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

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Just published by U23 World Championships preview - as Brianna Gonzalez (53kg) and Kylie Welker (76kg) get ready to compete this week in Serbia (Oct. 22-25):

Hawkeyes Gonzalez/Welker head to U23 World Championships - On3

Here's the schedule for the event - with both Hawkeyes highlighted in yellow (all times Central Daylight):

 

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Draws are out for the Iowa women:





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).

 

[Praguehawk]

She kicked ***!

 

[sdvike]

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.

 

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Welker's morning so far - semifinals coming up in a bit:





(She's spent about 90 total seconds on the mat through two matches lol)

 

[Praguehawk]

Do you know who is with her for coaching?

 

[Tanner Lafever]

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.

 

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Do you know who is with her for coaching?

Associate HC Gary Mayabb.

US Women’s National Team head coach Terry Steiner is also there in Serbia.

 

[HugoHugo]

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

 

[Corby2]

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

I believe he's at Northern Michigan now training Greco

 

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Kylie Welker completes a dominant run in Serbia with U23 gold at 76 kilograms:



Four matches, four tech. falls.

Total time on the mat? 6:53

 

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[ebdad]

Kylie Welker completes a dominant run in Serbia with U23 gold at 76 kilograms:



Four matches, four tech. falls.

Total time on the mat? 6:53

Couldn’t happen to a better person. Really happy for her.

 

[HugoHugo]

I believe he's at Northern Michigan now training Greco

Do you know if he plans to come back to Iowa and wrestle? I seem to remember he verbaled a while ago.

Change of plans?

 

[sstark46]

Kylie Welker completes a dominant run in Serbia with U23 gold at 76 kilograms:



Four matches, four tech. falls.

Total time on the mat? 6:53

What a stud. Glad she's a Hawk

 

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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.

 

[PUR158]

A lot of action on this thread today.

 

[VakAttack]

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.

 

[funkisfun10]

The greatest in wrestling fan base in the country, and no interest in U23 worlds? And he's a weirdo? Lmao...Maybe replace Gable's statue out front with a statue of Welker.

 

[sstark46]

The greatest in wrestling fan base in the country, and no interest in U23 worlds? And he's a weirdo? Lmao...Maybe replace Gable's statue out front with a statue of Welker.

 

[Cali_Nittany1]

 

[Cali_Nittany1]

 

[Scrubby]

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.

 

[UndercoverHawk]

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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Senior World Team:
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[VakAttack]

Forrest's match was insane.

 

[AFHawk86]

 

[Libertylover]

Forrest's match was insane.

Forrest and Duke are so young and good at freestyle, they will be wasting their time in college wrestling. They should just concentrate all their time on freestyle. Same with the Raney twins and Greco!

 

[GLC1969]

I see what you did there.