I think Nick Lee is gonna be scary good once he becomes a full time freestyler.
2021 Olympic Wrestling Match Thread and USA Wrestlers.
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I like his length, attack rates and his counter defense for freestyle. Nick will be solid in 3 years at free.
I'm pumped to see him develop after college but you are right, hes great right now! I honestly think he could be a much better freestyle wrestler than folk. Wished I was as versed as guys like Jefe. I wonder how people felt about Nick coming out of highschool in regards to him having a brighter future in folk or freestyle. I look at him wrestling freestyle and to my novice eye I think hes even better...
Great pic. Still makes me shake my head about KD. Pre-Olympics if I were forced to pick who I thought would most likely take gold I would have said Dake. Wonder if there is a Paul Harvey 'rest of the story' to be told in the future.
Motor, length, speed, and no one I like to watch more. No quit, massive gas tank.
Jammen's gonna run out of checks for people who flatter me.
Seriously ... I'm not that plugged in, that I knew much about Nick Lee. Cael got him, and In Cael We Trust.
Then I looked him up and saw he wrecked Sasso. (Which I might have seen before but forgotten because Indiana.) I knew how good Sasso was. So that was a clue.
BTW, Gilman is the shoe borrower. For a ceremony, he borrowed Cody’s shoes. And for the rest of the time, he borrowed his wife’s sandals.Glad they didn't have him stand next to Gilman.
The UWW site also includes the records for those who have competed in Cadets and Juniors at an UWW event. You can look up each wrestler by name. For instance, the site shows Aaron Brooks' record for his one Cadet and two Junior World Championships appearances. One caution, though, the search function is very specific, so sometimes you will have to play around with using variations of the wrestlers' names. Sometimes it is best to only use their last name. For instance, when I typed in Aaron Brooks, nothing came up. When I only included Brooks, he was listed under A. Brooks. And for those who didn't know, his middle name is Marquel per UWW! UWW athletes search
Gable is 6'1", Taha Akgul is 6'4" and Geno Petriashvili is 6'6".
Send 5 in freestyle and they all get medals, yet can't qualify anyone at 65?
Doesn't make sense; hopefully, will be 6 qualifiers and 6 medalists in 2024. Could happen.
USA beat 2 of the 4 medalists this year -- Zain beat Punia (bronze) and Pantaleo beat Aliyev (silver).
Pantaleo also beat 5th placer Niyazbekov 2x this year.
Yet we couldn't qualify the weight.
More people than attended National Duals.
Our best chance to qualify was Zain at Pan Americans (?) last year, and it was expected to be a breeze, but Zain unfortunately got caught and pinned by a lesser wrestler (it happens), and then the guy who beat him didn't advance and that was it. This is from my poor memory, anyway.
Then Oliver didn't place top 2 at last chance this year
I believe that match was the semis, and it was the case that either the winner or the top two qualified, so losing in the semis ended that possibility.
It was top 2 who qualified, I think Zain was the next in line if one of the top 2 dropped out for some reason.
I will be the first to say that I came out of this Olympics with a much greater appreciation for Women's freestyle wrestling. I realize that they train as hard as the men do, but they have to put their family plans on hold, unlike the men.
Adeline Gray's interview, after her heartbreaking loss was so good and she talked about her personal sacrifices while showing her gratefulness to represent team USA. Adeline was also the consummate teammate when it came time to support any of her team USA wrestlers, during their matches. I'm posting her post gold medal match interview, but unfortunately the sound quality is poor.
Adeline Gray's interview, after her heartbreaking loss was so good and she talked about her personal sacrifices while showing her gratefulness to represent team USA. Adeline was also the consummate teammate when it came time to support any of her team USA wrestlers, during their matches. I'm posting her post gold medal match interview, but unfortunately the sound quality is poor.
#1 Yui Susaki
#2. David Taylor
#3. Sadulaev
#4. Steveson
#5. Sidakov
#6. Uguev
#7. Otoguru
DT. No question. If we were being honest, it would be a certain female. Yui.
An easy way to see what these guys have done is go to Trackwrestling.com.
Click on Browse at the top
Profiles on the left
Search Athletes on the right
Click Search
Enter the wrestlers first and last names
Tab down twice to Hometown and just hit enter
For some reason it often shows no results without tabbing down. For example, Nick Lee has 2 profiles. His main one is listed as Team - Keith Clausen (no idea why) and Hometown - Evansville. Click on the Evansville profile and you can find most of his results going all the way back to 2007. Occasionally there will be results that don't belong to that wrestler, but you can pretty much figure that out easily.
On Joe Lee's profile you can see he wrestled in the McDonough Duals in 2013 with the Young Guns. Also on that team was Matt, Nick and Spencer Lee. Joe bumped up to 102 from 97 lbs and lost a 2-0 decision to some guy named Aaron Brooks on a team from Maryland. Spencer Lee WBF over Shane Griffith at 107 lbs,
Lots of interesting results you can find in addition to just Fargo titles, etc. Note: some tournaments like the Super 32 were not on Track so those results aren't there.
I agree. I never paid any attention to women's wrestling other than knowing Kayla Miracle and Sarah Hildebrandt, both from Indiana, were good. But I've watched some, most of the OTT Trials and all of the women's matches at the Olympics. Getting to see not only their talents but their personalities got me hooked. Now, I don't see myself going to watch a girl's HS wrestling dual where I don't know anyone, but my interest level is definitely much higher now
Really good info. Thanks a bunch. Ill check that out.
Have I mentioned Sarah was great during the Olympics?
Great post, thank you to those guys.^^^^
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