This is some great freestyle wrestling. Sanderson comes out on top Dec 4-1,2-0 and Dec 5-2,2-0 to advance to the Worlds. They will be held on Sept. 12-18 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Match 1

Match 2

Ellis Coleman performs a move called the “flying squirrel” against Mehdi Chooli Zeidvand of Iran, en route to a win 3-5, 4-0, 1-0 at the Junior World championships.

Coleman went on to wina bronze medal

The story of Anthony Robles is an amazing testament to the power of determination. Here he accepts the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance at the ESPYs.

As many of you have probably heard, Iowa beat #1 Penn State last Sunday (1/30/2011) in their wrestling dual match. Most people thought Penn State should have won, but are still not very surprised that Iowa beat them. The Hawkeyes just seems to be able to pull off big wins like this. They always have. They fight until the end, winning or losing.

A good example of this would be the 141 match between Marion of Iowa and Alton of Penn State. Marion, who just returned from a suspension, was thrown to his back by Alton early in the match for 5 points. He then fought back for to win by 3.

If you didn’t get to watch the match on the BigTen network because Comcast sucks and only offers that channel at an extra cost, even if you are already paying for High def channels, then here is a highlight video of the dual that Flowrestling put together.

Wrestling Videos on Flowrestling

Well, this is actually the 3rd rematch, but hey, who is counting.  This one should be good.  They will be wrestling freestyle, which makes it even more exciting.  Caldwell is coming back from shoulder surgery, that put him out for the 2009-2010 season.  Hopefully he is fully healed. If not, I doubt this will be much of a match.

It is on an aircraft carrier called the U.S.S Intrepid.  Yes, you read that correctly, an aircraft carrier.  The event is a fundraiser for Beat the Streets Wrestling, inc, “a program that provides wrestling opportunities for thousands of middle school and high school students in New York City.”

Metcalf vs Caldwell will be the main event of a seven match line-up, including names like Palmer, Herbert, Askren, and many more.  Oh yeah, and Royce Alger will be providing entertainment.  That will be interesting.

Beat the Streets Wrestling
Battle on the Intrepid
New York City
May 13th, 2010
6:30pm

Here are a couple of their earlier matches:

2007 St. Ed’s duals in Cleveland

2008 NWCA All-Star Classic at Ohio State

(only about 40s of the match.  If you have the full match, email me)

2009 NCAA finals

University of Minnesota freshman wrestler and former Olympian, Jake Deitchler has been ruled ineligible by the NCAA for the 2009-10 academic year. He will lose a year of eligibility.

The story on Intermat quotes J Robinson discussing a similar situation where the student athlete received MORE money, and was only suspended for 2-weeks and made to pay back that money. I am not sure why the NCAA has given Deitchler such a harsh punishment. It seems a little unfair.

Read the full story at Intermat – Deitchler ruled ineligible for 2009-10 season

Live Sports Video will be streaming the NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals on January 9th-10th.

There are 79 Teams are participating, so this is a huge tournament.

Multiple Mats
Multiple Live Streams
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Tell every wrestling fan and their mother to make this the biggest web cast the wrestling world has ever known! Commentating provided by Scott Casber and his Takedown Wrestling Media Pros and it’s cast of volunteers only on www.livesportsvideo.com

For brackets and other information, go to the 2010 NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals official site.

Here are the participating teams:
Division I: Arizona State, Bloomsburg, Boise State, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Cornell, Iowa, Iowa State, Missouri, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, UNI, University of Maryland, University of Minnesota, Wisconsin

Division II: Augustana, Central Missouri, Central Oklahoma, Fort Hays State, Gannon, Mercyhurst, Minnesota State – Mankato, Newberry, San Francisco State, St. Cloud State, West Liberty, Western State College, Wisconsin Parkside, University of Nebraska Omaha, University of Nebraska Kearney, Upper Iowa

Division III: Augsburg, Coe, Concordia, Cornell College, Delaware Valley, Heidelburg, Johnson & Wales, Luther, North Central, St. Johns, University of Dubuque, UW- LaCrosse, UW – Stevens Point, UW- Whitewater, Wartburg, Williams

NAIA: Dana, Cal Baptist, Cumberland, Dickinson State, Grand View, McKendree, Missouri Valley, Oklahoma City University, Southern Oregon, Campbelsville, Great Falls, Lindenwood, Missouri Baptist, MSU-Northern, Northwestern, Notre Dame

NJCAA (8): Labette, Iowa Central, Iowa Lakes, Colby, Clackamas, NIACC, Ellsworth, Lincoln

Women (7): Jamestown College, Lindenwood University, Menlo College, Missouri Baptist University, Missouri Valley College, Oklahoma City University, Simon Fraser University

For those of you who followed the life of Adam Frey for the last couple years, I have some sad news. Adam lost his 21-month battle with cancer. He was 23 years old. I have followed his story since watching him win the senior nationals in 2005. He fought hard, keeping a blog of his struggle at http://adamfrey.us.

The Lehigh Valley Sports wrote a great article with a lot of information and links about Adam, including this one from Sports Illustrated.

My thoughts and prayers go out to his family. Please visit his website when you get a chance.

Pope High School, located in Marietta, Georgia, locked up the 2009 McCallie Invitational title with a total of 285 points, more than 85 points more than the second place team, Father Ryan, who finished a strong tournament with 197 points.

Some other teams, along with Pope, brought in some out of state talent. At 140, Ryan Maus from Kennesaw High School first majored 2x State Champion Stuart Doster of Baylor in the semis, then went on to beat State Champion Michael Hooker from McCallie 6-1 in the finals. 3x Champ TJ Duncan from McCallie fought off numerous takedown attempts by Kennesaw’s other finalist Johnathan Rivera to pull off a 3-2 win at 152.

Read the Chattanoogan’s article on the tournament here: Pope High School Wins McCallie Mat Title

The New York Times has written an article about Cael Sanderson and his new coaching job at Penn State. It describes a little about why he made the descision and what he hopes to do there.

A Wrestling Great Calculates His Next Big Move: Dynasty