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Main talking points for me Blaze ranked third behind Duke at 1 and Lockett at 2 Knox as a 6 star but Robideau being a 5 star (I think I would make Knox a 5 star rather than Robideau a 6) Leo deluca at 8 (I think this is the proper spot for him based on his results however I think he is one of very few people you can pencil in for a career at 125 and I think that is HUGE in terms of recruiting and projecting for the future so I may have him a smidge higher) I think the main place of contention will be with Duke, Blaze, Lockett and where they should be 1,2,3 I personally understand that when you look at the 2024 big board and the 2026 big board and of course 2025 133-149 has way more dudes than 157-174 have which is where Duke and Lockett project. While I think that is important I just have a hard time not putting a guy with 2 wins over the 1 big boarder in 2024 and 2 wins over the 1b big boarder for 2026. This is before you take into account his 4 wins over national finalists, 3 wins over senior world team members and sprinkle in his win over the crystal balls #2 at 133 this year all in the last 12 months. @Husker_Du Great big board as always

Anyone else becoming an Ono fan because of all the flow content with him?

Excited to see what the entrants look like for the clarion open. Mccort brought nearly half their team last year and Blaze also went. I believe it is on Ohio states schedule as well as purdues so we could get some really fun matches.

I think Stanford may be punting this year. I've heard Cardenas is red shirting and Valencia did not wrestle off Miranda publicly which I believe would have been the true wrestle off for the spot. They return everyone aside from Stemmet and Abas next year, but I think by next year EJ parco may be even better than Abas.

I think the simplest way to do so would be to make the trials take place on different days so that they don't need to pick one or the other. Or make it so if you win the u23 spot and are u20 eligible you can get a special wrestle off.

I am actually pumped David got Sadulaev round one. He has been a slow starter in his last few tournaments, and this is likely his first time down to scratch 92kg since 2016? I think he probably got a few kg for his wrestle off.

As the posts above allude to, I think the issue is our college guys are not really doing u23's or at least our elite college guys, and they take place at the exact same time as u20's so our elite younger guys have to pick and choose.

I think it's a product of it being an olympic year as well as being one week prior to none olympic weight worlds. Other nations seem to have much better qualifying processes as well compared to us. I truly think our u20 team would have out performed this team at every weight aside from 74 and 92kg.

Not that Margin of victory means a ton especially when you extrapolate out over a year but Ben davino beat Andre Gonzalez 11-1 in their wrestle off. Gonzalez wrestled off Bouzakis for the spot last year and Bouzakis beat him 7-6.

its on flow if you go to floarena just find it in the bracket and click on it

It was certainly a weird match but it felt like Takahashi could score at will and I do think he was legitimately hurt his knee was at a crazy angle with some rotational force on it when he started screaming. Definitely agree on Mitchell looking filled out. Would like to see him change levels more he seems to be looking for a lot of short offense and not firing as much.

Kota Takahashi just beat Messenbrink 11-8. He seemed to hurt his knee pretty badly or was super tired at the end he was up 11-4 with about 15 seconds left. Regardless I have not see anyone dispatch Messenbrink in that way since he was in High school. Uww has his age 21 he won the senior asian games this year beating Viktor Rassadin this year who was 5th at the olympics and split with Cherman valiev this year who was bronze at the olympics and beat zhamolov until they called him for evading in the final 4 seconds.

Not sure Kyler is making 133 in a year unless he does not fill out at all. He's wrestled all his college matches the last two seasons in opens at 141.

if you put Beau,Jesse,Alirez tier 1 I would say he slots in comfortably tier 2 assuming he manages the cut.

if Casey navigates 141 I think he's a contender. I however think it will negatively affect what makes him so good.

I would assume Ech loses crazy weight when he sweats just because he carries so much water in his muscles but maybe those last few pounds when he's dehydrated are terrible.

I know the first 5 listed who are probably the most notable are all confirmed.

Magomaev is probably the on-paper favorite with youth on his side. JB is either 2-0 or 3-0 against Nohkodi I believe the only Iranian he's ever lost to is Savadkhoui. Kentchadze on his best day can probably beat anyone. As for me JB is still my pick for the weight but if any of Nohkodi,JB,Magomaev won it all I would not be surprised in the least.

will they wrestle semis and the finals tonight of the weights with four guys?

If anyone can beat some cardio into Zahid, it's going to be David and if Zahid can even get to like 5 minutes of cardio before he falls off a cliff, he will be a hard out for anyone in the world.

Not sure I would expect similar results from last year at 125 but if he ends up a true 149 I think that bodes really well for him long term. Wrestling lighter fast guys his entire life I would imagine he will have a great speed advantage over the still fast but not quite as fast guys.

Yeah, I saw him narrowly beat Zahid and then beat DT who then went on to look considerably better at wtt's including beating Zahid twice by a greater margin than Aaron. Aaron went on to get bronze in a field that DT had dominated for years. Aaron was better that day 100% I'm not convinced he is 100% currently better than DT and I certainly would take DT in a room setting over Aaron at this time.

Matty lopes down at 125 is super super interesting I honestly dont know the last time he was that low. Sheldon would be my pick there but still very cool. I heard Stanich was weighing like 160 but still crazy to think he could go from 125-149.