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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

will anyone be up at 1:30 est or am I going to be talking into the ether

I actually love Okazawa getting kadiev straight away I could see Kadiev coming out a little flat. Obviously my 2nd through third cannot really happen because they are all on the same side. I will stick with Okazawa and I think he will see Dhizoev in the finals. I do not think Wyatt is going to medal would be a big change. Uguev is looking like a lock for the finals Abakarov has beaten him before but I do not think he has the juice like that anymore and I really do not like how marcus matches up against him but it will be a close match for sure and in a close one anything can happen. Outside of that stuff I do not think I would change a ton outside of obvious situations where guys cannot meet in the finals because they are on the same side.

29 hours 12 minutes fellas I have accepted that I am completely ruining my sleep schedule for a week at least to potentially go to work extremely upset in the morning but I would not have it any other way.

did you mean AP class credits? A lot of institutions as of late seem to not be accepting them presumably because they want you to take the class through them or they will allocate it towards elective credits. Duquesne did it at least as of 6 years ago and I believe one of my friends said they had the same issue with Bucknell. It could also be major dependent though.

is G'angelo hancok still doing wwe? can we get him back.

I was watching this interview which I highly recommend and David talks about how at points in his career where he made his greatest strides he always had someone at his weight that was pushing him (Kyle, JB, Yazdani). It got me thinking about this crop of guys at 133 and how for one of them to truly emerge above the others as the clear guy what they are going to have to do, but at the same time how much better each of them is going to make the other and I think it could very well create the best American wrestler we have ever seen.

Not sure they let you use AP's at Stanford but I could be wrong on that. They listed Knox as a 133 and I thought he looked smaller so it may have just been a match for the fans in attendance.

My initial thought on this was that it seems super unnecessary 4 days out from comepeting but I imagine he derives a lot of mental confidence by workouts like these.

Anyone see Tyler knox bumped up to wrestle jack consiglio for the wrestle offs and beat him 2-1. Thought that was really impressive given Consiglio is some peoples sleeper AA pick at 141 this year.

And this brings me back to is Justin Rademacher really kyle snyder lite but he keeps cutting to 197!

Bringing this back to weight cutting, Snyder may have cut for 197 one season but I do not think he ever really cut weight. I do not know that I would have assumed Braxton cut weight until he was all of 260 this last year.

can you imagine if he wears that in the room to practice. I think I would have to punch him in the face.. and then run as fast as I possibly can and never return.

70kg lacks anyone that has separated from the field to me khalili is 1-1 with ochir he has never beaten heybatov but I prefer him against the field I think. The start against Aedon as well as the guy he teched for bronze at u20's beat Zahid like a month ago in that tournament right after RAF moscow. Yaz beat Azapira for the spot and Azarpira killed everyone besdies Yoshida at Asians but he did beat Yoshida another instance of is Sadulaev even close to peak form? Snyder has been good but in RAF matches and he was losing almost all of them until guys got tired was that just an out of training camp conditioning thing? Taz seems to have peaked at 20 years old.

I completely agree on the competing front being far less taxing than practice if you remove the weight cutting variable.

My view is that the biggest detriment to guys bodies is competition that involves a weight cuts. I constitue a weight cut as its tuesday I weigh in Friday and my weight is still 147 after practice. I would be shocked if Bo cut more than 1-2lbs during the high school season 65kg may be a bit more of a pull and 141 could be hard. Ultimately I think bo was blessed with a body that can withstand a lot. Keegan has been hurt most of the summer and I think you can argue that Melvins trajectory has been a bit flatter the last 12-18 months and he has also had injuries I would assume they all do the same amount of work in a given 24 hours or were up until a few months ago.

It would appear he and the kennys did not make the trip. They all train together as well as are all Iowa guys so I wonder if someone made the call and felt it best they not go.

I am not seeing Bachmann in the bracket

57kg: Gold: Roman Bravo Young Silver: Valizadeh Bronze: Chong sang Bronze: Tuskaev (Roman has looked great as has Valizadeh Chong songs loss from asians is up at 61. Spencer has not won a meaningful tournament since 2024 trials where you can argue he was just far and away better than the field. I think you can make an argument that he is still that here but it just feels like something always trips him up. Lilledahls recent showing also gives me concerns given he took one from spencer.) 61kg: Gold: Blaze Silver: Uulu Bronze: Uguev Bronze: Haryutunyan (A lot of this is predicated on which side guys are on. I think Uulu can beat uguev and I think Marcus beats Haryutunyan. I am not sure that I currently see a path to Marcus beating Uguev, to me Uguev has more ways to score and can hold center if not control center against Marcus. I would have picked Jax if he was the guy so I am picking Marcus Uulu is my sleeper though that kids crazy and I believe hes 18 or 19.) 65kg: Gold: Amouzad Silver: Mamedov Bronze: Sujeet Bronze: Kudiev (I always like to give myself a buffer by saying I think the weight cut matters for Amouzad. Assuming its ok he is the best guy. Tenabe and Kudiev were the guys I was toying with in the last slot I think both are great and can beat just about anyone. Tairybek zhamashbek uulu is also worth watching out for, he has wrestled Amouzad close has beaten tenabe, bilol sharp uulu who beat blaze last year and Nick lee.) 70kg: Gold: Khalili Silver: Enrie Bronze: Tomiyama Bronze: Heybatov (I have no idea with this weight I want to say it stinks but I think thats just my lean because it lacks guys that I have any confidence in.) 74kg: Gold: Amir Yazdani Silver: Aoyagi Bronze: Sheriev Bronze: Salk (Emami is doing a lot of heavy lifting for Yazdani here. I have been waiting for the Yaz tournament since he got that silver in 2023, key is going to be limiting the damage early against Aoyagi.) 79kg: Gold: Haines Silver: Nohkodi Bronze: Khaniev Bronze: kadik (I just think freestyle is perfect he does not need to finish shots he just needs to get his hands locked and then hes horsing you up and pushing you out. It will be fun to watch and see if Nohkodi can stop levi from getting to his head outside shots.) 86kg: Gold: Natsura okazawa (yeah I did it) Silver: Kadiev Bronze: Ramazonov Bronze: Ghas (Okazawa blew me away at u20's despite not winning it and he earned this spot over returning silver Ishiguro. If he can wrestled for 4 minutes and 30 seconds as long as he does not face Kyle or Dhizoev I think he will be able to fend off everyone else running him down. As to Kyle I think he can win the entire thing but given his age and having lost to Kadiev and Dhizoev its hard for me to see him winning the grind out matches he normally does against this field.) 92kg: Gold: Hoagie Silver: Firouz Bronze: Gahdzimagomedov Bronze: Tckoaev (Trent keeps getting better but I think after getting a feel for him Firouz wrestles a much cleaner match against Gahdzi and then Trent gets a super close match in the finals) 97kg: Gold: Yaz Silver: Saddy cakes Bronze: Taz Bronze: Snyder (gimme in my opinion 2 of the 3 best wrestlers of the 2020's in the finals) 125kg: Gold: Zare Silver: Kassimbek Bronze: sharipov Bronze: Wyatt (I think we see a much better Wyatt, I do not think he can wrestle a clean enough 6 minutes to beat Kassimbek or Zare but I think its a much better showing than last year.) These predictions feel heinous