After spending three days in Colorad Springs exploring the best way forward for the American wrestling program, I find myself looking back at how we got to this point. At the same time I've been trying to figure out what is the best road map. I'm totally convinced that the Boris plan used by the Russians and the other top republics is the best model. The question is will it work for America? My answer is yes, it will work for America but it needs to be modified to compensate for American folk style wrestling. If we changed some of our folk style and collgiate rules we would have a much better chance of giving our wrestlers and equal chance for their Olympic dreams. I'm sorry that I am helpless to do more and I apologize for not being able to convince the rules committee that a change needed to be made to help our Olympic efforts.
Art Martori and the Sunkist organization has played a major role in the American wrestling program. Sunkist was able to keep our best wrestlers wrestling through multiple Olympics.
Our current wrestlers are now wrestling one cycle and their gone. We need to make wrestling more attractive to keep our best wrestlers around.