Truzzcat

Gimme the cowboys with a clean sweep. Meyer is my second favorite wrestler, but I think the ski takes him to deep waters and runs him down (This is in an effort to revers jinx and get Meyer to major him). Really hoping Troy still needs some time because I would love to see Rocklin against V-rob.

I think 57kg for Japan is more of a battle of Rei and Ono vs the scale than anyone else. Ogawa had to battle to get a u20 bronze this year.

From what it sounds like both Ben and Jax want to go 57kg for the olympics, Marcus pretty much said that is not possible for him, so I think 141 makes the most sense for him now and 133 makes the most sense for those two. Sediel at 133 gives V-tech their best possible lineup. None of those guys really strike me as people who are inherently worried about who is at their weight.

It sounds like Ono is 133 and Blaze will be going up to 141 at some point. I personally do not think this is a great call unless Marcus is able to adapt to the weight quickly. He can absolutely win 133 and while I think he would be the best wrestler potentially at 141 I think size gives the other two guys an edge. 133 to me is a far worse weight for ono given style matchups even if it's a better size fit for him.

CP tweeted they were starting at 149.

My sentiments as well. Stilly boys does a very good job at making you feel connected to the athletes while also giving a behind the curtain look at what is going on in Stillwater. This did not do much for me.

I've got Lopes if he goes over Eddie and his hairline and Luke over Bo. There is a real world where Bo's leg attacks and finishing are too good now for Luke but I think Luke matches him in the handfight and may be the only person in the world aside from potentially Marcus that can do so that is within a weight class of him. I think Bo likely reverses the result at the all star and NCAA's I reserve rights to change my mind on that depending on the matchup but Bo went from Vegas to Virginia to Kazakhstan back to Virginia in the last 3-4 weeks and Luke has been preparing for Bo so in what I view as a near coin flip I am giving Luke the edge. That was a lot of yapping.

believe seidel lost to cortez that same trials and he teched cortez in folk last year.

I am fine with a projection, I think he finishes the year top 5 for sure. I think if Jax and MM run the table its hard to jump them unless either guys bonus rate regresses. Barr is great I have always had him lower p4p simply because his weight stinks and Bo is kind of in the same boat with that this year I think Carter nogle was ranked third and he just moved up to 149 so it is literally him and stanich against the world. (holding out hope for Raney)

point being I do not think he is cutting a leg off to make 141 this year

I think if you are using freestyle as credentials for folkstyle p4p you need to account for him having a loss to a 133 that got fourth last year and 3 losses to a guy not in your top 10 p4p since p4p generally includes cumulative career or at least within the last few seasons.

The Raney that is going 141 made 55kg last year.

I was extremely pessimistic going into this world championships but I think the past few days of wrestling has been one of the most impressive overall team performances I have seen across my time watching athletics. USA is going to be a scary scary squad come 2028. Also Kyle Dake is now my American goat if you combine folk and free which people seem to rarely do aside from Cael, which I do not understand we wrestle both here.

I think he will toe the line every opportunity he gets, its what has gotten him to this point and I do not see him changing the approach.

I am here I have let you guys down