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He had lost in the wrestle off to yazdani on three different occasions I believe, none of them being super competitive. edit: the three wrestle offs occurred prior to the injury this year I'm not aware what transpired with the injury situation this year.

"don't let him get to his hooks, but also don't shoot on him because he will go miss direction and re-attack you. Also keep your feet back or he will pick you. Oh and no short offense because his chest wrap is insane."

The Turkish fella Duman lost to Zane richards at the Zegreb in January this year. Pretty incredible run from him.

I would not be at all surprised if AB takes snyders spot at 97 for 2028 I don't see him descending to 86 if he fills out into 92kg.

It's extremely unlikely he ends up having the career Buvaisar did however he beat a 3x world and olympic champ 10-2 and a world champ 12-0 Id have to see what satievs run was like his first year and who he beat.

Japan could win 57kg: Guchi 61kg: Ono 65kg: Kiyooka 70kg: Aoyagi as well as a silver at 74 and potentially a bronze at 79 pretty insane stuff this year by Japan.

serious bottle job by nohkodi if that was the last time JB steps foot on the mat and I did not get to watch it because of flows stream crashing I will be rather upset.

Very interesting result if Aoyagi beats sheriev he just lost to a Russian last week at u23's, Sheriev won the spot at Russian nats.

That is absolutely insane was it definitive he was not age cheating? Im always concerned with Russia,Turkey,Iran in that regard but thats partially because they grow beards at 11 and I did not get my first whisker until I was 19.

Blaze losing to Ono 7-2 is looking like one of the more impressive losses out there when you factor in him teching everyone else at u20's beating uguev 10-2 and Vito 12-0

Kentchadze is a monster will be a great match Takahashi did wrestle 74kg less than a week ago though and looked super small comparatively he also has a bum wheel so Im taking that match with a grain of salt.

Thats the best 20 year old to ever grace a wrestling mat.

He's up 45lbs from where he started in college and wrestled hard against maybe the best to ever step on the mat nothing to be embarrassed about not to mention he is 4x world and Olympic champ not too shabby if you ask me.

Saw some people saying Uguev was washed on twitter. He beat Bashir Magomedov at Russian nats to win the spot, bashir has won the past two u23 titles and teched his way through the field this year. Ono is just that damn good. Also great performance by JB vintage if I do say so myself.

ono is in fact good

Not entirely sure why the gameplan was to go underneath him especially after bagaev scored 7 points off an outside step high c/single none the less great effort by David and Sadulaev looks in form.

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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.