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  1. Another thing to consider is which countries Iran will exclude if their athletes are military personnel. When the U.S. teams have gone there in the past, athletes who were part of the U.S. Army's World Class Athlete Program (WCAP) weren't allowed to enter the country. This is impacts mostly the Greco-Roman squad, but WCAP does have some freestylers on the ladder, which could mean they could be in line for spots in like a world cup or an injury replacement. Iran's on my list of places I'd love to go to announce ...
  2. Indiana's always been an important place in wrestling. Been lurking on the site for years and remember its earliest iterations.
  3. Host was always the Mid-American Conference. NCAA hasn't changed anything.
  4. I compiled a list of every place winner at Cadets and Juniors since 1971. I've been to every tournament since 1999. Why ask, I'm telling you there is no record of anyone named Jaggers from Indiana placing in Fargo (or even before it was in Fargo). Maybe schoolboys but not Cadets or Juniors.
  5. I say again, the only Jaggers to ever place in Fargo was Ohio's J Jaggers. That includes Cadets and Juniors in both FS and Greco.
  6. The only Jaggers who ever placed in Fargo was J Jaggers from Ohio.
  7. Figured this might be of interest to some 'round here http://www.mattalkonline.com/st132
  8. It's on Track http://www.trackwrestling.com/predefinedtournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=130880009
  9. He doesn't do this for a living, he's a volunteer. Much of how The Open Mat was formed was based on volunteers, then came the merger with AWN. When I took over InterMat in 2005, there was a lot of the same repair. Now with AWN, we're having to do it again, only branding it with a magazine that has never really had much of a web presence. Even our print writers, for the most part, are volunteers. I worked at a newspaper in the newsroom from 1996-2005, so I'm trying to bring a lot of that experience to the mag and the web -- we're still working on getting some of our folks trained. Some have great ideas that we have to tweak. As I said, I didn't have full time to edit the piece in its entirety to probably please the Indiana readership.
  10. I've been lurking for years, I had an old login before the new board software (or whenever it was changed). Pablo's trying to get better, but when I started writing when I was 15, my stuff was schlock. I'm working with Pablo to refine some things, but it doesn't happen overnight.
  11. FILA has a lot of issues and they are hugely at fault in this whole situation. FILA's rulechanges, however, were from directives from the IOC to make the sport more TV, fan-friendly, etc. So FILA, in their anointed arrogance and ineptness, made the changes they made. Basically, you have the blind leading the blind internationally. I have no love for FILA and its brazenly posh, arrogant, smug attitudes towards anyone outside of their wine-drinking selves. FILA is heavily to blame, but not totally. Mostly, but not all. MOSTLY!
  12. And allow me to chime in momentarily. Right now, we are absolutely buried in news about the Olympics. Pablo does a great deal of research, but he's not going to be in-the-know as much as the people here in Indiana are. From a national angle, he covers the bases and we (AWN) try to promote and preview as much high school wrestling as we can. On a national level, you won't find more information on such a broad range anywhere. That being said, I did not have adequate time to fully edit the preview. Pablo is a volunteer, he is not a writer by trade. His efforts are for the sport of wrestling in altruistic terms. Is he a seasoned writer? No. Do we as a magazine have the budget to hire writers from around the country to provide specific insight on every state? No. Pablo writes these because he loves the sport. He's a great guy who has used wrestling to pull himself up. He's not a journalist. He writes capsule-type previews and has a few contacts, but other than that, the broad scale preview is for the broad audience. You guys have IndianaMat for all your Indiana news, so naturally, people will disagree with what's being posted. That being said, we've been working with him on improving his writing -- the guy busts his butt to put as much information out as he can in a written form -- a format that isn't just a list of credentials. He's been rough around the edges, but he filled a gap for us in a pinch and he's done a lot of work to not only improve, but to recognize a lot of wrestlers nationwide who don't fall in the realm of "elite." I hope some of you can understand that in rebuilding a brand such as AWN, there will be some growing pains. I typically edit the content submitted, but rather than have this sit in my inbox untouched and be outdated, I did a quick troll of some things and posted it. If it were going into the print version, I'd have cleaned it up something fierce. Pablo isn't a writer, but he is doing the best he can and improving every day. I'd challenge the masses to try to do what he does on a weekly basis and see if they can have a grasp on so much information. In a bubble, yeah, there are better writers, but when that bubble covers the entire country and you're producing 5-6 web articles a week simply for the love of the sport, I find most would buckle under the challenge. Pablo doesn't complain, he is eager to learn how to write better ... no outlet has put out more HS wrestling information than we have this year and Pablo's work ethic is tremendous, provided English isn't his first language either. I'm all about feedback, but just wanted to put that bit of info out there. JB
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