U20:
57 kg: Cael Nadeo
57 kg: Nate Desmond
(57 kg: Jax Forrest)
61 kg: Kyison Garcia
(61 kg: Marcus Blaze)
70 kg: Tyler Kasak
74 kg: Joe Sealy
79 kg: Will Henckel
86 kg: Josh Barr
97 kg: Cole Mirasola

The following wrestlers won the 2024 U20 US Open and will be sitting in the best of three trials finals:
57 kg: Luke Lilledahl
(65 kg: Bo Bassett)
70 kg: PJ Duke
79 kg: Zack Ryder
92 kg: Connor Mirasola

U23:
61kg: Aaron Nagao
61 kg: Gary Steen
70 kg: Connor Pierce
79 kg: Erik Gibson
92 kg: Lucas Cochran
125 kg: Greg Kerkvliet

https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/12570808-2024-u20-u23-world-team-trials-entries

Please post results and any match-related discussions here. Thanks!

When:
Friday, April 19 at 10 am - 3:45 pm EDT; and at 6:30 - 10 pm.
Saturday, April 20 at 10 am - 2:30 pm EDT; and at 6:30 - 10 pm.

Where:
@ Penn State University in State College, PA (Bryce Jordan Center)

Parking info:
https://www.themat.com/news/2024/ap...c-team-trials---wrestling-parking-information

Streaming/TV:
Streaming: Peacock, NBCSports.com, NBC Sports app
TV: USA Network - Day 1 Challenge Tournament (6:30 to 10 pm) and Day 2 Finals (6:30 to 10 pm)
Broadcast team: Jason Knapp, Jim Scherr, and Zora Stephenson

Session 1 (10 am to 3:30 pm) 4 mats will be streamed, as well as a Quad box option.
Session 2 (6:30 to 10 pm) 3 mats will be streamed.
Session 3 (10 am to 2:30 pm) 4 mats will be streamed, as well as a Quad box option.
Session 4 (6:30 to 10 pm) streamed and on TV.

PRO TIP: I subscribe to Peacock every year around the week of Black Friday for their special price of $1.99 per month or $20 per year. Can't beat it! Lots of great content (including old school WWF shows and PPV's).

Session 1:
Challenge Tournament: Preliminaries, Quarterfinals and Consolation Rounds, for all styles and weight classes. (Note: all Championship matches will be held prior to the consolation rounds).
Session 2:
Challenge Tournament: Semifinals and Finals, all styles and weight classes.
Session 3:
Round 1 of Best-of-3 Championship Series, all styles and weight classes, plus Round 2 of Best-of-3 Championship Series in the five weight classes not yet qualified for the Olympics. Also the completion of the Challenge Tournament: consolation semifinals, consolation finals, third place bouts and True third (if necessary).
Session 4:
Round 3 of Best-of-3 Championship Series (if necessary) in the five weight classes not yet qualified for the Olympics. Followed by Round 2 and Round 3 (if necessary) in the 13 weight classes qualified for the Olympic Games. The session concludes with the presentation of the U.S. Olympic Team.

Radio:
98.7 State College radio (local coverage only - no streaming). Friday - all day. Saturday - last couple hours.

PBP:
Hopefully someone(s) will be able to step up and provide some PBP. As always, please remember to provide the score at the end of the match. Thanks!

Mat assignments/Brackets:
Check: https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/opentournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=853157132, or
https://www.flowrestling.org/articl...s-olympic-team-trials-mens-freestyle-preseeds

Here's to hoping the 2024 US Men's FS Olympic Team is fielded by 6 Nittany Lion Wrestling Club wrestlers!!

(MOD - this topic deserves it's own thread)

Okie St. board is saying theres a lot of smoke ab DT being an option for them. Big if true. He could flip their program around fast.

@zzs006 Here's a head start for you -- a list of the likely competition for Zain and Spencer:

It's just a list with some credentials, but not an analysis of who the biggest obstacles will be. (Zain and Spencer might be the biggest obstacles to everyone else.)

The Transfer Portal opens up this coming Wednesday and remains open thru May 3.

Does anyone transfer in? Does anyone transfer out (ie Bearclaw)?

Apparently, AB popped for Adderall at U23s and needed a temporary waiver to compete at trials. Still not 100% sure he'll be cleared for the Olympics, though I suspect he will. He apparently has a script, but did not file paperwork properly (or something like that).

I've always thought it was weird that such a commonly prescribed drug without obvious performance enhancing capabilities is on the banned list. Why not ban coffee while we're at it? Would really suck if this keeps him out.

All of our 2024-2025 commits are eligible.

Registrants so far: Lilledahl, Sealey, Ryder, the twins, Duke, Desmond, Henckel.

so we've got that going for us.

Giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York area as they spread across East Coast, experts say​

She's getting mugged to the point of assault in one game after another.

Hell, Draymond Green of all people said Indiana needs an "enforcer" to protect Caitlin. (Link below.) And Draymond is something of an authority on such topics.

I can't imagine why she'd be such a target...

Seriously amazing accomplishment tonight but if a certain 4x champ comes back I could easily see next year's team beating this record.

LL should outscore Davis' output
Davis/Nagao should score more
Bartlett should at least equal this season
SVN/Kasak should score more
Haines should at least equal this season
MM should score more
Carter should score more if he has access to both legs
Barr should be able to match Truax
Mirasola will score less but will score
Kerkvleit should at least equal this season

That's three weights were they improve and only one where they take a hit. There is no doubt this is the most dominant team in sports.

Can you imaging Brands telling him "son, I know where you are, I was there".

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Stutzman fired by Buffalo.

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GA High Schools providing NIL support to "student athletes", now FL High Schools voting.
At the college level, just play the games, I will root game day and not even follow recruiting.

KSN SEGMENT ON WHITE OUT

See Link. Segment from a State College radio show. Typical talking points except about 3 minutes in one of the guys raises the question as to why the B1G doesn't give the White Out the respect it deserves as a one-of-a-kind unique event and shoehorn it into a primetime late Sept-early Oct timeslot vs. a top-shelf opponent. From a conference-wide marketing and branding standpoint, it makes total sense -- essentially have the conference treat the White Out with the same reverence they treat the "always last week of the season" OSU-Mich game. Yes, from an aesthetic standing, the Whiteout is just as eye-catching against Illinois as it would be for Oregon/Mich/OSU, but if there are no stakes to the game itself then it's not gonna keep fringe TV viewers with no rooting/gambling interest from changing the channel. Just feels like the league gives the White Out second-class status for reasons that escape me.