-am tournament where several of the top disc golfers in the world take part. My father-in-law passed away suddenly two weeks ago today, and between that and following Ben's unexpected journey, it is truly a reminder that none of us know when our time will come. This video brought me a lot of joy seeing even a fragile version of Ben being his truest self. Sorry for being sentimental, but this video struck me.

Hand up, I was not high enough on Stanich heading into this upcoming collegiate season. This dude is absolutely a title contender in my eyes. I think he is the clear cut #3 and I'll be very surprised if he's not in 1 takedown swing matches with Mendez/Hardy.

I think it's valid to say that USA wrestling is the healthiest country right now in terms of potential future success. We're loaded with young talent. We should be excited and cross our fingers real tight. We're possibly at the dawn of a golden age.

FIVE count'em 5 gold medals for the USA D3

You put the D in TDS.

Justin Rademacher....the world champ. You can be a world champ at Oregon State.

JRAD - World Champ! 4 - 1 win over Russia

There's sucking, and then there's sucking. While I was the EIWA's SID we had a few new teams enter the conference. At least one of them didn't field a full team and a couple saw their entire squad go 0-2. Granted, the EIWA no longer includes the Ivies and is down to just 12 teams, but Morgan State sent 10 wrestlers to the 2025 tournament, six of them won bouts, three placed, and Doolin was an alternate NCAA qualifier. They recorded four falls and didn't finish last as a team. They're not going to win the EIWA title anytime soon, but I've seen far worse first years.

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

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

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.

Nice composure and sportsmanship by Blaze.

ScottishSteel... tanxs sooooooooooooo much for the play by play! I HAD to watch straight thru... this was a once in a lifetime event for yours truly. My nephew RJ wrestled on the Roxbury High team w/ Luke's older brother Troy and we knew Luke from his youth wrestling days. AND I was watching Luke wrestled in HS and online. That fella works very hard at what he doing on the mat. GOLD... he's pure GOLD. Wow! D3

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

Excuse me for a bit here... LUKE STANICH IS A WORLD CHAMP!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tanxs... we needed that. D3

A summary of Blaze's match w/ the Armenian... D3

... excuse me, as I just got back from doing some work ('cause I'm AT work... ) LUKE STANICH WON!!! WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!! tanxs for that pause that refresh! D3

Volunteer assistant for Cowgirl WC. Any indication that they might make the move to D1 status soon? https://pistolsfiringblog.com/osu-cowgirl-wrestling-club-adds-john-smith-as-volunteer-assistant/

Pretty much the same thing as being from Sicily

Mizzou- I would get the Rokfin sub, really good content and a lot of it. Lots of intermat stuff on there and Willie's stuff is in there too. Also, IA Wrestle along with others really good too. Lots of info on states and recruiting. PNL is on there too, all around really good. I feel it is well worth the money, for sure. Would much rather spend on that than other streaming services.

Meyer will never wrestle 165 in his college career. It is kind of silly that he even has been at 157. Entering his freshman year his walk around weight was 152 lbs and he still went 157. He was even registered for U23 Nationals at 70 kg (154 lbs) a couple months ago before withdrawing his entry out as he caught wind that Duke was taking the spot regardless . I know the 3, 5 is disappointing but you really can’t pay much attention to the 5. Kid was in a 3 day coma at Strong Hospital in Rochester less than 2 weeks before conferences and less than a month before NCAAs. He weighed 150 lbs at Conferences and NCAAs. If you ask me, it was amazing what he accomplished despite that. He was 1-1 with eventual champ in semis with less than a min to go. Got impatient took a bad shot. He destroyed Taylor with two techs and a pin in FS I am confident he can beat him full strength. Same with Kasak. Watched that match again and it was piss pour that the officials only called stalling with 8 sec left. At one point Kasak hangs on his ankle from top for 45 sec to eliminate riding time. Backed up all 3rd period and took not a simgle shot all match. After the initial Harrington concussion Meyer had last year, he really cut back a lot on unorthodox moves that put his head at risk. Cut back anyway. The coma was a freak thing, hope it is mot chronic. If Meyer has mo further random comas, I pick him to win 2 Ncaa titles. He has had a lot of crap happen and still os 44-5 career with 25 tech falls. Including his college opens he did as s senior in HS, he is 60-5. He has the nastiest misdirections out there and is astonishing on his feet. So slick He is very good from top as well. Hoping we can see him at his full health this second half of his career.

It's not like having to deal with Caleb Henson and SVN is a walk in the park.

Pork shoulder on the smoker today. Mmmmmmmmmmmm

Looks like the genius is rebranded as undefeated. i just took a look at the non wrestling forum i think they should rename it as the idiots forum. If you have time to waste there, go for it.

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

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.

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!

LeBlanc

Valencia was 2-1 against woods and 6 seconds from being 3-0 I think that bracket probably could have had 3-4 different winners. In terms of wins I believe the Toprak and Dhzandubaev wins are better than any other current domestic 65kg guy has.

It is hard to unsee his clarion open match against Mendez for me. However, in the same breath I kind of feel like he would have been our best 65kg if he tried to make the senior team.

Here's the final team totals heading into the final day of men's freestyle. Anticlimactic really...unlike U17s. It'll be USA, followed by Russia, then Iran...

The visits in the state of Iowa have been picking up with Dhabolt, Youngblutt, the lightweight (cant remember name off hand), and Schwab all getting some visits from the Iowa Schools UNI, ISU, and Iowa. The state of Iowa has a really good class for 2027. Also saw Hayden S visiting Cornell here soon. Be interesting to see where all of these kids land. Really good coverage on IAWrestle on rokfin, shout out to Ross Bartachek, he does a really good job with that site.

David's path in 2024 was pretty insane. He beat Garvin (2x AA, potential to be 4x AA), Hamiti (2x AA, 1x champ), O'Toole (5x AA, 2x champ), Mesenbrink (2x AA, 1x champ- potential to be 3xer). When we look back on this bracket in 5-10 years, it will be up there as one of the hardest brackets of all time

I was an athlete escort at those championships and walked out the Sengal for that match. What's hard to see in the video is the smirk Satiev gave to his corner as he walked back to take par terre. My thought was.......oh shit. But even then I wasn't expecting 34 points.

You telling anyone to stop being dense is comedic gold....

I agree with you. Would like to see Lockett let his coaches handle the refs. If he has an issue with the how things are being called or not called, communicate it to his coach. Focus on getting back to center and getting the next score.

For my first post I figured I start with a friendly discussion of why our professional league needs to be folk style over freestyle. First Folk style is AMERICAN, it is our FOLKSTYLE. Many countries have their own folk styles (there is a Wikipedia list) and when you see the clips of their folk styles, the stands are always full. Our only tournament that tickets are hard to get is a folk style tournament. Most people only compete in folk style here in the states. Only a very select few ever go on to the Olympics. Everything about folk style is the American way. You want to score a point on the edge of the mat, you have to earn it, just trying to shove someone off a mat isn't wrestling. If you want to get out on bottom, you have to earn it. When your on top, you go for the pin, waiting on the refs for a restart is the most unamerican thing possible. Freestyle has turned its back on Americans every step of the way. Americans started dominated in the early 90s, they changed the rules to take out endurance, no over time, then the ball grab stuff, and the body lock stuff. The powers that be almost regulated wrestling out of the Olympics because they hated when Americans dominated. We need to see where the money backing this is coming from. Hulk Hogan had some shady financial connections, American wrestling don't need another "Foxcatcher" incident. My last gear grinder, we need to stop Glazin the Russians. They wrestlers are not honorable competitors. Long history of cheating for using peds, They payed officials to take medals from Americans. They started the trend of sending wrestlers to other country's. They have payed people to lose to their competitors. Yet in recent years we act like they are the best. They were the best because they cheated time and time again. (Don't use UFC as an example of them being "great" wrestlers, they hand pick who they promote, and they've been promoting Russians like, the Russians have some black mail on them.) Here's the best way to start a professional league, Individual folk style tournament, 10 weights, for a cash prize. Get our best folk stylers to come. Have 8 coaches do fantasy draft for their "team". Run a short Dual season, a dual post season, and an individual post season for a large cash purse. Just a conversation piece, but can we please stop treating Russians like they are honorable warriors.

I think Stanich may surprise some of you out there... it's tough 1st rnd matchup w/ Turkyie's Toprak, but you got to beat whomever is in front of you. We'll find out after 3am(EDT) Monday morning when 57, 65, 79 & 92Kg wt. classes begin. D3

It's a shame no one realizes the Championship Wrestling Association is having another event tonight. Folkstyle after college. Youtube it because the previous events had entertaining matches. 130lbs. Guesseppe Rea (NJ Mob) vs. Brian Courtney (Central PA Whitetails) 160lbs. Reece Humphrey (NJ Mob) vs. Sammy Alvarez (NYC Response) 170lbs. Quincy Monday (NJ Mob) vs. Jesse Dellavecchia (NYC Response) 195 lbs. CJ Brucki (NJ Mob) vs. Scott Joll (Pittsburgh Skywalkers)

This is the kind of thread that makes me jealous that I do not have the same kind of shared history as you guys. On the other hand, I could do ear modeling.

Pistols at dawn. In one of the other threads I made the point that this was just accounting, not an argument for "best".

Three-time Iowa state high school champion David Kjeldgaard was the first national winner of our Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award in 1996. David, who had a career high school record of 173-4, graduated first and was valedictorian of his class with a 4.0 GPA at Lewis Central Senior High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was an officer in the National Honor Society and Fellowship of Christian Athletes while also serving as an officer for the freshman, sophomore and junior classes. David was Student of the Year in Geometry, Algebra II, Biology, General Chemistry, Physics and Trigonometry and received the National Academy Math and Science Award. Kjeldgaard was a three-time Cadet National Champion and a five-time Junior National Champion. To win his first freestyle title as a junior, he defeated T.J. Williams, who would go on to win two NCAA titles and have a career record of 98-1 for Iowa Wrestling. To capture his second title as a senior, Kjeldgaard defeated future NCAA champion and four-time Top-Three finisher Joe Heskett just to reach the finals, where he triumphed over Cael Sanderson, a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame who went on to be an undefeated four-time NCAA champion, world champion and Olympic gold medalist. Kjeldgaard's career at the University of Oklahoma was hampered and cut short by knee injuries, but he twice qualified for the NCAA tournament and was a Big 12 Conference runner-up in 2000.

Beware the inside trip

Down from what. Reminds me of a guy I worked for. He’d raise his prices 20% and advertise a 10% off sale.

it's a great question. I have asked @andegre, but he may not be checking these boards as he has not yet responded over the years. goes without saying that I am greatly appreciative of wrestlestat and I have donated money over the years. I just don't know what logic it uses to make its (re)classifications

Chris Phillips