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    2024 Olympic Trials Indiana Notables

    Wrestlers from all over will converge upon State College, Pennsylvania Friday and Saturday for one of 18 coveted spots on the Olympic team. Seven wrestlers with Indiana ties will look to call themselves Olympians after the dust settles on Saturday evening.

     

    Men's Freestyle
    At 65kg there are two entries from Indiana in Nick Lee and Jesse Mendez. Lee is coming in as the top seed, while Mendez is the 11th seed. This weight is not qualified for the Olympics yet, so the winner here will go to Turkey with hopes of getting a qualifying spot. Lee won the spot last year and wrestled at Worlds, but did not qualify the spot. He potentially see Penn State teammate Beau Bartlett or 2023 NCAA champ Andrew Alirez to make the best of three finals.

     

    Moving up to 97kg we will see Christian Carroll attempt to make the team. He qualified at the Last Chance Qualifier a couple weeks ago and slots in as the 9th seed. He will have Iowa's Anthony Cassioppi in the first round with the winner getting former Olympic medalist J'den Cox in the quarters.

     

    At heavyweight Mason Parris will sit out until the finals on Saturday. He will away the challenge tournament winner in a best of three series due to winning a bronze medal at last year's world championships. It will be very fitting to see Parris in Paris this summer.

     

    Women's Freestyle
    Three wrestlers will look to earn spots on the team in Women's Freestyle. All of the women's weights are qualified for the Olympics which means winning here will get you a trip to Paris. At 50kg the Queen of Granger Sarah Hildebrandt will be sitting out until Saturday's best of three finals. She has medaled multiple times on the world stage and looks to make her second Olympic team. 

     

    Kayla Miracle will be in the best of three series at 62kg awaiting the winner of the challenge tournament. She was an Olympian in 2021 and qualified the weight again for the Olympics at the Pan Am qualifier.

     

    Lastly, Yorktown's Alara Boyd will look to earn a spot at 68kg. She comes in as the 5th seed in the challenge tournament. She has multiple world medals and will be a threat to make the best of three series against Amit Elor.

     

    Schedule

    Friday, April 19
    Session 1: 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
    Challenge Tournament: Preliminaries, Quarterfinals and Consolation Rounds* 
    (ALL STYLES AND WEIGHTS)
    *All championship matches will wrestle prior to consolation rounds

     

    Session 2: 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
    Challange Tournament: Semifinals and Finals
    (ALL STYLES AND WEIGHTS)

     

    Saturday, April 20
    Session 3: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
    Final 2 out of 3 Championship Series Round 1**
    **Weights not currently qualified for the Olympics will wrestle match 2 in this session
    Challenge Tournament: Consolations, Consolation Semi-finals, 3rd place and True 3rd (if needed)
    (ALL STYLES AND WEIGHTS)

     

    Session 4: 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
    Final 2 out of 3 Championship Series Round 2**
    **Weights not currently qualified for the Olympics will wrestle match 3 at beginning of session (if needed)
    Final 2 out of 3 Championship Series Round 3 (If Needed)

     

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    https://www.themat.com/news/2024/april/16/how-to-watch-live-u-s-olympic-team-trials-wrestling-live-on-peacock-and-usa-network

     

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    Dingo Brigade

    So cool to be seeing Carroll against J'Den Cox. Scoreless thru 75 seconds. Carroll scores first with a passivity point, 1-0, short time in the first period. Carroll up on Cox at the break 1-0.

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    Cox returns the favor with a passivity point of his own, takes the lead 1-1 with criteria. Carroll is going to need to score. 30 secs left. Near TD by Carroll at the end, the wily vet Cox holds him off to win 1-1. Bummer, but what a performance by Carroll already.

    This might bear watching, but Cox appeared to be in excruciating pain as he walked to the locker room. He was moaning loudly and holding his side. Could be a problem for Cox moving forward.

     

    Nate Jackson off to a quick start against Kollin Moore, leads 2-0 early in the first. Flurries ensue, Moore opens up a 6-4 lead early in the 2nd. Jackson tied it up but Moore pulls it out.

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    Cox returns the favor with a passivity point of his own, takes the lead 1-1 with criteria. Carroll is going to need to score. 30 secs left. Near TD by Carroll at the end, the wily vet Cox holds him off to win 1-1. Bummer, but what a performance by Carroll already.

    This might bear watching, but Cox appeared to be in excruciating pain as he walked to the locker room. He was moaning loudly and holding his side. Could be a problem for Cox moving forward.

     

    Nate Jackson off to a quick start against Kollin Moore, leads 2-0 early in the first. Flurries ensue, Moore opens up a 6-4 lead early in the 2nd. Jackson tied it up but Moore pulls it out.

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    Alara Boyd against Aine Drury (no relation, I assure you :))

    Boyd pushing the action, has Drury on the edge of the mat, gets nothing...didn't see how it happened, but Drury up 3-0 to start the 2nd

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    Dingo Brigade

    Jarrett Jacques beat Vincenzo Joseph and Quincy Monday, will face Nolf next. Heckuva job and I didn't see that coming personally.

     

    Jaron Smith scored first with a stepout against Gwiz, but Gwiz responds with a TD and 2 pt exposure, leads 4-1 at the break. Gwiz adds a quick 2 to start the 2nd., leads 6-1

     

    Bradley with the dramatic comeback against Hendrickson...leads 9-6 with a minute to go. The wily veteran still has juice left.

     

    Kerkvliet techs Lance, made it look easy.

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    misspelled juice
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    Holy moley, the crowd is gassing up Jax Forrest, who has 2 takedowns on Thomas Gilman. Gilman has 3 stepout points, trails 4-3. We have seen established Sr level stars Gilman and Burroughs have to rely on stepout points to offset the takedowns by their much younger opponents..

     

    Gilman gets a nice 2 on the edge of the mat, leads 5-4 to start the 2nd period. Gilman appears to have slowed down Forrest in the 2nd. Still 5-4 with 45 secs left

     

    Fix and Suriano in a dogfight. Fix pressuring the head....gets Suriano's leg and the stepout. Fix leading 1-1, still in the first.

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    Gilman hangs on to defeat the incredible 17 year old Forrest.

     

    Fix opening up on Suriano a little bit, leads 5-1 less than a minute left.

     

    Zane Richards comfortably over Lilledahl.

     

    Cool to see Spencer Lee and Megaludis. Lee looking quick and strong and in control against Megaludis.

     

     

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    My pleasure, Matt. The wifi is very challenging so I'm having to delete posts because they're timing out. I'm trying to work through it. 

     

    44 year old Aliaksandr Kikinou just knocked off Greco mainstay Jesse Porter, is in the semis at 77kg in Greco.

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    Dingo Brigade

    I'm stepping out until the evening session. It appears that Mendez' quarters match again Yianni is taking place this evening.

     

    Great job thus far by our Indiana men and women. Mendez, Lee, Parris, Hildebrandt and Miracle all still alive and working for the all-important Olympic berths.


    Carroll lost 1-1 to Cox and was absolutely in that match until the bitter end. Great showing by him and he is getting better and better all the time.


    Boyd, Carroll, Nate Jackson still alive in wrestlebacks.

     

    Great action and can't wait for tonight's all-star matches at every weight. Bye for now.

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    Dingo Brigade

    About to start and the energy in the building is much higher than the earlier session. It's much more full as well.

     

    Hoping for the best possible results for all of our competitors.

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    2-1 Yianni with a TD, Mendez gets a reversal.

    33 seconds, Mendez again deep on Yianni's incredible legs, gets him down finally. 3-2 Mendez at the break. What is this kid's ceiling? 

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    2nd period, they handfight and pummel, both facing each other in the center. Mendez has shown that he can get the big move when needed, Yianni is a legend of USA wrestling. Mendez might be changing the guard, with a big 2 followed by an exposure, leads 7-4...Mendez slams Yianni on his head! 11-4 Mendez with a brick to follow from Diakomihalis' corner.

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    Using only 3 mats, unfortunately, mat 4 is not in use and that's where I am.

     

    Marstellar and Hidlay up on Mat 2. Hidlay continuing his hot streak with the first TD. Leads 2-0 with a minute to go in the 1st. Marstellar gets a step out, Hidlay up 2-1 at the break

     

    Mahmoud Sebie is facing Stefanowicz to make the semis. He represented Egypt in the 2016 Olympic Games. Trails 2-0 as the 1st period closes

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    Zach Braunagel facing Payton Jacobson in the semis. His brother was knocked out the winning side earlier today.

     

    Stefanowicz leads 3-0 over Sebie.


    Hidlay leads 2-2 over Marstellar. A late flurry fought off gamely by Hidlay, but Marstellar pulls out the very last second TD to steal this one late. Hidlay is literally slapping the crap out of himself in the fact. Great match.

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    JB playing the power game. Bursts out of his stance and gets 2 very quickly. It appears he may have a power advantage, but Mesenbrink can go all day as we well know. Burroughs with another 2, leads 6-0. Counters a nice shot from the PSU grappler and gets a stepout. Leads 7-0. The crowd is going nuts because they feel Burroughs is lollygagging between whistles.

     

    Nolf quick out the gates against Jacques, leads 4-2.

     

    Jacobson beats Braunagel

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    Burroughs has shown off so many tools in his repertoire today. He still has elite level burst when he summons it. He is such a smart, cagey wrestler and he has had a great strategy and better execution against each foe thus far.

     

    Nolf in control throughout so far, leads 6-2 with less than a minute left.

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