57kg-
Lee opens up with Todkar from India… wrestled for bronze at croatia… took a 10-0 loss to RBY and then dropped knox 14-6… not any results past that…
Cronin has a bye then will face winner of BAZARGANOV of AZE- couple of senior euro medals or STECHELE from GER- age level continental medalist…
61kg-
NATO opens up with RAHUL from IND- no real accomplishments…
Desanto opens with Bekzat ALMAZ from KAZ- #2 in the world… silver last year at worlds… wrestled for a medal at paris… multiple age level medals
65kg-
McKenna opens with MOHIT from IND- U20 gold… multiple age level medals
Vito is back and up at 65kg… opens up with BIENKOWSKI from POL- one continental medal years ago…
70kg-
Lovett with a bye and will face winner of ALIYEV for KAZ- wrestled for a medal at U23 last year or DUDAEV of ALB- bronze at paris… euro champ… few age level medals years ago…
Pantaleo bye and then winner of SIDDHARTH of IND- no results or my guy Austin Gomez reppin MEX- still waiting for him to really break out internationally, but, always enjoy watching him wrestle since he was a cadet…
74kg-
quincy monday opens up with AKYLBEKOV from KGZ- silver at U20 last year…
yaya thomas and will lewan hit first round…
definitely the weakest weight for the US…
86kg-
dake opens with a bye and then will face the winner of shane jones reppin PUR- couple of Pan Am medals or KADIEV from RUS- multiple U20 gold
this tourney is going to much better competition for the leg grabbers…
i find women’s wrestling very hard to watch as the overall skill level is fairly low…
there are a few exceptions to this… maroulis and blades can wrestle… all the japanese women can wrestle… along with the absolute tip of the spear internationally…
with that being said, i love that women’s wrestling has been taking off and i think it is great for any girl to learn what wrestling teaches a person…
Blades is a beast. Some are not nearly as refined, but I Coached HS. My honest opinion is this- The US Women’s Team is about as good as State Qualifier HS kids. Not bad to watch, but you have to adjust expectations.
When max started making waves nationally at 12-13 years old they still had the young guys at the OTC practice with the women’s national team before moving up to practice with the men… he had just won schoolboy nationals in free at 98lbs and took 3rd in Greco…
Thought being if you can’t beat the women then you don’t belong…
He beat up my former wrestling crush on a daily basis…
Obviously in today’s climate that does not happen anymore…
The boys came up in a club that had a bunch of girls wrestling at a time before a girls division… girls were a real problem until the boys started to sprout turkey hairs…
I watched a specific women’s wrestler who is considered royalty now try to jump rope for about 45 minutes and came away with an entirely different perspective…
I have to force myself to watch the best men in the world grab legs…
The women are typically a bridge to far…
I know I’m a wrestling snob…
Still, any female that wrestles is aces in my book…
My wife got her start in wrestling by doing Greco. In her country most people start wrestling at a young age, so unless you’re in it early, it’s hard to find people to work with or coaches to help you. She started at 17. The only wrestlers and coaches who would work with her were the Greco guys. So that was basically her first 6 months into wrestling before the freestyle girls started training with her.
vito doesnt look smALL… quick drag attempt… back to head to head…
poland wartned and then a single attempt… vito gets a sionglke and tsakes him OOB… 1-0 vito
ref warns both for clubbing…
couple of attacks from vito… outside single half assed… late in the poeriod vito clubs and snaops and get the go behind and a quick lace to lead 5-0 at the break…
second lots of fakes and half attemopts… vito gets a step out 6-0 with minute and half left…
that is how it ends… vito looked pretty good overall… been a minute since wrestling injured last year at final x…
