Hi!
If you drain the warm trans oil, you can easily see whether it is a real problem. If you find it to be metal dark grey, it is going south.
If not, check the clutch. Put the car on a even surface, put it in first gear and let someone fully press the clutch pedal. Now try to push the car. If the effort is much more than with the gear box in neutral, disengage the clutch pedal 1/4 of an inch. If the car cant be pushed any more, it is the clutch or its cylinders.
If all of this is OK, let someone move the gear stick a little while you look at the linkage from underneath the car. I have had configurations, where a joint was worked out so far that a shift in 5th ended in 3rd.
Chris
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