Jun 19, 2015
Some news to report as USA Wrestling has announced Nick Marable,
the U.S. Open champion at 70kg, will not be granted an injury
extension following his failure to compete at the U.S. World Team
Trials on June 13-14. Marable sustained a pre-tournament injury and
requested an extension, but since that injury happened within the
18 hours prior to the event, he would have still needed to weigh
in. That didn't happen.
This means U.S. World Team Trials champion, James Green, is the man
at 70kg. That gives Team USA two former Huskers on the squad. Green
was a four-time All-American and is going right from college into
the senior level.
Some other nuggets of info include the USA Wrestling wrestlers of
the year being announced. Andy Bisek and Adeline Gray were
announced as winners, but if you were in Madison, you already knew
that.
Speaking of being IN Madison, that's what sparked the conversation
with Episode 176 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast. We're talking
with Ben Askren, a Wisconsin native, 2008 Olympian, ONE FC champion
and two-time NCAA champion. Askren is always pretty vocal when it
comes to marketing and promotion and during the event, he and I
exchanged some banter over the Twitterverse and ultimately came to
an agreement to do the interview to talk about what was good and
bad with marketing of wrestling, especially when events like the
World Team Trials are involved.
We got some details on what the local organizing committee did and
didn't do, as well as what USA Wrestling did. Ben also stepped up
and did some social media push of his own. All in all, a pretty
engaging conversation.
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