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Competing in the 141-lb. division, the sophomore ranked No. 19 in the country entered the tournament unseeded, but ultimately garnered a seventh-place finish. He won two straight decisions, his second round victory impressively coming over Pittsburgh’s No. 15 Ron Tarquinio, 3-2. In the next round, he dropped to the field’s top seed, No. 6 Dylan Long from Northern Iowa, 10-5, but later went on to pin Illinois’s Michael Martin in 2:57 to secure his top-10 finish...
Preston, on the other hand, overcame an initial loss in the 125-lb. division to notch three straight wins, the latter two on a 4-3 decision and then a technical fall...
Whiteside pumps hip-hop on his CD player while he screws a flashlight onto his M-4 rifle. Talimeliyor tries to untwist the straps of his backpack, which is loaded with a 6-lb. radio. "We've never done a dismounted at night," Buxton says, to no one in particular. The soldiers line up, cinching down their vests and adjusting their packs, checking the action on their rifles. Then they open the door and head out onto the street...
...Adhamiya. In July, Colgan led the platoon on midnight searches of a Muslim cemetery next to the Abu Hanifa mosque, where insurgents were believed to be storing weapons. Colgan instructed the soldiers to bang the lid of each crypt; if it sounded hollow, the troops hoisted the 250-lb. granite slab and looked inside. On its second graveyard hunt, on July 4, the platoon netted a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher and 31 RPGs. A later search turned up a stash of the explosive C4. Afterward, the platoon nicknamed itself the Tomb Raiders...
...underweight and had to bulk up for the role. "I remember looking out the window of my hotel room in Brasov and seeing Jude running up and down the hotel car park with his personal trainer on his back," says Minghella. That trainer--the 200-lb. Eddie Joseph, who has a good 40 lbs. on his client--chuckles at the memory. "There wasn't any gym equipment there," he says, "so I also had Jude pull big logs and push one of those tennis-court rollers around too. He did it all without a word of complaint...