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Staying completely politically neutral, there is a high likelihood that travel between Russia and USA re-opens after January 20, 2025. However, the logistics leading up to that date are likely to be too overwhelming (booking a plane ticket, booking a hotel, payment, etc) and therefore it would be very unlikely any US wrestlers compete at the 2025 Yarygin tournament.

Nagao is done for the year unless Davis suffers a season-ending injury. God works in my$teriou$ way$ but the lord giveth and the lord taketh away (a starting spot)

Counterpoint:

If light heavy is where it's at then why did Tony Cassioppi go 97kg for the trials? Here are some key bullet points to factor in: 1) per this thread, a heavyweight between 235-245 is optimal. 2) Gable Steveson was not going to be at OTT. 3) 97kg is ruled by an all-timer. 4) at his NCAA largest, Cassioppi was regularly weighing over 260 so the long-term cut was 47 pounds

I will never be able to prove or disprove what is an opinion of a hypothetical. My opinion is that 6 years of cutting took its toll on a blue chipper, and my opinion is that if he and others had an opportunity to move to a more comfortable weight class requiring a sacrifice not known to other weights other than "you don't start" then we would have many different narratives. But it doesn't matter and I'm wrong, I concede. Who wants elite athletes that are stuck in a tweener weight choosing to participate in another sport anyways.

Dean was the better wrestler, multiple times that season. He was a dawg. Three days of weigh-ins most certainly took a toll on Warner, but Dean beat him (and beat the $hit out of him previously riding him like a rented mule) Allred went on a heater that year. Hopefully he finds success at the weight that suits him best, up or down. Again, I view using Warner as an unfair example to a larger problem at hand and not trying to single him out that if he wasn't cutting and instead at a comfy weight he would have had success rather than defeat. Brooks is looking to move to 97kg btw. But you knew that. Death, taxes, Amine collecting world medals. What a scrub. You got me there. No one should ever move up. Oh... wait... did Rasheed move up because there was a weight class that best suited him after fully maturing? What a great convenience, too bad others don't have the same because they have the misfortune of genetics.

Last I checked we are extra salty because we didn't bring home any gold on the biggest stage(s) this year. So what if we treated our weight classes with the same respect that our athletes are rightfully receiving with NIL and get them aligned to the international experience?

I'll die on the hill that Jacob Warner would have been a 2x champ if a 97kg equivalent existed.

Qualified frosh year, about the same record soph year but didn't qualify so I consider it a regression.

That's a disingenuous question because of course I improved between my redshirt/frosh years to when I was a senior. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who didn't improve over five years. But I was substantially worse against top-tier competition (Mocco, Rowlands, Lowney etc) - my sweet spot to the surprise of no one in this thread was 96kg but that weight didn't exist during folk season.

Ok now let's talk about the kids pulled out of the hallway to wrestle 106 and not just the top level wrestlers if you want to play that game. Of course, you don't want to because you tend to not have civilized discourse and instead want to dunk on everyone at every chance you get. But to open and close that discussion from my side, it is the same as heavyweight at the kids level - studs and duds, not much in between. By the way, what was your weight class your senior year of high school? Does that have any correlation to your feelings? And if you paid attention to any post of mine ever, you would know that I'm on your side about the tweeners like Green. It's a damn shame that only six arbitrary olympics weights exist. But then you throw out Hamiti, wrestling college, in the same paragraph. C'mon.

Redshirt frosh year I was cutting from 234 down to 197 because it was the only way to try to find the starting lineup. I couldn't hold it any longer after two years so we went on a bulking plan and at my largest I was 248. So yes, as I have said on this board and the old place many times prior, I wrestled both weights. To reiterate, I was cutting 37 pounds. In what universe is cutting 37 pounds healthy for an athlete?

Yes.

Yes.

How many of you on this board have made the decision as a high level wrestler in the modern era including testings to either cut 30 pounds and be ragged, or stay where you are and hope your quickness overcomes the sheer strength advantage, or decide to bulk so hard that you are stiff as a board? I'll raise my hand. A better example of a MUCH more accomplished wrestler would be Jacob Warner. Or Michael Beard. Or Jacob Kasper. Or Kollin Moore. Et cetera et cetera. My guess is none of you hit 200 until you paid the dad tax with an extra cheeseburger and another beer. I was there by the middle of my sophomore year with a six pack that I maintained until I was 37. I was a better wrestler than football player and I love the sport, so did I make a mistake by going B1G in the wrong sport? A guy I lost to at HS state went pro in the NFL for a few years riding pine and I took me probably 12-15 years before my salary out-earned his fresh out of college paycheck. So yeah, I think I have an idea. Was I Kyle Snyder or Anthony Cassar? Hell no. They are the outliers, not reality. And last I checked, reality is this sport is withering on the male side directly due to NIL and football in that order, and the average American male is larger than ever. So my non-anecdotal evidence also confirms this butthurt bunch of previously skinny guys sucking in their gut to hunch over the keyboard should get over it and face the raw numbers. 103 is a weak weight full of underclassmen and undersized seniors. That's how I feel about your username.

I never said that. I said the weights should match UWW. Ten weights is fine, but if we grow the sport with more participants I can only see a net-positive. Kind of like growing a business and such...

Did Taylor bring a training partner to seniors worlds?

Or adjust to the rest of the world?

Depends who you ask to define "long"

Late night Taco Bell runs pale in comparison. Again, I am calling out the hypocrisy for those who can't see it well enough. And I know for a fact the one I mentioned has not changed. It's fine! I actually support it! However, I do not support hypocrisy and Jimmy Johnson "I don't treat everyone the same" rule sets.

Nah rarri was an outburst. Spencer was a statement.

You know who I'm talking about and what he was very specifically kicked out for. Ending up relocating to Stillwater to matriculate as a direct result. A coach can run his program however he chooses, but hypocrisy and rules for me but not for thee are wack.

No the funniest thing about Soldier Salute was when Spencer boat raced Ayala and had some very, very pointed words.

For Illinois residents under 21 they most certainly are. That's something I vehemently disagree with because if you can vote or enlist then why not partake, but that's a different political debate.

Who said anything about eleven weight classes? The ask is merely to adjust to the UWW weights, whether free or greco is irrelevant so long as there is more equity.