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When he isn't getting paid a ton of money to do it.

Yea. That link is different than the criteria posted. I believe this is the first time I have seen the 4th place, age-eligible, added to the criteria.

I actually combined the first 2 criteria into 1. It list top-3 from the National team and then the 4th best. Since Blaze has no one else ranked higher, 4th will still get him first priority. But yes, 4th is not part of the national team. It’s technically criteria 2.

Now that the U23 trials are over we are able to rank the order of preference for the world team spot based upon this criteria: 1. In order of rank: Top-4, age eligible, athlete from 2025 Senior Men’s Freestyle National Team 2. U23 Trials Champion These are listed in order of selection preference: 57 - Lilledahl, Provo, Ziegler 61 - Forrest, M. Blaze, Bouzakis 65 - M. Blaze, Cornella 70 - Duke, Edmond 74 - Mesenbrink, J. Blaze, Caliendo 79 - Haines, Hamiti, Ruiz, Mantanona 86 - Welsh 92 - Barr, Sinclair, Nelson 97 - Kouekabakila 125 - Herrera Let me know if I messed up any DOB years. Anyone know if the U20 team is the same? The qualifying procedures are a bit murky to me. Lilledahl (57), Forrest (61), M. Blaze (65), Duke (70), J. Blaze (74), & Sinclair (92) are all U20 eligible as well. Ruiz (79) too? I haven't looked at the U23 champ DOB to see if the other weights could be U20.

Here is a link to the old UWW database that still gets updated.

It opens back up for a bit for anyone who loses their head coach.

If you have a chest lock it isn't a TD. I thought they called the match pretty spot on. Dake ran a lot at the end and got the caution for it. The TD was close, but not quite there.

Michigan. The wrestling program was shut down recently due to an investigation into hazing incidents.

You did great work! Is there a way you can go back and do previous days if you missed one?

The guy doing National Duals. https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/2025/04/02/college-wrestling-national-duals-invitational-announces-eligible-teams-1-million-purse-chad-richison/82746314007/

Here's the rule on what a date of competition entails: 17.29.5.1 Maximum Limitations -- Institutional. A member institution shall limit its total playing schedule with outside competition in men's wrestling during the permissible men's wrestling playing season to 16 dates of competition, except for those dates of competition excluded under Bylaws 17.29.5.3 and 17.29.5.4. 17.29.5.1.1 Multiple-Day Competition and Dual Meets Within Three Consecutive Days. On not more than two occasions, an institution may count a multiple-day competition or two consecutive dual meets as one date of competition, if the following requirements are met: (a) The multiple-day competition or two consecutive dual meets occur within three consecutive days; and (b) The institution participates in not more than one multiple-day event or not more than two dual meets during the three consecutive days.

I don't think he ever enrolled. Just signed.

Can you link the police report? I've only seen a couple news articles, which don't ever tell the whole story initially. I have no experience in police activity, but if it is increasingly harder to find ads on the open due to newish laws, wouldn't a lot of people turn to the darkweb, whether it is a prostitute or worse?

Not if it was on their schedule as such. If he went unattached it might not count. But I have no idea if that was the case.

I’ve read a couple times that it was a message on the darkweb and not just some random online ad. It’s pretty easy to get there, but it still takes some learning and setup to do it. And there would be a lot more seedier circles traveling around there.

Got you. You are correct. He didn’t wrestle the 2nd half of the year. I misread your post earlier and thought you said he did wrestle past the cutoff. My original statement was accurate. 2024 he wrestled the 2nd half. 2023 he wrestled too many dates.

I haven't read this whole thing deep enough, so apologies if this doesn't hit right. Trafficking doesn't necessarily mean going across state lines. It is all about coercion by one to force another to perform a sex act. This is the US Justice Departments definition: "Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age." It sounds like this isn't his first time and it has probably been happening for a while. So while this time he wasn't paying someone that was being trafficked, chances are very high that he has done this with someone who has, intentional or not.

Who are you referring to? Alvarez never wrestled for Bloomsburg and I don't see those 2 matches on his Wrestlestat profile.

A full competition counts as a date. So Southern Scuffle is a single date. National Duals is a single date. It's hard for me to see 2023 as even in consideration since he wrestled in the 2nd half and more than the allotted dates. You've got a better argument for 2024.

2024 he wrestled after the midpoint of the year. 2023 he wrestled more than the allotted dates. For Sparks, he didn't wrestle past the midpoint of the season with the MN schedule. Calendar dates have nothing to do with the hardship waiver. The link WKN provided only talks about competition dates. Wrestling operates off of a 17 competition date schedule. Over 6 competitions is considered too many and after the 9th competition (10+) is considered the midpoint in the season.

And that's a completely separate eligibility issue. Oklahoma State is D1. JCs are not. JUCO still needs a final ruling. All they have now is a pause on enforcement of that rule for a year. That could be ruled against and still count. Or none of it could count. Who knows. No one has a court case, to my knowledge, that would address his situation. Maybe they are planning to. But for now he doesn't fit the criteria mentioned as the reason for another year.

He competed during the 2nd half of the year. That rules out a hardship waiver.

@Husker_Du What's your read on the Raney's? Do you see them as Iowa leans too?

As of this moment, he doesn't. But with all the lawsuits and whatnot with regards to eligibility right now you are seeing people put their name in the portal with no eligibility so they can move if they end up more. Lack of eligibility doesn't prevent you from putting your name in the portal.

Looks like you have your next data project. Time to get researching on the heights off all past Olympic/World Champs at each weight.