NEW story/thread - U23 World Championships (preview included)

Tanner Lafever

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Draws are out for the Iowa women:

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Welker gets going tomorrow morning (3:00am CT) in what I think will be a pseudo gold medal match (thanks random draws).

Her opponent - Priya Priya (IND) - was 5th at SR Worlds last month, and owns five age-level World medals (three gold, two silver).
 

sdvike

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Welker overpowering in neutral, about threw the Canadian out of the arena with a slide by. Then does a Kenedy Blades suplex. Finishes quick with leg laces.
 

Tanner Lafever

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Welker jumped ahead 8-0 in her semi, gave up a counter-throw and a nice ankle pick to a 2024 SR Pan-Am silver medalist - but kept pouring it on to get the TF and advance to tomorrow’s gold medal bout.

 

HugoHugo

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Is Otto Black still committed and training with the Hawks in some capacity? I saw he won bronze for the US!
 

Tanner Lafever

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Forgot to update this yesterday, but Brianna Gonzalez has since advanced to the bronze medal match at 53kg.

Here was her path:

- R16 = win by FALL



Quarterfinals = loss by decision (6-0)



Repechage (this morning) = win by decision (2-1)



She’ll close out her tournament later today against a 2024 Nigerian Olympian - who currently wrestles at William Penn, btw.
 

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Mesenbrink still got that dog in him. Woof. Haines looked good, too. Lilledahl not QUITE as good as those two (high bar), but still going for gold. Duke got smoked, so did Herrera. Of course, those matches were all in the U23 World semis, so...
 

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A lot of action on this thread today.
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Lilledahl, Haines, messenbrink all take gold, pj Duke takes bronze. Forrest wrestling for gold still. I will be honest, seeing Iowa freestyle become known as a women's wrestling program is not ideal to me. No knock on the females of our sport.
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