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He was extremely competitive with Knox, and I believe it was first match off the scale at the open. I think he has an incredibly high ceiling, but I also think the Raney's will benefit immensely from being in that room and if that is the case I am not sure where he fits in aside from redshirt years? That being said I firmly believe okst has the best room in the country from 125-149 yes I know PSU has lilledahl,blaze,ono,svn,nick lee,zain,Gillman but Ramirez,Jax,Zinkin,Raney's,Fix,RBY,Swiderski,Sakamoto,Figs,Spratley,Hughes,Jamison,Vega I think there is something to be said about getting a ton of different feels of really good guys who also have different styles.

That's where he is from originally right?

Did coach Robinson get a better position? I feel like it was only a matter of time.

Taking this into consideration I would likely predict Henckel to DNP and Mcnelly to take silver.

Agree, I'm not sure how long Ronnie holds down 125 though he seems really tall and long for that weight.

is anyone aware if Ghas is getting his weight down or this is his normal walk around weight? He is look quite insane physically at the moment.

from what I saw they all tried to wrestle from space but when they did hand fight him they all cleared ties and deflected his pressure tried to time him reaching. They are all also insanely fast and powerful Takahashi and burroughs I believe a bit more so than Carr.

He is getting thick he said to seabass when he called him in that video that he was between 150-155 right now.

Takahashi/Carr/Burroughs all wrestle extremely similar and own the only wins over Mitchell since he got to PSU.

Nolf vs Wick now confirmed. Not sure if a weight was announced hoping its like 180 I think nolf is a big favorite at 174 but I think full feed Wick could be dangerous.

crazy ceiling he is going to have to battle to make that lineup though Zinkin is going to be nails.

Messenbrink seems to be anointed as a 3 time national champion and I am not going to argue against that. However I think two new additions to 165 next year could make things interesting. Joey blaze has looked awesome this summer and I think is a better folkstyle wrestler at this point, I think being able to eat more is going to help his development a lot on top of him being reportedly only 19 or at least as of trials. The other guy that I think adds a wrinkle to the mix is Ladarion lockett. He is probably still a year or two away from entering that conversation but he is in the only room that has talent and coaching around his size to rival PSU and I think has a similar style that has proved to give Mitchell some issue.

Bachmann mentioned being really excited about the Missou call in the flow video about his recruiting. I am still in the lehigh camp but my gut is saying Missouri,Lehigh,ohio state top 3.

I was impressed that Erfan was competitive with Yoshida because I think yoshida is the 4th best guy in the world right now.

do you think Erfan can challenge Azarpira soon?

I am hoping its Shamispour at 79 as a wrestling fan. As someone who wants america to do really well I hope he is not there though.

I think it was more of the injury limiting training or making him skeptical about training. He was posting him doing training lab stuff leading in but I wonder if they were not letting him wrestle when he got tired to try and avoid injury. I think you can do all the running/versa climber/bike in the world but if you arent blowing your lungs out wrestling I just don't think you can be in peak wrestling shape.

If Henckle medals at Junior worlds this year then I would say he is in the mix for 2028. There are 2-3 legit senior level guys at his weight. Ferrari and Mcnelly will probably still be 86's by then as well although I have not seen Angelo wrestle freestyle in like 4 years.

I selfishly hope most of them go up. I want keegan at 74 if he can because I think he can win gold at his best but we are going to have someone that can medal at 74 no matter what. If zahid cant stay at this level for 2 more years we may be considerably weaker with depth at 86.

He certainly could I am not sure he had the width in his frame that David had. He is going to be sandwiched between Lockett and Zahid in 2028 so he should have a good idea where he stacks up best.

Excited to see if Hamiti can keep the ball rolling. I really love how he wrestles for Freestyle. He will never be a olympic guy unless he can handle the cut to 74kg but I think he could be a great 79.

57kg: I do not really know what to make of Anthony Knox. He dominated the open against a field that was not super proven and then dropped a match to Ignacio Villasenor who just Dnp'd at fargo and got 4th at cadet trials. Knox showed really good counter wrestling a lot of chest wraps and he has always been great on top. I worry that if he allows guys in on his legs like he did Ignacio he may not be able to convert points like he did at trials. The biggest threats are going to be Bagirhov of Azerbijan he won the u20 European championships and took second to pavlov at u23's (pavlov is who Luke beat in the finals last year). Zangaladze from georgia took silver at Euros and beat a guy who I was very high on Ozdamirov who went on to get Bronze. Caio Aaron won pan ams over Antonio mills and he will be a tough out he is a USA guy representing Brazil and another guy wrestling in the united states that will be competing is Rin Sakamoto who took 5th at senior Asians and I think will present Knox with some serious issues. Prediction for Knox: DNP (I think he has the upside to win the entire thing I just was not thrilled with his last performance) 61kg: I fully expect Blaze to win this weight and dominate. His biggest test will likely come from Toktamotov from Kyrgestan who won the asian championships or Japans rep who did not compete there. However the guy from japan that did compete took second and I assume this guy beat him out for the spot. Jax beat the Japanese rep at cadets back in 2022. Adlan satiev (adam satievs son) is also in the field but I do not think he has much for Blaze but he is very fun to watch. Prediction for Blaze: Gold 65kg: This weight is very tough and we only have domestic data points for Blaze. Toprak and Dhzandubaev are going to be the main tests for Stanich. Toprak has been competing at juniors since he was cadet eligible and has always been in bronze medal matches, I think he is a legit top 20ish in the world senior level guy. Dhzandubaev owns two wins over him this year one by tech at u20's and one 6-4 at u23's both tournaments he won gold. I think given those results Dhzandubaev is the guy to beat but I think Stanich can certainly do so. I worry a bit that international refs may be quicker to hit stanich with passivity and for that I think I am giving Dhzandubaev the edge but again I think he can win the entire thing Prediction for Stanich: Silver 70kg: I mean I do not think there is a ton to go into here PJ should demolish this field. I think the second and third best u20 guys in the world could very well be Melvin Miller and Landon Robideau. Baitukaev has aged out but even if he was in this field I would still confidently pick PJ. Prediction for PJ: Gold 74kg: This weight is good. Khaniev took 5th at u23's last year as a 17 year old and won u23 euros this year. He did however lose to Manuel wagin at u20 euros who is also in this field and beat Melvin miller 7-0 last year at cadets. After saying all that I am still picking Ladarion but he will definitely be tested. Prediction for Lockett: Gold 79kg: For my money this is the deepest weight at worlds. Fortunately Shamispour is not competing for Iran he is a monster won cadets last year beating Wagin and was firmly in the running to potentially make Irans senior team. Begenjov from Turkmenistan is the returning champ and is an absolute monster he beat Ryder soundly in the finals. However he did lose in the asian semis to Amit from india who went on to beat shamispour in the finals. He was leading 6-1 at the time of getting pinned though so he is still my pick. Saidulov the russian rep is also good he took 5th last year but he lost to LJ Araujo who Henckel just handled so I dont see him as being a huge threat. Prediction for henckel: Bronze 86kg: This weight is kind of a 2 horse race for me. Papinashvilli from Georgia is very good he beat the returning bronze medalist from Turkey in the Euro finals and I think he is really the only guy that can go with Max. That being said I really like Max's pace and offense against the European guys. prediction for Mcenelly: Gold 92kg: Poyonov is a legit probably top 10 guy senior level at this weight. He took silver at senior asians last year and fifth this year only losing to firouzpour 5-0 who is probably the favorite to win worlds and dauletbekov 2-1 who is a former world medalist. Togoev I do not know anything about he is 18 and won Euros but his age makes me optimistic Connor will have a physicality advantage. Prediction for Connor: Silver 97kg: Erfan the Iranian is a monster he won bronze at cadets in 2022 but dominated his way through u20 asians and lost 3-2 to Yoshida in the finals of the ranking series (Yoshida beat Snyder this year). He will be a decided favorite over Radamacher but I expect Radamacher to able to medal against this field like he did last year. Genos brother? Konstanine Petriashvilli is also in this field and he won Euros. I think he has improved a lot but he had a very close match with Elijah Diakomihlais last year who got the spot because Dreshaun was hurt and Dreshaun teched him to make the team so I like Radamacher in that one. Prediction for Radamacher: silver 125kg: I truthfully do not know much outside of Gogolaev obliterated the field at euros and the Russian people seem to think he is going to fix their heavyweight issues. Cole is going to be able to wrestle with everyone there I do worry about his size a bit and giving up ground. I would have loved to see him hit Merill at some point to see how he handles that. Prediction for Cole: Silver

I am very interested in a Taz vs Azapira rematch as well as a Sadulaev rematch. Azarpira is young as well so I suppose those two could battle it out for awhile but it sort of feels like this could be the last year someone can knock Taz off.

Really great for the program. I was under the impression that the Ivy's could not compete in the NIL sweepstakes has that been lifted or are these funds going to go to facilities/scholarships? Edit: I think a full ride to have a Penn degree is worth a lot more than money over 4-5 years for the most part.

I am not sure if fox has any relation with the UFC but a deal with UFC fight pass, I think would have been really beneficial. Your best chance of getting people immediately outside of wrestling fandom is the MMA crowd. I follow a few Russian accounts on twitter and some of them are Dagestani and some are Chechen, and they follow both the wrestlers and MMA guys from that region religiously. I think they would tune into cards to see young prospects that may still be in the amateur scene wrestle similarly to how they watch them do grappling events.