Why is Grajales so good? : Speakers & Interviews

wut a ed tournament name...cheesehead??

go to track wrestling and check out grajales's resume. kid is going to be great at um

i agree with the kid below me he is OUTSTANDING hes an amazing wrestler..taylor wouldnt kill him..i think eric could win

eric is a beast i dont know why guys r saying he's a joke,and how taylor is gonna wreck him you guys r just jealous u could never be as good as eric

Compared to David Taylor. David Taylor is gonna wreck Eric when they meet.

i think ian paddock would give eric a match

After watching Dapper Dan vid, I now think grajales beats taylor 8 out of 10. Watch Grajales take apart PA kid and see if you think different.

david taylor would beat him.

Why is everyone hateing on eric, Hes a monster, he works hard, and deserves everything he gets. He will be a freak in college, and ill be at home watching him and laughing at u fools. =p

Hay mom i dont want to wrestle him he is bigger and stronger and i heard he is 24 years old. Thats ok son tell the coatch you are not feeling good . pick out the ones you think you can beat .Look how many BIG BROTHER lost MOM . I dont like this . FUUUCCCK TTTHHHIS SSHHIT MOM IM COMING HOME. AT LEAST WRESTLE ONE MATCH ERIC YOU MIGHT WIN THEN YOU CAN QUIT AND YOU WILL BE UNDEFEATED IN COLLEGE . OK MOM I WILL PICK OUT A BIG AND FFFUUUCKK THAT BIG . I THINK I REMRMBER THE SATURDAY NIGHT RIDE. I WILL BEAT THAT THAT I MEAN I WILL EEAAT THAT . I JUST HOPE I WIN MY FIRST MATCH SO I CAN RETIRE UNDEFEATED IN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE LIKE CAEL SANDERSON.

Bono was better than Kolat THAT DAY at dapper. Bono was a stud. still i would never bet againts Kolat.

last year KOLAT came out of retirement to in my view help to decide who should represent our country in the OLYMPICS HE MADE IT TO THE SEMIFINALS AND HIS NEXT MATCH WOULD HAVE BEEN AGAINST BONO WHOM HE TIED OR THEY TIED IN THE DAPPER DAN IN 1992 I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT THE DECISION WOULD END RIGHT THERE THERE WAS NEVER A REMATCH AFTER THE DAPPER DAN BUT KOLAT WENT FIRST ON THE OLYMPIC TEAM AND THEN IT WAS BONOS TURN AFTER KOLATS RETIREMENT TO BE AN OLYMPIAN KOLAT AND BONO BOTH WOULD NOT BE ON THE OLYMPIC TEAM IN 2008 BUT THEY BOTH PLAYED AN INFLUINCE ON WHO WOULD BE THE CHAMP ..... DAVID TAYLOR AND ERIC GRAJALES MAY NEVER WRESTLE EACH OTHER BUT I WILL MAKE A BET THEY WILL BE ON A MAT TOGETHER THE OLYMPIC WRESTLING MAT AND I HOPE THAT THEY BOTH GET THERE HANDS RAISED TOGRTHER AS OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS..... 2 YEAR HIGH SCHOOL RED SHIRT

Maybe urp girlfriend should start with an easy match like the kid taylor had at Dapper Dan. Then she can go for the 3x Pa state champ grajales killed.

OH I FORGOT TO GIVE YOU HER NAME CARLENE SLUBEISKI FROM FREDONIA HIGH NEW YORK 96 POUND RENNER UP 2009

I HAVE DONE SOME RESEARCH ON SENIOR STATE FINALIST THAT WOULD TAKE YOU ON IN THE HIGH LIGHT MATCH AT THE DAPPER DAN AND CAME UP WITH A WORTHY APPONANT THAT AFTER WATCHING HER IN THE NEW YORK STATE FINAL IN THE 96 POUND WEIGHT CLASS I DO BELIEVE THIS MATCH WOULD BE CLOSE TO YHE FINISH AND EVENLY MATCHED UP ONLY THAT SHE WOULD BE GIVING UP A FEW POUNDS I AM TELLING YOU SHE COULD HAVE GONE THRU FLORIDA IN A BLAZING TRAIL OF PINS WIH A RECORD THAT WOULD ONLY COMPARE TO YOUR 217 AND 0 THAT IS WHY I THINK THIS WOULD BE YOUR WORTHY APPONENT IN THE DAPPER DAN SO IF YOU HURRY UP AND MAKE A PHONE CALL YOU CAN SAVE FACE WITH THIS DAVID TALOR BULL AND GET IT ON WITH A MORE WORTHY APPONENT OF YOUR CALIBER AND THIS WOULD BE A MORE EVENLY MATCH THAT WOULD BE MORE INTERESTING JUST THINK HOW MANY ASS WOPPINGS SHE PUT ON THE NEW YORK BOYS TO REACH THE STATE FINALS THIS COULD BE A HUGE JUMP IN THE WRESTLING WORLD IF YOU COULD TAKE HER DOWN AND ADD HER DEFEAT TO YOUR CARREAR THINK ABOUT IT AND MAYBE YOU CAN GET THIS CHALLENGE GOING IF THE DAPPER DAN WILL NOT ALLOW IT BUT I BET THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU GET YOUR BUT HANDED TO YOU BY THIS FEMALE HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING PHENOME YOU COULD PUT A BIG NOTCH ON YOUR BELT

How good is Brandon? How many NCAA champs do they have. His brother set the bar for him. Is he an NCAA champ? Does Brandon have the most NCAA champs in the State of Florida? Just curious.

Sam Umlauf is ranked 1# in wisconsin which is an awesome wrestling state! look at the badgers 4 kids ranked in the top 5 back off grajales! if anything he travels from state to state for higher competition. Grajales vs Taylor would be a great match and nobody is running.

i thought david taylor was ubeatable before i saw grajales wrestle, it would be a great match though

umm... grajales ALREADY DID! He bumped up and wrestled the #1 140 Andrew Alton and won, and he did it in in a 7 min match, with riding time.

david taylor would own him for sure. he has been in bigger matches. i would like to see grajales bump up a weight class to wrestle palmer another one of the nations best!! taylor may not destroy him but taylor would beat him.

You haters are just that, jealous haters! This young man is one of the best wrestlers to ever be born! Use whatever excuses you want, Eric's accomplishments speak for themselves.

ok you want the truth to all the doubtin eric

taylor said he wanted to wrestle him at sr. nationals, well guess what, DAVID TAYLOR BTICHED OUT.
theres no doubt that he's a good wrestler, but honestly, grajales has him beat
and to everyone sayin "eric is good in florida"
incase you didnt know nationals is THE NATION, not ONLY florida!
and eric won it 4 times already, so please tell me, how is eric a

some of you people have no clue what you are talking about grajales is good but he is also almost 20 years old and when the time comes or if the time comes im pretty sure he aswell as everyone else knows taylor would destroy him.

David taylor would kill grajales in a match

I saw him wrestle in states last year, def the best one out there, toyed around with the kid in the finals and leg craddled him. He is one of the best I have seen in FL, I havent seen a HS wrestler with that kind of balance and skill. I would agree that brandon has some of the best practice partners on one team, to say they are the best in the nation is by no means overstating it. To compete at high levels you have to practice with the best every day, and at brandon you can do that. Look forward to seeing how he does in the ncaa.

19 1/2 years old and still in HS. WTF?

Haha I can't believe he thinks that he has the best partners and coaching in the NATION. What a joke.

yo the way i see it is...

are you going to a div. 1 school for wrestling?
if not leave grajales alone, the guys worked har dand deserves alittle credit.
and i've watched him wreslte.. he does kids nasty lol. like that kid in the state finals last year...

He deserves to be no 1! He has been nothing but practicing all year, a man in a kid sport this year....the real test is next year when he gets thrown to the Wolves at 141-he is probably the best Brandon wrestler to come out and that is saying a lot with their rich history---guarantee, Russell moves to 149 next year, Grajales will take his lumps but be better for it , can't wait!

Great level. Your post needs some more love. Hilarious.

just like any wrestler gets angry when they lose, to truly great wrestlers getting scored on makes you angry... But I wouldn't expect any of you to identify with that feeling.

why does this guy throw his hands up like a baby when the ref makes calls against him...You would think a great & humble wrestler would lead by example and show a bit more respect for refs...I guess it is tough when ever your like in your early 20's & you have to wrestle kids 3-4 yrs younger than you,ha!

Anyone who reads comments its common sense that eric nor david actually posted anything on here. More than likely some kid trying to stir something up. I must say I can't wait for Senior Nationals.

He is a year older than a large percentage of the kids in his grade...so what?

That means last year when he was undefeated that most of the wrestlers were his age or younger with a few being older.
That means that when he won a college open up a weight class from his normal weight that he was the same age as some of the wrestlers in his bracket, but younger than most.
That means that every USA age title that he has ever won, he was within the age requirements and had no advantage.
That means that he wrestled in Sr level events such as the olympic trials as one of the youngest wrestlers in the tournament.
He has wrestled older and younger wrestlers. I could see the argument if he constantly wrestled younger, however he continues to wrestle up to get competition. Grajales takes on all comers young and old...and he wins almost all of them. If he can make 133 next season, he will be in the mix for a national title.

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well whether hes 18.. or 21.. does it matter? he's still really good right?

he did win FL states a bunch of times and has Fargo titles.
its not like hes only winning cause hes old. i promise he does well in college next year.

do it then

Hey AJ,

We will give him his due after he beats Dan Gable when Gable was in his prime. Until then....

He is awesome no matter how old he is. Give him credit for his hard work.

You guys are ed! He is in tremendous shape, and would give Taylor all he could handle. Give the kid his due! Watch him at Michigan and you'll understand!

I would like to start off by saying that if Grajales wrestled anyone good ever he would get humbled, especially if they are from good wrestling states. His results from Fargo should obviously be disregarded, because lets face it, no good athletes train over the summer. So that should also negate his performance at Senior Nationals (which also shouldnt count because Eric was probably ATLEAST one year younger than all his opponents, and god knows that unless two people are born on the exact same day they can't be given any recognition for winning.) Yes, maybe Eric has beaten ranked kids in the past, or even very recent past, but lets face it, the only reason he wins is because he doesn't you real moves and he always gets lucky and somehow wins despite his OBVIOUS lack of conditioning. Heck the only reason the kids he beat are even ranked is because THEY somehow managed to catch a kid who was ranked in the JV states from Minnesota (except for Alton and Kindig because I beleive they both actually won JV states last year in Penn but I could be wrong.) I really feel sorry for UM and their recruiting class next year, maybe they should stop just picking random kids to give full rides to and start looking more at people that have accomplished something credible in the past (and when I say credible I mean it must be something that is actually impressive, not just winning some "national" tournament a few times or going undefeated in high school). May god take pity on Eric Grajales soul, not everyone was born with natural abilities.

For the love of God....are we still talking about age? I believe Eric often wrestled higher age brackets when possible at USA tournaments when he was younger.....he wrestled a college tournament this year....he wrestled in the Olympic trials. He travels to tournaments across the country year round, most of which use age groups, not grades, and he still wins.

I'm sure you guys have an illogical argument for everything...well the college guys weren't elite multi-time NCAA champs, well the kids in his age bracket at USA tournaments weren't very good, it was a weak weight class, the elite wrestlers that he beat were sick/cut too much weight/don't care about off season match results. Can you think of any other good excuses? I know you have them lined up and I would like to hear them.
I'm curious what it is you expect from this guy. Ridiculous I tell you.

Who cares he's a stud.

Jason,

Florida allows 8th graders on varsity. Therefore, quite possible for him to wrestle a 13 yo.
I agree there seems to be a trend to holding kids back for athletic puposes esp at particular HS such as Brandon. Neverless, it is a huge advantage to be 2 years older at the HS level. When Eric WAS wrestling kids his own age he was not 135 he was 112 and below.

Gregg, You are correct. He doesn't wrestle younger kids. I am sure that most of the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th graders are 20+. And when he won states as a 16 year old junior I mean freshman at 103lbs I am sure he was the youngest kid there. When you are a 17year old soph you are not going to see that many kids at 112lbs that are older than you. 2008 fargo he beat Ellis Coleman in the finals who is nearly 2 years younger. Most kids his age have been wrestling college kids the past few years.

i dont know what you dumbasses are saying. he's not wrestling kids younger then him at all. maybe juniors and sopres but not 8th graders and that. hes weighs 135. and if you dont remember, he managed to win states when he was a freshman and sopre and junior. and if your gonna say that it's because florida isn't that great of a wrestling area, he wrestles at nationals and other tournaments every year and does incredible.

I'm pointing out that "SIX" years is an extreme. How many states have 8th graders on varsity? New York, Minnesota, how many more? How many 8th graders are wrestling varsity at 135 pounds?

There is a difference, but then again, isn't the "average" HS senior nowadays drifting more towards 18 than it is 17 anyway? I was 17, but most of my class as 18 and some 19. Especially with athletes, it seems they (ALL) are older than traditional non-athletes.
For every 17-year-old senior Grajales wrestles, there's three 18-19 year olds he'll wrestle.

haters will always hate. Instead of looking at results they try and claim cheating, or this or that. Eric you have so many more fans of your style, skills and personality. Keep doing what you are doing and ignore the naysayers. When you are winning Gold medals they are going to be no where to be found.

Jason, 6 years would be the age difference between an 8th grader varsity, which is fairly common, and an 19 yo senior. The physical difference between a normal 17 yo senior and a 19 yo senior is significant. You cannot say that him being 19 is not an advantage.

I've heard it all now ... SIX years? Jeez people. The kid is 19. How many 13-year-old high school freshman are on the varsity wrestling team?

How about judging his success compared to people close enough to wrestle him in age in high school (17-18-19) and stop throwing out absurd things like (SIX) years older.
That's crap. Eric's a good kid.

being that he is 2-6 years older than the kids he wrestles is a huge advantage esp at the weights he has been at. Judge his success next year when he wrestles some college seniors his own age.

Grajales is the real deal. He earned a lot of respect from me when I watched him wrestle Nate Moore this summer, one of the best high school matches I have ever seen. He will be a force in college

why wont the videos work its pissin me off

how can anyone doubt him when he has won fargo titles and already competed at the senior nationals in greco. hes legit and will make an impact in college

i wrestled eric two years ago and he was like 24 then

idiot said: "wow really tough competition, it must be nice to be considered so good and wrestle no where during your high school career."

Reality = FULL RIDE TO MICHIGAN for Grajalles.
Michigan's coach must be stupid to give this guy a ride, cuz smart guys here know he doesn't know how to wrestle, he's out of shape, he looks sloppy, he didn't win the Beast.....BLAH...BLAH....BLAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

wow really tough competition, it must be nice to be considered so good and wrestle no where during your high school career.

I saw him last weekend at the Cheesehead. Let me tell you - this kid is very talented. We saw him literally run takedown clinics on a few of the best wrestlers in the state. We all had our doubts about Eric before we actuallysaw him wrestle, but no more. He's the real deal and deserves the rankings, etc., that he gets.

Brandon also looked very good. There's no doubt they are a top 20 or higher program. After seeing their kids wrestle it's obvious that they'd be a dominant force here in Wisconsin and I suspect in many states. It's time for us to face reality - these kids are for real and they deserve our respect.
One more thing - I personally saw several "older" wrestlers from some Wisconsin schools and it was rumored that a few kids on some of the out of state schools had some "redshirts" as well. Let's be fair when we bring up the age thing!
Congrats to Eric - I look forward to seeing him compete on the next level!

everyone can make up excuses or reasons as to why hes beating so many ppl. but his older brother set the bar pretty high (4x undef.) and eric is motivated enough to best that. my coach went to Brandon in the late nineties and he still tears everyone up.

make up anything you want but hes a great kid in a powerhouse program. and qualifying for the Olympic Trials after your Jr. year is no small accomplishments. congrats man best of luck to you but i doubt you wont need it

Anonymous Coward: "cus he'll own all of them"

Grajales can not and will not own David Taylor. Ever.

Wrestler52: "Why doesn't Brandon go to Beast of the East, Reno TOC, or Ironman?"

-cus he'll own all of them

Anonymous Coward

Your'e 21 right? Wht don't you act your age. I bet Eric can still put you in a Leg cradle.

Im a senior in college and I'm 21. I graduated at 17. Im sure if I was still in high school at 18 and 19 then putting people in a leg cradle might have been something I tried in the state finals.

eric is 19. did everybody hear that. 19!!!!!!!!!!!!! not 20, not 21, not 65.
19!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why doesn't Brandon go to Beast of the East, Reno TOC, or Ironman?

i think he's 21

Didn't he lose to Boris Novachkav a while back?

brandon4life is right. a lot of people are held back a year. Fact is that there are a lot of haters out there. Fact: eric grajales is on pace to be on a level that 99.999% wrestlers couldnt even dream of.

Keep up the great work Eric!!! You got a fan in Wisconsin.

if Eric was so old he wouldn't be able 2 wrestle! People are just talking trash because Eric is winning and having success. if He was getting his butt kick it wouldn't be a issue.

You guys and this age thing. Can anyone give it a rest? First, 10/22/89 would make him barely 19. Rounding to 20 would be OK if you weren't trying to make a federal case out of one year. However, in this case it is irresponsible to present barely 19 as almost 20.

Many kids turn 18 during their sr. year. This is normal. If you are held back for 1 yr., whether academically, socially, athletically, by parents choice, by school's choice or by some act of God, you would be turning 19 your sr. year....as it appears Eric is.
I don't know any of the details related to his situation...I don't even know if that's his real birthday as I don't care. Is it really that big of a deal? I just hate that you can't read anything about him without people trying to throw asterisks all over it. He's been beating quality guys for a long time in a lot of age brackets. Can we give it a rest?

Gopher you don't think Montini or Kaukauna are "respectable"? and the first poster...B day is OCT 22, 1989. So yeah, just about.

i wish this years tourney would of been a little more loaded, only 2 respectable teams , hard to gauge how good brandon really is

Don't know the rules in W,I but in FL you have to be 19 and under to wrestle in HS

Thanks for the show Eric! We hope you enjoyed your time in our city. We enjoyed you and the team being here.

I heard that grajales is 20 years old. Any truth to this?