Right on, dude!!! Penn State is going to be a powerhouse for a while...especially when they are continuing to land elite recruits like Mark Hall...

Yeah they're gonna be a power house for a while.

So guys, what are your predictions for tonight?

125: Gilman (Iowa) vs. Nico Megastaller, I MEAN Megaludis! (PSU)
133: Cory Clark (Iowa) vs. Nahshon Garrett (Cornell)
141: Dean Heil (OkSU) vs. Bryce Meredith (Wyoming)
149: Zain Retherford (PSU) vs. Brandon Sorenson (Iowa)
157: Jared Nolf (PSU) vs. Isaiah Martinez (Illinois)
165: Alex Dieringer (OkSU) vs. Isaac Jordan (Wisconsin)
174: Bo Nickal (PSU) vs. Myles Martin (OhSU)
184: Gabe Dean (Cornell) vs. Tim Dudley (Nebraska)
197: J'Den Cox (Mizzou) vs. Morgan Mcintosh (PSU)
HWT: Kyle Snyder (OhSU) vs. Nick Gwiazidowski (NC State)

My picks:

125: Gilman
133: Garrett
141: Heil
149: Retherford
157: Nolf
165: Duh. Dieringer.
174: Nickal
184: Dean
197: Cox
Hwt: Gwiazidowski

OW will be Dieringer. That kid is so freaking good. And I love some of the stuff he says in interviews... Pretty introspective, competitive cat. He will make a great coach some day.

What time is the finals going to start?

I believe it's on ESPN at 7p.

Thank you.

No problemo, man.

Megastaller wins. I am 0 for 1.

Garrett is quick as hell...Clark is so good at getting out of situations where it looks like he is more or less buzzard bait. Good match.

Was ****ery afoot in that 141 refereeing?

I didn't care for the stall call vs. Meredith towards the end...thought it was premature. It was a technicality...he was called for stalling because he stepped out of the circle, but he stepped out of the circle because he was being over-zealous with his attack. I thought it was bogus...my dad is a certified official, though and I am watching it with him...he said it was the right call, but he doesn't like it.

I liked watching that Meredith kid wrestle...he's comfortable in the most awkward situations.

Here is a very highly anticipated match...Nolf vs. Imar. Imar was projected to be the next undefeated 4 time national champion...only Cael Sanderson has done that, ever. Then this year, he was PINNED by this Freshman, Nolf. Crazy. These guys may be battling for another 2 seasons. Fun.

Holy shit, Nolf vs. Imar was nuts.

Yeah that match was crazy. I was rooting for Martinez since I always seen him wrestling from Lemoore. Nice to see him win the Big one by the kid who beat him.

Seems like a nice kid.

That Nickal guy seems like an absolute cocksmoke. I'm glad to see him get beaten.

A lot of Hawkeye fans can't stand him for a.) being PSU and b.) the way he comes off.

I would have never guessed in a million years that he would have lost that match. Holy cow...

Can Cox get it done against McIntosh?

Oh yeah, I think he will. He is back in form. I've heard from my wrestling buddies who have been there all weekend that he looks absolutely incredible right now. Better than he has ever looked. I sure hope he wins. I picked him across the board in both point-getter/champion bonus categories in our wrestling pools...and I am still in it at this point.

He ****ing annihilated Pfarr in the semis, which was heartening.

I'm just afraid that Mizzou will happen, like it did with Waters, Cox, and that dumb **** Eblen last year

I still associate Snyder with beating Cox last year and being the dude who Kyven Gadson threw to his back and stuck which led to the interview where he said, "I just want some ice cream" post-match. I haven't begun associating him as a World Champ yet.

Whatta match!

Cox was so close to getting that takedown. He's better than this guy.

Waters...man did he have some choke sessions. He was freaking good...that was unfortunate.

Both technically undefeated.

YES!!!!!!!!!!

Holy shit that was stressful. Mad respect to McIntosh. That guy is the truth.

WOW!!!

That was heart. I thought Cox was even better than what the score actually showed.

When McIntosh escaped when Cox had :57 of RT I thought Mizzou was going to happen again.

That was great.

They are building up this heavyweight match like it's going to be phenomenal.

FINAL: @SuperstarW14T is a NATIONAL CHAMPION AGAIN!!!!! 4-2 over McIntosh!!!!

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Could someone give me a synopsis on the major differences between folkstyle and freestyle wrestling?

I would if I wasn't on my phone right now. I'd give you the long-winded version...wouldn't be able to help it. :D

Of the guys in the field for this tournament, who has a chance to be an Olympic medalist?

Main differences:

You can lock your hands on top in freestyle.

If a guy's back is exposed for even a milli-second, he gives up two points.

After takedowns, the top man has 10-15 seconds to turn the bottom man (who's objective is to belly out and just not get turned) before the red stops it and they start on their feet again.

You see a lot of leg laces where the bottom guys are pried against each other in an attempt for the top guy to get the bottom guy to roll and in turn, expose his back repeatedly for multiple 2 point turns.

Also, a pin is called if a guy's shoulders both hit the mat at the same time for a millisecond. It's called a "touch fall."

You see a lot of suplexes in freestyle and you see a lot of touch falls when these duplexes are successfully executed.

Wow. Snyder is an animal Giving up 30 pounds to a guy who hasn't lost in 88 matches, and he scores a takedown at the end of the third and then another in SV to win the national title.

That guy is going to continue to build on his already decorated freestyle/international career. Wow. He will be around for a while.

So, anyone who couldn't join us last night end up watching the NCAA finals last night? If so, any thoughts???

BTW, NewChief...how are things going with your son's wrestling? It's an addictive sport once you become involved, isn't it???

The last wrestling tournament my grandson (6yo) was in he won first place. He really slammed the competition.


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Right on, dude!!!

I would just like to congratulate J'Den Cox for winning the Olympic Trials. Pretty damned impressive.

J'den Cox defeated Meisam Mostafa Joukar (Iran) last night, the No. 10-ranked wrestler in the world.

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Cox is freaking insanely good.

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see him win the Olympics.

My baby brother is wrestling at Fargo Nationals today...The biggest tourney in the nation for high school kids. He is wrestling Greco Roman, which he all the sudden began taking seriously this year.

I mentioned to somebody via PM not long ago that in Greco (which is all upper-body and associated with big throws) I think it is more integral to defend throws and LEARN SET-UPS than it is to actually be a thrower....that and you need to have a nice gut wrench.

Hope it goes well. I will be watching on FloPro.

Let the games begin! The boy's first tournament is tomorrow. He's
Wrestling at top of Div2 and will wrestle up to Div3 as well. No read on how he's
Going to do this season. He's been very spotty in practice with occasional flashes of something special but lots of average. Oh well, here is to a winter of Saturdays spent in a stinky gym full of interesting characters.

Awesome! Keep us all posted on how he does!!

Our youth room has about 50% more kids than last year....doubt a lot will stick but it's nice or see the numbers trying it.

The other thing I've learned is that my hamstrings are a year older and a year tighter.

Won D2. Got 4th in D3.

Okay. I'll elaborate a little more on today's wrestling:

His Division 2 matches weren't even close as he won them all by fall, one in 10 seconds. He just outpowered everyone and didn't really have to use much technique. He did start his very first match with a great snap down to score then just worked the kid from there.

Division 3 was a lot tougher. He was wrestling all the guys who moved up and smoked his ass all last year plus some of the older guys he's never seen (this is the first time he's ever wrestled up). That being said, he scored his share of points and held his own.

We've REALLY got to get our coach to move beyond the half nelson, though. That's our goto move to try to get a pin, and while it's a classic, it starts to get old by Division 3. Our club is finally big enough that we have advanced practices as well, so I'm hoping that we'll start working cradles, tilts, chicken wings, etc.. in advance practice. On top of that, our kids aren't working hand/arm control very much. You can see the kids who really know how to set up their pins and moves with 2on1s and such. Our kids don't really work on controlling the wrists/arms to set things up, and it will be hard to really move beyond halfs into cradles until they learn the strategy of arm control.

You can built on the half easily by having him put in a far side chicken wing. I teach my boy to go under the bicep and lock the far wrist from his half Nelson. It helps him stay deep enough on the half and controls the other kids far arm.

I worked with a couple of the older nephews today. We worked on ankle picks and a quarter Nelson. Quarter Nelson is "there" a lot at the youth level.

As a coach, we start very simple....we are often teaching skills and doing drills that will be implemented with the next series of moves, kind of like drop step drills lead into good double leg technique. We want the younger kids to be able to do 1 move at at each level very well....double leg, stand up escape, 1 breakdown from the top and the half or power half. Once they get those down, you try to add a second takedown, reverse/swiitch and add a cradle. Then as they are ready we start to teach new moves. Every coach obviously has things they like....I always liked high c, outside single....fireman. When they learn the fireman, you can build off to a jap wizard...I always used lateral drop and 2-3 head tosses...but we don't teach throws before high school because we want them to focus on the techniques....once you teach a kid to throw, it's all they want to do.

I'm not sure what you're calling divisions....is that based on age or skill? They don't really do that in Iowa. There are novice tournaments but if you sign up, it's based on age and weight.

Good stuff. Thanks!

Divisions are just age here:

Div 1: 6 and Under
Div 2: 8 and under
Div 3: 10 and under
Div 4: 12 and under
Div 5: 14 and under

Tore through Division 2 today again for 1st (4 1st period pins and one major decision) Wrestled pretty well wrestling up in Division 3, but he only won one there.

Proudest I was of him was making it into the second with a really nasty Division 3 wrestler. He also laid a sweet ankle pick on a kid today which they drilled a lot this week. He ran it into a pin with the kid fighting like crazy to throw his half off, but he stayed calm, settled and just methodically got the pin to win 1st.

The boy won Div2 again yesterday. He's undefeated in his division this year. He got to wrestle a couple of Oklahoma kids, too, and had little problem with them. The real issue is that he's not really getting much of a workout in his dvision, but that's why we're wrestling him up as well. Yesterday was split session (Div 1, 3, 5 in morning and Div 2, 4 in afternoon), and we decided not to wrestle in Div3, so we wouldn't be there all day.

Next week, we're hosting the tournament, and he'll get to wrestle two divisions again. Yesterday, he told me that he winning doesn't really make him happy. I was kind of shocked and said, "Why not?" He said, "the only win that's going to make me happy this year is winning State." ROFL

It's actually pretty cool, because they did a goal setting workshop at his school at the first of this year, and he set winning State as one of his goals and had all the stuff he was going to need to do to make that happen. So far, he's manifesting it pretty well.

Had our first tournament today.
My kid wrestled 3 older boys and had a rough day.

Opportunities to lean for several of our kids today.

After an awful late season slump that saw him not placing in several tournaments and getting beat by kids he formerly smoked, my son ended up finishing 2nd in State today. He had really set his goal for 1st after the great start to the season he has, but I'm pretty happy that he battled through adversity and finished strong.

Makes my ass hurt thinking about all those wrestling tournaments I sat through. Wood bleacher seats are not kind on the old behind. Good job on your kids success.

Considering doing "brute" nationals (now called Adidas Nationals) in April in Independence. Probably get smoked but would be fun to see a large Tournament. Anyone have experience with that tourney?

Im not too familiar with the youth wrestling scene, but I was under the impression that this tournament had been suffering from the immense popularity of Folkstyle Nationals held at the UNI dome in Iowa. Pretty sure that is considered the premier postseason event for youth wrestling in the middle of the country. I think you will see a lot of 8-man brackets or smaller at Brute.

Intermediate age range is born (2007-2008). If that's where your kid falls, brackets for the intermediate range in 2016 were in the range of 20+ for the popular weights (55-75). Definitely a tough tournament though, and sometimes especially so if you fall on the younger side of age bracket. I think Brute goes by individual grade. Perhaps that's why brackets look smaller, but competition a little more balanced.

Either way, postseason wrestling is great!

You should try to get out to Tulsa one year for Tulsa kickoff in November or Tulsa Nationals in January. Two huge youth tournaments.

Rico,

Is your youngest bro looking at D1 schools yet?

I see that Drew Foster is a top 15-20 kid at UNI

Holloway wrestling undersized for Iowa for the injured Stoll.

Where is Mizzou ranked?


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They are in the 5-7 range. Season started a little rough for them, but they are coming around. Wrestled really well against Oklahoma St. Cox should win 197 and they have All-American opportunities at 141 (Eireman), 149 (returning AA Mayes), 165 (returning AA Lewis), 157 (Lavallee), and an outside shot for 174 (Wisman). Unfortunately Barlow McGhee really fell off at 125 and Miklus had a season ending injury at 184.

They have underperformed in duals but I'd be shocked if we didn't place in the top 4...

Id be shocked if they place top 4. Clear 4 seems to be:

Penn St.- up to 8 AAs, 2-4 finalists likely
Oklahoma St- up to 10 AAs, possibly 1-2 finalists
Iowa- up to 6 AAs, 2-3 finalists likely
Ohio St.- up to 6-7 AAs, 2-3 finalists likely

Then

Mizzou
VT

Losing Miklus and production from McGhee hurts them too much. And this Top 4 is better than most years.

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He hasn't started looking yet...and he is kind of up in the air about it... he is thinking trade school right now to ensure a good career...he doesn't want to struggle with student loans. It's just a matter of time before he does begin receiving interest, though...he is a Junior and already looks the part of a potential D1 recruit.... I'm interested to see what he ends up doing.

First day of state today...he is ranked 2nd behind future Hawkeye, Zach Axmear. Should be a barn burner if they meet in the finals Saturday.

Congrats!!! That is awesome to hear!!!

Forgot to respond about Holloway and Foster. Our community is very excited about these two...they've had their great moments this year. Both really, really great guys too. Foster puts in a lot of time with the high school and youth club when he is back from school. The kids love him. Bright future for him. Holloway is a "tweener." Too big for 197, too small for HWT. Lotta guys fit into this category, IMO. He'd be a crazy good 220 lber if that weight existed.

My brothers and the rest of the Mepo guys went to this a few years, but I never made it there... they always had good things to say about the experience.

I cant Facebook at work...Was Bob Glasgow mentioned? He is one of two wrestlers that I didn't beat my senior year. He was an awesome competitor! The other I didn't beat was because we only wrestled once. AND of course got that pic in the sports section...

In the KC Metro, Both Park Hill and Staley are nationally ranked. Staley's Coach, Gary Mayab is an awesome coach....

Little bro knocked off the 6th ranked guy first round at state today. Pinned him in 2:47....so far, so good. 3 more to go!!!

I'll cheer for your brother at the finals.

There are a lot of tough draws this year, a lot of guys who should meet in the finals meeting in quarters.

If anyone wants to watch a bunch of Muslims beat up on Team USA Christians in the World Cup, make sure you check in tomorrow morning for potential Iran-USA dual. USA has to beat Azerbaijan first, but I think they will. But the Muslims are scary! Probably no chance. And it's in Tehran.... which looks to be 10X more awesome than Carver Hawkeye Arena.

UN-possible....communist.

Holloway can be good at Hwt! There are two tiny ones in the top 6 this year. One of them, Jacob Kasper, used to wrestle 184. Holloway's been impressive this year when his conditioning is under control. Lots of potential and should continue to add size. Unfortunately, that slob Sam Stoll may be ahead of him for the next two years. But Stoll is always an injury risk, I guess.

Good to hear about your bro at state. I'll remember to check in on the brackets tomorrow.

well they actually mix it up instead of just yelling for "stalling." Very entertaining and passionate crowd. They were very excited to see USA beat Russia's C-team.

Iran vs. USA now!

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