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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

    Whoa! Big swing after the judges review. Kikinou up 7-4. Peaks trudges ahead, gets the 2. 7-6 with 15 seconds left!!

     

    Nick Lee and Alirez! Alirez gets up 4-2 in the 1st, Lee ties it with a TD. 4-4 criteria still with Alirez. Tons of time left.

     

    Mendez against Zain. Mendez is just operating on an insane level. Gets a lightning quick go by, leads 2-0 early in the match. Wow. Zain thought he had 2, and Mendez' perfect whizzer avoids the TD. Still 2-0 Mendez looking strong. Zain finally gets his 2 to tie it 2-2 to start the 2nd

     

    Both matches tied at the break!

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    Alirez gets a passivity point, leads 5-4, Lee follows that up with 2. Leads 6-5 looks for a gut briefly. Gets a big 4 pointer, leads 10-5 briefly. Alrirez responds, 10-7. No lead is safe against this level of competition, but Lee is defending well.....10 seconds left. Late TD Alirez, but Lee wins 10-9, advances to the Challenge finals.

     

    Mendez trailing 3-2 but he's pushing the action, right around a minute left. Retherford holds him off 3-2, but Mendez is absolutely on anyone's level in the US

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    Bo Nickal and Cael in Brooks' corner. Pretty solid there.

     

    Very physical clinch to start the match. Both Brooks and Dieringer are so strong.

     

    Zahid and Marstellar scoreless early. Valencia with the first 2 on a TD

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    Dieringer counters a Brooks shot and whips Brooks over for a big 4 pointer. Leads 4-0, less than 90 secs in the first. Beautiful, powerful counter, Brooks looked genuinely shocked. 4-0 to start the 2nd. Big 4 pointer by Brooks, but Dieringer's corner throws the brick

     

    Valencia up 3-0 against the dangerous Marstellar

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    Pretty sure these are the last semis. Finals matches to come soon.


    Brooks' 4 stands, and he gets another point with the lost Dieringer challenge. Stepout bullrush by Brooks makes it 6-4, another TD on the edge of the mat, Brooks suddenly up 8-4 and appearing to be in control at this point.

     

    Valencia looks very relaxed, holding Marstellar at Bay. Still 3-0 with 45 secs left to go. Wins 3-0, to set up a match with Brooks or Marstellar

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    Mortimer and Jimenez up now. The 17 year old Jimenez became Arizona's first female to win a state title against the boys. Super impressive and her Senior level showing here is beyond impressive. Mortimer continuing her hot wrestling, gets a quick four-spot to lead 4-0, but back to back takedowns and a leglace gives the youngster a 6-4 lead at the break.

     

    Stefanowicz up 1-0 over Jacobson at the break. Very physical with the pummeling.

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    Jacobson wins 1-1 over Stefanowicz. Will face Spencer Woods for the Olympic team slot.

     

    TD removed from Jimenez but still leads 8-4 and gets in on another leg attack. Leads 10-4 for real this time, reversal by the very game Mortimer. 10-6 20 seconds left. Mortimer needs a 4 pointer....doesn't get it. The 17 year old will face our very own Sarah Hildebrandt tomorrow for the spot.

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    Burroughs vs Nolf. JB gets the big boo from the crowd. Not from me though. Nolf is great but JB is that dude. JB looks motivated and irritated....this should be a good one.


    Rau and Boykin up at 97kg Greco

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    Nolf with a stepout point against JB, but the red corner throws the brick....point removed, back to 0-0. No points in the first minute

     

    Rau and Boykin (originally from Tennessee) locking up, a point for Rau, followed by a flurry with back exposure....5-2 after the flurry, Rau on top.

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    Nolf scores first on the passivity call against JB. Nolf with a very heads-up go behind for a sneaky 2. Challenge brick tossed again. Big call here, could be 4-0 Nolf

     

    Rau up 5-2 to start the 2nd period.

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    Burroughs wins another challenge....1-0 to start the 2nd. HUGE, high powered double for Nolf makes it 3-0. The crowd went bananas, it's almost as if they don't like JB :) . Burroughs has been stymied offensively so far.

     

    Another point for Boykin cuts it to 5-3

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    Rau wins will face Alan Vera in the best of 3 tomorrow for the Olympic berth.

     

    End of an era? Nolf wins 3-0. Will JB take his shoes off?

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    misspelled Vera
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    No way is JB going to retire in this overly hostile environment. Great match by Nolf, he earned it, but it's a little bit of a bummer seeing Burroughs fall and especially without being celebrated by the fans.

     

    Augello and Villaescus up at 53 KG for the ladies.

     

    Aden Atao and Adam Coon up at 130 kg Greco.

     

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    The savvy Augello up first 2-0 on Villaescusa. She's looked strong the entire day.

     

    Coon looks physically bigger and stronger than Attao. Coon pancakes him, gets the tech fall 9-0, will face Cohlton Schultz again. Coon beat him the last Olympic cycle but couldn't get the weight class qualifed for the Olympics. Should be a lot of beef banging into each other tomorrow with those 2 giants.

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    Izzy Style's Augello wins 3-0 and will face Dom Parrish for the Olympic Team slot on the women's team.


    Arujau was just honored with men's freestyle wrestler of the year, which is a little ironic because he's not participating here, but what a year he had in folk and free.

     

    Molinari and Glaude up.

     

    Trumble and Moore up now.

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    Pretty quick TD on the edge of the mat for Trumble. Leads Moore 2-0. Moore is coming off of a match that retired J'Den Cox. Trumble has impressive length at this weight. Tough to get in on him with his long arms and legs (and overall head/hands defense, of course). Trumble starts to pour it on, leads 6-1, still in the 1st. Still 6-1 to start the 2nd

     

    Molinari scores first on Glaude, looking to make another Olympic run. Gets a stepout, leads 1-0 over Glaude.

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    Moore is going to need to turn this match around and fairly quickly. He's dug himself a deep hole. Stepout point for Trumble, then another TD. I'm shocked at this dominance by Trumble. I was thinking earlier that Carroll would fare well against Trumble. Who knows? Trumble wins it and gets the reward of facing Kyle Snyder tomorrow for the spot.

     

    Glaude with an explosive TD on the edge, leads Molinari 2-1 in the 2nd. Molinari pays her back with 2 of her own. 3-2, less than 1:30 left. Stepout point for Glaude...3-3 and Glaude gets to try to turn her. Gonna be hard to turn Molinari I'm thinking....no dice, still 3-3, Glaude leads on criteria

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    Molinari will face the red hot Amit Elor in a best of 3 with the 68kg spot on the line.

     

    Zillmer and Gwiz should be a good one. No score early. Zillmer gets a point with a step out. 1-0 to start the 2nd

     

    The Queen of Blades opens up against Makoyed. Blades with a quick 2, leads 2-0, quickly up 6-0. She's really in control of this opponent. 7-0 now, looking for the 1st period tech. Gets 2 more, leads 9-0.

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    Mayoked survives the 1st period. Blades ends it pretty quickly in the 2nd. 11-0 final, nearly pins her.

     

    Zillmer and Gwiz just unable to do much with each other. Gwiz gets a passivity point, ties it 1-1, criteria with Gwiz.

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    Big scramble leads to a TD for Zillmer on the edge. Gets another stepout, wins it 5-1. Another nice senior level win for Zillmer. Will face our very own Mason Parris for the HWT spot in men's freestyle

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