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The NCWA (National Collegiate Wrestling Association) has has a 235 pound class in addition to the NCAA weights since the 1998-1999 season. That was the same year that the NCAA increased heavyweight from 275 to 285 and was the last year that the other weights changed as well. At the time the NCAA debated adding a weight class below heavyweight, but due to bureaucracy it didn't happen. But the NCWA, being solely devoted to wrestling and having less bureaucracy, added the weight class with a flip of a switch and it's been a great thing since then.

Kyle Dake was an Olympic bronze medalist, not a gold medalist.

You have the number of Hodge trophy winners as 2, but it's actually 3 because of Hendrickson.

Apparently he led bible studies with the PSU team.

Exactly. I'm sure Starocci and Barr wouldn't be defending the same actions if it was done by someone from say, Iowa or Okie State.

UNI won way back in 1950 when the school was called Iowa State Teachers College.

Thank you.

What is the 3x5?

Normally it is two hour weigh-ins these days, but for whatever reason they're doing weigh-ins at the Olympic Village rather than at the venue, so to allow for transport it is a 4 hour weigh-in for this tourney.

To add insult to injury, some of the track events now have a repechage (no joke), where if you don't make it out of the prelim round you have a second chance to make it to the semis. Compared to wrestling where there's still the potential to go 0-1, there are now some track events where a runner is guaranteed to race in at least two rounds.

Agreed. Lopez may be "unbeatable" in some minds, but I doubt he scares his opponents the way Karelin did. Karelin's reverse lift was ruthless.

Am I the only one not seeing a replay of today's semifinal session? I was able to watch replays of all of yesterday's sessions, as well as today's prelim and medal sessions, but not the semis. EDIT: Never mind - it looks like Peacock combined it into the replay of today's medal matches. Super intuitive...

I'm considering paying the $7.99 for a one month subscription to Peacock, but because of my work schedule I'd like the ability to replay matches because I won't be able to see most of them live. Can someone please confirm if Peacock let's you watch replays on demand? If not, it probably won't be worth it for me.

Well said - great article - we need more people talking about this!

Also stay away from pickup basketball games. I think I remember him getting injured in a pickup game at the OTC.