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The Tribute Breakfast for the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Class of 2023 took place at the McKnight Center on the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. 







Speaking for the Class of 2023 honorees were: John Kelly and Joel Weber for Meritorious Official Ed Kelly, Pat Popolizio and Bryan Hazard for Order of Merit recipient Frank Popolizio, Brandon Slay and Jordan Burroughs for Medal of Courage recipient Richard Perry, John Bowlsby and Tim Johnson speaking for Outstanding American Bob Bowlsby. 







Speaking for the Distinguished Members were: Michelle Bender and Jeff Levitetz for Rich Bender; Jay Jackson, Tela O’Donnell Bacher and Katie Kunimoto for Patricia Miranda; Jim Shields and Darryl Monasmith for the late Jimmy Jackson; Mark Ironside and Hardell Moore for Joe Williams. 







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Recorded June 2023.

Episode 59 of the Five Point Move Podcast brings back Northern Michigan University assistant coach Parker Betts, who discusses Payton Jacobson's rise to the 2024 Olympic Team, what the impact of that has been, as well as the performances of several other NMU top athletes including National Team member Max Black. 







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Michigan native, four-time All-American and two-time NCAA champion Gabe Dean joins Shane Sparks on the most recent episode of the Go Earn It Podcast.

Shane Sparks joins New York native and current Cornell assistant coach Nick Gwiazdowski, a two-time World bronze medalist, four-time All-American and two-time NCAA Champion on the latest episode of the Go Earn It Podcast. 







Gwiazdowski started his college career at Binghamton for head coach Pat Popolizio and followed his coach to NC State where he'd win two NCAA titles and wrestle in the finals three times. 







Sparks tracks Gwiazdowski’s path from growing up in the Capital Region of New York to his numerous U.S. Open championships to go along with his stellar college career. 

The gang at MatStats uses data and stats to determine who had the best collegiate wrestling team since 1974.  The battle comes down to the old Iowa teams and the 2024 Penn State team.  If you want to have an educated opinion on the best team since 1974, MatStats provides a stats and analytics education for the viewers.







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Welcome to the NWCA’s latest venture to help our favorite sport. Glenn Gormley, Jason Bryant and Kevin Hazard outline their effort to bring statistical analysis to wrestling. Mat Stats is the NWCA’s attempt to bring wrestling up to speed with so many other sports by incorporating stats. It is the same sport, the wrestlers are just older and better.







Mat Stats by the NWCA is a monthly podcast by the National Wrestling Coaches Association







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This week we talk about the awesome Olympic qualifying results from Lee, Retherford, and the valiant effort from Kamal Bey.







We also talk with NCAA Champion and all around awesome dude Kyven Gadson. We talk through his wrestling career, his continued education, his aspirations of calling the 2028 Olympics, and a variety of other fun topics. We finish up by congratulating Malik Amine on a great career and we get to parent corner.







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