d3grappler

Thanks, like I said my greco knowledge isn't the best...but I'm trying to become a bigger fan!

wanted to get some thoughts discussion started on the world teams. I don't know much of anything about greco but trying to become a more all around fan. 55 Brady Koontz - Has junior and U23 World Teams so he has experience. 60 Ildar Hafizov - won some matches and was top ten at worlds, hopefully he can build on that. 63 Xavier Johnson - Sorry I don't know much here! 67 Alejandro Sancho - returning world team member, won a match last year. 72 Pat Smith - Believe he has been on 3-4 world teams now. Hopefully his experience will help! 77 Kamal Bey - Seems like he hasn't competed in a while, but he is fun to watch. Hope he can finally get a medal. 82 Spencer Woods - I don't know much about him! 87 Zach Braunagel - Lets hope he can do to everybody at worlds what he did to Vera! 97 Joe Rau - former world team member, always good to have experience. 130 Colton Schultz - Back again, won a match last year really hoping he can medal.

I may be in the minority on this, but I agree with this sentiment after all the changes that have come recently. When the transfer portal became a thing, I thought it was a good thing for college athletes to be able to move freely if something changed with their situation at their previous school. It is when the NIL became legal that now I feel we should have one or the other. If an athlete gets paid that's great, but they should be locked in for a duration at that point IMO. I realize there are probably several good arguments against this...just my knee jerk reaction.

looking at nothing but wrestling, I always loved how David Taylor wrestles. High attack volume, solid diversity in his attacks and he is an excellent scrambler. Always fun to watch him wrestle at worlds.

To answer your question, yes it will make it easier for other guys to beat him now that he too will have to go through the bracket and not sit in the finals. I THINK Gilman will be fine, I haven't gone back and rewatched any matches from Final X but my knee jerk reaction was that Gilman lost himself the match with some bizarre strategy. Just seemed to shoot and give up a go behind when there was no reason to.

I think Marstellar will have a decent shot to medal, he has a decent freestyle background and I think 79kg won't be strong this year (non-olympic weight the year before Olympics). If I'm not mistaken, chance made a cadet world team and was doing well at worlds before blowing out his elbow (dislocation maybe?).