Olympic pool pairings for men's freestyle wrestling (55, 66, 84, 120 kg)

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John Fuller (USA Wrestling)
08/26/2004


55 kg/121 lbs.  Pool 1 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 2 winner)  Ghenadie Tulbea (Moldova)  Rene Montero (Cuba)  Stephen Abas (United States)    Pool 2 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 1 winner)  Velikov Radoslav (Bulgaria)  Shaun Williams (South Africa)  Zhengyu Li (China)    Pool 3 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 4 winner)  Babak Nourzad (Iran)  Naranbaatar Bayaraa (Mongolia)  Hyo Sub Kim (Korea)    Pool 4 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 3 winner)  Chikara Tanabe (Japan)  Namig Abdullayev (Azerbaijan)  Yogeshwar Dutt (India)    Pool 5 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 6 winner)  Oleksandr Zakharuk (Ukraine)  Bauyrzhan Orazgaliyev (Kazakhstan)  Herman Kantoeu (Belarus)    Pool 6 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 5 winner)  Ahmad Bashir Rahmati (Afghanistan)  Dilshod Mansurov (Uzbekistan)  Mavlet Batirov (Russia)    Pool 7 (winner advances to semifinal vs. Pool 5/6 quarterfinal winner)  Song Nam O (People's Democratic Republic of Korea)  Amiran Karntanov (Greece)  Martin Berberyan (Armenia)  Harun Dogan (Turkey)      66 kg/145.5 lbs.  Pool 1 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 2 winner)  Fred Jessey (Nigeria)  Jin Kuk Baek (Korea)  Kazuhiko Ikematsu (Japan)    Pool 2 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 1 winner)  Evan MacDonald (Canada)  Serafim Barzakov (Bulgaria)  Leonid Spiridonov (Kazakhstan)    Pool 3 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 4 winner)  Apostolos Taskoudis (Greece)  Ramesh Kumar (India)  Zhirayr Hovhannisyan (Armenia)    Pool 4 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 3 winner)  Serguei Rondon (Cuba)  Elbrus Tedeyev (Ukraine)  Otar Tushishvili (Georgia)    Pool 5 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 6 winner)  Stefan Fernyak (Slovakia)  Gabor Hatos (Hungary)  Omer Cubukci (Turkey)    Pool 6 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 5 winner)  Makhach Murtazaliev (Russia)  Alireza Dabir (Iran)  Artur Tavkazakhov (Uzbekistan)    Pool 7 (winner advances to semifinal vs. Pool 5/6 quarterfinal winner)  Ruslan Bodisteanu (Moldova)  Elman Asgarov (Azerbaijan)  Jamill Kelly (United States)      84 kg/185 lbs.  Pool 1 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 2 winner)  Majid Khodaei (Iran)  Anuj Kumar (India)  Hidekazu Yokoyama (Japan)    Pool 2 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 1 winner)  Magomed Kurugliyev (Kazakhstan)  Siarhei Borchanka (Belarus)  Cael Sanderson (United States)    Pool 3 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 4 winner)  Revaz Mindorashvili (Georgia)  Lazaros Loizidis (Greece)  Vincent Aka Akesse (France)    Pool 4 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 3 winner)  Jeffrey Cobb (Guam)  Davyd Bichinashvili (Germany)  Yoel Romero (Cuba)    Pool 5 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 6 winner)  Taras Danko (Ukraine)  Mamed Agaev (Armenia)  Gokhan Yavaser (Turkey)    Pool 6 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 5 winner)  Magomed Ibragimov (Macedonia)  Eui Jae Moon (Korea)  Gochev Miroslav (Bulgaria)    Pool 7 (winner advances to semifinal vs. Pool 5/6 quarterfinal winner)  Sazhid Sazhidov (Russia)  Matar Sene (Senegal)  Nicolae Ghita (Romania)  Shamil Aliev (Tajikistan)      120 kg/264.5 lbs.  Pool 1 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 2 winner)  Artur Taymazov (Uzbekistan)  Marek Garmulewicz (Poland)  Palwinder Singh (India)    Pool 2 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 1 winner)  Otto Aubeli (Hungary)  Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov (Russia)  Alex Modebadze (Georgia)    Pool 3 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 4 winner)  Alexis Rodriguez (Cuba)  Nestoras Batzelas (Greece)  Serhii Pryadun (Ukraine)    Pool 4 (winner advances to quarterfinal vs. Pool 3 winner)  Daniel Chintoan (Romania)  Sven Thiele (Germany)  Aydin Polatci (Turkey)    Pool 5 (winner advances to semifinal vs. Pool 6 winner)  Francesco Miano (Italy)  Kerry McCoy (United States)  Marid Mutalimov (Kazakhstan)  Yury Mildzihov (Kyrgyzstan)    Pool 6 (winner advances to semifinal vs. Pool 5 winner)  Alireza Rezaie (Iran)  Bozhidar Boyadzhiev (Bulgaria)  Usukhbayar Gelegjamts (Mongolia)  Barys Hrynkevich (Belarus)