Men's Freestyle Seeds for the 2025 Senior World Championships... ARE OUT!

[D3 for LU]

Even though, the seedings are a result from various wrestlers attending, placing,(AND winning) various ranking tournaments...

it IS surprising to see that only FOUR (Lee #1 @ 57Kg, Valencia #4 @ 86Kg, Trent Hidlay #8 @ 92Kg, & Synder #3 @ 97Kg) are seeded.

 

Much like the U20, the Senior World Championships will start off w/ the FS tournament 1st, on Saturday, September 13.

(61, 70, 86, and 125 kg)

 

For some... pairing off w/an unseeded American may be a dangerous draw.

(Wyatt HENDRICKSON anyone? )

D3

Edited 17 hours ago by D3 for LU

[El Luchador]

That line up for America definitely is showing a changing of the guard. 

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

Hartunyan 57 Kg.

Cruz vs RBY early?

Without seeing the random draw, how is Trent looking as the #8?

[bnwtwg]

It's not surprising whatsoever. Primary points are based off previous year's championship results at the weight currently being contested (eg. Dake would have 0 seeding points at 86) and supplemental points from rankings series (4 total tournies this year not heavily attended by any single athlete) + continental tourneys (1 per region [Pan-Am, Euros, Asian, Oceania, African]).

Out of the Team USA roster only 12 total tourneys were wrestled and none more than twice. Given the turnover of the team and the fact that a couple guys were wrapping up their junior year studying for the SAT, the numbers don't lie.

 

		Zagreb	Tiran	Mongolia	Pan-Ams	Budapest	Total
		(Feb)	(Feb)	(May)	(May)	(July)
57	Spencer	1st	---	---	---	---	1
61	Forrest	---	---	---	1st	---	1
65	Woods	---	3rd	---	---	---	1
70	Duke	---	---	---	---	---	0
74	Carr	2nd	---	---	---	3rd	2
79	Haines	---	---	---	---	---	0
86	Zahid	1st	---	---	1st	---	2
92	Hidlay	---	---	---	1st	1st	2
97	Snyder	1st	3rd	---	---	---	2
125	Pindrickson	---	---	---	1st	---	1

 

Edited 6 hours ago by bnwtwg
this is just a footnote in the growing legend of Spencer Lee

[WhiteCloud]

So hard to know the skill level of people in international freestyle.  The league needs a season and everyone wrestling a lot more matches.  Compared to high school or ncaa, we are guessing based on months and years in the past.  When someone top ranked loses to someone lower ranked, it's not even considered a real upset since it happens so frequently.