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What we learned from college wrestlers’ summer 2019 freestyle seasons

By SHANNON SCOVEL of NCAA.COM | JULY 29, 2019
With the 2019 U23, junior and senior wrestling world teams nearly decided, it’s time to take a look back at how some of the nation’s top college wrestlers fared during these summer freestyle tournaments. First though, here’s a little more on this style of wrestling if you are not familiar with it. Freestyle, which differs from the college wrestling style of folkstyle, is the style of wrestling showcased in the Olympics and across international tournaments. The two styles are scored and structured differently. Folkstyle matches are set up as three periods of a total of seven minutes and freestyle matches are two periods for a total of six minutes. Freestyle style runs at a faster pace than folkstyle and focuses on back exposure. Wrestlers can earn points for riding time in folkstyle— holding an opponent down on the mat and working to score — and cannot in freestyle. The next two years will be particularly important for wrestlers to compete in freestyle as the Olympic Trials get closer given that the Tokyo Olympics will be contested in freestyle. Rest of the story at https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/article/2019-07-25/what-we-learned-college-wrestlers-summer-2019-freestyle-seasons?mc_cid=be8f44f47e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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