Bulgarian Junior Greco team tops USA, 5-4
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Samantha Sieracki (USA Wrestling)
03/18/2010
Bulgarian Junior Greco team defeated the U.S. team in a FILA Junior competition in Sofia, Bulgaria, March 18.
FILA Juniors are athletes who are 17-20 years old.
The U.S. fell short of the victory by one point with a final result of 5-4.
Four individual U.S. Greco-Roman wrestlers were champions: Max Nowry at 55 kg/121 lbs., Jesse Thielke at 55 kg/121 lbs., Jimmy Chase at 66 kg/145.5. lbs., and Ben Provisor at 84 kg/185 lbs.
Listed below are the entire results of the dual meet:
55 kg/121 lbs. â€" Max Nowry (USA) dec. Nikolay Vichev (Bulgaria), 0-2, 4-0, 6-0
55 kg/121 lbs. â€" Jesse Thielke (USA) dec. Beoozgi Bezchev (Bulgaria), 4-0, 3-3, 6-0
60 kg/132 lbs. â€" Jimmy Chase (USA) dec. Valentin Tzvetkov (Bulgaria), 0-5, 2-0, 1-0
66 kg/145.5 lbs. â€" Svilen Kostodinov (Bulgaria) dec. Tanner Andrews (USA), 4-0, 1-0
*66 kg/145.5 lbs/74 kg/163 lbs. â€" Ilham Myumyunov (Bulgaria) dec. Joshua Castellano (USA), 0-2, 1-0, 1-0
*66 kg/145.5 lbs./74 kg/163 lbs. â€" Niklay Dobzev (Bulgaria) dec. Ellis Coleman (USA), 2-0, 1-0
74 kg/163 lbs. â€" Ivaylo Saykov (Bulgaria) dec. Caleb Smith (USA), pin 0:56
84 kg/185 lbs. â€" Ben Provisor (USA) dec. Ventseslav Solunkin (Bulgaria), pin, 3-0, 1:50
96 kg/211.5 lbs. â€" Husein Husein (Bulgaria), dec. Robert Barbour, 5-0, 1-0
*The Bulgarians only had one 66 kg junior wrestler, so Joshua Castellano and Ellis Coleman had to wrestle 74 kg guys.