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Its really hard for me to imagine him making 86 two days in a row and being functional but if he can hes a world champ in my opinion. I do not think zahid can beat his hips perhaps he could hit a duck or two but I think Ghasempours high c kinda lights Zahid up.

I think he will be even better at 165 he looked awesome at trials, and he is still so young that he should continue developing. My only concern would be his quality of training partners at Purdue.

he beat an 18-year-old by a greater margin than the guy who will be Iran's rep this year? That is what I am getting at. Also, odds are he actually beat a 22-year-old given Iran's reputation. I am not sure why you got so bent out of shape I was originally asking if Rahmani has gotten better since that match because his results would indicate he has.

Maybe takahashi? the guy who beat Mitch at u23's

sorry yes I mean folk. The flo guys reported that he will not be at worlds this year at least as of a few weeks ago.

Zahid beat Rahmani at the ranking series, thats where my hope comes from. I am not sure about Kadievs senior level accolades at 86kg. He did win russian nationals at 79kg. edit he also won russian nats at 86kg. He beat Bagaev who some people feel got hosed against Sadulaev and Usmanov.

it was said he will be forgoing it to focus on freestyle.

did Barr go to Dundee as well or was he a davison kid?

57kg: I have Spencer in 2. I think that both matches go 6 minutes but I don't expect them to be overly competitive. If luke is unable to clear ties it could be bad for him but I expect him to be able to thumb block and circle and maybe sting spencer from space once or twice. Lukes best attacks are reattacks to low ankle or his picks I think his picks will be nullified for the most part. Ono could not move spencer to find angles So I just don't think Luke will and I am expecting at least one of Spencer takedowns to result in a turn and I dont see Luke getting two takedowns in either match. 61kg: I think a lot of people are picking Jax which mean you think Jax is going to win a world title this year because Ono is not in the field and Vito is pretty clearly the second best in the world. I am really not sure who I am picking perhaps typing it out will help. Jax has developed seemingly in the last few months some really nice low singles/low doubles from space but if vito meets him down there he could run corner on him so that will be an interesting piece of the match. The other area of importance I believe will be vitos arm drags vs Jax's over collar series. It will be similar to Vitos match with absasghadzi I believe in that sense however Abasghadzi was also looking for drags. I am going to go with Jax, this is not to take anything away from Seidel but that finals match was close at states and then Jax trained a lot in stillwater for 6 weeks and seemed to evolve. I don't know if he can make the same improvements in another 6 weeks but I would expect he has gotten even better and that is just a scary thought, so Jax and I am going 2-0. 65kg: Not a ton of analysis here I think real is the better wrestler but maybe not the most complete of the two. A low scoring match definitely favors Joey especially given what I believe to be a gas tank issue for Real. If he comes out tight and gun shy in the first match, I think Joey takes that one. The more wrestling exchanges that occur should favor Real immensely at least in the first. Give me Real in 3 after dropping the first one. 70kg: Perhaps I am a PJ duke hater I just don't think he can beat Yianni yet, however I think there is a very real chance he's our 74kg rep in 2028. I think its a decent cut for PJ and yianni spoke on the bader show that he's trying to leave the mat tired. If yianni can stay out of whizzer seat belt positions or getting super extended on shots I don't think PJ is going to be able to score enough to weather the storm. However yianni gets extended a lot and PJ has probably the most underrated go behind in the game. I think both matches are close in the first 5 minutes and Yianni separates in the final minute. Nobody has really wrestled PJ for 6 minutes hard and that is largely because he is so good at wrestling in his positions, but I do think his tank is a bit suspect. 74kg: MM in two. He figured out Carr last time. You can argue Carr got tired or that step out sequence where Mitchell got 1 where Carr was close to 2 to go up 6-0 swung it but I just think Mitchell made adjustments. Carr also did not look good at trials in my opinion and he had a new knee brace/sleeve so I wonder about his health a bit. 79kg: These two hit at WTT's last year and Evan was up on criteria pretty late but that was fresh 174 levi this is grown ass man Levi and I think he wins in two fairly comfortably. Evan does not present the same issues as Dean and I think Dean is a much worse matchup for levi. 86kg: Zahid needs to score early if Kyle is more acclimated to the weight. I think holding more size has hurt kyles cardio a lot. Will another month help that? I am not entirely sure but if kyle can go hard for the last 90 seconds Zahid could be in trouble. Without knowing that though I am picking Zahid. 92kg: Trent's physicality will be too much for Barr here in my opinion. I also don't see Trent wilting late like other guys have. 97kg: If snyder goes he should win not much commentary 125kg: Should be another day at the office for Wyatt.

I think a bit too much was made of the takatani match. I do not think Takatani was peaked and realistically outside of the takedown to the lace early the match was largely one sided for Takatani. I think Carrs matach with Kurmagomedov was more indicative of where he is at. Takatani is also small for 74kg so 76kg only makes that worse.

Has Rahmani made strides since the ranking series? I know he looked great at Asians, his recent results have given me some hope Zahid coudl win the entire thing. However, it also makes me worry Kadiev may dominate for the next cycle.

That ohio wrestling guy that he does interviews with all the time he and Joey both did one.

Blaze said in an interview that he will be going 133 and ono will probably RS next year.

I am a bit surprised that nobody has talked about him essentially punching valencia in the face prior to falling into that low double. I do think between he and Mckenna he is our best option just because we have seen Mckenna against the field. Real has a lot of offense but he has questionable defense, may be undersized and has a potentially bad gas tank.

I agree 100% Amouzad at 67kg and 65kg seem to be very different animals at this point as well. I could definitely see him beating Uulu or someone on that caliber.

he tech pinned Sam Herring at Ironman and I think Sam Herring would definitely lose but be in matches with those guys right now. I have not seen enough of him against true 141 sized college guys so that is probably the best data point I could offer. I truly think he can go with Basset and Zepeda who I would probably say are 50/50 with Jamison and Swiderski at least 141 versions of them which I think are probably sub optimal.

He gassed super hard against Taz at the olympics too had the match in the bag.

@Jon_Kozak being our resident international savant I was wondering if you think this method could be effective enough to win a medal internationally.

Made a post in another thread and made me want to check something. Woods was outscored 34-6 in second periods between the open and trials. On the other hand, he outscored his opponents between those two events 61-3 in the first. We may have our very own American Musuakaev.

Back to the ranking series against amouzad where he had a 1-0 lead at the break and lost 9-1 I worry that he is world class for about 4minutes I think he is our best bet to medal out of he and Mckenna but I worry that the top guys that have a motor will give him issues. Which mainly means the Indian,Japan and Iranian rep.

I fear if this is true Aaron brooks is also cooked *sigh*

There is some smoke that Dee may go 157 next year

Ono vs Crookham is a very interesting matchup. Ono can get to his legs but I wonder if he can finish. A lot of those positions where guys get takedowns in free are a results of guys fighting in off the edge. Crookham will care less if Ono gets to his leg and pushes him out.

I completely agree that he is by no means going to grow out of weekly weigh ins at 165. I think he will need to go up at some point though for roster synergy. I think its a pretty big pull for PJ to make 70kg and thats like once a month at most I am not sure he has two years of 157 in him.

If Vega is the best guy I think you just wrestle him. The room is going to be very crowded moving forward.