1. What do you think about the concept of the Titan Games?  Sanderson: I think it is a very good idea. Anything that can help promote wrestling on a bigger stage is a good idea. I give a lot of credit to the USOC for continuing to look at ways to market and promote our sport.    2. You will finally get your first chance to wrestle Cuba's Yoel Romero, a six-time World and Olympic medalist. This is a match a lot of people have talked about for a long time. Are you nervous for this at all?  Sanderson: I don't get nervous for matches. I am excited to finally get to wrestle him. He is an awesome wrestler. This will be a good test to see where I stand on the World level right now.    3. How have you trained for this match?  Sanderson: Training for this is much is different than training for the World Team Trials or the U.S. Nationals. For this, I have known for a while who my opponent would be. I have been able to study some film of him. I don't necessarily train for one opponent, I just train to improve the things I feel I need work on. If I worry about how I wrestle the match and not my opponent, I think my odds of winning increase.    4. Are you disappointed that two-time World Champion and 2000 Olympic Champion Adam Saitiev of Russia will not be able to compete against you as well?  Sanderson: A little bit. I think it would have been good for me, Romero and Saitiev for all three of us to be there. Saitiev beat Romero in the gold medal match at last year's World Championships, so I am sure Romero would have liked another match there as well. But, I can't think about Saitiev not being there. I have to worry about my opponents that are there.    5. Seeing as you have only had one significant international match on the senior level, a win over 2001 World Champion Khadsimurad Magomedov at the Kurt Angle Classic, what do you hope to bring out of this weekend's events at the Titan Games?  Sanderson: Some wins.    6. Last week while training at the Olympic Training Center, I noticed both you and Romero would take short breaks from your own workouts to keep an eye on the other. Was that your first time seeing Romero in person? If so, what did you think of him?  Sanderson: I had never seen him in person before. I thought he was pretty big and he is quick. He wrestles hard and he wrestles to win. I am looking forward to our match.    7. The big knock on your style of wrestling is that you struggle in par terre. Do you feel you have made improvements in that area?  Sanderson: I don't know. I guess we will find out. Like I said before, I try to improve on every area. In the past, I don't know if I have struggled in par terre as much. I like wrestling on my feet.    8. Who do you mostly train with when you are at home?  Sanderson: There are a lot of guys. I try to get to Colorado Springs once in a while, but I train a lot in the Iowa State room with Zach Thompson or some of the younger guys in the program. I also like to workout with Joe Williams. He goes hard.    9. Does the media attention you receive ever wear you down? Does it distract you from your training at all?  Sanderson: It does a little bit, but I know that the attention is part of all of this. It is something I have to work through and train through. Sometimes it gets a little old answering the same questions all the time, but it is for the good of this sport. Anything that brings positive attention to wrestling is a good thing.    10. Recently, you were named as a finalist for the AAU James E. Sullivan Memorial Award, given to the top amateur athlete in the nation. Only three wrestlers have won the award: Bruce Baumgartner, John Smith and Rulon Gardner. How much of an honor is this for you?  Sanderson: Definitely. I didn't know those were the only guys who have won it. I would have thought a guy like Gable would have one too. It is an honor to have your name thrown around with those three. They have all accomplished so much and all three have one thing I don't - an Olympic gold.    11. Does winning these awards, such as the Hodge Trophy or ESPY Awards, mean anything to you personally?  Sanderson: They do. It is always nice when other people recognize the things you have done. It is a little embarrassing. I think my family enjoys it more than me. But I would give up all the awards for the chance to wrestle in the last two World Championships.    12. Throughout your college career, you never lost a match. Would you say there was a match or two that you look back on and think maybe you were lucky?  Sanderson: Luck is involved in a lot of things, whether it is good luck or bad. I think I had a lot of things go right for me. I never really had any serious injuries in my career, which I think is a little lucky. There were a couple of close matches early on where I came out on top.    13. Who were your closest competitors and the opponents you trained for the most in college?  Sanderson: There were a few guys. Daniel Cormier and Jon Trenge were both tough to wrestle. Cormier was so strong and explosive. We had wrestled so many times that we both knew what each other was going to do on the mat. It was just matter of executing.    14. Can you see anyone accomplishing the same things you did when you were in college?  Sanderson: If I could do it, then I would guess that there is someone else who can do it as well. I don't really think about what I did, or holding all of these records. I just concentrate on my career now.    15. Currently you work for Iowa State as an assistant to the Athletics Director. Do you see yourself in a coaching role any time soon?  Sanderson: Not anytime soon. I want to win an Olympic gold. That is my goal. If I am able to accomplish that in 2004, then I will sit down and think about what I want to do next, whether it be coaching, continuing my career or something else.    16. Your brother Cody has been rumored to be a finalist for the Utah Valley State head coaching position. If he was named the new head coach there, what would be the chances of you following him back to Utah?  Sanderson: Like I said, I just want to train. I am married now and have a home in Ames. Moving is not anything that is on my mind right now.    17. Growing up, what wrestlers did you look up to?  Sanderson: John Smith was my favorite wrestler. I liked how aggressive he was on the mat.    18. Obviously everyone knows about Dan Gable, and how he competed at Iowa State, but coached Iowa to a dynasty for three decades. Is there any chance you would ever put on the black and gold as well?  Sanderson: Probably very little chance of that. I am a Cyclone. This is where I wrestled and this is where I have accomplished so much.    19. Do you still have time for painting? Is there a masterpiece in the works?  Sanderson: I haven't had time to do that in a while. It is a good way for me to relax, but I have been so busy in the past few months with training, doing some camps and clinics and other things that it makes it tough to sit down and get some of that time alone.    20. When will you know it is time to put the wrestling shoes away?  Sanderson: When I stop having fun.