Wrasslin

so, remember the 2019 Sr Nationals Olympic qualifiers in Texas? Erik Hinkley (male version of Eve Berrington) wrestled Collin Moore and gets destroyed because he had no business being there (video below). My bro and I were in the stands making fun of him (as we should). Turns out, his daughter was sitting in the next row down and turns to us (after he got teched in less than a minute), tells us that she is his daughter, starts chastising us, and say's that it doesn't matter because he's having fun! I told her, "I've done a lot of losing in wrestling and it's not fun; neither is looking old and fat in a singlet!" True story.

LOL! (although not so funny today, D3)! I just want to sleep it off and instead I'm forced to do like, work or something. I wish I could say I'll be smarter about it next time! . . . still freestyle, my answer didn't change tho!

Freestyle all day every day. Last thing I want to see is a bunch of $hitty leg passes. Sorry, I'm 4 cocktails in on a Thursday night and posting on a wrestling blog- tells you where my life is at!

OMG- this really made me laugh! I'm fancy though, I frequent Red Lobster- their kitchen sweepings are divine- one might say worthy of Adam and Eve!

She's wrestling's equivalent of Raygun, that spastic Australian breakdancer . . . so brave; so brave!

I am under the assumption that she (or anyone) does not need permission from USA Wrestling to suck at wrestling and make an underwhelming, factually inaccurate, home-video quality movie. She was teched in her first match by Mallory Velte, who while very good (2x world bronze medalist), is not a world champion as her coach claimed (while grinning ear to ear like he just got let on a carnival ride despite not meeting the minimum height requirement). I'm sure there are other instances too, I just didn't have the bandwidth to watch that chic (or her coach) talk anymore.

Interesting! When I look at the Mantanonas (both), I don't immediately think, "Now there's a couple of dudes who spent some time in the weight room with Les Gutches."

I'd like to see him do well this season (since it's his last). Coming out of HS, I really thought he'd compete for a national title at some point- maybe he still can. What weight will he be at? 174?

I don't disagree (I do like using double negatives) with anything you've said here. Fair points.

It's eerily specific...like, if I were to go to the side of the highest peak in the Delaware Water Gap, what else would I find?

I second above- it really depends. I remember in 2018 USAW called me about being team translator for Greco for their camp which was held in a small city named Tata, about 50km outside of Budapest, to which I responded, "Wait, we have a Greco team?" I didn't get a second call back! haha! I bring this up because I vaguely remember their camp starting 3 weeks before the actual tournament (Budapest, Hungary), but it varies year to year based on a bunch of factors.

I'm interested to see how Aden Valencia and Jack Consiglio works out at 141lbs for Stanford as both are coming off of redshirt freshman year. I'm think both will have decent careers. Mason Gibson at Rutgers piques my interest- he could have success As does Jaxon Joy at Cornell - I thought he represented himself well at U20s Although not new wrestler (but new to Minnesota), I hope Jore Volk does well coming off medical redshirt Also Miguel Estrada at Iowa, although they pulled his redshirt (stupid), I'm still counting him here and I think he can be very good if he doesn't lose focus.

Who's the Russian? U20 European Championships is end of June so not even decided. What am I missing? Lay it on me, Truzzcat!

James in final (only). Cerchio (2nd) and Perentin for 3rd. Good showing for them!

Zepeda and Vega on Mat 2 locked at 6-6 going into second period. It's intriguing matchup (and action-packed)!

I just muted the Flo announcers . . . can't do it anymore . . .

Where's Villasenor headed to college? OKST is gonna be loaded at lower weights. Does he go elsewhere? Impressive showing for him (although he loses to Knox).

I def think Lockett beats both (my point being James/Denny would also fare well at worlds). I really want to see a James/Lockett match to see how James stacks up. Like I said, we're in good hands at 74kg!

I'm fine with either being our U20 rep (including finals). We're in good hands at 74kg.

Hard not to think the same thing . . . and he's age appropriate for a junior in high school!

I think they called him a Penn Stater . . .

He's put on a lot of muscle between since beginning last year. I still think he's going to Stanford- I don't think he follows his brother to OKST. I'm wrong a lot too, though.

I do like how they're running U20s straight through; I wish they would do that more often . . . I hate waiting around!

I never let facts get in the way of message board postings!

Desmond's decent- mine was more of a rebuke of Castillo, who seems to be seeded high all the time and hasn't won anything in like, 3 years. Baffling . . .