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Plebe. Reminds me of that quote in The Breakfast Club, "You guys think I'm just some untouchable peasant? Serf? Peon?" by the janitor, Carl. I love the scene where it pans across photos on the wall at the high school and you see that Carl was once the Man of the Year at that school.

For what it's worth, he's still listed on the Newberry College wrestling roster. For those who don't know, Newberry College is a small DII Lutheran school in South Carolina with approximately 1500 students. Regarding the wrestling program, they only sent two wrestlers to last season's National tournament. Both wrestlers went 1 and 2.

They are DII.

Ono seems to be thoroughly enjoying his time at Penn State. I remember seeing a video of him at Rec Hall for a Penn State dual and he was obviously having a grand time. He is a young man who seems to live life to the fullest. He is getting to enjoy college life, make new friends, and experience America up close. Not every world class athlete wants to make their life all about their athletic pursuits. Ono is also young enough that he can afford to take this wrestling "detour" and get back to his freestyle pursuits. In short, I think Ono is "living his best life." Kudos to him for taking the "road less traveled".

Blaze's stance, hand fighting and head/hands defense frustrated him so much that he looked totally helpless by the end of the match. The way Blaze wrestles is built for freestyle, much more than folk. I'm really looking forward to how he does at Senior Worlds.

@LJBI have a question for you since it is kind of Greco-centric. I noticed several beautiful arm spins today, but none from U.S. wrestlers. I was wondering if you have an opinion about why we see so few arm spins by U.S. freestyle wrestlers? TIA

USA Wrestling just came out with their new qualifying procedures for Worlds and the Olympics. One change they made is that any delayed wrestle-off has to be completed by the end of July. That particular rule change is touched on in the latest Baschamania video which I listed below. The video starts at the beginning of that particular discussion. https://youtu.be/B-ESkNyV8eA?t=773

One thing regarding Flo that drives me a little crazy because it has consistently occurred over the last few years is that in freestyle matches they list the weights as 57 lbs., 61 lbs., etc. In the big scheme of things it is nothing important, but I am still surprised how often Flo makes that mistake. I know Flo gets a lot of grief, but $150 a year is well worth it for me for all of their content.

In Pyles' recent interview of Cael, Cael said this regarding if Ono will be wrestling in a Penn State singlet: "It could be this year, it could be next year, but he's definitely going to wrestle at Penn State, hopefully for a couple years."

Mark never making a Senior world team was surprising also. It just shows the depth in the U.S. It didn't help him that Dake and Burroughs were at his weight.

On the other end of the scale is Russia, with eleven time zones.

Something seemed off with him in both his greco and freestyle matches.

Caliendo wouldn't be eligible. Per the University of Iowa: Wrestled unattached in 2021-22 in his redshirt season, going 14-2 overall

Crazy to think James just turned 18 five weeks ago. It will be interesting to see him compete against these older wrestlers.