i can not think of one athlete that took an olympic red shirt and made the team…
Garrett Lowney, Jake Dietchler, Les Gutches (I think). Not super common but it has happened.
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the googlewebs say Dietchler was in HS when he made the olympic team and Gutches did not take an olympic red shirt…
GOLD STAR for Lowney…
I thought that Dietchler had graduated and was taking an ORS before he got to Minnesota. Also I might have been wrong about Gutches, I thought he made the 96 team on an ORS.
he made the team while still in high school then took a redshirt after…
to be clear, i have heard these names before but i am basing all of this on google…
Gutches won NCAAs in 96 and made the Olympic team. I think I was confusing him with McIlravy who took an ORS in 96 but came back to Iowa in 97 to win another NCAA tournament.
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i was actually watching some mcllravy matches last week or so…
obviously, i am familiar with the name, but, it was before my time… that dude was(is) fun to watch…
He was a cardio machine. Just wouldn’t stop coming straight at you.
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dude definitely chained his attacks together which i am a big fan of…
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He just wouldn’t stop. I forgot who it was who told me, they’d wrestled him, and they said it was tough to deal with him because he was constantly moving forward and had ridiculous setups that you wouldn’t even realize he was doing.
that was what i noticed watching some of his matches…
his attacks were just set ups for other slick shit and you just do not see that much in wrestling where most are just trying to time something…
i was listening to Mark Ironside on full tilt and he was talking about just taking a break and watching mcllravy practice…
inspired to watch some of his matches… straight killer… so creative…
I think that’s what made him so good was he didn’t really seem concerned with giving up points, he knew that if he kept the pace high and was constantly on the attack, he would eventually win. His NCAA finals match against Gerry Abas showed that exactly. He didn’t panic being down, he just kept creating scoring chances and Abas ran out of gas.
PSU will be well represented in Freestyle
16 Penn State Wrestlers & NLWC Members
Registered for the 2026 US Open
Senior Freestyle
57 kg - Luke Lilledahl
61 kg - Marcus Blaze
65 kg - N. Desmond & K. Garcia
70 kg - T. Kasak & C. Pierce
74 kg - Joe Sealey
79 kg - William Henckel
86 kg - R. Welsh & K. Dake
92 kg - Josh Barr
97 kg - C. Mirasola
125 kg - Cole Mirasola
U20 Freestyle
70 kg - Brock Weiss
79 kg - Asher Cunningham
92 kg - Mason Ellis
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was a bit surprised to see Desmond at 65kg…
Blaze only doing seniors was the only other thing of interest…
Brandon Paulson.
i believe paulson was 100% focused on greco and only went to college after the 96 olympics…
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DXXVjmIju0_/
was not following Euros today, but, did just see this clip…
both the meatheads are flying into Vegas today… both have stepped up their prep and are super lean and feeling good…
starting to get pumped…
Max’s bracket is the deepest in domestic greco as per usual but he is coming in feeling much better than last year when got some ass staph and spent all day before in the emergency room…
otto’s weight is pretty weak this year as his top 2 in comp both are sitting out injured…
tomorrow is masters, U15 greco and HS girls, so, will not be paying too much attention…
thursday has U20 greco, the lower weights in Senior greco, and women’s free…
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