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J Robinson explains how many different programs and types of programs which got exposure from last year’s Wrestling 411 coverage.

J Robinson explains how college wrestling benefits from a program and vision like Wrestling 411 has.

J Robinson talks about what it will take from the wrestling community to make Wrestling 411 work.

J Robinson talks about the impact the loss of a project like Wrestling 411 will have on wrestling.

J Robinson talks about the importance of this past year’s sponsors and who can step up to give wrestling a viable and professional highlight show on television.

Wrestling 411 founder J Robinson talks about the status of Wrestling 411. Coach Robinson will release more updates in the following days about the project and what you can do to help keep the effort rolling.




For the past 2 years Wrestling 411 has been dedicated to the marketing and promotion of wrestling. Our sole goal has been to promote wrestling on all levels. Our final goal is to produce a weekly made for TV highlight show within the next 3 years that follows the action thorough out the college wrestling season.

In this past year we had over 4 million hits on the web/pod cast shows that we produced from December to March; had more than 350,000 unique visitors in the month of March alone, and produced a pilot highlight show.

Harvard is one of the nation’s most elite and respected academic institutions. Jay Weiss is also one of the most respected wrestling coaches in the country. The F&M graduate starts his 16th year at the helm and talks with Wrestling 411’s Kyle Klingman and Jason Bryant about the past, present and future of Harvard wrestling.

What can Weiss look forward to this season with J.P. O’Connor and Louis Caputo leading the way? What true freshmen will make an impact in this year’s line-up?

 

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Kerry McCoy inherited a strong team at the University of Maryland and the first-year coach produced three All-Americans last season, leading the Terps to a 10th place finish at the 2009 NCAA Division I championships.

With Steve Bell, Alex Krom and Hudson Taylor return and the lineup will be bolstered by the return of Mike Letts off a redshirt, what does McCoy expect from his squad in his second year in College Park?

Kyle Klingman and Jason Bryant catch up with McCoy and talk about his upcoming season and the new additions to the Maryland coaching staff as well as getting his thoughts on diversity amongst the college coaching ranks.

Dennis Hall, a 1995 World Champion and 1996 Olympic Silver Medalist, has been named the new head coach at the U.S. Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan. Hall, a stalwart on the Greco-Roman scene through the 1990s, will lead the Greco-Roman athletes in a post vacated earlier this year by Ivan Ivanov.

For Hall, a Wisconsin native, the journey is two-fold. First is to continue to build world-level Greco-Roman athletes from the USOEC, and the second, to finish his degree.

List to what Hall has to say about his new post.

Joe Pantaleo was a two-time Big Ten and NCAA finalist while competing for the University of Michigan back in the 1980s. After several stints as an assistant and a jump into the “private sector,” Pantaleo joined the coaching staff at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.

Pantaleo joins Jesse Castro’s staff and he talked with Jason Bryant and Kyle Klingman of Wrestling 411 about the move back into coaching and what called him to Liberty. He discusses what else can call people to a school like Liberty and also talks abwpout what it will be like to coach his nephew Joey on Liberty’s team.

 

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There is much promise for this year’s Minnesota Golden Gophers wrestling team. After winning a team title in 2007, the Golden Gophers slipped to 10th place in 2008 and 14th place in 2009. But this year’s team has a different look.

Leading the charge is Dustin Schlatter, an NCAA champion as a freshman and this year’s freestyle world team member at 163 pounds. Following a redshirt season, Schlatter will move up to 165 pounds after three seasons at 149.

Oregon native Joe Russell spoke with Wrestling 411 about the potential of this year’s team, Brock Lesnar’s continued impact on Minnesota wrestling, the disappointment Oregon dropping two Division I programs, and overcoming adversity.