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It’s late July which means the 2024 Olympic Games are right around the corner. Over the next two weeks, InterMat will bring you individual weight class previews for each of the 18 weights contested at the Olympic Games. The 2024 version has already been slightly different from years past. Earlier in the summer, United World Wrestling announced a list of wrestlers from Belarus and Russia who would not be permitted to compete due to their support of the war with Ukraine. After this decision, Russia decided to withdraw all of its entries for wrestling. That led to replacements being named earlier this month. With all of the moving parts, and a field that wasn’t confirmed until later in the game, previewing the action had to take a back seat since we weren’t sure who would actually be in Paris. UWW has recently published entry lists for each of the three styles, so we are good to go. We’re moving on to a 50 kg women’s freestyle weight class which has been dominated, of late, by one of the biggest wrestling stars in the world, Yui Susaki. Will she be able to add to her already-legendary legacy or can someone from this deep field pull one of the biggest upsets of the entire Olympic tournament? Entries: Ibtissem Doudou (Algeria) Mariya Stadnik (Azerbaijan) Ziqi Feng (China) Alisson Cardozo Rey (Colombia) Yusneylis Guzman Lopez (Cuba) Nada Mohamed (Egypt) Anastasia Blayvas (Germany) Vinesh Phogat (India) Yui Susaki (Japan) Gabija Dilytle (Lithuania) Otgonjargal Dolgorjav (Mongolia) Son Hyang Kim (North Korea) Evin Demirhan (Turkiye) Oksana Livach (Ukraine) Sarah Hildebrandt (USA) Aktenge Keunimjaeva (Uzbekistan) Seeds: 1. Yui Susaki (Japan) 2. Otgonjargal Dolgorjav (Mongolia) 3. Ziqi Feng (China) 4. Evin Demirhan (Turkiye) 5. Alisson Cardozo Rey (Colombia) 6. Sarah Hildebrandt (USA) 7. Mariya Stadnik (Azerbaijan) 8. Oksana Livach (Ukraine) Past Senior World/Olympic Medalists:(10) Blayvas, Demirhan, Dolgorjav (x3), Feng, Hildebrandt (x5), Kim, Livach, Phogat (x2), Stadnik (x10), Susaki (x5) 2020(1) Olympic Medalists (50 kg) Gold: Yui Susaki (Japan) Silver: Yanen Sun (China) Bronze: Sarah Hildebrandt (USA) Bronze: Mariya Stadnick (Azerbaijan) photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com 2023 World Medalists (50 kg) Gold: Yui Susaki (Japan) Silver: Otgonjargal Dolgorjav (Mongolia) Bronze: Sarah Hildebrandt (USA) Bronze: Ziqi Feng (China) How they qualified: 2023 World Championships - Susaki, Dolgorjav, Hildebrandt, Feng, Demirhan Asian Qualifier: Keunimjaeva, Phogat African/Oceania Qualifier: Doudou, Mohamed European Qualifier: Livach Pan-American Qualifier: Cardozo Rey, Guzman Lopez World OG Qualifier: Blayvas, Kim, Stadnik Reallocated Quotas: Dilytle Key Recent (ish) Matches between Qualifiers 2024 World OG Qualifier semifinals: Kim over Stadnik (10-3) 2024 Hungarian Ranking Series Final: Feng over Dolgorjav (12-2) 2024 Asian Olympic Qualifier: Keunimjaeva over Kim (7-7) 2024 Asian Championship finals: Susaki over Feng (8-4) 2024 Asian Championship semifinals: Feng over Dolgorjav (11-0) 2024 European Olympic Qualifier semifinals: Livach over Stadnik (Fall 5:54) 2024 European Championship finals: Stadnik over Demirhan (Fall) 2024 European Championship semifinals: Stadnik over Livach (7-0) 2024 Zagreb Open bronze medal match: Dolgorjav over Demirhan (7-6) 2024 Zagreb Open semifinals: Feng over Dolgorjav (12-2) 2023 World Olympic Wrestle-Off: Demirhan over Cardozo Rey (4-1) 2023 World semifinals: Dolgorjav over Hildebrandt (7-5) 2023 World quarterfinals: Hildebrandt over Stadnik (14-3) 2023 World Round of 16: Stadnik over Guzman Lopez (7-2) 2023 European Championship finals: Stadnik over Livach (9-4) 2023 Hungarian Ranking Series championship: Hildebrandt over Feng (4-2) 2023 Hungarian Ranking Series Round of 32: Hildebrandt over Dolgorjav (10-0) The American Entry: Sarah Hildebrandt 2020 Olympic bronze medalist Sarah Hildebrandt is back and looking to add to her incredible resume. Hildebrandt has brought home medals from each of the last four World/Olympic Championships and has five medals total. She’s also made each of the last seven World/Olympic teams. The only time since 2016 when she has not made a World/Olympic team was in 2017 when she suffered a gruesome elbow injury. Hildebrandt has quietly been perhaps the most dominant domestic wrestler in comparison to the rest of her weight class over the last six years. She has shut out each of her four Final X opponents to the tune of 64-0 and has posted four techs in her last four Olympic Trials finals matches. The only item left to accomplish for Hildebrandt is a gold medal. That will be extremely tough to come by as this weight class has been dominated by the baby-faced superstar Yui Susaki of Japan. Susaki has won every world/Olympic event she’s entered since 2017 (five titles). Though this weight class is loaded with potential threats chasing Susaki, Hildebrandt does own wins over most, if not all, of the top competitors aside from Susaki. Within the last year-plus, she’s beaten both of the other medalists (aside from Susaki) from the 2023 World Championships. photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com The X-Factor: Son Hyang Kim (North Korea) We haven’t seen much from North Korea internationally over the past few years and, in turn, their 50 kg threat Son Hyang Kim. As a 20-year-old, Kim claimed a bronze medal at the World Championships in 2017. At that tournament, Kim suffered a close 5-2 loss to Susaki in the semifinals and then teched American Victoria Anthony for the bronze medal. In 2018, Kim beat American Whitney Cox, nee Conder, before falling to Mariya Stadnik in the semifinals. She would lose to an opponent from China in the bronze medal matchup. A year later, she defeated Whitney again and fell to the same foe from China, but didn’t make it to repechage. Kim did not have any international competition from 2019 to October of 2023, so she’s likely had to shake off some rust. That may have been evident by a loss at the Asian Olympic Qualifier, however, Kim did rebound to defeat Stadnik at the OG Qualifier. Kim is not seeded and could be drawn into the bracket anywhere. She’ll be an incredibly tough first-round match for anyone at this weight. The bracket: Anytime you have ten past world medalists there isn’t necessarily a “good” or “bad” side of the draw. The top half has Susaki as the one seed. For now, it appears as if she has a much less competitive half of the bracket. The bottom half has the three remaining 2023 world medalists, plus Stadnik. That means that two of this group will not medal: Hildebrandt, Stadnik, Feng, and Dolgorjav. And that doesn’t include anyone drawn into the bottom half. Provided the seeds hold, there could be some excellent quarterfinal matchups here with #2 Feng/#7 Stadnik, and #3 Dolgorjav/#6 Hildebrandt. The winners will at least wrestle for a medal, while the losers have to put faith in their opponent's hands. Analysis: Susaki will come into this tournament as a heavy favorite to capture her second Olympic Gold medal and her sixth world/Olympic title. She’ll head into Paris with a winning streak on the Senior level that dates back to 2019. One opponent who has given Susaki her closest matches has been Feng. The Chinese world medalist managed to limit the damage, in the amount of 8-4, during their 2024 Asian Championships bout. Barring a shocking upset, the only way these two could square off again would be in the Olympic finals. While Susaki is a huge favorite to emerge from the top half of the bracket - the bottom half is wide open. It features a group of women who have wins over each other and could come out from the chaos on their best day. As we’ve mentioned already, 10 of the 16 participants in this bracket have some sort of Senior world/Olympic medals to their name already. Plus, some quality women are looking to earn their first. There are no easy matches or tune-ups in this group, which will make for fun viewing. Previous Olympic Previews: Men's Freestyle 57 kg

It’s late July which means the 2024 Olympic Games are right around the corner. Over the next two weeks, InterMat will bring you individual weight class previews for each of the 18 weights contested at the Olympic Games. The 2024 version has already been slightly different from years past. Earlier in the summer, United World Wrestling announced a list of wrestlers from Belarus and Russia who would not be permitted to compete due to their support of the war with Ukraine. After this decision, Russia decided to withdraw all of its entries for wrestling. That led to replacements being named earlier this month. With all of the moving parts, and a field that wasn’t confirmed until later in the game, previewing the action had to take a back seat since we weren’t sure who would actually be in Paris. UWW has recently published entry lists for each of the three styles, so we are good to go. Let’s get the previews started by looking at an exciting and wide-open 57 kg weight class in men’s freestyle. Entries: Zelimkhan Abakarov (Albania) Gulomjon Abdullaev (Uzbekistan) Bekzat Almaz Uulu (Kyrgyzstan) Roman Bravo-Young (Mexico) Darian Cruz (Puerto Rico) Vladimir Egorov (North Macedonia) Arsen Harutyunyan (Armenia) Rei Higuchi (Japan) Diamantino Iuna Fafe (Guinea-Bissau) Meirambek Kartbay (Kazakhstan) Spencer Lee (USA) Stevan Micic (Serbia) Gamal Mohamed (Egypt) Aliabbas Rzazade (Azerbaijan) Aman Sehrawat (India) Wanhao Zou (China) Seeds 1. Stevan Micic (Serbia) 2. Rei Higuchi (Japan) 3. Arsen Harutyunyan (Armenia) 4. Meirambek Kartbay (Kazakhstan) 5. Zelimkhan Abakarov (Albania) 6. Aman Sehrawat (India) 7. Wanhao Zou (China) 8. Gulomjon Abdullaev (Uzbekistan) Past Senior World/Olympic Medalists:(4) Abakarov (x2), Harutyunyan (x3), Higuchi (x2), Micic (x2) 2020(1) Olympic Medalists (57 kg) Gold: Zavur Uguev (Russia) Silver: Ravi Kumar (India) Bronze: Thomas Gilman (USA) Bronze: Nurislam Sanayev (Kazakhstan) photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com 2023 World Medalists (57 kg) Gold: Stevan Micic (Serbia) Silver: Rei Higuchi (Japan) Bronze: Zelimkhan Abakarov (Albania) Bronze: Arsen Harutyunyan (Armenia) How they qualified: 2023 World Championships - Micic, Higuchi, Harutyunyan, Abakarov Asian Qualifier - Almaz Uulu, Abdullaev Africa/Oceania Qualifier: Mohamed, Iuna Fafe European Qualifier: Rzazade Pan-American Qualifier: Bravo-Young, Cruz World OG Qualifier: Lee, Sehrawat, Zou Reallocated Quotas: Egorov, Kartbay Key Recent (ish) Matches between Qualifiers 2024 World OG Qualifier Round of 16: Lee over Zou (10-9) 2024 Asian Olympic Qualifier: Almaz Uulu over Zou (3-2) 2024 Hungarian Ranking Series Final: Higuchi over Sehrawat (11-1) 2024 Hungarian Ranking Series Quarterfinals: Rzazade over Abdullaev (Fall 1:47) 2024 Zagreb Open Round of 16: Zou over Cruz (2-2) 2023 World Finals: Micic over Higuchi (7-4) 2023 World semifinals: Micic over Abakarov (6-2) 2023 World quarterfinals: Higuchi over Harutyunyan (16-14) 2023 Asian Championship semifinals: Sehrawat over Zou (7-4) The American Entry: Spencer Lee Finally, we’ve had the opportunity to see Spencer Lee compete at the Senior level - and it was worth the weight. Lee put together an incredible set of results on the age-group level with a Cadet world championships and two Junior world gold medals. He went on to Iowa and had a legendary, yet injury-filled career with the Hawkeyes. Most of his collegiate offseasons were spent trying to rehab injuries rather than competing in freestyle, so he was a bit of an unknown coming into the lead-up to the Olympic Trials. At the Trials, Lee downed 2023 World Team member, Zane Richards, 13-6 before dispatching four-time World/Olympic medalist Thomas Gilman twice in the best-of-three series to make the team. After winning the Trials, Lee still needed to head to Istanbul to qualify the weight for the Olympic Games at the World OG Qualifier event. He did so in grand fashion winning three of his four matches via tech. American fans have to be confident about their prospects at 57 kgs with Lee in the red, white, and blue singlet. He will not come into the tournament seeded, but that shouldn’t be an issue. He has the mentality to thrive being inserted anywhere into the bracket. Despite his lack of Senior-level experience, before this spring, Lee should be considered a solid medal contender and possibly a threat for the gold. photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com The X-Factor: Roman Bravo-Young Similar to Lee, Roman Bravo-Young is someone who had good success pre-college but did not compete in freestyle often once he was at Penn State. Bravo-Young represented the United States at the 2016 Cadet World Championships and was a Junior Pan-American champion in 2019. Since then, he has decided to wrestle for Team Mexico at the Senior level. In his first competition for Mexico, Bravo-Young claimed a gold medal at the Henri DeGlane - a tournament that featured two other members of this field. Bravo-Young then got the job done in qualifying the weight at the Pan-American Olympic Qualifier - posting tech falls in two of his three bouts. Since then, Bravo-Young notched two wins over the African representatives at the Ziolkowski Memorial in late June. Also like Lee, Bravo-Young will not be seeded. With Lee’s wins at the OG Qualifier, there is a bit more evidence to assume he’s a strong medal contender. Bravo-Young hasn’t faced quite as much high-quality competition, just yet. But to overlook him in this bracket would be foolish. The bracket: As the bracket is constructed with the eight seeded wrestlers, it is relatively balanced on both sides. Were actual seeding done, rather than a point system, Micic would have been the top-seed, so that checks out. His 2023 world finals opponent, Higuchi, is on the bottom half. Each has a world bronze medalist from 2023, potentially in the semifinals. The issue could be if the unseeded wrestlers are all drawn in on one side. As illustrated earlier, Lee and Bravo-Young could be problems in this regard. After them, Kyrgyzstan’s Bekzat Almaz Uulu is probably the most imposing unseeded wrestler. Also, don’t overlook 2017 NCAA champion Darian Cruz who is representing Puerto Rico. He reversed multiple losses to Richards at the Pan-American Olympic Qualifier - which forced the United States to rely on earning a spot at the Last Chance Qualifier. Analysis: 57 kg in men’s freestyle is a young man’s weight class. That’s evident in the fact that none of the Olympic medalists from three years ago returned. They have all either retired, moved up in weight, or been beaten out for the spot in their respective country. Or have been barred from competition like the reigning gold medalist, Zavur Uguev. With that type of turnover, we will see plenty of new faces on the medal stand. All four of the returning medalists from the 2023 World Championships are back - Uguev did wrestle in that tournament and came away medal-less. The story of 2023 was Micic’s road to gold. Micic defeated Uguev, Abakarov, and Higuchi in back-to-back-to-back matches to earn (with an emphasis on earn) the gold medal. While the 2023 medalists return and will certainly be in the mix, new blood like Lee, Bravo-Young, Sehrawat, and others could push one or more of the incumbents off the medal stand in Paris. Like 2023, this bracket might produce multiple winners were it to be contested five times. That means there is no dominant favorite and each match is a must-watch.

2004 Olympic silver medalist Jamill Kelly talks with Ryan Holmes about all angles of his Olympic experience. From getting to go to the 2000 Games as Cary Kolat's training partner, to making the 2004 team in a three-match series, to the Opening Ceremonies alongside stars like LeBron James and Michael Phelps, Kelly hits plenty of topics. Oh, and the competition itself. Kelly describes how his mindset changed from college at Oklahoma State to the Senior level, along with his confidence after training with the best in the world and his vast knowledge of his competition. The two finish up by discussion changes to freestyle wrestling since his competitive days concluded - rule changes, training options and more. For the full interview:

Fargo 16U National Greco-Roman final results Team Race 1. Iowa 2. California 3. Illinois 4. Ohio 5. Missouri 6. Indiana 7. Pennsylvania 8. Colorado 9. Nebraska 10. Texas 88 lbs Champion - Thales Silva (California) over Hudson Chittum (Tennessee) 3-2 Third Place - Wyatt Dannegger (Ohio) over Hunter Shirley (Washington) 8-0 Fifth Place - Cameron Schofield (Indiana) over Damien Yeoman (Iowa) 8-0 Seventh Place - Onofre Gonzales (Colorado) over Stephano Calderon (South Carolina) 8-5 94 lbs Champion - Ariah Mills (Georgia) over Tristan Pino (Colorado) 6-1 Third Place - Tyler Verceles (Maryland) over Lazarus McEwen (Washington) Fall 1:28 Fifth Place - Thiago Silva (California) over Dylan Nieuwenhuis (Michigan) 10-0 Seventh Place - Vince Von Bernewitz (Virginia) over Lucas Forman (Nevada) Fall 3:37 100 lbs Champion - Loc Webber (Ohio) over Landon Thoennes (Minnesota) 9-0 Third Place - Chase Karenbauer (Pennsylvania) over Symon Woods (Illinois) 9-0 Fifth Place - Drew Dawson (Oregon) over Coy Mehlert (Iowa) 16-6 Seventh Place - Ethan Humphrey (Iowa) over William Webb (New Jersey) 4-4 106 lbs Champion - Hayden Schwab (Iowa) over Montero Royal (South Carolina) 8-0 Third Place - Chase Kastner (Connecticut) over Brycen Dawley (Washington) 15-10 Fifth Place - William Atkinson (Alabama) over Jackson Shipley (Texas) 7-2 Seventh Place - Cruzer Dominguez (Nebraska) over Coleton Klipa (Pennsylvania) 8-0 113 lbs Champion - Alexander Pierce (Iowa) over Zaiyahn Ornelas (Nebraska) 14-5 Third Place - Jordan Manyette (Pennsylvania) over Jensen Boyd (Indiana) 9-1 Fifth Place - Liam Collins (Minnesota) over Jorge De La Rosa (Oregon) 8-0 Seventh Place - Kellen Downing (Montana) over Jack Baker (California) 8-4 120 lbs Champion - Arseni Kikiniou (California) over Rocco Cassioppi (Illinois) 9-0 Third Place - Will Detar (Pennsylvania) over Weston Borgers (Ohio) 13-5 Fifth Place - Gavin Landers (Iowa) over Abraham Coronado (Nevada) 9-0 Seventh Place - Gage Spurgeon (Iowa) over Reid Yakes (Florida) 10-9 126 lbs Champion - Matthew Orbeta (California) over Bruno Cassioppi (Illinois) 6-2 Third Place - Deven Lopez (Colorado) over Mason Carlson (Utah) 9-0 Fifth Place - Brenden Jorden Agcaoili (Nevada) over Carter Wallis (Missouri) 8-0 Seventh Place - Gabriel Ballard (Pennsylvania) over Dominic Way (West Virginia) Injury Default 132 lbs Champion - Austin Collins (Colorado) over Dawson Youngblut (Iowa) 8-0 Third Place - Legend Ellis (Oklahoma) over Jet Brown (Missouri) Fall 1:42 Fifth Place - Sean Hall (Idaho) over Ryan Ferrera (New York) FFT Seventh Place - Matthew Dailey (Pennsylvania) over Keagan Sieracki (Texas) 11-1 138 lbs Champion - Miller Sipes (Missouri) over Jovani Sipes (Florida) 5-3 Third Place - Anthony Delgado (Nevada) over Marcus Kilgore (Arizona) 10-1 Fifth Place - Brandon Green (Illinois) over William Christopher (Wisconsin) 5-3 Seventh Place - Austin Gyorkos (Michigan) over Vinnie Gutierrez (California) Fall 1:51 144 lbs Champion - Dominic Wilson (Texas) over James Whitbred (Pennsylvania) 8-0 Third Place - Noah Bull (Utah) over Gregory Torosian (California) 14-11 Fifth Place - Drake Morrison (Idaho) over Ladd Holman (Utah) 8-0 Seventh Place - Jake Kos (Minnesota) over Thunder Page (Kansas) 3-2 150 lbs Champion - Chance Ruble (Missouri) over Dokken Biladeau (Iowa) 9-0 Third Place - Matthew Staples (Indiana) over Emerson Tjaden (Kansas) 5-4 Fifth Place - Thomas Gibbs (Indiana) over Titus Norman (Tennessee) 9-6 Seventh Place - Maximus Dhabolt (Iowa) over Daniel Acosta (Texas) 12-4 157 lbs Champion - Ivan Ivanov (Idaho) over Eli Esguerra (Ohio) 15-6 Third Place - Ismael Bereket (Illinois) over Jaxon Miller (Iowa) 8-0 Fifth Place - Daniel Patrick (Oregon) over Max Harris (Kansas) 8-0 Seventh Place - Zachery Little (Tennessee) over Miles Lesley (Georgia) 14-5 165 lbs Champion - Aaron Stewart (Illinois) over Lucas Boe (Indiana) 8-0 Third Place - Carter Nekvapil (Texas) over Parker Casey (Iowa) 11-10 Fifth Place - Salah Tsarni (Maryland) over Riley Johnson (Nebraska) 12-4 Seventh Place - Slava Shahbazyan (California) over Caige Horak (Ohio) 11-1 175 lbs Champion - Carter Temple (Missouri) over Isai Fernandez (California) 8-0 Third Place - Xavier Smith (Indiana) over Brody Kelly (Illinois) Injury Default Fifth Place - Brayden Koester (Iowa) over Cody Savage (Vermont) 4-4 Seventh Place - Camden Crew (Oklahoma) over Frederick Hammond (Michigan) Fall :45 190 lbs Champion - David Calkins (California) over Ronan An (Georgia) 9-0 Third Place - JT Smith (Nebraska) over Andy Franke (Iowa) 10-0 Fifth Place - Michael Boyle (Ohio) over Seer Godwise (Indiana) 6-2 Seventh Place - Blaise Turner (Idaho) over Jace Renfro (Missouri) 8-0 215 lbs Champion - Alex Taylor (Ohio) over Danny Zmorowski (Ohio) 3-1 Third Place - Preston Krueger (Wisconsin) over Noah Mathis (Kansas) 14-5 Fifth Place - Josh Hoffer (Illinois) over Mason Koehler (Iowa) FFT Seventh Place - Carter Green (Kansas) over Sam Tanner (Utah) 9-2 285 lbs Champion - Jonathan Rulo (Illinois) over Brady Hagan (Iowa) 5-0 Third Place - Preston Wagner (Nebraska) over JT Kelso (Iowa) 3-1 Fifth Place - Chandler Moore (Ohio) over Bradyn McConneha (Pennsylvania) FFT Seventh Place - Kyler Kuhn (Missouri) over Jeremy Marshall (Illinois) 9-0

Fargo Junior National Greco-Roman final results Team Race 1. Illinois 2. Oklahoma 3. Minnesota 4. Colorado 5. Pennsylvania 6. Idaho 7. California 8. Wisconsin 9. Texas 10. Utah 100 lbs Champion - Michael Rundell (Illinois) over Jose Cordero (Tennessee) 10-0 Third Place - Vincent DeMarco (Illinois) over Jameson Thomas (Alabama) 10-2 Fifth Place - Xavier Diaz (Pennsylvania) over Ray Long (Illinois) 13-3 Seventh Place - Kacen Jones (Utah) over Trexden Olsen (Utah) 9-0 106 lbs Champion - Cason Craft (Oklahoma) over Dylan Ota (Texas) 7-6 Third Place - Caden Correll (Illinois) over Brady Byrd (Indiana) Fall 1:03 Fifth Place - Roderick Brown (Florida) over Maddox Martinez (New Mexico) 18-7 Seventh Place - Caden Smith (Virginia) over Hunter Hurl (Utah) 9-2 113 lbs Champion - Nicolas Enzminger (North Dakota) over Ezekiel Witt (Kansas) Cautions Third Place - Roman Luttrell (New Mexico) over Caleb Noble (Illinois) 11-2 Fifth Place - Dunia Sibomana (New York) over Santana Ramon (Michigan) 8-0 Seventh Place - Everest Sutton (Colorado) over William Jakeway (South Carolina) Fall :59 120 lbs Champion - Kody Tanimoto (Texas) over Isaiah Jones (Oklahoma) 7-4 Third Place - Gage Singleton (Oregon) over Musa Tamaradze (Massachusetts) 9-0 Fifth Place - Maximus Riggins (Iowa) over Davis Motyka (Pennsylvania) 10-1 Seventh Place - Brayten Casey (Wisconsin) over Jeremiah Wachsmuth (Oregon) 10-6 126 lbs Champion - Anthony Ruzic (Illinois) over Jackson Heslin (Connecticut) 6-0 Third Place - Jaxton Packer (Idaho) over Logan Schwanz (Minnesota) Fall 1:40 Fifth Place - Lawson Eller (Minnesota) over Sawyer Hackbarth (Oklahoma) 9-0 Seventh Place - Drew Hansen (Michigan) over Boden Banta (Idaho) 5-5 132 lbs Champion - Rhett Peak (Oklahoma) over Treygen Morin (Idaho) 4-0 Third Place - Manuel Saldate (Nevada) over Geronimo Rivera (Utah) 12-1 Fifth Place - Brian Grabner (Alaska) over Moses Mendoza (California) FFT Seventh Place - Jarvis Little (Tennessee) over Edwin Sierra (California) 8-0 138 lbs Champion - Landon Drury (Washington) over Alex Braun (Minnesota) 8-0 Third Place - Dmytro Chubenko (Ohio) over William Anderson (Alabama) 8-4 Fifth Place - Dillon Cooper (Kansas) over Amryn Nutter (Wisconsin) 15-6 Seventh Place - Layne Kleimann (Utah) over Landon Thomas (Michigan) 10-2 144 lbs Champion - Pierson Manville (Pennsylvania) over Wyatt Medlin (Illinois) 9-0 Third Place - Maksym Chubenko (Ohio) over Luis Alberto-DeSilva (Pennsylvania) 7-5 Fifth Place - Derek Barrows (Colorado) over Emil Necula (Georgia) Fall 1:40 Seventh Place - Jake Miller (Oklahoma) over Brayden Canoyer (Nebraska) 8-3 150 lbs Champion - Brandon Dean (Colorado) over Garrett Reece (Colorado) 1:57 Third Place - Paul Kelly (California) over Hunter Sturgill (Indiana) 2-2 Fifth Place - Bas Diaz (Iowa) over Tre Haines (Washington) 1-1 Seventh Place - Rafael Garcia Morales () over Anderson Heap (Florida) 9-3 157 lbs Champion - Jude Randall (Oklahoma) over Brett Back (Wisconsin) 4-3 Third Place - Tucker Roybal (Utah) over Leister Bowling (Colorado) 4-3 Fifth Place - Patrick Brackett (Colorado) over Logan Glynn (Nebraska) 9-0 Seventh Place - Matthew Randolph (Minnesota) over Will Scherer (Missouri) 4-3 165 lbs Champion - Aliaksandr Kikiniou (California) over Griffin Lundeen (Minnesota) 3-1 Third Place - Trae Rios (Oklahoma) over Jarrett Wadsen (Minnesota) Fall 4:23 Fifth Place - Bradlee Farrer (Utah) over Evan Roudebush (Indiana) 6-5 Seventh Place - Kolin Weaver (Georgia) over Maximus Norman (Tennessee) 6-0 175 lbs Champion - Adam Waters (Pennsylvania) over Aidan Squier (New Jersey) Fall :33 Third Place - Waylon Cressell (Indiana) over Matthew Jens (Illinois) 8-0 Fifth Place - Hudson Rogers (Idaho) over Ben Smith (Utah) 12-6 Seventh Place - Lukas Ricketts (Kentucky) over Jonathan Sims (Ohio) 11-2 190 lbs Champion - Zakary McPhee (Minnesota) over Alihan Bereket (Illinois) Fall 5:04 Third Place - Aiden Cooley (Texas) over Brenden Heying (Iowa) 8-0 Fifth Place - William Ward (North Dakota) over Breyson Kelley (Wisconsin) 14-4 Seventh Place - Alexander Smith (Florida) over Riley Hucks (South Carolina) Fall 1:22 215 lbs Champion - Soren Pirhoun (Virginia) over Mikey Calcagno (Illinois) 10-1 Third Place - Angelo Posada (California) over Cason Howle (South Carolina) 10-2 Fifth Place - Jayden Tadeo-Gosal (California) over Cittadino Tuttle (Minnesota) InjDef Seventh Place - Carson Gooley (Idaho) over Henry Christensen (Alabama) Fall :31 285 lbs Champion - Shilo Jones (Idaho) over Micah Hach (South Dakota) 13-10 Third Place - Grant Stromberg (Wisconsin) over Mustafa Woodi (Ohio) 8-1 Fifth Place - Hunter Vander Heiden (Wisconsin) over Alexander Bajoras (Massachusetts) 2:33 Seventh Place - Dean Bechtold (Pennsylvania) over Willie Cox (Alabama) Fall :45

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Iowa State finished fourth in 2024, their highest finish since 2010. With four All-Americans the Cyclones earned a team trophy, albeit given much later in the year. They won the Big 12 for the first time since 2009 and are returning four potential conference finalists. They have some absurd depth in the middleweights and smartly used the transfer portal to strengthen other areas. While filling a David Carr-sized hole isn’t easy, Dresser and Co. have put together another potential trophy team. 125lbs: Kysen Terukina (Senior) Heading into his senior season Terukina is a three-time NCAA qualifier with a career record of 35-26. He was right in the chaos of 125, with wins over All-Americans Tanner Jordan and Eric Barnett proving he is a contender. A fourth-place finish in a stacked Big 12 weight class was the best in his career and led to the 24 seed at NCAA’s where he went 1-2. While this is his senior season Terukina has not taken a redshirt yet, and an injury-shortened 2023 season could potentially lead to another year of eligibility. Regardless, Terukina has proven to have podium potential and is one good run away from scoring big points for the Cyclones. 133lbs: Evan Frost (Soph.) Heading into the 2024 season many expected young transfer Garrett Grice to step into this weight class. Frost won the wrestle-off and never looked back, finishing sixth at NCAA’s as a redshirt freshman. A recruit outside of the top 200 in high school, Frost had a busy redshirt season where he had a solid, but unassuming, 11-5 record against Division I opponents. His 2024 season started strong, going 4-0 in duals before a runner-up finish at CKLV. Through the regular season, his only losses came to Kai Orine, Nasir Bailey, and Daton Fix. He continued to show his consistency at Big 12’s where he dropped a decision to Fix in the finals. Those matches against Fix showed Frost’s development, as he went from an 11-3 major decision loss in the dual, to an 8-5 decision loss at Big 12’s, to an OT rideout 2-1 loss in the NCAA quarterfinals. Frost went on to beat Big 10 Champ Dylan Shawver before losses to Ryan Crookham and Dylan Ragusin. With the podium finish Frost was ISU’s first All-American at the weight since 2016, and the Big 12’s first All-American not named Daton Fix since 2018. I dove as deep as I could and found that Frost was also the state of Louisiana’s first qualifier in almost a decade and its first AA since 2013. After all the accolades, Frost is the heavy favorite for the Big 12’s and a title threat nationally. 141lbs: Jacob Frost (Soph.)/Zach Redding (Junior) The next handful of weights are a bit up in the air with potential weight changes and redshirts coming into play. Word is that Anthony Echemendia is moving up in weight after a breakout season, leaving the Cyclones with some options. There is potential for Frost and Terukina to both bump up, but there is depth and experience here as well. Frost and Redding wrestled off last season with Frost getting a 10-5 win. Echemendia started the season at 149 but took the spot once he dropped to 141. Frost had a solid 13-4 redshirt record but only competed in seven matches in 2024, with a 5-2 record. He did have a win over Missouri’s Josh Edmond in 2023, while redshirting. Redding on the other hand is a two-time qualifier at 133, making the bloodround in 2023. Last season he competed at 141 to start the year, but moved up to 149 and went 4-2 in duals while Casey Swiderski was injured. He beat NCAA qualifier Ethan Fernandez, so he is a bit more proven against ranked wrestlers compared to Frost. Depending on how the weights change I wouldn’t be surprised to see either wrestler start or a returning starter move into the weight. Either way, it is clear that at the very minimum, the Cyclones should be fitted with a qualifier at this weight with upside potential. 149lbs: Anthony Echemendia (Junior) Listed here is returning All-American and Big 12 champ Echemendia, who had a breakout year in his first official year as a starter. After a year at Ohio State and a year unattached, Echemendia wrestled to a 23-6 record that saw him finish fifth. After a seventh-place finish at CKLV, he went 13-1 with a conference title heading into NCAA’s. Included in that run were wins over Vince Cornella, Cael Happel, and Josh Edmond. Last year’s starter Casey Swiderski has a redshirt available, so the move makes sense with the depth of talent spread through these weights. Echemendia beat Swiderski in the wrestle-off, so it’s clear that he can have success at the weight. This weight returns six qualifiers from last season including Big 12 champ and All-American Ty Watters. Echemendia’s exciting style should make for a number of highlight reel moments in 2025. 157lbs: Paniro Johnson (Soph.) Another interesting weight is at 157 where 2023 Big 12 Champ Paniro Johnson is returning after a controversial gambling suspension led to him redshirting. He competed at 157 with a 7-1 record, only losing in overtime to SDSU’s Cael Swensen at the Soldier Salute. His 2023 run saw him post wins over Brock Mauller, Colin Realbuto, Victor Voinovich, and Shayne Van Ness. This summer he made the U23 team at 70kg which included wins over All-Americans Ed Scott and Daniel Cardenas. Johnson is a conference title contender and is in the podium discussion at a difficult 157 lb weight class. Last year’s starter Cody Chittum was a true freshman and likely to redshirt with Casey Swiderski. Chittum and Swiderski are likely the best 1-2 punch to redshirt this season and an impressive showing of ISU’s depth. 165lbs: Connor Euton (Soph.)/Manny Rojas (Soph.) David Carr will undoubtedly go down as one of the best to ever wear maroon and gold and leaves a large hole in a stacked lineup. Both of these young wrestlers were ranked out of high school, with Rojas at #19 and Euton at #77 on the 2022 Big Board. In two seasons Rojas has a 12-7 record, with all but two of those matches at 174. Euton has a 10-3 record, all at 165 last season. Euton’s wins include qualifiers Jack Thomsen, Blaine Brenner, and Joey Bianchi. Rojas didn’t compete much last season, but did beat bloodround finisher Jared Simma twice in 2023. With no clear favorite, Euton appears to have an edge on paper. Rojas was higher ranked out of high school, but with only two matches at 165, there’s no guarantee he even makes the move down. Euton has multiple ranked wins at the weight and looks like he should at least be a qualifier in one of the toughest weight classes nationally. 174lbs: MJ Gaitan (Soph.) Another young standout for the Cyclones, Gaitan had an impressive first season with a bloodround finish at NCAA’s. Sporting one of the more exciting and dangerous styles at the weight, he had a 22-9 record while finishing 4th at Big 12’s. After a rocky CKLV where he finished 8th, he won his last ten matches in duals. A top-two seed at Big 12’s he was upset early by Gaven Sax, but recovered for a fourth-place finish to qualify. Gaitan took the 15th seed at NCAA’s and scored wins over Jackson Turley, Adam Kemp, and Ben Pasiuk to make the bloodround. After a season of experience, Gaitan should be a podium contender for 2025 and with ten falls last season could be a big point scorer. 184lbs: Evan Bockman (Senior)/Tate Naaktgeboren (RS Fresh.) This is another weight that the Cyclones have some impressive options between recruiting and the transfer portal. Naaktgeboren was a top-30 recruit in the class of 2023 and redshirted last season. He went 1-4 against Division I opponents, but three of those losses came to Parker Keckeisen while the other was to WVU’s Dennis Robin. Naaktgeboren did bonus all other opponents, so if he makes a jump in his second year could be someone to look out for. The competition attempting to stop him comes in Utah Valley transfer Evan Bockman. After qualifying the last three seasons at 197, Bockman comes to ISU with years of experience. He has a 54-29 record in the past three seasons and has one year left. With the addition of Christian Carroll from the portal, it leaves a path for Bockman to come down to 197. He wrestled in 2019 at 174 lbs, but him at 184 is still a question. While neither wrestler may have the big-move ability of last year’s starter Will Feldkamp, both seem to fit into the NCAA qualifier mold. With Naaktgeboren’s youth and a potential weight change for Bockman, they both have potential upside as well. 197lbs: Christian Carroll (RS Fresh.) The #2 overall recruit for 2023 is no stranger to the Big 12 after redshirting at Oklahoma State, but he’ll be wearing an Iowa State singlet in his first season as a starter. Carroll transferred after the coaching changes at OSU, and slots in as an immediate starter. He has a long list of credentials from high school, and saw success in freestyle recently with wins over Jacob Warner, Tony Cassioppi, and Trey Munoz. After expecting to be a heavyweight in college Carroll made a descent to 92 kg with the plan to compete at 197 this season. During his redshirt season, he only wrestled three matches between two opens, dropping a match to Missouri’s Seth Nitzel at heavyweight for his only D1 match. If Carroll can handle the cut and grind of a full season at 197, his athleticism and talent make him an immediate podium contender. 285lbs: Yonger Bastida (Senior) One of the more surprising results to me at NCAA’s was Yonger Bastida missing the podium. After a fifth place finish at 197 in 2022, Bastida looked like a future title contender if he improved on the mat. The strong freestyle background was evident in his matches, but a tough weight cut led to a round of 16 finish in 2023. It was announced that Bastida would make the move to heavyweight, and the work in the weight room was clear at the start of the season. Bastida appeared to be a full-sized heavyweight and reportedly lowered his body fat percentage. His athleticism was unreal and the new scoring system was even more in his favor as he started the year with three tech falls. A highlight reel at CKLV was a breakout as he beat Nick Feldman and Lucas Davison. Wins over Cohlton Schultz, Josh Heindselman, and Zach Elam only furthered his hype into the postseason. That continued into the Big 12 tournament as he scored three bonus wins before a barnburner with Wyatt Hendrickson to give himself a 24-0 record and an argument for the top seed. Unfortunately, an injury appeared to cause him issues in Kansas City, as he dropped the rematch to Davison in the quarters and was upset by Yaraslau Slavikouski in the bloodround. Now heading into his final season, Bastida should be back to a title threat and a leader for the Cyclones. If he can repeat his standout regular season and improve his NCAA showing, he has title-threat potential. Previous “Never Too Early Lineup Looks:” Air Force Indiana Lock Haven North Carolina Oregon State West Virginia

How about that Fargo? I watched every single match while sucking down wings, so it was like I was there. You won’t read that in Jason Bryant’s Fargo Almanac. But you can read a hot mailbag to go with the hot weather currently melting the country. Who under Coach Taylor will take the biggest leap for the Cowboys in year one? The Low Single It seems like an impossible question to answer because we simply don’t know much about David Taylor the coach. Though the meteoric rise of his club in Pennsylvania is a good barometer that he knows what he’s doing. I’m actually most interested in the two big transfers. Cam Amine and Dean Hamiti are two of the most veteran of veterans with a handful of podium appearances between them but never really seemed like a finals threat. With both having a year left to go all out, do they find that next level in new surroundings and a fresh start? Being right at the weights of DT’s wheelhouse certainly has to help. This also begs the question of whether Thomas Gilman turns Troy Spratley into a monster as his first protege. NCAA Football ‘25 came out this week. If there was a college wrestling game, who would you want to be the cover athlete? Along with that, what team would you pick in dynasty mode? And what weight would you wrestle on the road to glory? The Kid Smoke Drip Costanza If the game were coming out this year then you have to put Carter Starocci on the cover. There’s no other choice in my opinion. Then I’m creating myself and going to Army West Point. Remember in Punch-Out when Little Mac is training by running along the river while Doc rides the bike? We will have that montage but it’s me running behind Scott Green on the way to Wegmans. Then I go full Dake and win four different weight classes for America’s Team. Why would someone block someone (until the end of September) from your Intermat forum with no warning or notice of why it happened? I was told to take it to the zoo, which I did. Doesn’t make sense when it’s going to cost you a yearly premium subscription. Just wondering. Jim H (Cinnabon?) Is it my forum? I barely even go on there. I’m sorry this happened to you but I don’t believe you need a subscription to use the forum. Just like this mailbag. Which is a good thing since I doubt I’m moving the needle on subscriptions. Either way, I’ll make sure to wake you up when September ends. Fargo gives out "stop signs". What other signs need to be given out? Burger King of Kings Yield signs so they can learn what it looks like and what it means. I don’t know how many times I’m driving and some dude just blasts into the road without a care in the world while I have to slam on the breaks. Not to mention the constant running of red lights lately. It’s just anarchy out there. How many of the moves in the Fargo highlight clips shared on Twitter would work on you? I know that none of them would work on me. Oldest and Greatest All of them? I’m basically a statue now. I wouldn't even know what hit me before I'm getting gut-wrenched all over the place. But you talk a good game - I think you should enter the Farrell this year and see what happens. Why would you have a lefty throw your pitches in the home run derby? Even if he was throwing dots (he wasn’t) it is a huge disadvantage. Baby Duff I’ll admit I didn’t watch the derby or game the next day, so I have no idea who you are referring to here. What’s your problem with lefties? I’m a lefty. You saying you can’t hit my curveball? How do you think Scott Legacy is doing at Vermont State Castleton and building that program? It’s less than 10 years old and already a D3 contender. Real Lance Scott Legacy formerly of Mount Anthony Union? He certainly has them pointed in the right direction. Gavin Bradley returns and looks to improve on last year’s seventh-place finish. You’ve got James Rodriguez coming back at 142 looking to make the podium for the third time after just missing it last year. The guy already has 122 wins and could hit the 160 mark this year. You just don’t see those kinds of numbers anymore. Sampson Wilkins comes back as a threat to win the whole thing while rocking the coolest name in all of wrestling. And we can’t forget about former Bergen Catholic star Nate Camiscoli out there at 157 for a little Jersey grit. I have a feeling Coach will end up leaving quite the “legacy” when he’s done.

In their first year of competition, the Iowa women’s wrestling team captured an NCWWC national title and crowned individual champions in six of the ten collegiate weight classes. As hard as it may be to believe, the Hawkeye team got even stronger this evening. 2023 World silver medalist and five-time age-group world medalist, Macey Kilty, used her social media to announce that she will compete collegiately and finish her education at the University of Iowa. In April, Kilty advanced to the finals of the Olympic Team Trials for the second consecutive time. In both instances, she was beaten by two-time Senior world medalist Kayla Miracle. At the 2020(1) Trials, the pair split matches before Kilty was seriously injured in the third and deciding match and couldn’t continue. The 2024 edition saw Miracle prevail in two straight matches. 2023 saw Kilty make her first Senior World team - which she did at 65 kg. Kilty used two techs, a nine-point win, and a fall to make the finals. She’s also had multiple appearances at the U23, Junior, and Cadet World Championships. In 2018, Kilty won a Cadet World gold medal in Zagreb, Croatia. That same year she made the Junior World finals. Earlier this year, Kilty dominated en route to a Pan-American gold medal. She did not surrender a single point while teching both of her opponents. Kilty had previously spent plenty of time training at the University of North Carolina’s Tar Heel Wrestling Club, but hasn’t actually competed at the collegiate level. She’ll have one year of eligibility to use for the Hawkeyes. Kilty has competed at a variety of different weight classes over the years but has wrestled 62 kg (136 lbs) at the 2024 Olympic Trials.

The NBA Draft took place on June 26th and 27th, and while I recognize that this is a wrestling website, and wrestling article, the NBA Draft has relevance to this piece. A couple of years ago, I wrote a piece for Bloodround.com on what would happen if there were a wrestling draft similar to regular sports professional drafts. For that piece, I used the NBA draft order to select wrestlers for fictional professional wrestling teams. It was fun, and I think I had some good picks, as well as some that ended up way off. Take a look here if you’d like: Either way, I recently revisited that piece and thought I should update it for Intermat. So that’s what this is. It’s especially relevant with this being an Olympic year. How is it relevant? Please refer to the below bullet points to find out; We are only drafting NCAA D1 wrestlers. This gives us a large enough pool of wrestlers to create some debate, as well as throws the idea out there that someone younger, and therefore with more years of eligibility. This also eliminates people who have already graduated. Obviously, Vito Arujau, Austin Gomez, Aaron Brooks, and Daton Fix are all super good and would be drafted. In this world, they already have been. They are not draft-eligible. My reason is that it’s more fun to look at the youth and projections than whether or not Aaron Brooks should go first. Probably yes, so let’s pretend guys like Brooks, David Carr, Trent Hidlay, and such are going to stay with the programs that they’ve already announced they’ll continue to compete for. This does however mean that wrestlers such as Carter Starocci or Greg Kerkvliet, who have already announced they’ll be returning for one more season, are draft-eligible. I’m also using the “one and done” rule that the NBA implements. As a result, there will not be anyone drafted who is an incoming Freshman for the 2024/2025 season. Similarly, I will not be drafting anyone who took a redshirt season last year as a freshman. As a result, studs like Gabe Arnold will not be eligible for this draft, however, a Meyer Shapiro will be. For this first installment, I’m only covering the draft lottery. For those of you who don’t speak “NBA Draft”, that means the first 14 draft picks. I intend to finish the first round at some point, but initially, we are starting with these top 14 picks. The draft order will be the same as the most recent NBA draft. This is truly subjective and predictive based on my own internal bias. These teams would be for Men’s Freestyle only. My apologies to Greco, as well as Women’s wrestling. Those drafts may take place in another article in the future, but for this piece that is where the focus remains. Nation of origin is not of concern here. They would not need to simply represent the United States here, so any country of origin works. It’s all based on talent and upside. Weight class is important to consider. World Championships are great, but projected Olympic weights for 2028 in Los Angeles are valued more than non-Olympic weight classes. Lastly, please consider more team points are better than less team points, so someone more likely to get pins, tech's, and majors inherently becomes more valuable than someone who won't. Youth and upside are considered in this drafting process. Let’s begin! 1. Atlanta Hawks - Jesse Mendez - In the summer of 2023, Jesse took second in the world at the U20 World Championships. Fresh off of that, he won an NCAA title, followed by taking fourth at 65kgs in the 2024 US Olympic Trials. He had a win over James Green and lost a close match to the current 65kg Olympian, and last year's 70 kg World Champion, Zain Retherford. All arrows point to Jesse Mendez continuing this complete streak of dominance and growth. He’s shown every bit of talent and grit that it takes to be at the highest level in freestyle and folkstyle, and on all accounts, loves competing and being challenged. I’ve seen everything I need to feel like he’s going to be around and challenging for Olympic spots for years to come. He might not have as many of the age group world titles as some of the guys here, but I’m completely sold on what this guy will be moving forward. Is it a reach to take Mendez first overall? Some might think so, but I am absolutely not one of those guys. I’m all in on what he can be on the international scene and look forward to seeing him continue to progress. 2. Washington Wizards - Greg Kerkvliet - It’s hard to find Heavyweights with the unique blend of size and athleticism that Greg has. Independent of their physical traits, Greg also seems to have the intangibles that it takes to continue to develop his skills and hone his craft. It must be hard to be as dominant as he was this last season and still find ways to challenge yourself and push yourself as much as it takes. The eternal battle with great heavyweights is finding training partners to push you, but I trust he has the mental makeup to know what it takes and he has domestic challengers that he knows he needs to get through. Goals like that make for great motivation. 3. Houston Rockets - Andrew Alirez - Fresh off his Olympic redshirt season, the 2023 NCAA Champ at 141 wrestled well at the trials, ultimately falling to Nick Lee in the semifinals. Rumors are that he could be up at 149 for the upcoming NCAA season, but I still feel good about him at 65kgs for 2028. He’s shown that he can manage his weight very well, and even if he needed to bump up to 74kgs, I trust that he has the frame to do so. All of this is fun, but more importantly, his wrestling is dangerous. He has a large toolbox of moves he can throw at you, and as evidenced in the NCAA finals, is willing to go upper body and go for big moves when need be. Alirez has the pedigree and results to back up this spot. 4. San Antonio Spurs - Mitch Mesenbrink - 2022 U20 70kg World Silver Medalist. U20 World Champion at 74kg in 2023. Took second at NCAAs to David Carr (another U20 World Champion), and has shown to be every bit of the talent that we thought he was. Mitch has a pace that is unlike anything I’ve seen in a while at the NCAA level, and that frantic and constantly attacking pace translates well to Freestyle. We saw that same pace and action get under the skin of the great Jordan Burroughs, and I trust that it will equally frustrate the Senior-level competition across the world. Mitch’s ceiling is something scary to think about, and San Antonio got a great pickup in the young and talented Messenbrink. 5. Detroit Pistons - Keegan O’Toole - U20 74kg World Champion in 2021, and U23 World Champion at 74kgs in 2023. 2x NCAA Champion, 2x 3rd place at NCAAs, and the man has one more year left. He only fell this far in the draft because I’m a little worried about where he’ll land weight class-wise in 2028. Rumors have been that O’Toole will bump to 174 for his final college season, and typically as one gets older, it becomes harder to drop the weight and have the optimal levels of performance. Especially at such a deep and competitive weight like 74kgs. At the same time, 84kgs is super deep and dangerous as well. Regardless, the talent of KOT is an absolute steal at the 5th pick, and we are thrilled to pick him at 5. KOT seems to genuinely love to compete and be pushed (as evidenced in any interview he’s given regarding the battles with David Carr). Regardless of weight class concerns, KOT will be a force to be reckoned with as we move towards 2028. 6. Charlotte Hornets - Meyer Shapiro - An absolute stud freshman season at NCAAs. Stepped in as a true freshman only losing 3 matches all season, and going 6-1 at NCAAs to end up placing 3rd. Of course, this is a freestyle-focused draft, so it should be important to reference Meyer’s two age group world championships as well (gold at U17s in 2021 and gold at U20s at 70kg in 2023). He competed at 157 pounds as a freshman in college, and should easily fill into 74kgs by 2028. Additionally, he’s competing and training at Cornell, where he’ll have excellent freestyle-focused training partners to continue to challenge himself and grow. Only in drafts with other multiple-time world champs do guys like this fall this far. 7. Portland Trail Blazers - Rocky Elam - Elam seemed to battle some injuries last season, but the four-time All-American has shown that he has all it takes. He was a 2021 U20 World Champion in Freestyle and has been as consistent a presence for the Missouri Tigers as you’d like to have. Even battling through a slower season than we’ve been used to with Rocky, he was still able to place sixth in a loaded 197 weight class. Kyle Snyder has been the man at 97 kgs for just about the last decade, and he’ll only be 32 in 2028, but by that time there could be a string of guys who could challenge that spot, and I believe Rocky is one of those guys. 8. San Antonio Spurs - Nick Feldman - There are a lot of Heavyweights in this draft. I just think that it’s really hard to find guys like this. Sure, you could make the argument that the prevalence of HWY in this draft means that it’s actually easy to find them, but I disagree. After the guys listed in the draft, it kind of falls off a bit from an upside and long-term potential piece. Feldman is special. Last year, the freshman had shown that he could beat just about anyone in the country. He pushed Kerkvliet harder than just about anyone else in the country and had beaten Lucas Davison several times, which didn't come easy. Pair that with the fact that he was a U20 World Champion in 2022, and also that he probably can’t legally drink alcohol. There is just so much potential with him that he can’t possibly fall further than 8. The Spurs draft is looking pretty strong with Mesenbrink and Feldman. 9. Memphis Grizzlies - Bennett Berge - It might be a little strange to have Bennett Berge ahead of Parker Keckeisen on this list, but let me explain. If we are looking ahead at prospects for the 2028 Olympics, then I can justify it. As a redshirt freshman, Berge placed fourth at NCAAs. Additionally, he had shown throughout the season continued growth and development, as you would hope from a strong young prospect. Outside of NCAA competition, Berge has placed second and third in the world at U20s in 2022 and 2023, so he has shown legitimate freestyle competency, which he will certainly build on. Four years from now, as he finishes what will be a strong college season, he should be poised to make a strong run at the Olympics, even presumably with a guy like Aaron Brooks still at that spot. 10. Utah Jazz - Isaac Trumble - Another challenger to the reign of Kyle Snyder’s terror, Isaac Trumble has shown that he is as versatile and dangerous as it gets. He made the Olympic Trials finals, getting shut out by Snyder in both matches, but nonetheless. That was a deep pool of wrestlers he had to get through just to make the finals. He is comfortable with upper-body throws, has a nice series of leg attacks, and can turn from the top position. Oh, and he is a U23 World Champion at 97 kgs as well from 2023. That seems relevant for this exercise. I’m excited to see what he will bring to the Wolfpack of NC State this next season, presumably stepping in where Trent Hidlay left off. 11. Chicago Bulls - Jacob Cardenas - Bronze medal at U23 World Championships, 2x All-American (8th and 4th), and is now training at the CKWC in Ann Arbor with some notable training partners. Nothing against the Cornell group at all. I just think that it’s good to have some diversity in coaching and partners to help jump levels, and I expect that out of Jacob’s final season spent in Ann Arbor. He’s shown that he is dangerous in both freestyle and folkstyle, and could be a real threat in 2028. As previously referenced, 97 kgs seems to be in good hands, and will likely still be the case in 2028, but there will be young guys like Jacob trying to get that spot. 12. Oklahoma City Thunder - Parker Keckeisen - The only reason Kekeisen went this low is because I haven’t seen him wrestle much freestyle. I am, however, very confident that he wrestles very well. He had a 90% bonus rate last NCAA season on his way to an NCAA title. He was a super freak. He went like a hot knife through butter through the NCAA tournament. Parker is an absolute monster, and I trust that with a little work, he can “figure out” freestyle wrestling. He’s placed 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st at NCAAs, and will be returning for one final season, presumably targeting the elusive Dan Hodge trophy. His pace and physicality are both traits that will lend themselves to freestyle wrestling very well, and I’m excited to see what he’s able to do with a legitimate pushout rule. 13. Sacramento Kings - Lachlan McNeil - McNeill has shown in his first couple of NCAA seasons that he is a legit contender. Outside of that though, he’s wrestled freestyle in several Senior-level tournaments throughout the years. Albeit for Canada, so for the Olympics purposes of this draft the argument kind of falls apart, but the spirit of this exercise is to shine a light on some of the young college-level freestyle prospects, and I would be remiss to leave McNeil out of this exercise. The two-time All-American for the Tar Heels has shown that he is a real threat on the international scene, and he still has several more years of college eligibility to build into a finished wrestler and freestyle product. 14. Portland Trailblazers - Wyatt Hendrickson - The military experiment that is Wyatt Hendrickson is just too good to leave off here. We remain in this prolonged golden age of heavyweight, which has really been a delight to see. We have these 250+ pound freak athletes all over the place now it seems. Guys who like to attack legs, maintain a high pace, and can scramble like middleweights. All sorts of credit to Air Force and what they were able to do with Wyatt, but it would be a little weird to think that he wasn’t going to jump levels after the transfer to Oklahoma State. If he elects to continue wrestling through the Olympics in 2028, then he has as much size, talent, and drive as it takes to make a run to represent his country on that stage.

The men’s freestyle portion of the 2024 16U and Junior National Championships from Fargo, North Dakota is in the books. You can check out Jason Bryant’s Fargo Guide to track the long history of success in the FargoDome and how it correlates to winning at the collegiate and Senior levels. So that means you shouldn’t be surprised to see the wrestlers who found the podium yesterday to be the same ones challenging for the top eight at the NCAA Championships. And with the way that high school wrestlers have trained and are getting better than in past generations - we won’t wait very long for them to contend. Below are the wrestlers who earned All-American honors and have committed to wrestle at the next level. They are listed by their future home, along with their placement and weight. If there is no “Class of” listed then that particular wrestler is from the Class of 2024. Air Force Rylan Kuhn (Missouri) - 5th Place at 285 lbs - Class of 2025 Arizona State Harvey Ludington (New Jersey) - Champion at 190 lbs - Class of 2025 Pierson Manville (Pennsylvania) - 4th Place at 144 lbs Aidan Ysaguirre (Arizona) - 8th Place at 190 lbs - Class of 2025 California Baptist Paul Kelly (California) - Runner-Up at 150 lbs Cornell Gabriel Bouyssou (Rhode Island) - 7th Place at 144 lbs Rocco Dellagatta (New Jersey) - Champion at 285 lbs - Class of 2025 Elijah Diakomihalis (New York) - 6th Place at 190 lbs - Class of 2025 Cash Henderson (Utah) - 4th Place at 285 lbs Alessio Perentin (New Jersey) - Champion at 165 lbs - Class of 2025 Sergio Vega (Arizona) - Champion at 138 lbs - Class of 2025 Indiana Gavin Jendreas (Indiana) - 4th Place at 126 lbs - Class of 2025 Carson Thomas (Ohio) - 3rd Place at 190 lbs - Class of 2025 Iowa Dru Ayala (Iowa) - 7th Place at 120 lbs Iowa State Christian Castillo (Arizona) - 3rd Place at 126 lbs - Class of 2025 Daniel Herrera (Iowa) - Runner-Up at 285 lbs Little Rock Gunner Holland (Florida) - 7th Place at 165 lbs Michigan Gauge Botero (Pennsylvania) - Champion at 120 lbs - Class of 2025 Minnesota Blake Beissel (Minnesota) - 3rd Place at 120 lbs Charlie Millard (Wisconsin) - 3rd Place at 165 lbs Missouri Seth Mendoza (Illinois) - Runner-Up at 132 lbs - Class of 2025 Jace Roller (Oklahoma) - 6th Place at 144 lbs Navy Gage Yackee (Ohio) - 4th Place at 190 lbs NC State Daniel Zepeda (California) - Champion at 144 lbs - Class of 2025 Nebraska Cade Ziola (Nebraska) - Runner-Up at 190 lbs - Class of 2025 New York University Xavier Diaz (Pennsylvania) - Runner-Up at 100 lbs North Carolina Matthew Botello (Massachusetts) - 4th Place at 132 lbs - Class of 2025 Mikey Calcagno (Illinois) - 6th Place at 215 lbs Israel Ibarra (Arizona) - 5th Place at 165 lbs - Class of 2025 North Dakota State Dante Hutchings (Colorado) - 8th Place at 165 lbs Northern Illinois Ian Smith (Wisconsin) - 7th Place at 215 lbs Northern Iowa Carter Freeman (Iowa) - 6th Place at 138 lbs Jace Hedeman (Iowa) - 8th Place at 126 lbs - Class of 2025 Northwestern August Hibler (New Jersey) - 4th Place at 150 lbs Ohio State Vince Bouzakis (Pennsylvania) - 6th Place at 157 lbs Maddox Shaw (Pennsylvania) - 3rd Place at 150 lbs Oklahoma Alex Braun (Minnesota) - 3rd Place at 138 lbs Koufax Christensen (Iowa) - Runner-Up at 126 lbs Clay Giddens (Oklahoma) - 4th Place at 165 lbs Anthony Harris (New Jersey) - Runner-Up at 215 lbs - Class of 2025 Jake Hockaday (Indiana) - 3rd Place at 132 lbs - Class of 2025 Hunter Hollingsworth (Oklahoma) - 4th Place at 138 lbs Austin Johnson (Pennsylvania) - 3rd Place at 215 lbs - Class of 2025 Ricky Thomas (Oklahoma) - 7th Place at 285 lbs Anders Thompson (Montana) - 5th Place at 190 lbs Oklahoma State Ishmael Guerrero (Oklahoma) - 4th Place at 157 lbs - Class of 2025 Landon Robideau (Minnesota) - Champion at 150 lbs - Class of 2025 Kody Routledge (Oklahoma) - 3rd Place at 157 lbs - Class of 2025 Penn Isaias Jimenez (Arizona) - Runner-Up at 157 lbs Davis Motyka (Pennsylvania) - 4th Place at 120 lbs Penn State Nathan Desmond (Pennsylvania) - 5th Place at 126 lbs - Class of 2025 Will Henckel (Connecticut) - Runner-Up at 175 lbs - Class of 2025 Princeton Matthew Martino (Idaho) - 7th Place at 150 lbs - Class of 2025 Rutgers Billy Townson (California) - 7th Place at 126 lbs - Class of 2025 South Dakota State Keenan Sheridan (South Dakota) - 6th Place at 175 lbs Logan Swensen (Minnesota) - 7th Place at 132 lbs Stanford Angelo Posada (California) - Champion at 215 lbs Edwin Sierra (California) - 6th Place at 126 lbs - Class of 2025 Upper Iowa Caleb Olson (Iowa) - 8th Place at 157 lbs Utah Valley Smokey McClure (Washington) - Runner-Up at 144 lbs Virginia Tech Ryan Burton (New Jersey) - Champion at 175 lbs - Class of 2025 Parker Ferrell (Virginia) - 3rd Place at 285 lbs Drew Gorman (Georgia) - Runner-Up at 138 lbs - Class of 2025 Aaron Seidel (Pennsylvania) - Champion at 126 lbs - Class of 2025 Claudio Torres (Florida) - 7th Place at 157 lbs - Class of 2025 Ben Weader (Virginia) - 5th Place at 157 lbs - Class of 2025 Wisconsin Caleb Dennee (Wisconsin) - 4th Place at 175 lbs - Class of 2025 Matthew Jens (Illinois) - 8th Place at 175 lbs Wyoming Tyson Charmoli (Minnesota) - 3rd Place at 144 lbs

16U Men’s Freestyle Final Results Team Race 1. Pennsylvania 2. Illinois 3. Iowa 4. New Jersey 5. Indiana 6. California 7. Ohio 8. Missouri 9. Wisconsin 10. Maryland 88 lbs Championship: Ariah Mills (Georgia) over Hudson Chittum (Tennessee) 5-2 3rd Place: Kooper Deputy (Pennsylvania) over Wyatt Dannegger (Missouri) 8-3 5th Place: Thales Silva (California) over Lucas Forman (Nevada) 14-4 7th Place: Michael McNamara (Illinois) over Onofre Gonzales (Colorado) 4-3 94 lbs Championship: Keegan Bassett (Pennsylvania) over Tyler Verceles (Maryland) 4-2 3rd Place: Thiago Silva (California) over Traevon Ducking (Indiana) 3-2 5th Place: Cody Clarke (Georgia) over Niko Odiotti (Illinois) 10-0 7th Place: Cruz Gannon (Iowa) over Vince Von Bernewitz (Virginia) 5-0 100 lbs Championship: Justin Farnsworth (Pennsylvania) over Corey Brown (Maryland) 4-2 3rd Place: Turner Ross (Minnesota) over Chase Karenbauer (Pennsylvania) 4-0 5th Place: Loc Webber (Ohio) over William Soto (New York) MedFFT 7th Place: Sean Kenny (New Jersey) over Jojo Burke (New Jersey) 5-4 106 lbs Championship: Hayden Schwab (Iowa) over PJ Terranova (New Jersey) 2-1 3rd Place: Case Bell (Indiana) over Mateo Gallegos (Pennsylvania) 4-0 5th Place: Analu Woode (Hawaii) over Layne Martin (Michigan) 16-6 7th Place: Cruzer Dominguez (Nebraska) over Kaleb Pratt (Illinois) 5-1 113 lbs Championship: Shamus Regan (Pennsylvania) over Paul Ruiz (California) 5-0 3rd Place: Alexander Pierce (Iowa) over Killian Coluccio (New Jersey) 4-3 5th Place: Jensen Boyd (Indiana) over Shea Richter (South Dakota) 6-4 7th Place: Jovanni Tovar (Florida) over Austin Bickerton (Ohio) 7-0 120 lbs Championship: Will Detar (Pennsylvania) over Liston Seibert (Ohio) 11-8 3rd Place: Gabriel Ballard (Pennsylvania) over Rocco Cassioppi (Illinois) Fall 3:29 5th Place: Van Smith (Oklahoma) over Paul Kenny (New Jersey) Disq 7th Place: Czar Quintanilla (Washington) over Kavin Muyleart (Pennsylvania) 8-3 126 lbs Championship: Stephen Myers (West Virginia) over Bruno Cassioppi (Illinois) 12-6 3rd Place: Mason Carlson (Utah) over Gage Lohr (South Dakota) 15-5 5th Place: Brenden Jordan Agcaoili (Nevada) over Dale Corbin (Wisconsin) FFT 7th Place: Matthew Orbeta (California) over Maximus Hay (Wisconsin) FFT 132 lbs Championship: Clinton Shepherd (Indiana) over Ashton Besmer (California) 12-3 3rd Place: Gavin Mangano (New York) over Jovani Solis (Florida) 4-4 5th Place: Dawson Youngblut (Iowa) over Grayson Fuchs (Michigan) 4-2 7th Place: Austin Collins (Colorado) over Max Gonzalez (Wisconsin) FFT 138 lbs Championship: Justis Jesuroga (Iowa) over Hunter Stevens (Wisconsin) 4-3 3rd Place: Austin Ellis (Utah) over Brooklyn Pickett (Maryland) Fall 1:22 5th Place: Miller Sipes (Missouri) over Carlos Valdiviezo (California) 5-2 7th Place: Nate Keller (New Jersey) over Wyatt Fry (Pennsylvania) 4-2 144 lbs Championship: Noah Bull (Utah) over Dominic Wilson (Texas) 16-2 3rd Place: Camryn Howard (New York) over Colini Rutlin (Missouri) 11-0 5th Place: James Whitbred (Pennsylvania) over Travis Cardenas (Arizona) FFT 7th Place: Hudson Hohman (Pennsylvania) over Ladd Holman (Utah) 6-4 150 lbs Championship: Jayden James (New Jersey) over Maximus Dhabolt (Iowa) 10-0 3rd Place: Chance Ruble (Missouri) over Eli Esguerra (Ohio) 10-8 5th Place: Cooper Rowe (Minnesota) over Thomas Gibbs (Indiana) 5-4 7th Place: Jake Hughes (Ohio) over Carter Fielden (Indiana) 11-1 157 lbs Championship: Lucas Boe (Indiana) over Gabriel Logan (New Jersey) 8-0 3rd Place: Brody Sendele (Illinois) over Zack Aqulia (Ohio) 8-1 5th Place: Ismael Bereket (Illinois) over Tyree Graham (Florida) 10-0 7th Place: Brennan Warwick (Ohio) over Kawayran Vazquez (Florida) 8-5 165 lbs Championship: Aaron Stewart (Illinois) over JayDen Williams (Michigan) 10-0 3rd Place: Salah Tsarni (Maryland) over Liam Crook (Wisconsin) 6-2 5th Place: Mario Hutcherson (Pennsylvania) over Riley Johnson (Nebraska) 10-0 7th Place: Blake Hostetter (Pennsylvania) over Don Beaufait (Michigan) 10-4 175 lbs Championship: Brayden Koester (Iowa) over Cody Savage (Vermont) 7-7 3rd Place: Nicholas Singer (Pennsylvania) over Carter Temple (Missouri) 13-2 5th Place: Xavier Smith (Indiana) over Isai Fernandez (California) FFT 7th Place: Kyle Scott (Pennsylvania) over Sam Howard (Indiana) 12-1 190 lbs Championship: Elijah Brown (Pennsylvania) over Maximus Konopka (Connecticut) 8-2 3rd Place: Tanner Hodgins (New Jersey) over Eli Knight (West Virginia) 11-3 5th Place: David Calkins (California) over Daniel Moylan (California) 7-2 7th Place: Deacon Moran (Missouri) over Peter Mocco (Florida) 11-0 215 lbs Championship: Alex Taylor (Ohio) over Ryder Smith (Tennessee) 11-7 3rd Place: Josh Hoffer (Illinois) over Joseph Favia (New Jersey) 1-1 5th Place: Cael Leisgang (Wisconsin) over Noah Larios (California) Fall 3:50 7th Place: Noah Mathis (Kansas) over Zach Caldwell (New York) 10-0 285 lbs Championship: Jonathan Rulo (Illinois) over Makhi Rodgers (Wisconsin) Fall 2:39 3rd Place: Mateo Vinciguerra (New Jersey) over Preston Wagner (Nebraska) 13-0 5th Place: Kyler Kuhn (Missouri) over Lucas Feuerbach (Iowa) Fall 3:50 7th Place: JT Kelso (Iowa) over Chandler Moore (Ohio) 9-0

Junior Men’s Freestyle Final Results Team Race 1. Pennsylvania 2. New Jersey 3. California 4. Minnesota 5. Illinois 6. Arizona 7. Oklahoma 8. Ohio 9. Iowa 10. Indiana 100 lbs Championship: Michael Rundell (Illinois) over Xavier Diaz (Pennsylvania) 8-5 3rd Place: Ethan Powell (Ohio) over Kacen Jones (Utah) 10-0 5th Place: Jason Foutz (Pennsylvania) over Brock Goebel (Nebraska) 16-5 7th Place: Kaiden Belinsky (Iowa) over Chase Dubuque (New Jersey) 15-4 106 lbs Championship: Christopher Swann (Georgia) over Antonio Quiroz (Nevada) 8-7 3rd Place: Jarrett Smith (Michigan) over Carter Chunko (Pennsylvania) 6-2 5th Place: Cason Craft (Oklahoma) over Brady Byrd (Indiana) 11-10 7th Place: Charles Esposito (New Jersey) over Daniel Alire (Arizona) 10-0 113 lbs Championship: Dunia Sibomana (New York) over Ayden Dodd (Ohio) 8-2 3rd Place: Abdi Unle (Nebraska) over Revin Dickman (Indiana) 8-6 5th Place: Nicolas Enzminger (North Dakota) over Brayden Teunissen (Illinois) 10-0 7th Place: Caleb Noble (Illinois) over Oumar Tounkara (New York) 13-3 120 lbs Championship: Gauge Botero (Pennsylvania) over Brock Rothermel (Pennsylvania) 11-2 3rd Place: Blake Beissel (Minnesota) over Davis Motyka (Pennsylvania) 7-6 5th Place: Nicolas Garcia (Illinois) over Dom Deputy (Pennsylvania) 4-4 7th Place: Dru Ayala (Iowa) over Antonio Mills (Georgia) 13-11 126 lbs Championship: Aaron Seidel (Pennsylvania) over Koufax Christensen (Iowa) 10-0 3rd Place: Christian Castillo (Arizona) over Gavin Jendreas (Indiana) 10-0 5th Place: Nathan Desmond (Pennsylvania) over Edwin Sierra (California) 5-3 7th Place: Billy Townson (California) over Jace Hedeman (Iowa) 6-0 132 lbs Championship: Jax Forrest (Pennsylvania) over Seth Mendoza (Illinois) 10-0 3rd Place: Jake Hockaday (Indiana) over Matthew Botello (Massachusetts) 8-4 5th Place: Tyler Dekraker (Pennsylvania) over Moses Mendoza (California) 9-8 7th Place: Logan Swensen (Minnesota) over Manuel Saldate (Nevada) 12-3 138 lbs Championship: Sergio Vega (Arizona) over Drew Gorman (Georgia) 10-2 3rd Place: Alex Braun (Minnesota) over Hunter Hollingsworth (Oklahoma) 6-4 5th Place: Sam Herring (Pennsylvania) over Carter Freeman (Iowa) 10-0 7th Place: Kellen Wolbert (Wisconsin) MedFFT Blue Stiffler (Georgia) 144 lbs Championship: Daniel Zepeda (California) over Smokey McClure (Washington) 13-4 3rd Place: Tyson Charmoli (Minnesota) over Pierson Manville (Pennsylvania) 3-2 5th Place: Zeno Moore (Florida) over Jace Roller (Oklahoma) 14-7 7th Place: Gabriel Bouyssou (Rhode Island) over Gus Cardinal (Arizona) 12-0 150 lbs Championship: Landon Robideau (Minnesota) over Paul Kelly (California) 10-0 3rd Place: Maddox Shaw (Pennsylvania) over August Hibler (New Jersey) 6-4 5th Place: Blake Crosby (Michigan) over Daishun Powe (Alabama) 13-2 7th Place: Matthew Martino (Idaho) over Brandon Dean (Colorado) Fall 2:16 157 lbs Championship: Melvin Miller (Pennsylvania) over Isaias Jimenez (Arizona) 8-7 3rd Place: Kody Routledge (Oklahoma) over Ishmael Guerrero (Oklahoma) 11-5 5th Place: Ben Weader (Virginia) FFT Vince Bouzakis (Pennsylvania) 7th Place: Claudio Torres (Florida) over Caleb Olson (Iowa) 10-0 165 lbs Championship: Alessio Perentin (New Jersey) over Elliott Humphries (Massachusetts) 10-0 3rd Place: Charlie Millard (Wisconsin) over Clay Giddens (Oklahoma) 5-3 5th Place: Israel Ibarra (Arizona) over Travis Grace (California) Fall 2:54 7th Place: Gunner Holland (Florida) over Dante Hutchings (Colorado) 13-8 175 lbs Championship: Ryan Burton (New Jersey) over Will Henckel (Connecticut) 4-2 3rd Place: Adam Waters (Pennsylvania) over Caleb Dennee (Wisconsin) 12-1 5th Place: Waylon Cressell (Indiana) over Keenan Sheridan (South Dakota) 10-0 7th Place: Mason Ontiveros (California) over Matthew Jens (Illinois) 11-1 190 lbs Championship: Harvey Ludington (New Jersey) over Cade Ziola (Nebraska) 10-0 3rd Place: Carson Thomas (Ohio) over Gage Yackee (Ohio) 5-5 5th Place: Anders Thompson (Montana) over Elijah Diakomihalis (New York) 15-2 7th Place: Peter Snyder (Maryland) over Aidan Ysaguirre (Arizona) 2-1 215 lbs Championship: Angelo Posada (California) over Anthony Harris (New Jersey) 5-2 3rd Place: Austin Johnson (Pennsylvania) over Melvin Whitehead (Nevada) 10-0 5th Place: Evan McGuire (Minnesota) over Mikey Calcagno (Illinois) 11-6 7th Place: Ian Smith (Wisconsin) over Antonio Palmer (Nebraska) MedFFt 285 lbs Championship: Rocco Dellagatta (New Jersey) over Daniel Herrera (California) 8-7 3rd Place: Parker Ferrell (Virginia) over Cash Henderson (Utah) 15-4 5th Place: Rylan Kuhn (Missouri) over Dean Bechtold (Pennsylvania) 6-5 7th Place: Ricky Thomas (Oklahoma) over Jackson Barnhart (Illinois) 6-0