Austin DeSanto of the Hawkeye Wrestling Club (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com)57 KG
#3 Nick Suriano won the Henri Deglane Grand Prix over Diamantino Iuna of Guinea Bissau. Akhil Vega, a D3 national qualifier for Stevens Tech, went 0-2 competing for the US at the Henri Deglane, losing to Giuseppea Rea (ECU) and Karamjeet Holstein (GER).
61KG
#6 Austin DeSanto won the Henri Deglane Grand Prix over Shelton Mack with #3 Nahshon Garrett taking bronze. For his semifinal win over #3 Nahshon Garett, #6 Austin DeSanto moves up three spots to #3.
65KG
Patricio Lugo won the Henri Deglane Grand Prix over Kizhan Clarke (GER). Clarke, a 2022 NCAA runner-up for North Carolina at 141lb, made his international debut competing for Germany, where he racked up wins against the likes of #9 Ridge Lovett and #3 Evan Henderson to make the finals. Patricio Lugo enters the rankings at #7 for beating #10 Matthew Kolodzik in the semifinals. Kolodzik drops out of the rankings after losing his bronze medal match to #9 Ridge Lovett.
Anthony Ashnault was eliminated from competition after losing his opener to 2020 Olympian Augustin Destribats (ARG) and then losing again to Destribats in the fourth round of repechage.
70KG
#6 Alec Pantaleo won the Henri Deglane Grand Prix over Giorgi Tcholadze (GEO). Cody Chittum took bronze over Leon Gerstenberger (GER).
74KG
#5 Joey Lavallee won the Henri Deglane Grand Prix over #3 Vincenzo Joseph. Joseph notched a ranked win in the semifinals over #9 Collin Purinton, who had an upset win over #6 Josh Shields in the bronze medal match to move up three spots in the rankings to #6. Joseph falls two spots for his loss to Lavallee while Lavallee moves up one spot to #4 and #4 David Carr moves up one spot to #3 due to his win over Lavallee in a special wrestle-off at Final X.
79KG
#9 Evan Wick won the Henri Deglane Grand Prix over #4 Alex Marinelli. Wick notched another ranked victory in the semifinals when he pinned #8 Taylor Lujan. Lujan would go on to take bronze over Callum McNeice of Canada. For his wins over #4 Marinelli and #8 Taylor Lujan, Wick moves up five spots in the rankings to #4.
86KG
Owen Webster made the semifinals of the Henri Deglane Grand Prix after notching a minor upset over 2022 Junior European runner-up Davit Koguashvili of Georgia. Webster lost in the semifinals to 2018 Senior World bronze medalist Taimuraz Friev (ESP) and followed it up with a loss in the bronze medal match to 2017 U23 world bronze medalist Uri Kalashnikov (ISR) to take fifth.
92KG
#1 J’den Cox has moved up to 97 KG where he is ranked second behind reigning world champion #1 (97) Kyle Snyder. Snyder won two matches against Cox last year at the Rudis Super Match event. #2 Nathan Jackson locks down the top spot with Cox’s departure.
#3 Eric Schultz won the Henri Deglane Grand Prix in round robin action with #5 Jay Aiello taking silver. Schultz beat Aiello in the first round.
97KG
#1 (92) J’den Cox has made the move up to 97 KG where he is ranked second behind reigning world champion #1 Kyle Snyder. Cox wrestled one match in pool action at the Henri Deglane Grand Prix, winning over Ricardo Baez of Argentina, before injury defaulting out of the tournament. Morgan Smith would end up taking silver at the tournament, losing in the finals to Merab Suleimanishvili of Georgia.
125KG
#7 Christian Lance finished runner-up at the Henri Deglane Grand Prix to Nika Berulava of Georgia.
Pound for Pound
Austin DeSanto enters the pound for pound rankings at #25 for beating #25 Nahshon Garrett in the semifinals of the 61 KG Henri Deglane Grand Prix.
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