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 *

Closest training center I know of is over an hour away which isn't really going to happen between work and school and not having that kind of money. Should be transferring schools in the fall, need to work on getting back in shape and probably try to walk onto a team if I end up at a school with one. I help coach a kid's club sometimes, need to try and get in the room more even though I don't care much for coaching.

* Edited at 02.22.2015, 1:21 AM ET *

I feel ya, I have to coach a middle school team but I'm lucky enough to have a good D1 college 10 minutes away to train at and coaches to help me. I like coaching, I just hate the fact that younger kids never ever listen or do anything you tell them. Then they forgot every thing the next day.

NWCA Duals finals start at 11:30 eastern time. if you want to watch go onto Trckwrestping.com and click on the national duals link and select which mat you want to watch. 
Good dual meet as well outside the NWCA National duals in the form of Iowa State/Wisconsin here's the line up
125: Kyle Larson vs. John Jimenez
133: #3 Earl Hall vs. #5 Ryan Taylor
141: Dante Rodriguez vs. Jesse Thielke
149: #11 Gabe Moreno vs. Rylan Lubeck
157: Luke Goettl vs. Jarod Donar
165: #4 Michael Moreno vs. #3 Isaac Jordan
174: #10 Tanner Weatherman vs. Frank Cousins
184: #16 Lelund Wetherspoon vs. #20 Ricky Robertson
197: #2 Kyven Gadsen vs. #14 Timmy McCall
285: Quean Smith vs. #2 Connor Medbury.

Correction National duals finals start at 12:30.

Mizzouri 18, Iowa 12 and Mizzou is the national duals champion.
125:#1 Alan Waters dec. #8 Thomas Gilman 5-4 Tb-1
133: #6 Cory Clark dec. Zach Synon 6-2
141: #5 Lavion Mayes dec. #9 Josh Dziewa 13-6
149: #4 Drake Houdashelt dec. #1 Brandon Sorensen 2-1
157. #17 Joe Lavalee dec. #16 Mike Kelly 6-1
165: #11 Nick Moore dec.  over John England 3-2
174: #2 Mike Evans dec. #5 John Eblen 4-1
184: #13 Willie Miklus dec. Alex Meyer 6-5
197: #1 J'Den Cox dec. #6 Nate Burak 4-3
285: #4 Bobby Telford dec. #16 Devin Mellon

Cornell 22, Lehigh 15, Cornell will finish third in the national duals
125: Nahshon garret receives a forfeit
133:#11 Mason Beckman dec. #16 Mark Grey 6-2
141: #20 Randy Cruz dec. Dylan realbuto 8-6
149: #6 Chris Villalonga maj dec. Drew Longo 11-2
157: #4 Brian Realbuto dec. #12 Mitch Minotti 5-3
165: #10 Dylan Palacio dec. Marshall Peppleman 6-4
174: #19 Santiago Martinez dec. #17 Duke Pickett 2-1
184: #1 Gabe Dean dec. #4 Nathaniel Brown 7-2
197: #10 Jace Bennet dec. #11 Elliot Rid**** 4-1
285: Doug Vallaro receives a forfeit

Iowa State 30, Wisconsin 16
125: Kyle Larson dec. Johnny Jimenez 5-2
133: #5 Ryan Taylor dec. #3 Earl Hall 4-3
141: Dante Rodriguez WBF Jesse Thielke 2:11 (Thielke is in the same boat as Marshall peppleman in that they had exceptional high school careers and were expected to be multiple all-americans if not become national champions, but are both currently the equivalent of  journeyman with Peppleman carrying a 14-14 record, and Thielke a 3-7 record. thielke though is only a sop****re but Peppleman is a 5th year senior.) 
149: #11 Gabe Moreno dec. Rylan lubeck 6-0
157: TJ Roschell maj dec. Luke Goettl 14-6
165; #4 Michael Moreno WBF #3 Isaac Jordan 4:26
174. #10 Tanner Weatherman WBF Frank Cousins 4:05
184: #20 Ricky Robertson dec. #16 Lelund Wetherspoon 5-4
197: #2 Kyven Gadsen WBF #14 Timmy McCall 6:12
285: #2 Connor Medbury WBF John Scanlan 2:11

Domestic freestyle rankings:
57 KGs: interesting to note the success of the graduating class of 2014 overall with 6 of the graduating class being ranked top 10 in their respective weight class
1. Tony Ramos
2. Joe Colon
3. Sam Hazewinkel
4. Nico Megaludis
5. Andrew Hochstrasser
6. Tyler Graff
7. Angel Escobedo
8. Zach Sanders
9. Thomas GIlman
10. Nathan Tomasello
61 KG's:
1. Coleman Scott
2. BJ Futrell
3. Connor Beebe
4. Brandon Precin
5.kyle Jutter
6. kyle Jahn
7. Joey Mckenna
8. Alan Waters
9. Earl Hall
10. Cory Clark
65 KG:
1. Brent Metcalf
2. Jordan Olvier
3. Aaron Pico(has better international wins then Oliver, but Oliver more established on domestic scene)
4.  Logan Stieber
5. Frank Molinaro
6. Jason Chamberlin
7. Jimmy Kennedy
8. Reece Humphrey
9. kellen Russell
10. nick Fanthorpe
70 KG
1. Nick Marable
2. James Green
3. Kyle Ruschell
4. Jason Welch
5.  Moza Fay
6.  Dustin Schlatter
7. Adam Hall
8. Hunter Stieber
9. Dan Vallimont
10. Cyler Sanderson
74 KG
1. Jordan Burroughs
2. David Taylor
3. Kyle Dake
4. Andrew Howe
5. Ian Miller
6. Alex Dieringer
7. Tyler Caldwell
8. Quinton Godley
9.Mark Hall
10. Taylor Massa
86 KG:
1. Ed Ruth
2. Keith Gavin
3. Clayton Foster
4. Chris Perry
5. Richard Perry
6. Jon Reader
7. Deron Winn
8. Philip Keddy
9. Jake Herbert(due to inactivity and just coming back from a lay-off expect to see him climb back to top 3 after US Open and World team trials
10. Robert Hamlin

97 KG
1. Jake Varner
2. JD Bergman
3. Wynn Michalak
4. Cayle Byers
5. Dustin Kilgore
6. Micah burak
7. Enock Francois
8. Matt Gibson
9. J'den Cox
10. David Zabriske
125 KG:
1. Tervel Dlagnev
2. Zach Rey
3. Tyrell Fortune
4. Nick Gwiazdowski
5. Dom Bradley
6. Matthew Meulners
7. Eric Thomphson
8. Tony Nelson
9. Jarod Trice
10. Bobby Telford

* Edited at 02.24.2015, 7:39 PM ET *

D1 College rankings: same rules as last week's rankings.
125:
1. Alan Waters
2. Joey Dance(Only losses to Garret and an upset loss to Jordan Conaway, Conaway has a pretty big upset win him every season, i.e. when he beat #5 Tyler Graff in the 2013 season so take that with a grain of salt, not saying he's bad but it had to do more with Dance not wrestling at his 100% best and Conaway having to be wrestling exceptionally well that night)
3. Jesse Delgado
4. Nahshon garret(lost to Thoams Gilman of Iowa, Gilman prior in the day had lost to at the time #11 Sean Boyle of UTC)
5. Thomas Gilman
6. Dylan Peters
7. Nathan Tomasello
8. Sean Boyle
9. Eddie Klimara
10. Jordan Conaway
11. Tim Lambert
12.Tyler Cox
13. Ronnie Bresser
14.  Josh Martinez
15. Josh Rodriguez
16. Chasen Tolbert
17. David Terao
18. Kory Mines
19. ben Willeford
20. Zeke Moisey

133: 
1. Chris Dardanes 
2. AJ Schopp
3. Ryan Taylor(Taylor beat Hall 4-3 in their dual meet over the weekend and has bonus points wins over Zane Richards and Danny Sabatello
4. Earl Hall
5. Jimmy Gulibon
6.Cory Clark
7. Zane Richards
8. Rossi Bruno
9. Cody Brewer
10. Mason Beckman
11. Danny Sabatello
12. Johnni Dijulius
13. Scott Delvicchio
14. Nick Soto
15. Geoge Decamillo
16. Eric Montoya
17. Kevin Devoy
18.  Mark grey
19. Caleb Richardson
20. Dominick Malone

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. Todd Preston
14.  Sam Speno
15. Kevin Jack
16.  Mike Morales
17. Jamal Hudson
18. Joey Ward
19. Dean Heil
20. Randy Cruz

149: I'm not ranking Hunter Stieber due to injury and lack of matches
1. Dave Habat
2. Jason Tsirtsis
3. Drake Houdashelt
4. brandon Sorensen
5. Chris Villalonga
6. Josh Kindig
7. CJ Cobb
8. Alexander Richardson
9. Tywan Claxton
10. Gabe Moreno
11. Sal Mastriani
12. Zach Beitz
13. Christian Paglidao
14. Alec Pantaleo
15. Collin hefferman
16. Cody Ruggerilo
17. Ken Theobold
18. Mike Racciato
19. Justin Arthur
20. BJ Clagon
157:
1. Isaiah Martinez
2. Dylan Ness
3. Brian Realbuto 
4. James Green
5. Ian Miller
6. Cody Pack
7. Nick Brascetta
8. Brian Murphy
9. Doug Welch
10. Anthony Collica
11. Dylan Alton
12. Mitch Minotti
13. Josh Demas
14. Anthony Perroti
15. Aaron Walker
16. Mike Kelly
17. Joe Lavalee
18. Russel Parsons
19. Justin Deangelis
20. Alex Elder
165: Taylor Massa moved up to 174
1. Alex Dieringer
2. Michael Moreno
3. Nick Sulzer
4. Isaac Jordan
5. Bo Jordan
6. Pierce Harger
7. Talor Walsh
8. Jackson Morse
9. Ethan Ramos
10. Dylan Palacio
11. Nick Moore
12.Cooper Moore
13.Jim Wilson
14. Garret Hammond
15. Peyton Walsh
16. Tristan Warne
17. Nick Wanzek
18. Dakota Freisth
19. Jonathan Schliefer
20. Max Roshpkoff
174: welcome Taylor Massa to the rankings at #15
1. Robert Kokesh
2. Matt Brown
3. Mike Evans
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. Taylor Massa
16. Matt Reed
17. Santiago Martinez
18. Duke Pickett
19. Mark Martin
20. Patrick Jennings
184:
1. Gabe Dean
2. Jack Dechow
3. Max Thomusseit
4. Nathaniel Brown
5. Blake Stauffer
6. Taylor Meeks
7. Lorenzo Thomas
8. Hayden Zilmer
9. Domenic Abounader
10. Sammy Brooks
11. Vic Avery
12. Brett Pfarr
13. Willie Miklus
14. Kenny Courts
15. Matt McCuthcheon
16. TJ Dudley
17. Ben Stroh
18. Ricky Robertson(beat Wetherspoon in the dual meet)
19. Lelund Wetherspoon
20. Nolan Boyd
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. James Fox
12. Elliot Rid****
13. Aaron Studebaker
14. Timmy McCall
15. Phil Wellington
16.Shane Woods
17. Zach Nye
18. Alex Polizzi
19. Cody Crawford
20. Brade 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 Myers
11. Evan Knutson
12. Ross Larson
13. Michael Kroells
14. Nick Tavanello
15. Billy Smith
16. Joe Stolfi
17. Devin Mellon
18. Denzel Dejournette
19. Riley Shaw
20. Jared Johnson

Most exciting college wrestlers:
1. Logan Stieber
2. Isaiah Martinez
3. Alex Dieringer
4. Dylan Ness
5. Bo Jordan
6. Taylor Walsh
7. Gabe Dean
8. Kyle Snyder
9. J'den Cox
10. Nathan Tomasello

I guess AGON isn't dead

* Edited at 02.25.2015, 12:44 AM ET *

Any potential Olympic or World medalists here?

For the collegiate rankings? and for Pico/Metcalf i have Pico. 

There's also a pretty legit rumor that Pico and Metcalf got in a fight while training because pico was controlling Metcalf snapping him down and pressuring him, so Metcalf gets pissed and swings at him, Aaron throws backa bit and decks him, so there's a story line going into it. 

Top freestyle prospects in College wrestling:
1. Logan Stieber
2. Alex Dieringer
3.  Kyle Snyder
4. Nick Gwiazdowski
5. Thomas Gilman
6. Nahshon Garret
7. Ian Miller
8. Nathan Tomasello
9. Earl Hall
10. Jimmy Gulibon

I'll be giving results and analysis for B1G 10's, EIWAS, and MAC's. I will give you a recap of what happened yesterday at the Alexander Medved Invitational in Minsk, Belarus along with our US guys draws and others to watch out for in the field.

Here's the U.S. guys draws for today, Cyler Sanderson isn't going to have a fun time to say the least.61 KG-Joe Mckenna vs. Shota Phartenadze
70 KG- Montell Marion vs. Yusuf Mulaiev
70 KG- Cyler Sanderson vs. Toghrul Asgarov
70 KG- Jason Welch vs. Andrei Kasmyrin
86 KG- Richard Perry vs. Zumberi Kvelashvili
86 KG- Deron Winn vs. Yusup Melejayev
125 KG- Zachery Rey vs. Alan Zazeev, zazeev was the 2013 world runner up at 125 to Khadzhimurat Gatsalov. 
Guys to watch for at today's weights are:
61 KG's: Vladimir Khinchegashvili, Bekkhan Goygereev, Victor Lebedev, Murshid Mutalimov, Batbold Noman. 
70 KG's: Toghrul Asgarov(2012 Olympic champ,2011 junior world champ beat Logan Stieber in the finals, he's moving up 10 kilos from his weight at the Olympics which would now be 61 KG's. 2014 world champ at 65 KG's Soslan Romanov,  2013 world champ @65 Devid Safaryan,  Magomed Gadzimagomedov, Jason Welch, and for fun the most Russian name I've ever seen Magomedkhabib Kadimagomedov
86 KG's: 2014 world champ and 20 year old phenom Abdulrashid Sadulaev who you can expect a dominant showing from hee, one of the most entertaining guys to watch in freestyle, Zumber Khavishvili, Richard Perry, Deron Winn
125 KG's: Chuulunbat Jargalsaikhan, Alen Zezeev, and Zach Rey. 

Here's the matches from today's action at the Medved. Good if you have four hours of time on your hands.

and here's all of yesterday's matches. Jordan Burroughs won it at 74KG's and Frank Perreli placed 5th at 57 KG's. Good to watch if you have 9 hours and 43 minutes of free time.

NCAA's are tomorrow so i'll post up some brackets and the seeding order and guys who can wrestle above their seed, pre-rankings, analysis of the brackets, and commentary.