Gold Mine Wrestling

Andrew Alirez wins Southern Scuffle and is currently ranked #1 in the nation at 141 lbs. Andrew trained privately for four years with Gold Mine Wrestling building the foundation for high-level success. He is putting points on the board with snapbacks, cross-body ride, and direction change finish on swing-single courtesy of GMW. Way to go Boo! Gold Mine Wrestling - Building Champions.

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Gold Mine trained Andrew Alirez to wrestle in NWCA Classic tonight. Looking to earn D1 NCAAs All-American honors this year at 141 lbs for UNC. Gold Mine - Building Champions.

Thank you Tony Ulasezk!

My name is Tony Ulaszek I am a wrestler at the Coast Guard Academy and former wrestler at Greeley West Highschool. I have worked with Coach Sanchez for a number of years now and my lessons with him have really helped me build on the moves I do as well as expand my arsenal. A few of the things he has really helped me with are my setups such as shot fakes, head taps, and head pulls. Additionally, he has helped me be effective with my front head series by helping me with my direction changes as well as showing me a wrist trap series that works really great. Coach Sanchez has helped me switch from wrestling mainly upper body to integrating leg attacks into what I do. He showed me a punch single off my underhook, a cross ankle pick to a cradle, and how to set up and finish my double. I used the cross pick to a cradle to win my match for 3rd at the Colorado State Championships. Coach Sanchez has been extremely helpful with my top and bottom. He has given me a number of tips and tricks to help me be more explosive and keep a good position to escape as well as several breakdowns on top such as getting a claw ride to a wrist to break guys down. Utilizing the breakdowns, he taught me and keeping pressure on guys allowed me to ride a guy out in the ultimate tiebreaker in one of my college duels last year. He has taught me tons of turns on top utilizing a two on one, from a leg ride, and crab riding. I have seen a huge improvement in my wrestling since I started working with Jim. He’s extremely knowledgeable and is really helping me take my wrestling to another level. Anthony Ulaszek, Anthony Ulaszek

I though some of you would get kick out of this. My brother found a 1986 video a couple of weeks ago of me wrestling at the Northern Iowa Open. We both made it to the finals. He wrestled NCAA Champion and World placer Barry Davis in the finals and beat him. I lost to 4x Iowa state champion and national champion Mark Schwab. Can't believe it's been 34 years. Enjoy.

Jim Sanchez - wrestling 1986 Jim Sanchez ( U of Nebraska) 118. Quarter Finals UNI Open 1986

Great to connect former wrestler Tyler Graff 4x NCAA All-American and World Team member with Andrew Alirez 4x CO State Champion. Andrew ranked #14 in the country begins his quest to be a 4x NCAA All-American and Champion next week. Round 1 he wrestles #19 Penn States Jerod V. With a win, he will advance to take on Ohio's #3 Sammy Sasson. Best of Luck. Gold Mine Wrestling - Building Champions!

Boo qualifies for the D1 NCAAs with a 4th place finish at the Big 12 Championships. He dropped his last match 3-5. Best of luck at the "Big Show" - NCAA Championships! Gold Mine Wrestling - Building Champions!

Andrew Alirez dropped a close 1 pt match in the quarter finals to #7 ranked wrestler in the nation then came back and won two matches on the back side. Wrestling this morning in the consolation semis against 3x NCAA qualifier M. Thomsen from Northern Iowa to get in for 3rd - 4th in the Big 12 Championships. Best of Luck! Gold Mine Wrestling - Building Champions!

Andrew Alirez doling out punishment at the D1 Southern Scuffle courtesy Gold Mine Wrestling technique - reverse half "cobra" and elbow chin rotation. Cody Thompson also won the 60+ UNC Winter Tournament and Christian DeHerrera placed 5th at the Warrior Classic. Way to go gents! Gold Mine Wrestling - Building Champions. Andrew Alirez

Andrew Alirez wrestles tonight against CalPoly. He enters the dual with a 15-0 record as freshman. Gold Mine Wrestling - Building Champions.

Thanks Matt Engelking and Longmont Wrestling for having me over. Great group of young men. Gold Mine Wrestling - Building Champions.

Tyler Graff's 61 kg Preview.
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Coached Tyler all 4 years of HS and Jr. World Team Trails.

2018 World champion and fan-favorite Yowlys Bonne Rodriguez of Cuba is back again this year and looking to defend his world title. Known for his big throws and electrifying style, Bonne defeated Gadzhimurad Rashidov with a patented five-point “Bonne bomb” in the World Championship finals to win 6-5.

Bonne was a surprise gold medalist last year. A journeyman wrestler, he has been a two-time Olympian at 57 kg in 2012 and 2016 and a two-time World bronze medalist at 61 kg in 2014 and 2017. Since the 2018 World Championships, Bonne has not wrestled to the best of his world-class capabilities. He placed fourth at the Cerro Pelado International, third at the Ali Aliev tournament and second at the Pan American Championships. In the finals of the Pan American Championships, he lost to 2018 World bronze medalist Joe Colon of the United States. However, turn on the bright lights at the big event, and you might see Bonne come to wrestle.

Colon is currently ranked No. 2 by UWW. However, he will not be the United States’ representative. He was bested by Tyler Graff for the World Team spot. Graff placed fourth domestically at the U.S. Open and then won the World Team Trials Challenge Tournament, enabling him to wrestle Colon for the spot at Final X. In a best-of-three series, Graff dropped the opening bout, 6-4, before coming back to take the next two matches, 9-2 and 12-2.

Graff placed third at the Medved International in Belarus, his only international competition this year. Graff represented Team USA at the 2007 and the 2008 Junior World Championships, where he placed 16th at 55 kg and 13th at 60 kg. He also competed at the 2013 World University Games where he placed ninth at 60 kg. Graff was a star at the University of Wisconsin, and has trained in a number of locations. He has seemed to thrive since joining the New Jersey RTC, his current training situation.

Last year’s World silver medalist Rashidov will be competing at 65 kg for the World Championships. Not missing a beat, Russia will be sending Magomedrasul Idrisov at 61 kg. A 2018 U23 World Champion. Idrisov will certainly be gold medal threat. This year, he won the Ziolkowski Memorial in Poland and the Russian Championships, while finishing runner-up at the Ali Aliev Tournament and the City of Sassari Tournament, where he was competing at 65 kg.

While Mongolia’s lineup is not yet finalized, it seems likely that they will send 2018 World bronze medalist Tuyshintulga Tumenbileg. Mongolia did send Tsogbakrakh Tseveensuren to the Asian Championships, but after missing the medal rounds, it seems like they will send the wrestler who has already proven themselves at a World Championship. Tumenbileg did compete at 57 kg for the Ivan Yaygin, where he placed seventh and the Mongolian Open where he took third. However, more recently, he has been down at 61 kg where he placed second at the President Cup of the Buryatia Republic in Russia and the Ziolkowski Memorial in Poland. Tumenbileg is a 2014 World University Champion.

Current World No. 4 Rahul Balasaheb Aware is India’s most likely representative. Aware is a 2009 Junior World runner-up at 55 kg. This year he placed fourth at the City of Sassari in Italy, third at the Asian Championships and won the Yasar Dogu in Turkey. Aware has represented India twice at the Senior World Championships, finishing 25th at 55 kg in 2011 and 11th at 57 kg in 2014.

Iran has a decision to make with who they will be sending to the World Championships. It seems like they will be going with Behnam Ehsanpoor, a 2019 Asian Championships gold medalist, who is currently ranked 10th by UWW Ehsanpoor took third at the Takhti Cup this year. He took gold at the 2012 Junior World championships and silver at the 2013 University World Games, both at 60 kg. Ehsanpoor has represented Iran at the Senior World Championships three times, finishing 18th in 2015, fifth in 2016 and 14th in 2017.

Ehsanpoor took the spot from Mohammadbagher Yakhkeshi, last year’s fifth place finisher at Worlds and currently No. 6 in the UWW rankings, Yakhkeshi most likely got the nod last year because he won the Yasar Dogu. This year, Yakhkeshi took 16th at the Alany Tournament and won the City of Sassari Tournament.

Another wrestler to watch is Beka Lomtadze of Georgia, who is No. 5 in the UWW rankings. Lomtadze took fifth at the World Championships last year and has had solid performances this year. He placed second at the European Championships and the Alany Tournament in Russia and won the Henri Deglane Challenge in France. Lomtadze has represented Georgia at 60 kg every year since 2014. He medaled in 2016, placing second behind U.S. wrestling legend Logan Stieber.

Loveland High wrestler, Tyler Graff, makes US World Team! I was blessed to coach Tyler during his 4 years at LHS. We worked out every day he wanted to, which was pretty much everyday. He was the only one that came into workout during my first summer in Loveland and weighed about 100 lbs. We started the 2nd day after I moved from Las Vegas and never really stopped. Congratulations Tyler, your perseverance paid off.