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U.S. Open to be broadcast on FOX College Sports, with 10 airdates already set By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling 03/25/2011 USA Wrestling is pleased to announce that the U.S. Open Wrestling Championships will be broadcast on the FOX College Sports. A two-hour broadcast will be produced with highlights from the gold-medal finals in Cleveland, Ohio. Van Stokes and Jason Bryant will call the action, which will feature the nation’s top Olympic-caliber wrestlers. Expect to see the nation’s top wrestlers in action on this broadcast. The U.S. O...

Friends/Supporters, On behalf of our Board of Directors, I would like to inform you that the Ohio Regional Training Center won the first ever National Championship for regional clubs at the US Open this past weekend!!!  We had 5 athletes place.  Reece Humphrey and Tervel Dlagnev captured their first US Open titles!!!  Shawn Bunch was 2nd, I (Tommy) finished 3rd, and James Yonushonis was 8th.  We were able to win this while JD Bergman was forced to sit out because of injury (He will be back for the Trials in June, don't worr...

Heavyweight battle in freestyle promises to be exciting at U.S. Open By Craig Sesker USA Wrestling 03/30/2011 Les Sigman turns Tervel Dlagnev at the 2010 World Team Trials. Larry Slater photo. How deep is the U.S. heavyweight class this season in freestyle wrestling? You start with 2010 World Team member Les Sigman. And then there is 2009 World bronze medalist Tervel Dlagnev and 2008 Olympian Steve Mocco. And don’t forget about Tommy Rowlands, who placed fifth in the World in 2007. You also have Dom Bradley, a Junior World champion who pl...

By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling 03/05/2011 MINSK, Belarus – Tervel Dlagnev (Columbus, Ohio/Sunkist Kids) won a bronze medal at 120 kg/264.5 lbs. on the final day of the men’s freestyle competition at the Alexander Medved International on Saturday. Dlagnev, a 2009 World bronze medalist, went 3-1 for the day, including a victory of Rasul Kadyrov of Russia. He opened with wins over Dmitrijs Mihailovs of Latvia and Pasha Otarchiev of Russia. His only loss came in the semifinals, when he was defeated by 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Marid Mu...

By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling 03/04/2011 MINSK, Belarus – The United States won three medals in men’s freestyle on the first day of the Alexander Medved International on Friday. Capturing a gold medal at 60 kg/132 lbs. was 2009 U.S. World Team member Shawn Bunch (Columbus, Ohio/Gator WC) Bunch won five matches to capture the title, including a victory over Bekhan Goigereev of Russia in the finals. He opened with wins over Vladimir Fligontov of Russia, Vitali Koryakin of Tajikistan and Aliaksandr Kontoyev of Belarus. He defeated Amer...

http://www.themat.com/section.php?section_id=3&page=showarticle&ArticleID=23170 Rowlands wins gold, four U.S. wrestlers get bronzes at Cerro Pelado in Cuba Gary Abbott USA Wrestling 02/19/2011 HAVANA, Cuba – Tommy Rowlands (Columbus, Ohio/Sunkist Kids) won a gold medal at 120 kg/264.5 lbs. on the first day of men’s freestyle competition at the Cerro Pelado International. He was one of five Americans who won medals on Saturday. Rowlands won three bouts on the way to the title, including a win over Disney Rodriguez of Cuba in the fina...

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/homepage/20110216_At_Cornell__fund-raising_just_as_important_to_wrestling_as_mat_work.html?page=3&c=y At Cornell, fund-raising just as important to wrestling as mat work POSTED: February 16, 2011 By Frank Fitzpatrick Inquirer Staff Writer Third in an occasional series ITHACA, N.Y. - The likelihood that Cornell would ever be home to the nation's best wrestling team once seemed as remote as the Ivy League school's Central New York campus, perched like a Brigadoon above Lake Cayuga's sparsely populated and piney...

The Ohio RTC has weekly workouts that are open to athletes who qualify.  Please contact Lou Rosselli at rosselli.2@osu.edu

The Ohio RTC invites all who qualify to join them Feb 7-11th for an RTC training camp.  Please contact Lou Rosselli for more details.  rossellir@buckeyes.ath.ohio-state.edu

By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling 01/30/2011 KRASNOYARSK, Russia - The Russian wrestling federation has reported that Tervel Dlagnev (Columbus, Ohio/Sunkist Kids) won a bronze medal at 120 kg/264.5 lbs. at the Ivan Yarygin Memorial Grand Prix on Sunday. Dlagnev was a 2009 World bronze medalist at this division. The website reported that the winner at the 120 kg/264.5 lbs. division was 2008 Olympic silver medalist Bakhtiyar Akhmedov of Russia. Three weight classes were contested on Sunday (84 kg, 96 kg and 120 kg) and Dlagnev was the only medalist wh...