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ILLINI WRESTLE-OFFS

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L to R, Dylan Connell, Christian Kanzler and Edmond Ruth.  The handshake. Here are the approximate scores of the wrestle-off matches held on October 24: 125 Ramazan Attasauov D Caelan Riley (8-1) 133 Anthony "Joey" Ruzic D Brian Beers (4-3) 133 Lucas Byrd MD Brian Beers (15-3) 133 Lucas Byrd TF Anthony "Joey" Ruzic (19-4) 149 Jake Harrier D Hudson Goebel (6-4) 149 Kannon Webster MD Jake Harrier (10-2) 157 Logan Swaw D Charlie Fifield (7-3) 157 Antonio Alvarado WBF Tegan Chumbley 157 Jason Kraisser WBF Logan Swaw 157 Jason Kraisser WBF Antonio Alvarado 165 Braeden Scoles TF Caden Ernd (19-4) 165 Braeden Scoles MD Chris Moore (16-5) 174 Danny Braunagel MD Cooper Wettig (16-4) 184 Edmond Ruth D Dylan Connell (4-1; SV) 197 Zac Braunagel TF Isiah Pettigrew (25-9) 285 Peter Marinopoulos MD Marko Ivanisevic (19-7) 285 Luke Luffman TF Marko Ivanisevic (16-1)  285 Luke Luffman MD Peter Marinopoulos (10-2) There are videos posted of wrestle-off matches. They wrestled on two m...
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SUMO -- The January Basho

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  We haven't posted about Sumo recently because there has been abysmal Sumo coverage on YouTube. The Japanese broadcasting company with the rights to show the tournaments clamped down on anybody publishing videos of their product. Thankfully, NHK has started putting out English language broadcasts of the 15-day tournaments.  This was the perfect time to sell your product in America.  There is going to be a changing of the guard. The great Yokozuna Terunofuji retired after a bad start in this tournament. He was a favorite of ours. So, his retirement was a sad event. But he had bad knees. It was time.  But there was also a new hope: Hoshoryu. He ended up winning this basho with a 12-3 record followed by a win in a three-man playoff. The council that decides Yokozuna promotion will consider whether he will be elevated to that highest rank. He has another recent tournament win in his favor, and he has been amazingly consistent in obtaining winning records in bashos over ...
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RECAP -- MATMEN FINALS

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CARDANI FINAL It is good that Willie has stopped calling him Cardini, which sounds like an alcoholic beverage. Now, if they could just spell Zac's name correctly! Justin in on a VERY QUICK shot that goes from a single to a double, a lift, and then the score!  This is why I think Justin will be an AA. He can get to legs. All he needed to do was to convert. He's starting to convert.  Long ride. Builds up 1:31 in riding time with multiple high-amplitude mat returns. Ryan Miller from Penn (and Blair Academy before that) finally escapes near the end of the first period.  During that long ride, Izzy and Willie talk about the bottom half of the ILLINI lineup, saying great things. Izzy knows Dylan Duncan, of course, and he wondered when he would "get up off the couch." Haha! They liked the lineup that runs from Cardani to Byrd to Duncan/Carr.  A lot of "firepower" there.  In the second period, Cardani is down. He's built up 1:31 in riding time. The Penn kid is l...
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