U23 Pan Ams 2026

sdvike

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Feb 23, 2016
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JW looking good. Kinda giving me memories of another JW who got a lot of flack for not finishing but somehow became runner up his jr year at Natty's.
 
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Coastal2

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Dec 19, 2025
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Apparently this JW is better at Freestyle, because he sucks at Folkstyle.
I'm not sure that he's that good at free or the competition was just pathetic. The US won 9 of 10 golds with their only loss coming from Tolentino of Oregon State losing to an American wrestling for Puerto Rico in Ayoub of Nebraska. Tolentino beat Ayoub earlier in the tournament. The only wrestlers there who gave the US any at all competion were US high school/college kids who wrestle for other countries. Matty Lopes of Blair Academy/Lehigh wrestling for Brazil is an example. Nice wrestler who may AA someday but he's not there yet.

There was a 92Kg from Peru who had the dad bod of a 45 year old, Colombia's HWT was a mountain of a man but got pinned twice and 10-0d twice. He may not have even known all the rules. It's awful that this is the best U23s that two continents can produce.
 

Corby2

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I'm not sure that he's that good at free or the competition was just pathetic. The US won 9 of 10 golds with their only loss coming from Tolentino of Oregon State losing to an American wrestling for Puerto Rico in Ayoub of Nebraska. Tolentino beat Ayoub earlier in the tournament. The only wrestlers there who gave the US any at all competion were US high school/college kids who wrestle for other countries. Matty Lopes of Blair Academy/Lehigh wrestling for Brazil is an example. Nice wrestler who may AA someday but he's not there yet.

There was a 92Kg from Peru who had the dad bod of a 45 year old, Colombia's HWT was a mountain of a man but got pinned twice and 10-0d twice. He may not have even known all the rules. It's awful that this is the best U23s that two continents can produce.
This has been the case for years pan ams at all levels are bad
 

el dub

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Nov 2, 2005
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I'm not sure that he's that good at free or the competition was just pathetic. The US won 9 of 10 golds with their only loss coming from Tolentino of Oregon State losing to an American wrestling for Puerto Rico in Ayoub of Nebraska. Tolentino beat Ayoub earlier in the tournament. The only wrestlers there who gave the US any at all competion were US high school/college kids who wrestle for other countries. Matty Lopes of Blair Academy/Lehigh wrestling for Brazil is an example. Nice wrestler who may AA someday but he's not there yet.

There was a 92Kg from Peru who had the dad bod of a 45 year old, Colombia's HWT was a mountain of a man but got pinned twice and 10-0d twice. He may not have even known all the rules. It's awful that this is the best U23s that two continents can produce.
Did the rest of our entries do as well as JW?
 
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TheREALSpooner

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Dec 16, 2022
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Further proof I'm 10x smarter than you. Williams the great Folkstyler is headed to Freestyle with a year of eligibility left. 😂

First, LOL at falling for that and then claiming to be smarter than someone. But even if true, it has nothing to do with what you said.

But by all means keep pretending a 2 time NCAA qualifier “sucks.” Or, more accurately, pretending you didn’t write that.
 
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