If you thought wrestling seemed expendable when thinking about it in isolation, you might change your mind when you hear the sports they're thinking of to replace it. Baseball — OK, that makes sense, although team sports whose pro athletes have bigger fish to fry during the summer are cumbersome for the Olympics to include. But the options to replace wrestling are bizarre. Roller sports? Sport climbing? Wakeboarding? I don't even really understand what wakeboarding as an Olympic sport would be — it's having a trial in 2016, and will apparently involve judges evaluating two runs by each athlete based on the quality of tricks performed. If the Olympics want to chase ratings, which seems completely incongruous with the mission of the Olympics, then fine, turn into the X-Games — not that there's anything wrong with the X-Games on their own. They just have a different mission than the Olympics do, and the Olympics mission would be badly served by jettisoning a culturally significant sport like wrestling for an upstart water sport like wakeboarding.