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Carr secures Bronze, and revenge over Salkazanov. Match wasn't as close as the 4-4 score. Carr wrestled well all tournament with the exception of 3 minute first period against Takahashi. He's a threat on his feet. Good warmup for worlds! *Also, Khaniev looks either homeless or hipster- maybe both.

Honestly, Carini's ranking is a bit too high and he looked pretty lackluster in all his matches. But he's got a few more years. Joseph Antonio out of SJB is a better long term prospect IMO- great pickup for Army.

I can admit when I'm 50% wrong! lol! Bassett does have a cadet gold. We'll have to refer to their recent HTH match between Blaze and Bassett then for this tiebreaker then!

Oh thank God! For a minute there I thought it might just be me (it still very well could be)! I'll PM you our trip details once we get it all squared away.

Let that (above bold) sink in for a second...it wasn't too long ago when we were all fawning over Blaze, remember, like when he beat Forrest at Olympic trials and when he beat Bassett at World trials? Oh yeah, and he's the only one mentioned so far that actually owns an age level world gold medal. Dean Heil could only be so lucky!!! This thread feels a bit like a "what have you done for me lately" kinda thing.

OMG- thanks for sharing!! This seriously had me rolling. Comedy gold! "For every action, there is an inaction." ~Wayne Newton

Pretty good! This is one of my all-time favs (Insta link below). . . Instagram

Lol! Wrong thread but still a good post! John Azevedo was my high school wrestling coach.

Obviously not as straight-forward as is seems. . .there's a lot of great back-to-back combos historically. Great thread!

ok, that's F'n funny!

Who's going? Anyone from this forum want to make a plan to get together and put faces to avatars, drink some beer and become besties for life over our love of wrestling? Let me know . . .I'll make T-shirts!

haha! I wrestled in college with a dude out of Illinois who (actually) changed his name to Martin Hammers . . . everybody saw it coming!

Being true to my CA roots, while not technically qualified, it seems disingenuous (almost criminal) to not include Mark Schultz in this tread. He's the ultimate Diamond in the Rough- hear me out . . . Mark Schultz won a CA state championship his senior year (1978) wrestling for Palo Alto High, which technically disqualifies him from this thread. He won in R16 7-6, Quarters 4-4 OT, 5-2 in semis and 7-4 in finals, hardly dominate, but also upsetting 3 undefeated wrestlers along the way. What makes his senior run improbable (and more so his later accomplishments), is that prior to winning that state title, he is the only wrestler in CA history to never win a single tournament before his run up to a state title (just crazy). Mark's official CA high school record is 34-8, including 4-6 as a junior. Not highly recruited, he attended UCLA and went 18-8 as a freshman...transfers Oklahoma in 1979 and redshirts- fails to place in every tournament that year (flashback to high school). We all know what happens after that...In 1980, unranked, beats #1 Mike DeAnna, gets ranked #2 and goes on to win 3 NCAA D1 Championships, including denying Ed Banach (another all-time great) a chance to become the first 4x D1 champ. Continues on to be a 2x World Champ, Olympic Champ, and a legend in our sport.

Feels like Steve Neal should be the poster boy for this. Placed 4th as a senior in HS in 1994 (only time he placed), goes to CSU Bakersfield where he proceeds to go 4,2,1,1 at NCAAs (last 2 seasons undefeated), wins US Open, Pan Ams, and a World Championship in 1999, and second at 2000 Olympic Trials. Switches to football and becomes a 3x Super Bowl Champ with the Patriots. Who woulda thunk it? Nothing short of spectacular! ...There's also Anthony Cassar...

Does Social = open bar? Sounds promising . . .

Haha! I liked your post (well, Bob Doled it). To be fair, I'm not sure he was actually referring to your post. That said, I've made 134 terrible posts (and counting)...I just keep coming back and this forum just keeps putting up with me!

Crazy to think that this was the first post of this thread: If true: dirty, dirty, dirty. ...and here we are now!

Dude just got teched in 45 seconds in European U20 semis...2-on-1 drag by then laced. Didn't really get the chance to see what he had (first time seeing him). He did kinda look like the wrestling version of Kramer tho.

You need to push your computer harder . . . it's not smoking yet!

Couple of Minnesota guys maybe- Mike Kroells or Sonny Yohn??

With all due respect, I'd like an explanation too- I don't exactly get it. Also, I'm terrible at my job!

The last one was tough...but like a true underdog, I pushed through and wasn't going to be denied (the hints helped)! Verlyn Strellner, Iowa, 1969. Beat Ed Bannat (8) from Navy in R1, Charles Shivers (1) Oklahoma in Quarters, Lost to Chuck Jean (4), Iowa State in Semis. Verlyn then managed to avoid the let down on the front side and Proceeded to beat John Sorchinsky (5) from BYU in the consi semis. Wrapping up his 3rd place finish, he beat Ken Bos (2) from Cal Poly. Quite a run! I love this kind of trivia, and a lot of these names I haven't heard in a long time, so it's nostalgic . . . but it took up 2 hours of my weekend/morning!

Hate to say it but I saw this coming back in 2018. We were at World Championships in Budapest heading to our hotel from the event about 10pm and saw Aaron Brooks ahead of us. At that time, he had committed to PSU but was still out in Colorado Springs. He jumped the turnstile to the Subway without paying (when he thought nobody was watching). I turned to my brother and said, "Now there's a dude who will have no problem using PEDs." For the record, we would have jumped it too, but our fat a$$es would have ended up on an Insta bloopers reel so we paid.

Oh, Gotcha! So bottom half of bracket is 17-31 seeds- that's what you meant! lol!

Brock Hardy? 2024 NCAAs? He beat 4 guys ranked in the top 8 and took 3rd but is probably remembered more for getting spladled. *sigh