Note: An athlete must win the pool competition in order to advance into the championship bracket and remain eligible for a medal. 60 kg/132 lbs. This weight class has a few loaded pools and a few easier ones. It is also without its 2003 World champion, Arif Abdullayev of Azerbaijan, who did not show up at weigh in. Another qualified athlete from Qatar also did not show up, making this a 19-athlete field. The toughest pool is probably pool 2, which features 2000 Olympic champion Murad Oumachanov of Russia, who made a comeback from retirement this year. Also in the draw is 2001 World champion and 1996 Olympic silver medalist Giuvi Sissaouri of Canada. Rounding out this pool is Tevfik Odabasi of Turkey, who was sixth in the 2003 World meet. U.S. wrestler Eric Guerrero faces a tough draw in Pool 4. Included in his pool are 2001 and 2002 World silver medalist Oyunbileg Purevbaatar of Mongolia, who was also fifth at the 2000 Olympics. Also in this draw is 2001 World bronze medalist David Pogosian of Georgia. Guerrero's top World finish was his seventh place in 1999, so he is not the favorite here. However, Guerrero has a win over Purevbaatar at the World Cup a few years ago. Another pool of interest is Pool 3, which features 2003 World silver medalist Yandro Quintana of Cuba, now considered the top favorite with the returning World champion not in the field. Quintana has Kumar Sushil of India, who was fourth in the 2003 World meet, as well as Bulgaria's Ivan Djorev in his pool. Pool 6 has four wrestlers including Damir Zakhardtinov of Uzbekistan, who placed fourth in the 2000 Olympic Games (losing the bronze match to Terry Brands of the USA). He has a much better athletic resume the three athletes he will face: Lubos Cikel of Austria, Jung Young Ho of Korea and Kenji Inoue of Japan. The weaker pools are Pool 1 and Pool 5 Pool 1 includes Ulu Ulan Nadurbek of Mongolia, who was seventh in the 2003 World meet, and Ukrainian veteran Vasyl Fedoryshin. Gergo Woller of Hungary rounds out this draw. Pool 5 has a wildcard athlete, Sahit Prizreni of Albania, the host athlete from Greece, Besik Aslanasvili, plus a tough young Iranian athlete Masoud Jokar. None of these athletes are proven, but Jokar is probably expected to move through this pool. This weight class is wide open, especially with Abdullayev's disappearance. The return of Olympic champion Oumachanov adds interest. Maybe this is the time for a young star to step forward. 74 kg/163 lbs. This division has a number of past gold medalists, either World or Olympic, in the field, many who are aging. The draw mostly separated these past champions, but there are a few pools that are very challenging in spite of the separation of past stars. The U.S. is included in the toughest pool in the draw, Pool 4. 2002 World champion Mehdi Hajazideh Joybari of Iran is in this draw, as is 2001 World bronze medalist Joe Williams of the United States. Last year, Williams lost to a different Iranian athlete, Hadi Habibi, in the World meet in New York. Also in this pool is Gela Saghirashvili of Georgia. Another tough grouping is Pool 3, which features three-time World champion Arayik Gevorgyan of Armenia, as well as 2003 World bronze medalist Gennadiy Laliyev of Kazakhstan. The other person in this draw is wildcard Nate Ackerman of Great Britian, who wrestled collegiately at Harvard. The most accomplished wrestler, and the favorite to win, is 1996 Olympic champion and five-time World champion Bouvaisa Saitiev of Russia, who is in Pool 6. His opponents are veteran Arpad Ritter of Hungary and Greece wrestler Emzarios Betinidis. The rest of the pools have somebody of talent in them. Pool 1 has the last three placewinners in the top 10 at the 2003 World meet in New York: Sujeet Mann of India (8th), Ivan Fundora ofCuba (9th) and Kunihiko Obata of Japan (10th). Pool 2 is led by 2000 Olympic champion and 1999 World champion Daniel Igali of Canada. His opponents will be Yusup Abdusalomov of Tajikistan and Elnur Aslanov of Azerbaijan. Pool 5 had 2003 World silver medalist Murad Gaidarov of Belarus, as well as Ali Abdo of Australia and Salvatore Rinella of Italy. Pool 7 has another past World champion, Bulgaria's Nikolai Paslar, who won a World title down a weight in 2001. His opponents include Sihamir Osmanov of Macedonia, who was fifth in the 2003 World Championships, and Krystian Brzozowski of Poland. 96 kg/211.5 lbs. Those that don't like to pool system can point to this draw. Arguably, the two best wrestlers in the division drew the same pool, Pool 4, two-time World champion Eldar Kurtanidze of Georgia, and 1998 World champion Ali Reza Heidari of Iran. Kurtanidze beat Heidari in the World finals the last two years. Kurtanidze also boasts two Olympic bronze medals. Also in this draw is unlucky Antoine Jaoude of Brazil, a wildcard. You can compare that with Pool 1, which features Wan Yuanyuan of China, Peter Pecha of Slovakia and Greece entry Alexandros Laliotis, none who have much in the way of achievements. Such is life in the pool system. The rest of the talent in this division is mostly spread apart. We will review the other pools in order. Pool 2 is led by 2001 World silver medalist and 2003 World bronze medalist Krassimir Kochev of Bulgaria. His opponents will be Alexsey Krupniakov of Kyrgyzstan and Magomed Ibragimov of Uzbekistan. Pool 3 is led by 2000 Olympic silver medalist Islam Bairamukov of Kazakhstan. He will face Rustem Aghayev of Azerbaijan and Nicolaas Jacobs of Namibia. Pool 5 has two tough guys, European champion Khadjimurad Gatsalov of Russia and two-time World bronze medalist Vadym Tasoev of Ukraine. The other in the draw is veteran Rolf Shererer of Switzerland. Pool 6 features Alexander Shemarov of Belarus, who was seventh in the 2000 Olympics, and Fatih Cakiroglu of Turkey, a veteran. Enkhtuya Tushintur of Mongolia rounds out this field. Pool 7 has three people who were in the top 10 in the World in New York: Daniel Cormier of the United States (5th), Bartolomeij Bartnicki of Poland (7th) and Radovan Valach of Austria (9th).