All week on social media, David Taylor spoke about how excited he was to go the Grand Prix of Spain. He proved his point on Saturday by beating two guys ranked by United World Wrestling en route to the Grand Prix of Spain title.

Coached by his Nittany Lion Wrestling Club teammate and 2012 Olympic champ Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu, Taylor went 4-0 on the day and put 38 points on the board. Joining him on top of the podium was James Green.

Taylor was down 3-0 to Zahid Valencia in the second round, before turning it on with five takedowns in a row to close out their quarterfinal match. In the semis, the Magicman upset eighth-ranked Orgodol Uitumen (MGL) by a score of 14-7. Taylor was again down 3-0 in the finals, but a takedown with 11 seconds remaining sealed his win over 15th-ranked Istvan Vereb (HUN).

This was Taylor's first finals of an international tournament at 86kg, as well as his first overseas gold at his new higher weight class. Both of his ranked opponents qualified their weight for Rio and will likely compete in the Olympics.

Like Taylor, Green repeated his gold medal performance from last year. He sandwiched two difficult matches around a convincing 10-0 semis win. In the late stages of his finals match, Green used his beloved blast double to knock off Russian Nationals placer Ildas Giniiatullin.

Greezy takes to twitter after his finals match

Just showed why it's good to practice down by 1 or 2 with 30secs left it is really important in the sport

— James Green (@WhoIsJamesG) July 9, 2016

Every match is not going to be 10-0 every match won't be "easy" got to be able to wrestle a whole match every time! #SpanishGrandPrix

— James Green (@WhoIsJamesG) July 9, 2016

Three of our junior world teamers were also sent over to Madrid, but they won one match between them. Daton Fix competed at 57kg and lost 2-1 to Mukhamed Kuatbek (KAZ) in his only match. Kuatbek beat Fix for gold two years ago at the Youth Olympic Games.

Seth Gross competed at 61kg, and lost by technical superiority to Adama Diatta (SEN), a ranked athlete at 57kg who qualified for the Olympics. After winning his first match at 86kg, Valencia was defeated by Taylor, as well as by Vahid Shahmohammadiizad of Iran.

There were a few notable matches from the international crowd at this tournament. Jose Daniel Diaz Robertti (VEN) beat Javier Cortina Lacerra (CUB) yet again, and was bronze at 97kg. Reineris Salas Perez (CUB) took the weight with a 5-1 finals win over Dorjkhand Khuderbulga (MGL).

At 65kg, Ganzorig Mandakhnaran (MGL) won his weight by beating both Franklin Gomez (PUR) and Yowlys Bonne Rodriguez (CUB). Olympic medalist Livan Lopez Azcuy defeated Rio qualifiers Narsingh Yadav (IND) and Zelimkhan Khadjiev (FRA) to win 74kg; Khadjiev knocked off world silver medalist Purevjav Unurbat (MGL) in the semis. At 57kg, ERDENEBAT Bekhbayar (MGL) bested Sandeep Tomar (IND) 4-1 in the finals.

Grand Prix of Spain Men's Freestyle Brackets