Olympic Trials pre seeds wrestling, trials next week
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Are the trials brackets? I believe Back in 96 the trials were ladders. I.e 8 vs7 and winner takes on 6. I may be wrong , but I watched the trials in Philly back in 96 and thought that was how it was set up.
It appears brackets with the championship finals being best 2 out of 3.
http://www.iowacitytorio.com/schedule-of-events
Coverage :
Wrestling
NBCSN will provide five hours of Trials coverage of the wrestling finals from Iowa City, Iowa, beginning Saturday, April 9, live at 7 p.m. ET. Coverage continues the following evening, Sunday, April 10, at 10:30 p.m. ET, following NHL coverage. Disciplines include men’s freestyle, women’s freestyle, and Greco-Roman.
Headlining the men’s freestyle competition is London gold medalist and three-time world champion Jordan Burroughs (74 kg). The 97 kg weight class will feature 2015 World Champion Kyle Snyder and 2012 Olympic champion Jake Varner. In women’s freestyle, three-time world champion Adeline Gray (75 kg) looks to make her first Olympic team.
Sat., April 9
Finals – Men’s & Women’s Freestyle, Greco-Roman
NBCSN
7 p.m.
Sun., April 10
Finals – Men’s & Women’s Freestyle, Greco-Roman
NBCSN
10:30 p.m
http://www.iowacitytorio.com/schedule-of-events
Coverage :
Wrestling
NBCSN will provide five hours of Trials coverage of the wrestling finals from Iowa City, Iowa, beginning Saturday, April 9, live at 7 p.m. ET. Coverage continues the following evening, Sunday, April 10, at 10:30 p.m. ET, following NHL coverage. Disciplines include men’s freestyle, women’s freestyle, and Greco-Roman.
Headlining the men’s freestyle competition is London gold medalist and three-time world champion Jordan Burroughs (74 kg). The 97 kg weight class will feature 2015 World Champion Kyle Snyder and 2012 Olympic champion Jake Varner. In women’s freestyle, three-time world champion Adeline Gray (75 kg) looks to make her first Olympic team.
Sat., April 9
Finals – Men’s & Women’s Freestyle, Greco-Roman
NBCSN
7 p.m.
Sun., April 10
Finals – Men’s & Women’s Freestyle, Greco-Roman
NBCSN
10:30 p.m
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Look at the big gaps in weight classes : 125.5 to 143 to 163 ! to 189 ! to 213 (Kyle Snyder) to 275.
Kyle F'n Dake at 189 !
Frank the Tank qualifies at 143 along w James Green, logan Steiber, even Zain Retherford
Looking forward to this even !
Kyle F'n Dake at 189 !
Frank the Tank qualifies at 143 along w James Green, logan Steiber, even Zain Retherford
Looking forward to this even !
For those wondering about the differences in Collegiate wrestling (folkstyle) and Olympic wrestlic (free style & Greco Roman), I'll copy and paste a pretty good explanation:
There are three styles of wrestling you're covering here. Folkstyle/collegiate (practiced only in US schools and not internationally), Freestyle (one of the international/Olympic styles), and Greco Roman (the other of the Olympic styles).
'Every American wrestler came up from youth wrestling through college doing Folkstyle. That includes the NCAA championships. However all of the top wrestlers in the US train (and at least compete a bit) in both Freestyle and Greco in the offseason. If they're going to compete internationally after their collegiate career, they specialize in one.
The differences are in the rules and scoring. In Folkstyle, there is more ground work because the referee will not stand you up if there is a stalemate. In Folk, there's also more of a focus on escapes/reversals from bottom, because it's harder in Folk to score points for exposing your opponent's back to the mat (you need to break a 45 degree angle and control them for a few seconds to score). In the international styles, the ref stands the wrestlers up pretty quick if there's nothing happening on the ground (i.e. a turnover), and you only have to expose your opponent's back to the mat for a second to score points (that is, you can roll them over and score).
As far as takedowns, that's what separates Freestyle from Greco. In Greco you can't attack the legs, or use your legs to trip for a takedown. In Freestyle you can use any type of takedowns you like. There are also some smaller differences between all three, but it makes no sense to cover that here.'
There are three styles of wrestling you're covering here. Folkstyle/collegiate (practiced only in US schools and not internationally), Freestyle (one of the international/Olympic styles), and Greco Roman (the other of the Olympic styles).
'Every American wrestler came up from youth wrestling through college doing Folkstyle. That includes the NCAA championships. However all of the top wrestlers in the US train (and at least compete a bit) in both Freestyle and Greco in the offseason. If they're going to compete internationally after their collegiate career, they specialize in one.
The differences are in the rules and scoring. In Folkstyle, there is more ground work because the referee will not stand you up if there is a stalemate. In Folk, there's also more of a focus on escapes/reversals from bottom, because it's harder in Folk to score points for exposing your opponent's back to the mat (you need to break a 45 degree angle and control them for a few seconds to score). In the international styles, the ref stands the wrestlers up pretty quick if there's nothing happening on the ground (i.e. a turnover), and you only have to expose your opponent's back to the mat for a second to score points (that is, you can roll them over and score).
As far as takedowns, that's what separates Freestyle from Greco. In Greco you can't attack the legs, or use your legs to trip for a takedown. In Freestyle you can use any type of takedowns you like. There are also some smaller differences between all three, but it makes no sense to cover that here.'
The things I have to get used to in freestyle are all the turns for points (flipping the guy around when you're on top) and the concepts of push outs. I watched a few different matches between guys like Burroughs and Dake, and Nickal and Hall and Marstellar. Definitely much different than folk style.
