'25 Senior World Championships, Sep. 13-21
- Thread starter Tom McAndrew
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Levi Haines finishes with silver at Senior Worlds: Full Penn State wrestling results from the event
Penn State wrestling senior Levi Haines will be coming home with a silver medal from the Senior World Wrestling Championships in Croatia.
I know this may be an unpopular take here, but many things drive me nuts about freestyle, and that is certainly one of them.
TRENT FVVVVVVVVVKING HIDLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it's hilarious being at work and screaming like it's an NFL game.
Team USA is good hands for the forseeable future.
Nothing fake about it. It's a lunger for real.But I got what you' meant.
A fun match to watch
That Trent Hidlay match was memorable stuff. I think Gilman was the last US guy to win a World gold medal who had never won NCAAs. Rare accomplishment that really says something about desire and will to win. And yet another patient US comeback against a opponent that gassed from relentless pressure.
Levi wrestled great all tournament, I thought, and is obviously right there. Both he and RBY just needed another second. I thought where Levi improved was in handfighting and level changes--he never stopped moving, did a great job of picking his spots to shoot and capitalizing on the constant movement. Probably also better conditioned than he was in March.
Pretty sure no one had us swapping out Dake, Burroughs, and Taylor with Haines, Zahid, and Hidlay and still getting 2 golds, 1 silver.
Levi wrestled great all tournament, I thought, and is obviously right there. Both he and RBY just needed another second. I thought where Levi improved was in handfighting and level changes--he never stopped moving, did a great job of picking his spots to shoot and capitalizing on the constant movement. Probably also better conditioned than he was in March.
Pretty sure no one had us swapping out Dake, Burroughs, and Taylor with Haines, Zahid, and Hidlay and still getting 2 golds, 1 silver.
Your last sentence really is pretty remarkable and I'm guessing that you're 100% accurate. I wouldn't have anticipated 2 golds and a silver myself.
so how many total medals did iowa win,zero sounds about right!
Hidlay match one of the best of all times. Wow.
You could maybe throw Cox in there too as part of the old guard upper-middle weights.
Only Snyder stubbornly remains, and second in seniority is Spencer Lee. On paper this was shaping up to be a rebuilding/down year, but even the guys who didn't medal (okay, most of them) wrestled well and were right there. I thought the future was bright, but that a lot of these newer guys would need more seasoning before they developed into threats to contend.
I would drink so many ******* beers with Hidlay tonight. That young man deserves to blow off that giant tank of steam.
maybe give him a handler, too. I know I’d need one, if I were in his shoes.
maybe give him a handler, too. I know I’d need one, if I were in his shoes.
I hope someone goes through each of those 4pt scores and explains how they decided to award them though. Just when I think I understand how they do it, they seem to do something different than I expect. It was still a great match, and Trent deserved the win.
I went back and watched it in super-slowmo. At one point Kougi's shoulders appeared mightily close to 90, but unfortunately it was probably 2-4 hundredths of a second too late. Still super proud of Levi! The best is yet to come for that dude.
If a beer guzzler were in Hidlay’s shoes, maybe Hidlay would not be champ!
Medals by RTC:
PSU 2 (Haines silver, Snyder in finals)
OKST 1 (Valencia gold)
NC State 1 (Hidlay gold)
Michigan TBD (Woods alive in repechage)
DNP by RTC:
OKST 3 (RBY, Forrest, Hendrickson)
Rutgers 2 (Shawver, Labriola)
Iowa 2 (Lee, Voinovich)
PSU 1 (Duke)
Penn 1 (Cruz)
NYC 1 (Rivera)
Northern Iowa 1 (Realbuto)
Michigan 1 (Gomez)
Iowa State 1 (Carr)
North Carolina 1 (Ramos)
Lehigh 1 (Honis)
Also, I can't find an RTC for Puerto Rico HWT Jonovan Smith, but he's from the mainland (attended high school in California). It looks like he trains at a Los Angeles community college and MMA gym.
PSU 2 (Haines silver, Snyder in finals)
OKST 1 (Valencia gold)
NC State 1 (Hidlay gold)
Michigan TBD (Woods alive in repechage)
DNP by RTC:
OKST 3 (RBY, Forrest, Hendrickson)
Rutgers 2 (Shawver, Labriola)
Iowa 2 (Lee, Voinovich)
PSU 1 (Duke)
Penn 1 (Cruz)
NYC 1 (Rivera)
Northern Iowa 1 (Realbuto)
Michigan 1 (Gomez)
Iowa State 1 (Carr)
North Carolina 1 (Ramos)
Lehigh 1 (Honis)
Also, I can't find an RTC for Puerto Rico HWT Jonovan Smith, but he's from the mainland (attended high school in California). It looks like he trains at a Los Angeles community college and MMA gym.
Guys loitering around the garbage cans waiting to score a bronze medal are bummed.
Something just occurred to me. Anyone see any broken eyeglasses after Harutyunyan got pinned?
At the end, Levi says he plans to compete at U23s. Did we know that? Excited!
Does that win mean the US places 2nd as a team? I thought I saw that 1 win would assure 2nd over Japan
Not sure, but he added another too.
Welker and Helen pinned their way to the quarterfinals coming up. Jimenez lost and is awaiting her fate.
Yes, Team USA has locked up second place. Iran's max score is 150, USA's is 134, Japan's is 116.
Another 
for Helen (against Japan no less)!
for Helen (against Japan no less)!