Your analogy would hold if, in the case you build, the QB
Posted on: April 4, 2021 at 16:21:28 CT
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was told to be on the plane at 8, but in reality the plane was leaving at 7.
It's a ****ty situation. J'den shouldn't have been over, even if it was less than half a pound. He's been wrestling at a lower weight for years, this should be much easier for him.
Someone with Team Cox, or J'den himself, should have seen the weigh in was going on and figured out something was up and accelerated the cutting to get him under weight.
USA Wrestling needs to take ownership of their contribution to this mess too. They told Cox & his team the wrong time then let him weigh in late. If the scales were closed USA Wrestling should have turned him away from attempting to weigh in.
And where the hell was someone from USA Wrestling? There should have been someone trying to ensure one of the biggest names in Olympic Wrestling makes to weigh in. I've seen officials scurry around the Hearnes Center to make sure every kid that qualified for state got weighed in. If a mid-level wrestling tounament in the state of Missouri can do this why can't USA Wrestling?
There's plenty of blame to go around here but trying to paint J'den as some sort of moron who is totally at fault isn't an accurate portrayal of what happened.