Much like the two US women who competed on Saturday Frank Molinaro came up short in his Olympic bid and ran into one of the best competitors too early. Molinaro cut it close early with an opening 3-2 win followed by a 7-6 win to reach the quarterfinals. That’s where Molinaro ran into Bulgaria’s Borislav Novachkov. Novachkov got the better of the American 5-2 to knock Molinaro out of Olympic competition. Novachkov went on to win the competition and Molinaro came as close as anyone to defeating him. Molinaro won his two remaining matches 4-1 and 5-2 to win a bronze.

With five of the six US wrestlers failing to qualify in their last bid the US will only have 13 competitors in Rio. That’s a disappointing total after qualifying 17 last time around.

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