Amateur Wrestling/ Freestyle Wrestling Thread

Seeing  how Wrestling is one of the most popular bases in MMA, i thought that it would be goof if i started a thread that  would allow for people to understand and follow the storylines and techniques at the highest level collegiate and international level competition.  I will create a Ranking system and give scouting reports of the top 10 guys at each weight class and provide updated weekly rankings every Monday. The first event i'm covering is NWCA National dual finals between Iowa and Missouri. 

* Edited at 02.22.2015, 12:29 AM ET *

banana splits, you don't see that enough in MMA.  This is actually a variation that allows Lauzon to get his bash on.

* Edited at 02.21.2015, 11:10 PM ET *

Matchups for tomorrows matches:  number of Astericks indicate returning all-americans(Top 8 finish) and how many times they have placed.
125: #5 Thomas Gilman vs. #1 Alan Waters*
'133:  #6 Cory Clark* vs. #20 Zach Snynon
141:   #9 josh Dziewa(Jeh vuh) vs. #5 Lavion Mayes
149: #1 Brandon Sorensen vs. #5 Drake Houdashelt**
157: #12 Joseph Lavalle vs. #15 Mike Kelly
165: #9 Nick Moore vs. Mike England
174: #2 Mike Evans**(certifiably bat**** crazy and looks like Butcher Bill from Gangs of New York) vs. #5 John Eblen
184: #10 Sam Brooks vs. #12 Willie Miklus
197: J'Den Cox*(returning national champion and only a sophmore) vs. #6 Nathan Burak*
285: #4 Bobby Telford** vs. #16 Devin Mellon 

For Third Place will be Cornell/Lehigh:
125: #2 Nahshon Garret** vs. Scott Parker
133: Mark Grey vs. #11 Mason Beckman*
141: David Logan/ or Dylan Realbuto vs. #20 Randy Cruz
149: #6 Chris Villalonga vs.  Drew Longo
157: #4 Brian Realbuto* vs. #17 Mitchell Minotti*
165: #11 Dylan Palacio vs. Marshall Peppleman
174: George Pickett vs. Santiago Martinez
184: #1 Gabe Dean*(Famous for knocking off 3x Natl champ Ed Ruth at Southern Scuffle as freshman last year, finished 3rd in NCAA"s) vs. #3 Nathaniel Brown
197: #13 Jace Bennet vs. #15 Elliot Rid****(Rid**** is one of the most stalling boring wrestlers I've ever seen so don't expect much from this match)
285: Jacob- Aiken Phillips vs. Doug Vallaro.
BE excited to watch Garret, Realbuto, Palacio, and Dean.  Villalonga doesn't shot much at all and mainly is good on top very inactive on his feet,  Randy Cruz not really good on his feet either but serviceable will go to a clingy based offense and likes to run  legs on bottom but stalls alot. Dean is very mature for a sop****re and is an excellent hand fighter and will transition off to a high snatch single or use his snap downs and get a good double and is very adept at pushing a pace his opponents can't handle. Nathaniel brown is like college wrestling Gleison tibau, i.e. he's huge very hard to finish shots on him and hard to throw him and Brown prefers to block his opponents attacks and just handfight or score a simply go-behind but if he goes upper body he looks to go to a body lock and throw. On top he will put in legs and is very adept at turning but mostly will ride hips and eat up the clock to get his minute of riding time.  Realbuto very active on his feet and finishes well on his shots both on the amt and on his feet and is an exceptional athlete and a tremendous scramble but also a very measured and technical wrestler, just beat #1 Dylan Ness. Palacio is like Dake-Lite in bravado but is more so a fluid takedown artist when he's on and forewarning he's kind of ****y but very entertaining to watch.

* Edited at 02.21.2015, 11:31 PM ET *

Haven't really followed wrestling for a few years now but I see Lavion Mayes on there. Good to see him doing well, used to wrestle him a lot when we were younger and saw him a lot at meets and tournaments during High School. Might have wrestled Sam Brooks when we were younger as well but that's a fairly common name so not sure if it's him, if he's originally from Chicago area then it probably is.

Just looked at some rankings, ton of guys I used to wrestle regularly. Wish my school had some kind of wrestling program so I could have continued competing instead of just doing open tournaments in the off season.

* Edited at 02.21.2015, 11:30 PM ET *

Sam brooks is from around the Chicago area, OPRF to be exact. 

Here's inaugural Tapology college Wrestling rankings!
125:
1: Alan Waters
2. Nahshon Garret
3. Joey Dance
4. Jesse Delgado
5. Dylan Peters
6. Nathan Tomasello
7. Sean Boyle
 8. Thoams Gilman
9. Eddie Klimara
10. Tim Lambert
11. Jordan Conaway
12. Tyler Cox
13. Ronnie Bresser
14. Josh Martinez
15. Chasen Tolbert
16. David Terao
17. Josh Rodriguez
18. Ben Willeford
19. Kory Mines
20. Zeke Moisey

Thanks for doing this @nogfan, I am a collegiate/free-style wrestler and this is AWESOME.

EDIT:  I should say I WAS... been a long time now.

* Edited at 02.21.2015, 11:46 PM ET *

Sorry i'm going to have to post alot since there are 10 weight classes and i have to keep them updated as well.
133:
1. Chris Dardanes
2. A.J. Schopp
3. Earl hall
4. Jimmy Gulibon
5. Ryan Taylor
6. Cory Clark
7. Zane Richards
8. Cody Brewer
9. Rossi Bruno
10. Danny Sabatello
11. Mason Beckman
12.  Johnni Dijulius
13. Nick Soto
14. George DeCamillo
15. Scott Delvicchio
16. Mark Grey
17. Kevin Devoy
18. Kevin norstrem
19. Caleb richardson
20. Dominick malone

No problem, if anyone else wants to include their own rankings it's welcome. I'll be doing my domestic freestyle rankings tomorrow and international freestyle on Monday. 

141:
1. Logan Stieber
2. Mitchell Port
3. Devin Carter
4. Nick Dardanes
5. Lavion Mayes
6. Geordan Martinez
7. Anthony Abidin
8.  Anthony Ashnault
9. Josh Dziewa
10. Zach Horan
11.  Chris Mecate
12.  Steven Rodrigues
13. Joseph Spisak
14. Todd Preston
15.  Sam Speno
16. Mike Morales
17. Dean Heil
18. Mike Morales
19. Joey Ward
20. randy Cruz

149:
1: Brandon Sorensen
2. Jason Tsirtsis
3. Dave Habat
4.  Drake Houdashelt
5.  Josh kindig
6. Chris Villalonga
7. CJ Cobb
8. Sal Mastriani
9. caleb Richardson
10.  Tywan Claxton 
11. Gabe Moreno
12. Zach Beitz
13. Christian Pagdilao
14. Alec Pantaleo
15.  Cody Ruggerilo
16. Collin hefferman
17. Ken Theobold
18. Mike Racciato
19. Justin Arthur
20. BJ Clagon

157:
1. Isaiah Martinez
2. Dylan Ness
3. Bryan Realbuto
4. James Green
5. Ian Miller
6. Nick Brascetta 
7. Cody Pack
8. Brian Murphy
9.  Doug Welch
10. Anthony Collica
11. Dylan Alton
12. Mitch Minotti
13. Josh Demas
14. Anthony Perotti
15. Aaron walker
16.Mike kelly
17. Joe Lavalee
18. Russel aprson
19. Justin Deangelis
20. Alex Elder

165
1. Alex Dieringer
2.  Nick Sulzer
3. Isaac Jordan
4. Michael Moreno
5. Bo Jordan
6. Pierce Harger
7. Taylor Walsh
8. Jackson Morse
9.Ethan Ramos
10. Dylan Palacio
11. Nick moore
12. Taylor Massa
13. Cooper Moore
14. Jim Wilson
15. peyton Walsh
16. Garret Hammond
17. Tristan Warner
18 Nick Wanzek
19. Dakota Freisth
20. Johnathon Schliefer. 

174:
1. Robert Kokesh
2. Mike Evans
3. Matt Brown
4. Logan Storley
5. John eblen
6. Zach Epperley
7. Tyler Wilps
8. Blaise Butler
9. Cody walters
10. Tanner Weatherman
11. Zach brunson
12. Kyle Crutchemer
13. andy Mcculley
14. Nate Jackson
15. Matt reed
16. Mark Martin
17. duke Pickett
18. Brian harvey
19. Santiago Martinez
20. Patrick jennings

184
1. Gabe Dean
2. Jack dechow
3. Max Thomusseit
4. Nathaniel brown
5. Blake Stauffer
6.  Lorenzo Thoams
7. Hayden Zilmer
8. Taylor Meeks
9. Sammy Brooks
10. Dominic Abounader
11. Vic Avery
12. Brett Pfarr
13. Willie Miklus
14. Kenny Courts
15. Matt McCutcheon
16. Lelund Wethersppon
17. Nolan Boyd
18. TJ Dudley
19. Ben Stroh
20. ricky Robertson

197
1. J'Den Cox
2. Kyven gadsen
3. Kyle Snyder
4. Morgan Mcintosh
5. Scott Schiller
6. Nate Burak
7. Connor Hartmann
8.  Max Huntley
9.  Abe Ayala
10. Jace Bennet
11. Elliot Rid****
12. James Fox
13. aaron Studebaker
14.  timmy McCall
15. Phil Wellington
16. Shane Woods
17. Zach nye
18. Alex Polizzi
19. Cody Crawford
20. Braden Atwood

285
1. Nick Gwiazdowski
2. Mike McMullan
3. Connor Medbury
4. Bobby telford
5. Adam Coon
6. Austin Marsden
7. Jimmy Lawson
8. Ty Walz
9. Blaize Cabell
10. Spencer Meyers
11. Ross Larson
12. Nick tavanello
13. Evan Knutson
14. Michael Kroells
15. Billy Smith
16. Devin Mellon
17. Joe Stolfi
18. jared Johnson
19. Riley Shaw
20. Denzel Dejournette

Probably is the same Sam Brooks then, Oak Park sounds right and he was always a high level wrestler. Used to wrestle Klimara and Zane Richards (same conference as me in HS but I had shot past him in weight by then) in grade school, they have always been a studs. As mentioned used to wrestle and see Lavion since we were in the same conference in High School. I don't think I ever wrestled either of the Dardanes' but they were always placing high in big tournaments. Idk if you plan on doing international rankings but I know Alli Ragan has been doing pretty well for herself, used to wrestle her when I would wrestle up an age group for grade school.

Now I can't wait for off season tournaments to start in a few weeks so I can find out how out of shape I am lol

Yeah OPRF is the #1 high school in the country. Top guys for them now are Larry Early, Isaiah White,  and Kamal Bet.  If I were you I might start trying to train at regional training centers if you get the chance.

Klimara is doing very good but I do know he does have an issue of drug abuse highlighted by his arrest after losing the round of 12 match to Cory Clark where he was caught in a night club at 12:30 A.M drunk and with .21 grams of cocaine. Happy to see him rebounding nicely.