CLARION, Pa. – With former Golden Eagle wrestler and coach Bekzod Abdurakhmonov slated to wrestle Friday in the Olympics, the Clarion University wrestling team is hosting a watch party starting at 9 a.m. at the Suites on Main North Theater.
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Head coach Keith Ferraro will act as master of ceremonies for the event, welcoming those in attendance and providing the finer points of freestyle wrestling, which utilizes different criteria than NCAA Division I college wrestling.
Bekzod, no stranger to the international stage, is making his first Olympics appearance for his home country of Uzbekistan. He is wrestling at 74kg. The entire tournament starting with the preliminaries Friday morning will be wrestled Friday with the championship bout set for 4:30 p.m.
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