Truzzcat

you should sweet talk him into throwing his name in the hat for none olympic trials at 70kg if hes qualified I think he can go with those guys depending of course on how he does at u20's I look at his cadet trials in 22 as an outlier.

Blaze hit list off the top of my head #2 Jax forrest - Clarion Open #2 Jax forrest - OTT #1 Luke Lilledahl- WTT wrestle back #1 Luke Lilledahl- Ironman finals #1 Anthony knox x2- U17 finals #3 leo Deluca- Ironman 3/4 #3 Ledo deluca- Ironman semi Matt ramos- Clarion open semi Nico Megaludis- WTT wrestle back I am not super familiar with Locketts results I know he won ironman and took third there and won super 32 but I feel like the two wins the fields were not as loaded. The tech over Meyer is nuts though and that avenged a loss he had at whos 1.

I think It would be very difficult to rebreak the record with this team. Id have them winning 165,197,285 and a shot to win 125,141(I think Alirez and Jesse may separate a bit though), 149,174 (I favor KOT by a decent margin). While I think this lineup has crazy upside similarly to this year I think there's a world where MM and Kerk are the only champs if Keck goes 197 I think he can go with Carter. Im not sure where SVN is at post injury and to go up a weight when I didn't think he was that big at 149 could pose issues. Lilledahl has as good of a chance as 8-10 other guys to win 125. Not sure what to expect from Barr I'm sure he does well and I think nagao is a low AA likely at best. They will win the natty again with ease just not sure if 172 is likely.

all the more reason for blaze to go to Ohio state like Stieber

Just making this since we have a junior open thread and also to ask @Husker_Du if he thinks Rayney is actually going to make 121.

I think that's the plan, he will likely take some weird losses but he's definitely going to upset some people along the way.

Duke vs Webster, Jax Vs Knox,Lilledahl and Bo,Zepeda,lemley,Valencia whoever comes out of those should be absolute treats. I think Mantanona could win 74 hes so much longer than ladarion and sealey.

missed hopke! beau man is Mantanona sorry for the abbreviation.

57kg Notables Forrest (my pick) Lilledahl Knox Deluca Kilkeary Max gallagher Seth Mendoza Nathan Desmond Gage walker Aaron Seidel Isiah Cortez 61kg Notables Kyler larkin JJ McComas Coleman Nogle Zan fugitt Sam Herring Cael Hughes (my pick) Cory Land Elijah Cortez Matthew Botello 65Kg Notables (insane weight) Gabe Bouyssou Jaydon Robinson Jaxon Joy Pierson Manville Tyler Wells Bo Bassett Daniel Zepeda Noah Nininger Tyson Charmoli Drew Gorman Sergio Vega Kollin Rath Jace Roller Sergio Lemley (my pick) Aden Valencia Koy Buesgens 70Kg Cooper Hilton Kody Routledge PJ Duke (my pick) Dorian Olivarez Kannon Webster Landon Robideau Laird Root Paul Kelly Logan Paradice Ej Parco Brandon Cannon 74kg Charlie Millard Braeden Scoles Claudio Torres Dom Bambinelli Joe Sealey Cam Steed Grigor Cholakyan Dee Lockett (my pick) Joey Blaze Beau Man Latrell Schaffer 79kg Zack Ryder Will Henckel Aj Heeg MJ Gaitan Cole Han Lindmeyer Noah Mulvaney Lorenzo Norman Simon Ruiz (my pick) 86kg Cade Ziola Tucker Hogan Max Mcnelly Tate NaaKtgeboren Aiden Ysaguirre Ryder Rogotzke Aedon Sinclair (my pick) 92kg Connor Mirasola (my pick) Gavin Nelson karson Thompkins Sonny Sasso Justin rademacher Mikey Dellegatta 97kg Cole Mirasola Camden Mcdaniel (my pick) 125Kg Aden Attao Rocco Dellegatta nicholas Sahkian Jim Mullen (my pick)

I think the addition of a shot clock or a pushout to folk would be awesome but aside from that I enjoy two different styles and I think a pushout would be enough to make the transition to free fairly seamless aside from quad pod and obvious exposure stuff.

It almost seemed like if you scored an offensive point at any point in the match, they would not put you on the clock unless you were completely disengaging from contact.

I'm a big big fan of both Larkin brothers but they have been better at free than folk for as long as I've seen them on the scene so I would not expect a one for one translation of results to folk style. That being said I think he can be a national champ and potentially a 4x aa

I think at this point and time ghasempour could potentially be better than Yaz. Yaz beat him in 2019 6-3 and in 2020 5-2 for the world and olympic team but Ghasempour was 22 and 23 at the time and Yaz was probably in his prime. I would assume Ghasempour is in his prime now and Yaz may be out of if similarly to Taylor seemingly. Either way Aaron is my pick but I think a healthy Yazdani may be the ever so slightly easier matchup.

@Husker_Dulikely has some insight

Purely because there is so much separation from duke and the other guys around his weigh in the class of 2025. Where as while Blaze I think is better than Knox and Deluca they are both relatively comparable to his skill level. Bouzakis may be the closest comp to duke and Duke beat him 21-8 last time they wrestled. After writing that I checked what class ladarion Lockett is and hes also 2025 and I would have him and duke near a coin flip so Im good with blaze at #1

Brandon cannon is registered for 70kg for u20's I think thats notable I'm super high on him and he jumped up weight a lot in High school being at 106 and then I heard was sub 100lbs after his treatments he may be growing late and I think he'd be a great option at 157.

I agree but if it's best for the team I think he would do it. I also think he may want to grow into a 149 to be full sized for 65kg moving forward so he could use a year to do that.

Thayne was very good but not near as good as Rune imo and while Lehigh does tremendous with their lighter weights they seem to have issues developing the heavier guys.

57Kg: Blaze 57Kg: Forrest 65kg: Jesse 74kg: MM 86kg: Brooks 86kg: Trent

On board with all of these wondering if we could see Aaron or DT maybe at 92 doubt both but potentially one of them I think Aaron will look to grow into 97 for 2028. I would probably go Zain at 70 if he wrestles he may retire after the olympics or just opt to not wrestle at worlds but if he does I doubt he goes 65. Ladarion Lockett looked really really good at 74kg and I think hes pretty undersized for that weight so he may have a shot as well. Kaleb Larkin is another one I think could do very well I think the cut to 65 is pretty brutal for him. Overall if we keep the same guys in from the olympics aside from zain but flip in Lee/Alirez/Jesse/Yianni I think 70 is our only weight with an outside shot to medal unless zain goes very high hopes for both worlds and olympics.

beat Knox two matches to zero to make u17 team last year won gold 2-1 against Jax in High school 2-0 against Lilledahl beat him in iron man finals 2 years ago beat Nico at the trials beat Ramos at clarion open apparently trains with Jesse a lot at Ohio State 2 high school losses one off a fleeing the mat call to deluca at iron man in OT that he avenged for 3/4 and to davino in rideouts this year at ironman I think he is the best p4p wrestler in high school right now as far as recruiting goes you have him,jax,knox all sorta around the same weight for now although I think blaze and Jax end up in the 141-149 range so I would have him as the #2 recruit for 2025 behind duke simply because of separation from guys around your weight. I hope he goes to Ohio State he seems to train there a lot and with Jesse and Feldman having at least two more years welsh having three and him and davino coming in I think they could push PSU potentially.

Mitchell and Kyle

they move very similar and MM's stance and movement was quite different prior to PSU so I believe that for sure. Pace has always been there but the in and out footwork and the stance switching at least to the degree it is now I did not see in his first u20 run and even as much in the second as is prevalent now. It'll be interesting if he tightens things up like Nolf did, it will make him less exciting but in Nolfs case made him much better on the senior level.

Thought the embrace with Taylor was quite nice to see. While I think the religious talk gets a bit overblown he seems like a very genuine young man and backs his words with the way he carries himself unlike some of the others. His wrestling speaks for itself even with yazandi in the field if the moment does not get to him Brooks is my pick and I don't think it will because if he believes everything he says god has him so there's really no need to put the olympics above any other tournament hes competed in.

Im really shocked that DT was able to get his hands locked a few times but Aaron just buried him with his hips. Not because I did not think Aaron had good hips but because Zahid was able to get past them twice and mirasola to an extent but iirc it was more of a throw by and then running the corner.