The round of 16 will begin at 9 a.m. CT on Friday with the quarterfinals set to follow within that session. The evening session starts at 6:00 p.m., and that is when the semifinals will be wrestled. Medal matches are slated for Saturday at 10 a.m.
Below are the matchups in the round of 16 on Friday morning.
100 pounds: Malik Heinselman (Colorado) vs. Ernest Del Rio IV (Arizona), Chris Thomas (Texas) vs. Cevion Severado (Missouri); Brandon Nunez (New York) vs. Beau Ladu (Wisconsin), Justin Montani (Illinios) vs. Brenden Chaowanapibool (Washington). Riley Weir (Oklahoma) vs. Chris Whisenant (Arkansas), Daniel Rehfeldt (Michigan) vs. Matt Petersen (Minnesota); Anthony King (Illinois) vs. Carlos Posas (California), Cole Siebrecht (Iowa) vs. Brendon Garcia (Colorado)
Heinselman will be competing in his second straight Cadet World championships this September in freestyle, this time at 46 kilos (101 pounds). He is after what would be a third consecutive Fargo freestyle title. Garcia, Chaowanapibool, and Nunez were the top three finishers in Greco earlier this week.
106: Jason Holmes (Arizona) vs. Justin Portillo (Iowa), Ezra Elliott (Illinois) vs. Brandon Kaylor (Washington); Nathan Rankin (Texas) vs. Dominic Dentino (Wisconsin), Darrick Stacey (Idaho) vs. Jaret Lane (Pennsylvania). Ty Smith (Nevada) vs. Dalton Stutzman (Utah), Griffin Wilfing (Ohio) vs. Elijah Varona (Florida); Rayvon Foley (Michigan) vs. Nathan Orosco (Illinois), David Woo (Washington) vs. Cody Craig (Maine).
Holmes beat Lane in last year's Junior freestyle final, but they could meet in the semifinal this year. Lane beat Varona for the second straight year in the Junior Greco final on Tuesday afternoon. Smith was champion in Junior folkstyle.
113: Tomas Gutierrez (Colorado) vs. Will Patterson (Alabama), Joey Thomas (Maryland) vs. Michael Colaiocco (New Jersey); Alek Ziegler (Illinois) vs. Clayton Singh (Missouri), Dylan Koontz (Wisconsin) vs. Dylan D'Emilio (Ohio). Patrick McKee (Minnesota) vs. Anthony Pisciotta (Missouri), Mike Madara (Pennsylvania) vs. Kevin Radcliff (Illinois), Nico Aguilar (California) vs. Jack Medley (Michigan), Brock Bergelin (Wisconsin) vs. Hasan Krigger (Georgia).
D'Emilio (No. 10), Colaiocco (No. 27), and Madara (No. 29) are ranked nationally in the Class of 2019. D'Emilio and Colaiocco are joined by Aguilar and McKee in having been ranked nationally at 106 pounds to end the 2015-16 high school season.
120: Brandon Courtney (Arizona) vs. Jack Wagner (Iowa), Paxton Rosen (Oklahoma) vs. McGwire Midkiff (Iowa); Gavin Teasdale (Pennsylvania) vs. Matthew Parker (Pennsylvania), Jack Skudlarczyk (Texas) vs. Drew Mattin (Ohio); Jaxon Cole (Utah) vs. Bryce West (Iowa), Killan Cardinale (Virginia) vs. Jet Taylor (Oklahoma); Liam Cronin (California) vs. Dalton Duffield (Oklahoma), Garrett Vos (Minnesota) vs. Danny Vega (Arizona).
Returning Junior free champion Courtney (No. 66) is joined by three other top 100 Class of 2017 recruits: Rosen (No. 95), Mattin (No. 63), and Parker (No. 71); 2014 Junior free champ Vega (No. 76) and Wagner (No. 83) were both top 100 Class of 2016 wrestlers; while two-time Cadet World team member in freestyle Teasdale is ranked No. 3 overall in the Class of 2018.
126: Austin Gomez (Illinois) vs. Brandon Bright (Oklahoma), Drew Marten (Michigan) vs. Drew West (Iowa); Weston DiBlasi (Missouri) vs. Quinn Kinner (New Jersey), Paul Bianchi (Wisconsin) vs. Dan Moran (Pennsylvania). Paul Konrath (Indiana) vs. Clai Quintanilla (Washington), Michael McGee (Illinois) vs. Jakob Campbell (Pennsylvania); Zach Sherman (New Jersey) vs. Jackson Henson (West Virginia), Jack Karstetter (Oklahoma) vs. Zeke Alirez (Colorado)
Returning Junior freestyle All-American, and two-time UWW Junior freestyle All-American, Gomez (No. 13) is joined by four other top 100 Class of 2017 prospects: Marten (No. 87), West (No. 81), Konrath (No. 45), and Sherman (No. 97). Another pair of wrestlers are ranked in the Class of 2018, No. 45 Kinner and No. 47 Henson.
132: Taylor LaMont (Utah) vs. Caden Darber (Virginia), Jakob Bergeland (Minnesota) vs. Taylor Brown (Missouri); Brent Jones (Minnesota) vs. Tanner Cox (Utah), Quan Campbell (Georgia) vs. Timmy Kane (Connecticut). Gabe Townsell (Illinois) vs. Zach Van Alst (Alabama), Dalton Young (Washington) vs. Brock Rathbun (Iowa); Max Murin (Pennsylvania) vs. Josh Breeding (Ohio), Jerry Mealey (Oregon) vs. Ian Parker (Michigan).
Returning Junior freestyle champion LaMont, also a two-time Junior Greco champion was ranked No. 23 in the Class of 2016; while Parker (No. 72), a returning Junior freestyle All-American joins him from the Class of 2016 rankings. Another pair in this weight class were ranked in the Class of 2017, No. 29 Murin and No. 86 Kane.
138: Mitch McKee (Minnesota) vs. Nate Keim (Oklahoma), Sam Eckhart (Idaho) vs. Jamie Hernandez (Illinois); Carter Happel (Iowa) vs. Jarrett Degen (Montana), Scott Cook (Wisconsin) vs. Nick Lee (Indiana). Ben Freeman (Michigan) vs. Gavin Sutton (Illinois), Nikolas Chavez (Missouri) vs. Parker Filius (Montana); Kanen Storr (Michigan) vs. Jaden van Maanen (Wisconsin), Rudy Yates (Illinois) vs. Brock Mauller (Missouri)
Returning Junior freestyle runner-up McKee, who repeated as champion in Greco on Tuesday afternoon, is ranked No. 20 overall in the Class of 2016. Four other wrestlers that graduated as ranked in that class are also among those in the round of 16: No. 36 Happel, No. 86 Degen, No. 45 Storr, and No. 24 Yates. Another five wrestlers in this weight class are ranked in the Class of 2017, led by No. 5 Lee and joined by No. 48 Hernandez, No. 27 Freeman, No. 83 Filius, and No. 93 van Maanen.
145: Jarod Verkleeren (Pennsylvania) vs. Cory Crooks (Arizona), Ethan Ewing (California) vs. Yahya Thomas (Illinois); Devin Bahr (Wisconsin) vs. Charles Kane (Connecticut), Connor Noonan (Oregon) vs. Ryan Deakin (Colorado). Anthony Artalona (Florida) vs. Vincent Dolce (Arizona), Alex Lloyd (Minnesota) vs. Steven Isaac (New York); Jaron Jensen (Utah) vs. Phil Conigliaro (Massachusetts), Nelson Brands (Iowa) vs. Jarrett Jacques (Missouri)
Cadet World freestyle champion Verkleeren is ranked No. 24 in the Class of 2017, and is joined by No. 68 Bahr as a ranked rising senior. Junior Greco champion Deakin is ranked No. 95 in the Class of 2016; while Artalona (No. 17), Lloyd (No. 24), and Brands (No. 48) make it a trio of ranked Class of 2018 prospects.
152: Wyatt Sheets (Oklahoma) vs. Joshua Kim (California), Ryan Epps (Minnesota) vs. Austin Hiles (Ohio); Zander Wick (California) vs. Dylan Shuck (Iowa), Zemua Baptista (Nebraska) vs. Quentin Hovis (Arizona). Joe Lee (Indiana) vs. BIlly Higgins (Nebraska), Nathaniel Trepanier (Wisconsin) vs. David San Miguel (California); Tommy Strassenberg (Washington) vs. Hunter Willits (Colorado), Drew Nicholson (Tennessee) vs. Griffin Parriott (Minnesota).
Parriott (No. 17) was champion in Greco on Tuesday afternoon and is a returning Junior freestyle All-American; Sheets (No. 59) and Wick (No. 37) are also ranked in the Class of 2016. Hovis is ranked No. 20 in the Class of 2017, and Lee is ranked No. 9 in the Class of 2018.
160: Evan Wick (California) vs. Daniel Filipek (Missouri), Jaryn Curry (Oklahoma) vs. Layne van Anrooy (Oregon); Jake Allar (Minnesota) vs. Sal Arzani (Iowa), Darrell Coleman (Nebraska) vs. Trent Hidlay (Pennsylvania). Eric Hong (Pennsylvania) vs. Ryder Punke (Illinois), Nick Knutson (Minnesota) vs. Blake Montrie (Michigan); Colton Clingenpeel (Iowa) vs. Max Wohlabaugh (Florida), Hunter Bolen (Virginia) vs. Trey Meyer (Washington)
Returning Junior freestyle runner-up Wick (No. 39) is joined by No. 85 Clingenpeel in being a nationally ranked Class of 2016 prospect. Four wrestlers in this weight class are nationally ranked in the Class of 2017: No. 19 van Anrooy, No. 34 Allar, No. 32 Hong, and No. 35 Bolen. Hidlay (No. 23) is the lone ranked Class of 2018 wrestler.
170: Owen Pentz (Utah) vs. J.T. Brown (Ohio), Andrew Berreyesa (Nevada) vs. Ty Bagoly (Pennsylvania); Johnny Blankenship (Missouri) vs. Robbie Bowers (Ohio), Myles Wilson (Colorado) vs. Marcus Coleman (Iowa). Jack Jessen (Illinois) vs. Tyler Morland (Michigan), Josh Ramirez (Louisiana) vs. Daniel Butler (Kansas); Andrew McNally (Ohio) vs. Victor Marcelli (Ohio), Canten Marriott (Missouri) vs. Anthony Mantanona (California).
Coleman (No. 42) and Junior Greco champion Mantanona (No. 31) are the lone ranked Class of 2017 wrestlers on the front side bracket, while the only other grade ranked wrestler in contention for the title is Jessen, who is ranked No. 13 in the Class of 2018.
182: Jelani Embree (Michigan) vs. Taylor Venz (Minnesota), Jesse Shearer (North Dakota) vs. Jacob Gray (Indiana); James Handwerk (Ohio) vs. Tony Vezzetti (Illinois), Max Lyon (Ohio) vs. Kevin Parker (New York). A.J. Pedro (Massachusetts) vs. Casey Randles (Idaho), Matt Waddell (Georgia) vs. Andrew Demos (Illinois); Jake Woodley (Pennsylvania) vs. Riley Vanik (Illinois), Trevor Nichelson (Nebraska) vs. Owen Webster (Minnesota)
Embree, who was champion in freestyle at the UWW Cadet Nationals last year, is ranked No. 25 in the Class of 2017. Four other round of 16 participants are also ranked from the rising senior class: Handwerk (No. 65), Lyon (No. 62), Pedro (No. 73), and Woodley (No. 90). The lone ranked Class of 2016 wrestler on the front side of this weight class is No. 48 Webster, a returning Junior freestyle All-American.
195: Jack Harris (Ohio) vs. Miles Lee (Pennsylvania), Samuel Grove (North Dakota) vs. Matthew Wroblewski (Illinois); Colton Wolfe (Nebraska) vs. Dan Baker (Oklahoma), John Borst (Virginia) vs. Haydn Maley (Oregon). Jacob Raschka (Wisconsin) vs. Brandon Kui (New Jersey), Patrick Brucki (Illinois) vs. Brandon Whitman (Michigan); Andrew Davison (Indiana) vs. Cody Howard (Ohio), Chad Porter (Arizona) vs. Ben Darmstadt (Ohio).
Returning Junior freestyle All-Americans Harris (No. 69) and Darmstadt (No. 28) were both ranked nationally in the Class of 2016. All four wrestlers ranked nationally in the Class of 2017 reside in the bottom half of the draw: Raschka (No. 52), Kui (No. 46), Brucki (No. 41), and Davison (No. 61); also in that half is Whitman, who is ranked No. 15 in the Class of 2018.
220: Samuel Colbray (Oregon) vs. Jeremy Rodman (Minnesota), Zane Black (Pennsylvania) vs. Lucius Rinehart (Wisconsin); Wyatt Wriedt (Iowa) vs. Ashton Seely (Utah), Jacob Sobbing (Missouri) vs. Jeffrey Allen (Virginia). Darryl Aiello (California) vs. Jared Campbell (Ohio), Brandon Reed (Kentucky) vs. Anthony Piscopo (Pennsylvania); Francis Duggan (Pennsylvania) vs. Cole Bateman (Illinois), Thomas Gates (Virginia) vs. Keegan Moore (Minnesota).
Colbray (No. 14) and Moore (No. 47) were both ranked in the Class of 2016; Colbray was champion in Junior Greco this week, and is after a third straight double All-American finish at the Junior level, while Moore was a Cadet Triple Crown winner in 2014. Three others are ranked in the Class of 2017: No. 69 Black, No. 89 Wriedt, and No. 40 Campbell; while Duggan is ranked No. 36 in the Class of 2018.
285: Anthony Cassioppi (Illinois) vs. Jamez Young (Ohio), Brian Andrews (Texas) vs. Zach Muller (Illinois); Carter Isley (Iowa) vs. Evan Ellis (Indiana), Ethan Andersen (Iowa) vs. Thomas Helton (Illinois). Brandon Metz (North Dakota) vs. Aaron Costello (Iowa), Brian Barnes (Oregon) vs. Jon Spaulding (Ohio); Brandon Furman (Pennsylvania) vs. Darrien Kaufman (Illinois), Jacob Rhoades (Indiana) vs. Gannon Gremmel (Iowa).
A trio of Iowa wrestlers were ranked nationally in the Class of 2016: No. 43 Gremmel, No. 57 Andersen, and No. 58 Isley; Isley was champion in Junior folkstyle this spring. Junior Greco champion Metz (No. 57) is the lone ranked Class of 2017 prospect in this weight class, while Cassioppi is No. 42 in the Class of 2018.
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