Disagree entirely.
But in fairness, if anyone knows about bad tournament wrestling, it's Missouri.
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But in fairness, if anyone knows about bad tournament wrestling, it's Missouri.
Well, Missouri has produced Olympic medalists. Still waiting for Penn St. to do the same. Maybe next cycle?
You know where Jake Varner was training in 2012 right?
Try again.
1920s Penn State Wrestler Was the First Japanese Athlete to Win an Olympic Medal
A bit of online archival digging soon identified a wrestler pictured on a wall at the U.S. Naval Academy as Katsutoshi Naito, a native of Hiroshima, Japan, who came to Penn State and earned a bachelor’s degree in horticulture. There was much more to his story.
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Zain failed to qualify the weight losing to Agustin Destribats. At world championships, he is 1-2. If Zain was Russian, that would be the end of his career right there. You don't get three world championships to prove yourself.
And beating Bajrang on home soil doesn't mean much.
Oh my bad. I swear I thought Jake Varner went to Iowa St. My bad.
Try again.
1920s Penn State Wrestler Was the First Japanese Athlete to Win an Olympic Medal
A bit of online archival digging soon identified a wrestler pictured on a wall at the U.S. Naval Academy as Katsutoshi Naito, a native of Hiroshima, Japan, who came to Penn State and earned a bachelor’s degree in horticulture. There was much more to his story.
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Somebody let the town drunk out of the bar. Citing an Olympian from the 1920's. Oh you mean Penn St. had a Olympic medalists when black people were not allowed to participate in sports. That's your example?
Let me guess, you think some baseball player from the 1930's was the best ever? When half the globe was banned from competing due to racist laws, it isn't legit. I thought we figured this out.
I'm the town drunk because I know how to google something? And yes, my example of a Penn State wrestler winning an Olympic medal (which is specifically what you referenced) is Katsutoshi Naito, a Penn State wrestler who won an Olympic medal.
As to who the best baseball player ever would be, I'm certainly not an expert but my inclination would probably be to say either Mark Lemke or Ricky Henderson.
Bro - just ignore him. No need to engage with a troll. If it's one thing that HR and BWI posters can agree on is that dude is not welcome.
I'm a troll because I objectively state that Russia is better at selecting teams which is backed up by decades of quantitative data? So despite Zain failing to qualify the weight, going 1-2 at worlds and not having a 65kg medalist for the US since Jamill Kelly, I am the troll for not understanding wrestling.
Got it. Always wondered why cousin picked Penn over Penn St. Starting to bear fruit.
So good he won a medal before the sport was invented!Try again.
1920s Penn State Wrestler Was the First Japanese Athlete to Win an Olympic Medal
A bit of online archival digging soon identified a wrestler pictured on a wall at the U.S. Naval Academy as Katsutoshi Naito, a native of Hiroshima, Japan, who came to Penn State and earned a bachelor’s degree in horticulture. There was much more to his story.
Oh, I know. I'm just avoiding some work I should be doing.
I say this as a PSU grad who values the education and experience afforded me there...
I don't think only now understanding why your cousin would choose an Ivy League school over PSU is the brag you seem to think it is.
You’d think a 2X US world team member and 3X NCAA champion would get a bit more respect, but you’re right, one random loss at the world championships should definitely disqualify him from Olympic consideration.
Freestyle and Folkstyle are different sports. No question Zain was an elite folkstyle wrestle. He's one of the best of all-time. But this is freestyle and Zain's elite folkstyle top game has not translated at all to freestyle.
Zain & Brent Metcalf are similar: Two elite folkstyle wrestlers that lack the athleticism and neutral skillset to compete at the highest freestyle level. I personally don't think Yianni has the ability to medal until his neutral game improves. I was the only one who picked McKenna because Joey has elite technique and can win in neutral.
Bajrang trained at Michigan for a month before that match. Under a better coach (Belaglazov) than he'll find anywhere in his home country.
So if "on home soil" counts against Zain there, then it must count for Zain in the freestyle tourneys where he didn't have a month to acclimate.
Bajrang isn't a top 3 guy at the weight, so I don't know the obsession with him.
1.) Haji
2.) Rashidov
3.) Otoguro
4.) Tevanyan
5.) Musukaev
6.) Bajrang
65kg is the most stacked weight in the world. It's why we haven't won a medal there in 15 years.
He's important until he isn't. Whatever.
Everybody knows that freestyle rankings aren't worth the paper they're printed on. We just went thru an NCAA tournament where nobody understood seeds because of the scarcity of matches -- that was like 2-3 years' worth of freestyle matches.
Were there Americans with higher ceilings than Metcalf who should have been put on world teams ahead of him even though he was winning the trials?
When it's all said and done, I'll take our selection process, warts and all.
Just recently, stories like Dan Dennis making it in 2016, the Frank vs Pico battle, the Burroughs vs Dake slug fest (match #2 of that series might be my favorite recent non-PSU wrestling match) and others...these matches wouldn't have mattered nearly as much if they were only a data point among many in the decision process.
Just recently, stories like Dan Dennis making it in 2016, the Frank vs Pico battle, the Burroughs vs Dake slug fest (match #2 of that series might be my favorite recent non-PSU wrestling match) and others...these matches wouldn't have mattered nearly as much if they were only a data point among many in the decision process.
