Prepare for bad picks:
57: gillman: with no Lee, who knows. Wrestled fix tough, and among Suriano and Fix, the guy who seems like he’s trying to win). Not sold on NLWC’s ability to take guys besides Taylor to the next level, but it could be a good spot to get the hawkeye back in the mix
65 - Joey McKenna: haven’t seen yianni in a while, no idea how he’s training or anything, but McKenna wrestled double tough out in Italy. Probably my favourite underdog in the whole tournament
74 - Dake and not confidently at all. Burroughs weakness right now is the weight cut. He looks tired and gets beat because he’s tired. He won’t be for this. I wish the NCAA guys hadn’t gotten hurt and that Griffith wasn’t taking a thousand units at Stanford, but whatever. I wanted to see how Bull or Lewis in mix, but oh well.
86 - Taylor: Somebody slap Nickal in the head for not going 86 at the worlds, because no one is beating Taylor, not Zahid, not Hall, not PD3minutes of fame.
97 - Snyder: I think cox can make 86, I think cox can beat a lot of people (not Sadulaev), I think cox is an absolute stud for wanting to go for history instead of another medal; I don’t know if cox hiding away wherever is getting him set for 97. I don’t know if he’s magic enough to beat what is now a grizzled vet in Snyder. Cox is magical, but not the same kind of magical that Sadulaev is, not that I’ve seen.
125 - Steveson: he’s confident, he’s improved, he’s a freak athlete, but they should have turned him loose in Rome or someplace; he just hasn’t seen guys that the world produces. Big ass men who’ll do bad shit to him. I know it was the folk season, but if buddy has put in the time on the mat, maybe he has a gut/lace combo, and if he does, he’ll be trouble.
side note, are they doing the worlds for the non olympic classes this year, because that’s a 92 kg championship that NIckal could win before jumping to mma.