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Iowa already did this for at least two duals last season. Against Cal Baptist and Oregon State they wrestled 133 Brody Teske 141 Real Woods 149 Victor Voinovich 157 Jared Franek 165 Michael Caliendo 184 Brennan Swafford All six were transfers. By the end of the season Voinovich lost his spot to Rathjen and Swafford was assessed a gambling ban that had been overlooked. At time throughout the year Schriever wrestled in favor over Teske, but Teske had regained the spot by Big Tens.

It's more clever than his attempt to blame Glazier and the fans in his interview with Clash of Combat immediately after the Salute.

He seems to be embracing it, which given his position may be his best play. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-K--U3JSr6/?igsh=MWlheGdleGtuNzRlOQ==

It's even worse than that. They only entered 9 wrestlers at PAC-12s last year. 8 of them went 0-3 finishing in 6th place. Despite the name there are only 6 teams in the PAC-12 and they had 5th place matches at the tournament. So 8 of their 9 wrestlers were dead last. The last guy you correctly pointed out was 1-2. He finished 5th.

Maybe they blew the entire budget getting Ferrari on campus in the first place?

Maybe they kept them vacant intentionally. They will use the money to hire a videographer to document Ferrari and security to keep him out of trouble instead of assistant coaches?

The Bakersfield team site only has a head coach listed (Luke Smith) with both assistant positions vacant. They should probably hire some coaches first. They are a team coming off an 0-12 season with a head coach and no assistants...

Greco did have one of the biggest story lines of the 2024 games - Lopez winning a 5th gold. This may have influenced the poll.

Razambek Zhamalov received a parade in Dagestan. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-7t2zLs_t5/?igsh=YzJkY3ExZ3oyaXox

8. Is Nick Lee going to be actively competing now that's he's an assistant coach. Even if Dake is done along with Lee and everyone else Jimmy listed NLWC still has Lilledahl, Bartlett, Haines, Messenbeink, Facundo, Starocci, Brooks, Dean, Mirasola, Snyder, and Kerkvliet who all qualified for the last Olympic trials. HWC only had two wrestlers at the OTT Spencer Lee and Alex Marinelli. Marinelli retired. Spencer sounds like he's on the fence. Sure they picked up Buchannon and Teamer, but they are still way behind.

During Nolf's match one of the announcers mentioned that he is moving to Austin. Does this mean the end of his wrestling career?

Nolf vs Rotuolo - https://www.youtube.com/live/IyneYOMCvI0?si=JNnQbuKffjkcBBjz&t=19595 Downey vs Rockhold - https://www.youtube.com/live/IyneYOMCvI0?si=ynL6uFV6sCcZvbw3&t=6010 Kerkvliet vs Andrew - https://www.youtube.com/live/IyneYOMCvI0?si=MlV-Et_qEvRekamF&t=10153 Downey vs Bradley - https://www.youtube.com/live/IyneYOMCvI0?si=28nvzv0F7zBxOOWe&t=14460

Nolf lost by kneeler in R3. Kerkvliet lost a unanimous decision. Downey defeated Rockhold by unanimous decision then lost a split decision in the quarters. Full matches are available on the B Team YouTube -

I thought Downey tapped due to exhaustion which at the conditioning level we saw at the Olympic Trials might be pretty fast this match was back in 2020. It was like 15 minutes into a no time limit match. Probably the worst possible rules for a match with a wrestler against Gordon.

Dake was somewhat old to be winning a title this year. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union (1993-current) only 12 World/Olympic titles have been won in men's freestyle after the winners 33rd birthday. Of those 12, one was stripped for doping violations and three were at non-olympic weights. Next Olympics Retherford will be 33, Dake will be 37, and Snyder will be a few month short of his 33rd birthday. Hard to bet that any of them will be closer to winning gold in 2028.

He was the English language announcer at the venue. He did a great job as usual and showed expanded range hyping the crowd with his arm dancing before the start of each session.

Different situation, Kyle Dake has not achieved everything on Taylor's list. National champion, world champion, Olympic champion. Dake is still missing the last one. If Taylor was still missing that I am sure he'd be more motivated to train/compete this year.

None of them would play Israel. There are several muslim nations that have forfeited to Israel in sports. It isn't just Iran. I don't so much have a problem with forfeiting. They are only hurting themselves in the end. I also get it. It's easy to say politics shouldn't be part of the Olympics, but more difficult when athletes compete representing their country in their colors playing their national anthem when they win. Doubly difficult when there is a war or dispute at play. If Russia had not been banned I would total understand why a Ukrainian athlete might op to not wrestle/compete against them. Hard to put aside the whole war thing.

No idea. I didn't see the story. Searched filth Olympics and it brought up stories on the triathlon and the dirty river where the swimming section took place.

What was the filth that was presented?

Who is McCoy? and which Sanderson are you talking about?

No he didn't.

More national champions from the high school class of 1987 came fro wrestling not on that list than on it. Angle and the Brandses combined for 7 national titles thats one more than the ASICS AA selections. They also have 10 AA finishes. It would be interesting to see if the # of AAs or national titles from a recruiting class coming from the top 100/50/20/10 recruits has changed over time. Essentially it would be a measure of whether the rankings have improved or gotten worse over time.

The Sunkist Kids match was at 84kg which probably favored Pendleton as he was at 84kg for the 2008 trials and Askren was at 74kg arguably with one foot into retirement. Pendleton was close to retirement himself, but did another quad finishing 3rd at the 2012 trials. https://content.usawmembership.com/articles/20939

That's what I was doing - going by age. If Taylor was at his best in 2022 and 2023, Yazdani potentially still has years to reach a new peak. When your peak is best in the world and your trough is second best is the world it can be difficult to tell the location of the actual peak. The other argument in favor of Yazdani over Taylor is that Taylor had a very limited prime and all these head to head matches all happened during Taylor's prime which skewed the head to head record in Taylor's favour. If Taylor and Yazdani had met each year from 2015-2024 the record could be more even. But when Taylor wasn't good enough to compete with Yazdani he was either not on the team or retired. If Yazdani had taken a couple matches off Taylor before his hit his prime or after he started to decline it would change the head to head perception significantly. All in all Taylor was only undisputedly the best in the world three for years 2018, 2022, and 2023. Returning to the OP topic if Yazdani wins this year then Yazdani was the best in the world 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2024. Multiple Olympics, multiple weights, and an age level title too. It might be enough for some. He'd probably need one more still to pass Taylor in my estimation. If Yazdani goes on a run of 4-5 more titles it really isn't debatable and he is one of the greatest freestyle wrestlers ever. All Taylor did was block him from being universally seen as the best ever.