2024 World Team Trials: Women's Freestyle Preview

With 2024 being an Olympic Year, the Olympic Team Trials were held in late-April and six wrestlers in each style clinched a spot on the team and punched their tickets to the Games in Paris - if qualified. During the other three years in an Olympic cycle, the pinnacle event in the international wrestling calendar is the World Championships. The World Championships feature ten weights in each of the three styles. 

With there being four normal weights that were not contested at the Olympic Games, there were the World Championships for non-Olympic weights. Wrestlers who were not 2024 Olympians are allowed to move up or down (or stay at their normal weight) for a shot at a world title. 

Who goes to the World Championships at those weights? Well, at least from an American perspective, that will be determined over the weekend in Omaha, Nebraska. A talented field has entered and will compete for a spot on the team that headed to Tirana, Albania in late-October. 

The weight classes that will be contested this week and in Albania:

Men’s freestyle: 61 kg, 70 kg, 79 kg, 92 kg

Women’s freestyle: 55 kg, 59 kg, 65 kg, 72 kg

Greco-Roman: 55 kg, 63 kg, 72 kg, 82 kg

Here's what to look for in the women's freestyle portion of the tournament:

55 kg

Bye to the Finals: Jacarra Winchester

Seeds

1. Amanda Martinez

2. Areana Villaescusa

3. Felicity Taylor

4. Alisha Howk

5. Vayle Baker

6. Ella Jauregui

7. Montana Delawder

8. Josie Bartishofski

9. Lorianna Piestewa

10. Mataeh Roehl

11. Karissa Turnwall

12. Katherine Heath

13. Shea Reisel

This weight class is primarily made up of women who competed at 53 kg at the Olympic Team Trials or in the Trials process. That being said, the wrestler with a bye to the best-of-three finals and the top seed - Jacarra Winchester and Amanda Martinez, both wrestled up at 57 kg for the Trials. 

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