Levi vs Chance is an all PIAA District 3 matchup. Take that WPIAL!
Rolling with the South Central!
Rolling with the South Central!
'26 Final X, 6/19, thread
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oh yeah. there are no questions in my office.
I WFH Thursday and Friday of NCAAs and come in late if Senior Worlds are at some crazy hours.
Ha, sadly, that took way too long to cross my mind. Just occurred to me the other day.Levi vs Chance is an all PIAA District 3 matchup. Take that WPIAL!
Rolling with the South Central!
I wonder where my early 90s District 3 Wrestling t-shirts are…. And whether they stretch 80 lbs…
I wish I had a 1973 District 3 t-shirt - 'cause District 3 had 7 finalists and 7 consolation finalists (out of 48 wrestlers). At least that's my recollection.
My favorite picture from a previous match up of Bartlett vs. McKenna with Beau grinning as he makes his way back to center after dumping McKenna for 4 points at the edge.
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The Final X news conference is about to begin. I'll share relevant quotes here. Parrticipants are:
Men’s Freestyle Athlete Panel
Men’s Freestyle Athlete Panel
- Kyle Dake, 2x Olympic bronze medalist, 4x World champion
- Zahid Valencia, 2025 World champion, 2x World medalist
- Spencer Lee, 2024 Olympic silver medalist, 2025 World Team member
- James Green, 2x World medalist, 7x World Team member
- Real Woods, 2025 World bronze medalist
- Jax Forrest, 2025 World Team member
Can you tell us who, I want to short the stock.
Forrest says "it's going to be fun" to wrestle Blaze, who wrestles someone "who's very different than how I wrestle."
Spencer Lee on facing Luke: "I have a great opponent tomorrow. He beat me at the Open, so I'm looking to get that one back."
My old hometown is doing a Juneteenth celebration at Monument Park - a park that honors Civil War Union Army soldiers who were encamped in the part of town where I grew up. I like that choice.
Maybe you can do a poll on which district posters wrestled in. Always wondered how prevalent District 3 would be.
Good morning all, and Happy Final X day!
Reminder that true third matches are listed to start at 12:30 but could start as early as Noon.
Final X finals start at 2 p.m. ET. Round 2 starts at 5 p.m. ET. And neccessary third round matches will follow those. Last year, only Duke/Yianni went to a third round. I have a feeling we'll have a couple more this year.
Reminder that true third matches are listed to start at 12:30 but could start as early as Noon.
Final X finals start at 2 p.m. ET. Round 2 starts at 5 p.m. ET. And neccessary third round matches will follow those. Last year, only Duke/Yianni went to a third round. I have a feeling we'll have a couple more this year.
@Coastal2 I recall seeing you write that you won't be around. @SlipperyPete, @Tom McAndrew, or any of the other regular PBP'ers, just let me know your plans for today and I will react accordingly to whatever is or is not needed.
My schedule today:
I will absolutely be able to post results for all the true third matches. Play by play is still TBD.
For the finals, will be here for the duration and whatever is needed.
My schedule today:
I will absolutely be able to post results for all the true third matches. Play by play is still TBD.
For the finals, will be here for the duration and whatever is needed.
Also, checking myself here because we all know how easily I confuse myself: I am working under the impression that none of the true third matches have any implications for Penn State guys as they relate to the U23 and U20 teams. Is that correct?
Definitely no impact on U20 teams. I also don’t believe they will have any impact on U23s.
Nope. Barr will probably be the guy at 97 though is what the word is for U23 worlds.
@GregPickel -- i have something on my schedule that will prevent me from doing any PBP for Final X. Sorry about that
Just curious - where are you from? I lived just a few blocks away from where the Ruth’s house is.
Thanks! I felt 99 percent confident in my belief but needed to verify ha. Appreciate it.
I was close to you. Lived on Belvedere Road, one street off Progress Ave. Now behind the Colonial Park Mall.
Shumate did weigh in. So we will get 3 true 3rds at 79 86 92.
Not sure why we didn't know these before this morning. Wrestlers already knew all they had to do was weigh in and they won . Not sure why that wasn't communicated with the fans
Not sure why we didn't know these before this morning. Wrestlers already knew all they had to do was weigh in and they won . Not sure why that wasn't communicated with the fans
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UPDATE: 2 streams just came up. Now I just have to figure out who’s wrestling on each stream. 
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When I go to FloSports and select Final X, I don’t see any sort of schedule, mat assignments, or wrestlers to follow. I just see options for INFORMATION, NEWS, and VIDEOS. I checked and I’m logged in and I have a subscription. Am I in the wrong place? Or will everything magically appear at 12:00?
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When I go to FloSports and select Final X, I don’t see any sort of schedule, mat assignments, or wrestlers to follow. I just see options for INFORMATION, NEWS, and VIDEOS. I checked and I’m logged in and I have a subscription. Am I in the wrong place? Or will everything magically appear at 12:00?
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Men on AUPDATE: 2 streams just came up. Now I just have to figure out who’s wrestling on each stream.
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When I go to FloSports and select Final X, I don’t see any sort of schedule, mat assignments, or wrestlers to follow. I just see options for INFORMATION, NEWS, and VIDEOS. I checked and I’m logged in and I have a subscription. Am I in the wrong place? Or will everything magically appear at 12:00?
There should be a red watch live button in the upper right hand corner.UPDATE: 2 streams just came up. Now I just have to figure out who’s wrestling on each stream.
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When I go to FloSports and select Final X, I don’t see any sort of schedule, mat assignments, or wrestlers to follow. I just see options for INFORMATION, NEWS, and VIDEOS. I checked and I’m logged in and I have a subscription. Am I in the wrong place? Or will everything magically appear at 12:00?
It’s one of the more infuriating things about wrestling at both this and the college level, imo.
Wrestling is its own worst enemy it's been this way forever. Communication in all aspects is horrible so when wrestling gets passed up by other sports it doesn't shock me anymore.
Look at National Duals they move the date to exam time it's such a wrestling thing to do. Which made it so many teams can't attend
It's not just infuriating, it is absolutely embarrassing. Seriously, why is this sport treated like such a Mickey Mouse operation.
As always, well, sometimes or rarely, I agree with you 100%. Wrestling is absolutely it's own worst enemy!
Couldn't agree more. It's like those who run it go out of their way to earn it as little attention as possible. Not so much college (though that isn't great either) but USA Wrestling and international in general, without question, imo.
The college schedule thing drives me mad. I also don't understand why weigh in sheets aren't published before every match. I could go on and on and will save it for another day/thread. The first true third match at Final X is about to get going.