U23 World Team Selection

[Yankeefan33]

If someone out there could help me...

USA Wrestling's website lists the qualification order for U23 men's freestyle worlds as follows:

World team selection: (Listed in rank order for selection)

1. The highest ranked, age eligible, athlete from 2026 Senior Men’s Freestyle National Team (top 3) Final X winner, Final X runner-up and 3rd overall senior athlete via the 2026 Senior Men’s Freestyle World Team Trials.

2. Fourth (4th) ranked, age eligible, athlete from the 2026 Men’s Freestyle World Team selection.

3. National team coaches will make a recommendation to the Men’s Freestyle Sport Committee for final approval.

 

The U23 Trials champ isn't even listed here? I'm guessing they forgot to put that in, but that would impact whether some wrestlers have already locked up their spots on the U23 team (Shumate at 92kg and Sinclair at 86kg) or if they need to win the wrestle-off for third at Final X. If anyone knows someone at USA Wrestling and could reach out, that would be amazing!

[D3Demon]

I would assume that's the new procedure for this year.  It's the same for U23 greco and freestyle, but women's freestyle has National Team (Top 3) and then the U23 champ. But I would think that they would recommend the U23 Champ.

Here's the team so far:

Greco 

55kg: Kenneth Crosby

60kg: TBD

63kg: Landon Drury (Nogle, Manville)

67kg: Otto Black

72kg: Brett Back (Kikiniou Jr.)

77kg: Joel Adams

82kg: Adrian Artisisheuski

87kg: Michael Altomer

97kg: Ryder Rogotzke (Morgan)

130kg: Aiden Attao

 

Men's Freestyle:

57kg: TBD (Probably LL unless someone takes out Lee)

61kg: TBD (Jax, Blaze, Davino all eligible)

65kg: Bo Bassett

70kg: TBD

74kg: TBD

79kg: Levi Haines

86kg: Aeoden Sinclair

92kg: Shumate

97kg: Justin Rademacher

125kg: TBD

 

[Yankeefan33]

3 hours ago, D3Demon said:

I would assume that's the new procedure for this year.  It's the same for U23 greco and freestyle, but women's freestyle has National Team (Top 3) and then the U23 champ. But I would think that they would recommend the U23 Champ.

Men's Freestyle:

97kg: Justin Rademacher

Wouldn't Rademacher technically be 5th on the ladder? 4th at the Open, but Snyder will be 1st/2nd.