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2022 World Team member Benji Peak (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo/UWW) With the U17 World Championships in July and U20's in August, it means that we are on the precipice of the Senior World Championships, which take place September 10-18th from Belgrade, Serbia. Final X determined the Americans who will compete at world's and, for the most part, the rest of the world has made it official who will participate, as well (A country can change their entry up until 24 hours before their style starts weigh-ins). So who should our Americans look out for in the quest for gold? Below we have credentials for all of the current entries, along with seeds for the 2022 tournament, medalists from 2021, and information about the US entrant. 72 kg Greco Roman Entries Ulvu Ganizade (Azerbaijan) 2022 European Bronze Medalist, 2021 U23 World Bronze Medalist, 2019 Junior World Silver Medalist Deyvid Dimitrov (Bulgaria) 2022 European 7th Place, 2019 U23 World 5th Place For the full article, Subscribe to InterMat's Rokfin Page

3x World Team Member Max Nowry (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo/UWW) With the U17 World Championships in July and U20's in August, it means that we are on the precipice of the Senior World Championships, which take place September 10-18th from Belgrade, Serbia. Final X determined the Americans who will compete at world's and, for the most part, the rest of the world has made it official who will participate, as well (A country can change their entry up until 24 hours before their style starts weigh-ins). So who should our Americans look out for in the quest for gold? Below we have credentials for all of the current entries, along with seeds for the 2022 tournament, medalists from 2021, and information about the US entrant. 55 kg Greco-Roman Entries Rudik Mkrtchyan (Armenia) 2x European Bronze Medalist, 2022 Pytlasinski Cup 5th Place, 2018 World Military Champion Eldaniz Azizli (Azerbaijan) 2x European Champion, 2018 World Champion, 3x World Medalist, 2022 Matteo Pellicone Silver Medalist, 2x Junior World Champion For the full article, Subscribe to InterMat's Rokfin Page.

3x NCAA All-American Matt Kolodzik (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com) Welcome to a new, regular feature for InterMat! Every day, for the next few months, we'll look into the recent history of a DI wrestling program with our "Ten Years of…" feature. Even if you're a die-hard supporter of a particular school, there will be good information you may have forgotten. For others, it's a quick way to learn about a program you may not be familiar with. We're going in alphabetical order for this one, so next up is...Princeton! NCAA Qualifiers (40) 2022 #3 Patrick Glory (125 lbs), #30 Marshall Keller (149 lbs), #5 Quincy Monday (157 lbs), #23 Travis Stefanik (184 lbs), #18 Luke Stout (197 lbs), #32 Matthew Cover (285 lbs) 2020 #2 Patrick Glory (125 lbs), #6 Matt Kolodzik (149 lbs), #5 Quincy Monday (157 lbs), #24 Grant Cuomo (165 lbs), #29 Travis Stefanik (184 lbs), #8 Patrick Brucki (197 lbs) 2019 #7 Patrick Glory (125 lbs), #5 Matt Kolodzik (149 lbs), #26 Quincy Monday (157 lbs), #31 Travis Stefanik (174 lbs), #31 Kevin Parker (184 lbs), #4 Patrick Brucki (197 lbs) 2018 #11 Matt Kolodzik (149 lbs), #16 Mike D'Angelo (157 lbs), Jonathan Schleifer (165 lbs), Patrick Brucki (197 lbs) 2017 Pat D'Arcy (133 lbs), #4 Matt Kolodzik (141 lbs), #16 Jordan Laster (149 lbs), Mike D'Angelo (157 lbs), Jonathan Schleifer (174 lbs), Brett Harner (197 lbs), Ray O'Donnell (285 lbs) 2016 Jordan Laster (141 lbs), Jonathan Schleifer (174 lbs), Abe Ayala (184 lbs), #7 Brett Harner (197 lbs), Ray O'Donnell (285 lbs) 2015 Jordan Laster (141 lbs), Chris Perez (149 lbs), Jonathan Schleifer (165 lbs), Brett Harner (184 lbs), #7 Abe Ayala (197 lbs) 2014 Abe Ayala (197 lbs) NCAA Champions None NCAA All-Americans 2022: Patrick Glory (125 - 2nd), Quincy Monday (157 - 2nd) 2019: Patrick Glory (125 - 6th), Matt Kolodzik (149 - 5th), Patrick Brucki (197 - 4th) 2018: Matt Kolodzik (149 - 3rd) 2017: Matt Kolodzik (141 - 7th) 2016: Brett Harner (197 - 8th) NWCA All-Americans Patrick Glory (125 - First Team) Matt Kolodzik (149 - First Team) Quincy Monday (157 - First Team) Patrick Brucki (197 - First Team) NCAA Round of 12 Finishers Jordan Laster (2015 - 141) EIWA Champions 2022: Quincy Monday (157) 2020: Patrick Glory (125), Matt Kolodzik (149) 2019: Patrick Glory (125), Patrick Brucki (197) 2018: Matt Kolodzik (149) 2017: Matt Kolodzik (141), Jordan Laster (149) 2016: Brett Harner (197) EIWA Runner's Up 2022: Patrick Glory (125), Travis Stefanik (184), Luke Stout (197) 2020: Quincy Monday (157) 2018: Mike D'Angelo (149), Jonathan Schleifer (165) 2015: Jordan Laster (141), Chris Perez (149) Dual Record: 2021-22: 6-5 2021: No Season (Ivy League) 2019-20: 9-4 2018-19: 9-6 2017-18: 4-9 2016-17: 9-8 2015-16: 8-8 2014-15: 9-9 2013-14: 11-4 2012-13: 2-13 EIWA Tournament Placement 2021-22: 3rd 2021: No Season (Ivy League) 2019-20: 5th 2018-19: 3rd 2017-18: 3rd 2016-17: 3rd 2015-16: 5th 2014-15: 7th 2013-14: 11th 2012-13: 12th NCAA Tournament Team Placement 2021-22: 16th (38 points) 2021: No Season (Ivy League) 2019-20: No NCAA Tournament 2018-19: 15th (35 points) 2017-18: 26th (17 points) 2016-17: 25th (15.5 points) 2015-16: 29th-tie (12.5 points) 2014-15: 31st-tie (9.5 points) 2013-14: 64th-tie (0.5 points) 2012-13: No Qualifiers Head Coaching History Chris Ayres (2006 - Present) Best Lineup (Comprised of wrestlers from 2013-22) 125 - Patrick Glory: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#2, #3, and #7 seeds), 2x NCAA All-American (2nd, 6th), 2x EIWA Champion, 2020 NWCA First Team All-American 133 - Pat D'Arcy: 2017 NCAA Qualifier 141 - Jordan Laster: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#16 seed), 2015 NCAA Round of 12 Finisher, 2017 EIWA Champion 149 - Matt Kolodzik: 4x NCAA Qualifier (#4, #5, #6 and #11 seeds), 3x NCAA All-American (3rd, 5th, 7th), 3x EIWA Champion, 2020 NWCA First Team All-American 157 - Quincy Monday: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#5 seed x2), 2022 NCAA All-American (2nd), 2022 EIWA Champion, 2020 NWCA First Team All-American 165 - Jonathan Schleifer: 4x NCAA Qualifier, 2018 EIWA Runner-Up 174 - Travis Stefanik: 3x NCAA Qualifier, 2022 EIWA Runner-Up 184 - Brett Harner: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#7 seed), 2016 NCAA All-American (8th), 2016 EIWA Champion 197 - Patrick Brucki: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#4 and #8 seed), 2019 NCAA All-American (4th), 2019 EIWA Champion, NCAA Qualifier for Michigan 285 - Ray O'Donnell: 2x NCAA Qualifier Recruiting Number of Big Boarder's Per Year 2022: #42 Ty Whalen (NJ), #75 Rocco Camillaci (NY), #76 Kole Mulhauser (NY), #226 Christopher Martino (ID) 2021: #122 Sebastian Garibaldi (NY), #127 Jacob Mann (MO), #221 Hudson Hightower (OH) 2020: #23 Luke Stout (PA), #66 Anthony Clark (NJ), #160 Nick Masters (GA), #181 Jonathan Miers (PA) 2019: #75 Sean Pierson (PA) 2018: #16 Patrick Glory (NJ), #71 Marshall Keller (VA), #79 Quincy Monday (NC), #85 Jake Marsh (OH) 2017: #35 Patrick Brucki (IL), #39 Travis Stefanik (PA) 2016: #63 Ty Agaisse (NJ), #72 Kevin Parker (NY), #79 Christian Araneo (NY) 2015: #6 Matt Kolodzik (OH), #93 Patrick D'Arcy (NJ), #101 Mike D'Angelo (NY), #118 Joe Tavoso (NJ) 2014: #26 Jonathan Schleifer (NJ), #73 Coy Ozias (VA), #136 Ian Baker (CA) 2013: #42 Brett Harner (PA), #50 Ray O'Donnell (PA), #164 Troy Murtha (MD) For past teams: Air Force American Appalachian State Arizona State Army West Point Binghamton Bloomsburg Brown Bucknell Buffalo Cal Poly Campbell Central Michigan Chattanooga Clarion Cleveland State Columbia Cornell CSU Bakersfield Davidson Drexel Duke Edinboro Franklin & Marshall Gardner-Webb George Mason Harvard Hofstra Illinois Indiana Iowa Iowa State Kent State Lehigh Lock Haven Maryland Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Missouri Navy NC State Nebraska North Carolina North Dakota State Northern Colorado Northern Illinois Northern Iowa Northwestern Ohio Ohio State Oklahoma Oklahoma State Oregon State Penn Penn State Pittsburgh Purdue

Iowa transfer Brody Teske (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com) It's been about two months since our last transfer update and there have been plenty of wrestlers who have new homes for the 2022-23 season. Being that it is late-August and many schools have already started even more have come to the forefront. Here's the latest edition of InterMat's Tracker Tracker.

2020 NWCA First Team All-American Dylan Lydy (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com) Welcome to a new, regular feature for InterMat! Every day, for the next few months, we'll look into the recent history of a DI wrestling program with our "Ten Years of…" feature. Even if you're a die-hard supporter of a particular school, there will be good information you may have forgotten. For others, it's a quick way to learn about a program you may not be familiar with. We're going in alphabetical order for this one, so next up is...Purdue! NCAA Qualifiers (60) 2022 #9 Devin Schroder (125 lbs), #26 Matt Ramos (133 lbs), #20 Parker Filius (141 lbs), #19 Kendall Coleman (157 lbs), #25 Gerrit Nijenhuis (174 lbs), #30 Max Lyon (184 lbs), #11 Thomas Penola (197 lbs) 2021 #9 Devin Schroder (125 lbs), #25 Jacob Rundell (133 lbs), #18 Parker Filius (141 lbs), #15 Griffin Parriott (149 lbs), #9 Kendall Coleman (157 lbs), #19 Gerrit Nijenhuis (165 lbs), #16 Max Lyon (184 lbs), #19 Thomas Penola (197 lbs) 2020 #5 Devin Schroder (125 lbs), #32 Parker Filius (141 lbs), #16 Griffin Parriott (149 lbs), #6 Kendall Coleman (157 lbs), #4 Dylan Lydy (174 lbs), #30 Max Lyon (184 lbs), #6 Christian Brunner (197 lbs), #26 Thomas Penola (285 lbs) 2019 #17 Devin Schroder (125 lbs), #15 Ben Thornton (133 lbs), #30 Nate Limmex (141 lbs), #19 Griffin Parriott (157 lbs), #11 Dylan Lydy (174 lbs), #25 Max Lyon (184 lbs), #11 Christian Brunner (197 lbs), #33 Jacob Aven (285 lbs) 2018 #14 Luke Welch (125 lbs), Ben Thornton (133 lbs), #15 Nate Limmex (141 lbs), Jacob Morrissey (165 lbs), #15 Dylan Lydy (174 lbs), #16 Christian Brunner (197 lbs), Shawn Streck (285 lbs) 2017 Alex Griffin (157 lbs), Jacob Morrissey (174 lbs), Christian Brunner (197 lbs) 2016 Danny Sabatello (141 lbs), Alex Griffin (157 lbs), #8 Chad Welch (165 lbs) 2015 #11 Danny Sabatello (133 lbs), Nick Lawrence (141 lbs), Brandon Nelsen (149 lbs), Doug Welch (157 lbs), Pat Robinson (165 lbs), Chad Welch (174 lbs), Patrick Kissel (184 lbs), Braden Atwood (197 lbs) 2014 #7 Cashe Quiroga (133 lbs), Danny Sabatello (141 lbs), #15 Braden Atwood (197 lbs) 2013 Brandon Nelsen (141 lbs), #10 Ivan Lopouchanski (149 lbs), Tommy Churchard (157 lbs), Chad Welch (174 lbs), Braden Atwood (197 lbs) NCAA Champions None NCAA All-Americans 2013: Ivan Lopouchanski (149 - 7th) NWCA All-Americans Devin Schroder (125 - First Team) Griffin Parriott (149 - Honorable Mention) Kendall Coleman (157 - First Team) Dylan Lydy (174 - First Team) Christian Brunner (197 - First Team) NCAA Round of 12 Finishers Matt Ramos (2022 - 133) Max Lyon (2022 - 184) Devin Schroder (2021 - 125) Thomas Penola (2021 - 197) Dylan Lydy (2018, 2019 - 174) Christian Brunner (2019 - 197) Luke Welch (2018 - 125) Chad Welch (2016 - 165) Cashe Quiroga (2014 - 133) Big Ten Champions None Big Ten Runner's-Up 2021: Devin Schroder (125) 2020: Devin Schroder (125) 2020: Kendall Coleman (157) Dual Record 2021-22: 10-5 2021: 4-5 2019-20: 12-5 2018-19: 7-10 2017-18: 9-7 2016-17: 9-7 2015-16: 9-8 2014-15: 10-8 2013-14: 6-8 2012-13: 17-6 Big Ten Tournament Placement 2021-22: 10th 2021: 6th 2019-20: 5th 2018-19: 10th 2017-18: 9th 2016-17: 12th 2015-16: 10th 2014-15: 10th 2013-14: 11th 2012-13: 9th NCAA Tournament Team Placement 2021-22: 30th (10.5 points) 2021: 26th-tie (15.5 points) 2019-20: No Tournament 2018-19: 29th-tie (11.5 points) 2017-18: 28th-tie (12 points) 2016-17: 50th (2.5 points) 2015-16: 41st-tie (6.5 points) 2014-15: 42nd (4.5 points) 2013-14: 39th (7.5 points) 2012-13: 31st (11 points) Head Coaching History Tony Ersland (2014 - present) Scott Hinkel (2008 - 2014) Best Lineup (Comprised of wrestlers from 2013-22) 125 - Devin Schroder: 4x NCAA Qualifier (#5, #9 x2, and #17 seeds), 2x Big Ten Runner-Up, 2020 NWCA First Team All-American, 2021 NCAA Round of 12 Finisher 133 - Cashe Quiroga: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#7 and #9 seed), 2010 NCAA All-American (6th), 2014 NCAA Round of 12 Finisher, 2014 Big Ten 3rd Place 141 - Danny Sabatello: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#11 seed) 149 - Ivan Lopouchanski: 2x NCAA Qualifier (#10 and #12 seeds), 2013 NCAA All-American (7th), 2013 Big Ten 3rd Place 157 - Kendall Coleman: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#6, #9, #19 seeds), 2020 NWCA First Team All-American, 2020 Big Ten Runner-Up 165 - Chad Welch: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#8 seed), 2016 NCAA Round of 12 Finisher 174 - Dylan Lydy: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#4, #11, and #15 seeds), 2020 NWCA First Team All-American, 2x NCAA Round of 12 Finisher, 2020 Big Ten 3rd Place 184 - Max Lyon: 4x NCAA Qualifier (#16 seed), 2022 NCAA Round of 12 Finisher 197 - Christian Brunner: 4x NCAA Qualifier (#6, #11, and #16 seeds), 2020 NWCA First Team All-American, 2019 NCAA Round of 12 Finisher 285 - Thomas Penola: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#11 and #19 seeds), 2021 NCAA Round of 12 Finisher Recruiting Number of Big Boarder's Per Year 2022: #122 Brody Baumann (IN) 2021: #74 Stoney Buell (MI), #90 Ben Vanadia (OH), #94 Dustin Norris (OH), #174 Hayden Filipovich (IN), #198 Tristan Ruhlman (IN) 2020: #15 Gerrit Nijenhuis (PA), #64 Jacob Rundell (IL), #174 Trey Kruse (MN) 2019: #71 Travis Ford-Melton (IL), #76 Eli Pokorney (IN) 2018: #58 Emil Soehnlen (OH), #83 Kendall Coleman (IL) 2017: #47 Parker Filius (MT), #66 Max Lyon (IA), #68 Anthony Falbo (CT) 2016: #12 Griffin Parriott (MN), #28 Shawn Streck (IN), #60 Christian Brunner (IL), #104 Devin Schroder (MI), #140 Kobe Woods (IN) 2015: #59 Nate Limmex (MI) 2013: #119 Aaron Assad (OH), #133 Josh Farrell (IN), #137 Jacob Morrissey (WI) For past teams: Air Force American Appalachian State Arizona State Army West Point Binghamton Bloomsburg Brown Bucknell Buffalo Cal Poly Campbell Central Michigan Chattanooga Clarion Cleveland State Columbia Cornell CSU Bakersfield Davidson Drexel Duke Edinboro Franklin & Marshall Gardner-Webb George Mason Harvard Hofstra Illinois Indiana Iowa Iowa State Kent State Lehigh Lock Haven Maryland Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Missouri Navy NC State Nebraska North Carolina North Dakota State Northern Colorado Northern Illinois Northern Iowa Northwestern Ohio Ohio State Oklahoma Oklahoma State Oregon State Penn Penn State Pittsburgh

4x NCAA All-American Hayden Hidlay (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com) Hayden Hidlay battled to the very last whistle of his decorated career at NC State, where he was the school's first-ever five-time All-American, and was interviewed on national television the moment that lengthy career ended at the 2022 NCAA Championships. What followed was honest, raw and emotional, and the message managed to transcend the bubble of college wrestling and meander into the mainstream with nearly 300,000 views to date. That two-minute interview captured the hardships and the blood and sweat that went into Hidlay's impact on a Wolfpack program that grew right along with him. He shared his love for his brother, Trent, and modestly said he was never “the best” or “the worst” guy at his weight. While that may be true, Hidlay was damn close to being the best. Hidlay finished his NC State career with a 110-11 record, one appearance in the NCAA finals, finishes of third, fourth and fifth, and four ACC individual titles. He went 19-3 and placed third at 174 pounds in his final season, which included a loss to Penn State national champ Carter Starocci in the championship semifinals and a pair of wins over fellow Pennsylvania native Michael Kemerer of Iowa. Hidlay sought no pity with his self-deprecation following a 12-4 major decision over Kemerer in the third-place match, but rather inspired with the sentiment that he did all he could and was proud of that fact, even if he came up short of where he ultimately wanted to go. The magic of that interview was that Hidlay was processing his entire career, both the pride and the disappointment, in real-time and he took thousands of others along for the ride. “In the moment, during those things, you're so tired, and you sort of start talking and you feel like, ‘Man, I could be talking complete gibberish right now,' but maybe it's in those moments that your true self kind of comes out and your true thoughts are able to come out,” Hidlay said. “And at that point, there is a weird mixture of relief that I was done and a little bit of sadness that I hadn't completed or accomplished the goals that I had hoped for. But a lot of it was just I was pretty thankful for how far I've gone and pretty thankful for the support that I've had. I guess whenever you combine all those things, you say some things that will inspire people. It's one of those things that I didn't realize at the time, how impactful it could be.” Hayden Hidlay (left) in the 2022 NCAA 3rd Place bout (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com) Coach Pat Popolizio and the NC State program are hoping Hidlay can continue making the same kind of impact on every wrestler who walks through their doors. The idea throughout Hidlay's sixth and final season of competition was to observe everything around him with a future transition into coaching in mind. The next step in that process was for Hidlay to stay with the program in a newly created role as student-athlete development coordinator. That role will include bringing new Wolfpack wrestlers up to speed on the program, how things are done, and how to be successful there. He will also have a hands-on role by working with them in the practice room. In announcing the position, Popolizio called Hidlay “one of the most impactful student-athletes that I have ever seen.” “All along, we knew he was going to get into coaching, it was just getting things figured out here, and how we can make that work to where he's able to get his needs met, learn our system, learn behind the scenes, what coaching really is,” Popolizio said. “As an athlete, you're consumed with your own career, and now you've got to flip that switch to be a coach. “I just think he has all the natural ability to lead and connect with people and athletes on the team, recruits, other coaches, administration. He's got a great skill set. So, we knew we needed to keep him here, and he's gaining valuable experiences as we speak.” Popolizio had seen Hidlay working with his teammates and had communicated with him enough to know that he had the ability to reach just about anyone. Popolizio had also watched that interview and caught the sting of disappointment in Hidlay's voice as he worked through his emotions with a microphone in his face. None of it sounded to Popolizio like gibberish, as Hidlay suggested, but he connected with the fact that Hidlay hung up his shoes with a void he knew he couldn't fill. Popolizio thinks that's only going to help Hidlay make a successful transition onto an NCAA coaching staff, which he surely hopes is on his own at NC State. “I think things like that make you a better coach down the road, someone that's still hungry and is processing why things didn't play out the way they did,” Popolizio said. “I think that makes you think about what you can do to help people and I think you saw that in that interview. He's more willing to sacrifice things for other people, and I think that's what makes a great coach.” For Hidlay, the learning process began last season with the knowledge that his career as a competitor was coming to an end. He looked at the sport differently and had the luxury of thinking outside his own wrestling journey, thanks in part to the decision to move up to 174 pounds and cut less weight. And as the end did come into focus, Hidlay started to realize more and more that all he wants is to stay close to the sport. Now, instead of speaking from his heart on an ESPN broadcast, he takes on the responsibility of lighting fires under athletes and pushing them beyond what they think their own limits are. If all goes to plan, maybe Hidlay can even help a few win the NCAA title that eluded him. “It's definitely a shift and definitely a change, but one that I'm really, I'm really happy that I've made,” Hidlay said. “I don't really have to concentrate on the ramifications of what I eat and how I sleep. There's a lot of pressure off my shoulders, but I still really enjoy being in the mix with guys. That's something that I'm going to have a hard time getting away from, just being in the room. “I just really like the sport and I like to be able to wrestle, and that's something I hope I can do for a long time.”

2022 NCAA All-American Cole Matthews (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com) Welcome to a new, regular feature for InterMat! Every day, for the next few months, we'll look into the recent history of a DI wrestling program with our "Ten Years of…" feature. Even if you're a die-hard supporter of a particular school, there will be good information you may have forgotten. For others, it's a quick way to learn about a program you may not be familiar with. We're going in alphabetical order for this one, so next up is...Pittsburgh! NCAA Qualifiers (59) 2022 #12 Micky Phillippi (133 lbs), #6 Cole Matthews (141 lbs), #20 Elijah Cleary (157 lbs), #10 Jake Wentzel (165 lbs), #28 Gregg Harvey (184 lbs), #5 Nino Bonaccorsi (197 lbs) 2021 #5 Micky Phillippi (133 lbs), #16 Cole Matthews (141 lbs), #3 Jake Wentzel (165 lbs), #30 Gregg Harvey (184 lbs), #6 Nino Bonaccorsi (197 lbs) 2020 #4 Micky Phillippi (133 lbs), #27 Cole Matthews (141 lbs), #23 Taleb Rahmani (157 lbs), #11 Jake Wentzel (165 lbs), #22 Gregg Harvey (184 lbs), #10 Nino Bonaccorsi (197 lbs), #7 Demetrius Thomas (285 lbs) 2019 #4 Micky Phillippi (133 lbs), #12 Taleb Rahman (157 lbs), #13 Nino Bonaccorsi (184 lbs), #23 Kellan Stout (197 lbs), #8 Demetrius Thomas (285 lbs) 2018 #11 Dom Forys (133 lbs), Nick Zanetta (141 lbs), Taleb Rahmani (157 lbs), Ryan Solomon (285 lbs) 2017 #6 Dom Forys (133 lbs), Taleb Rahmani (157 lbs), #10 TeShan Campbell (165 lbs), #15 Ryan Solomon (285 lbs) 2016 LJ Bentley (125 lbs), #11 Dom Forys (133 lbs), Cody Wiercioch (165 lbs), TeShan Campbell (174 lbs), Nick Bonaccorsi (197 lbs), Ryan Solomon (285 lbs) 2015 Dom Forys (125 lbs), #16 Mike Racciato (149 lbs), Troy Reaghard (165 lbs), #8 Tyler Wilps (174 lbs), #2 Max Thomusseit (184 lbs), Ryan Solomon (285 lbs) 2014 #15 Anthony Zanetta (125 lbs), Shelton Mack (133 lbs), #14 Edgar Bright (141 lbs), Mike Racciato (149 lbs), #7 Tyler Wilps (174 lbs), #4 Max Thomusseit (184 lbs), Nick Bonaccorsi (197 lbs), PJ Tasser (285 lbs) 2013 Shelton Mack (133 lbs), Ronnie Garbinsky (149 lbs), Donnie Tasser (157 lbs), Tyler Wilps (165 lbs), Nick Bonaccorsi (174 lbs), Max Thomusseit (184 lbs), #3 Matt Wilps (197 lbs), #9 Zac Thomusseit (285 lbs) NCAA Champions None NCAA All-Americans 2022: Cole Matthews (141 - 5th) 2021: Jake Wentzel (165 - 2nd), Nino Bonaccorsi (197 - 2nd) 2015: Tyler Wilps (174 - 2nd) 2014: Tyler Wilps (174 - 7th) 2013: Matt Wilps (197 - 3rd), Zac Thomusseit (285 - 5th) NWCA All-Americans Micky Phillippi (133 - First Team) Jake Wentzel (165 - Second Team) Nino Bonaccorsi (197 - Second Team) Demetrius Thomas (285 - First Team) NCAA Round of 12 Finishers Micky Phillippi (2019, 2021, 2022 - 133) Jake Wentzel (2022 - 165) Nino Bonaccorsi (2019, 2022 - 184/197) Taleb Rahmani (2019 - 157) Ryan Solomon (2017 - 285) Dom Forys (2016 - 133) Max Thomusseit (2013, 2014, 2015 - 184) Anthony Zanetta (2014 - 125) Nick Bonaccorsi (2014 - 197) Conference Champions ACC 2022: Cole Matthews (141), Jake Wentzel (165), Nino Bonaccorsi (197) 2021: Jake Wentzel (165), Nino Bonaccorsi (197) 2020: Micky Phillippi (133), Jake Wentzel (165), Demetrius Thomas (285) 2019: Micky Phillippi (133), Demetrius Thomas (285) 2017: Dom Forys (133), Taleb Rahman (157), TeShan Campbell (165) 2015: Mikey Racciato (149), Tyler Wilps (174), Max Thomusseit (184) 2014: Tyler Wilps (174) EWL 2013: Nick Bonaccorsi (174), Max Thomusseit (184), Matt Wilps (197), Zac Thomusseit (285) Dual Record: 2021-22: 8-6 2021: 3-4 2019-20: 10-4 2018-19: 13-3 2017-18: 4-11 2016-17: 11-5 2015-16: 10-7 2014-15: 8-8 2013-14: 13-3 2012-13: 9-6 Conference Tournament Placement ACC 2021-22: 3rd 2021: 5th 2019-20: 2nd 2018-19: 4th 2017-18: 6th 2016-17: 3rd 2015-16: 6th 2014-15: 2nd 2013-14: 2nd EWL 2012-13: 1st NCAA Tournament Team Placement 2021-22: 24th (20.5 points) 2021: 11th (40.5 points) 2019-20: No Tournament 2018-19: 34th-tie (9.5 points) 2017-18: 31st-tie (10.5 points) 2016-17: 32nd-tie (9.5 points) 2015-16: 39th-tie (7.5 points) 2014-15: 21st (23 points) 2013-14: 20th (22 points) 2012-13:15th-tie (34 points) Head Coaching History Keith Gavin (2017 - Present) Jason Peters (2013- 2017) Best Lineup (Comprised of wrestlers from 2013-22) 125 - Dom Forys: 4x NCAA Qualifier (#6 and #11 x2 seeds), 2016 NCAA Round of 12 Finisher, 2017 ACC Champion 133 - Micky Phillippi: 4x NCAA Qualifier (#4 x2, #5 and #12 seeds), 2020 NWCA First Team All-American, Three-time NCAA Round of 12 finisher, 2x ACC Champion 141 - Cole Matthews: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#6 and #16 seeds), 2022 NCAA All-American (5th), 2022 ACC Champion 149 - Mikey Racciato: 2x NCAA Qualifier (#16 seed), 2015 ACC Champion 157 - Taleb Rahmani: 4x NCAA Qualifier (#12 and #20 seeds), 2019 NCAA Round of 12 finisher 165 - Jake Wentzel: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#3, #10, and #11 seeds), 2021 NCAA All-American (2nd), 3x ACC Champion 174 - Tyler Wilps: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#7 and #8 seeds), 2x NCAA All-American (2nd, 7th), 2x ACC Champion 184 - Nino Bonaccorsi: 4x NCAA Qualifier (#5, #6, #10, and #13 seeds), 2021 NCAA All-American (2nd), 2x NCAA Round of 12 finisher, 2x ACC Champion 197 - Matt Wilps: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#3 seed x2), 2x NCAA All-American (3rd, 4th), 3x EWL Champion 285 - Zac Thomusseit: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#7 and #9 seed), 2013 NCAA All-American (5th), 2x EWL Champion Recruiting Number of Big Boarder's per Year 2022: #27 Mac Stout (PA), #40 Dayton Pitzner (PA), #97 Jared Kesler (PA), #137 Codie Cuerbo (PA), #150 Briar Priest (PA), #231 Kelin Laffery (PA) 2021: #35 Luca Augustine (PA), #75 Brock McMillen (PA), #130 Ethan Finch (PA), #244 Cole Hivnor 2020: #53 Mick Burnett (OH), #109 Colby Whitehill (PA), #114 Tyler Badgett (CA), #131 Luke Montgomery (PA) 2019: #79 Austin Cooley (MA), #95 Jared McGill (PA) 2018: #43 Cole Matthews (PA) 2017: #30 Nino Bonaccorsi (PA) 2016: #41 Jake Wentzel (PA), #57 Christian Dietrich (NY), #65 Austin Bell (PA) 2015: #96 TeShan Campbell (PA), #117 Eli Seipel (OH), #146 Robert Lee (WI) 2014: #105 Jake Gromacki (PA), #145 Dom Forys (PA) 2013: 11 Cody Weircioch (PA), #22 Mikey Raccatio (PA) #24 Ryan Solomon (PA), #26 Edgar Bright, #187 Aaron Rothwell (PA) For past teams: Air Force American Appalachian State Arizona State Army West Point Binghamton Bloomsburg Brown Bucknell Buffalo Cal Poly Campbell Central Michigan Chattanooga Clarion Cleveland State Columbia Cornell CSU Bakersfield Davidson Drexel Duke Edinboro Franklin & Marshall Gardner-Webb George Mason Harvard Hofstra Illinois Indiana Iowa Iowa State Kent State Lehigh Lock Haven Maryland Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Missouri Navy NC State Nebraska North Carolina North Dakota State Northern Colorado Northern Illinois Northern Iowa Northwestern Ohio Ohio State Oklahoma Oklahoma State Oregon State Penn Penn State

2x National Prep Champion Colt Deery; now at the University of Maryland (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com) We're only a day away from the start of college football, which is another sign that wrestling season is right around the corner. Today, we're not talking solely about wrestling, it's college football…and wrestling. Specifically, current college football players with wrestling backgrounds. Now DI football is too gigantic to look at every single team or conference, so we've just focused on the Big Ten Conference. It makes sense. It's the top conference for wrestling, all of its schools sponsor it and it has a huge footprint that includes most of the hotspots for the sport. Below are the 14 Big Ten schools listed in alphabetical order. Under each school, names are listed of football players we've uncovered with a history of wrestling. How great were they? It doesn't really matter. Some were national champions, while others had losing records or barely started. The line we drew was that they had to have wrestled in high school in some form or fashion. None that stopped at the youth ages or in middle school. Besides some of the football players/wrestlers, you'll find a statewide wrestling honor. Those were included for athletes that had achieved those distinctions. If nothing is by their name, they either didn't qualify for the state tournament or we were unable to uncover their specific history. Let us know if there's anyone (current) that has been left out. Our research started with the information listed on each school's football roster. Some had more details than others! Illinois #8 - Linebacker: Tarique Barnes (Cordova, TN) #17 - Linebacker: Gabe Jacas (Fort Pierce Central, FL) 2x Florida 3A State Champion #23 - Defensive Line: TeRah Edwards (Groveport Madison, OH) #25 - Outside Linebacker: Jared Badie (Oswego East, IL) #28 - Linebacker: Dylan Rosiak (East Lake, FL) #38 - Linebacker: Isaac Darkangelo (Detroit Central Catholic, MI) #63 - Offensive Line: Alex Palczewski (Prospect, IL) #68 - Offensive Line: Zachary Barlev (Plainfield East, IL) 2020 Illinois 3A State 6th Place #71 - Offensive Line: Hunter Whitenack (New Prairie, IN) 2022 Indiana State 7th Place #74 - Offensive Line: Dylan Davis (St. Stephen's Episcopal, FL) #91 - Defensive Line: Jamal Woods (Hueytown, AL) 2016 Alabama 6A State 5th Place Indiana #29 - Defensive Back: Liam Zaccheo (Jensen Beach, FL) #73 - Offensive Line: Tim Weaver (Saucon Valley, PA) #77 - Offensive Line: Joshua Sales Jr. (Brownsburg, IN) Iowa #31 - Fullback: Eli Miller (Lipscomb Christian, CO) #37 - Linebacker: Kyler Fisher (Southeast Valley, IA) 3x Iowa 2A State Runner-Up #38 - Fullback: Monte Pottebaum (West Lyon, IA) 2018 Iowa 1A State 8th Place #39 - Linebacker: Eric Epenesa (Edwardsville, IL) #50 - Defensive Line: Louie Stec (Nazareth Academy, IL) 2019 Illinois 2A State 6th Place #51 - Offensive Line: Luke Gaffney (Linn-Mar, IA) 3x Iowa 3A State Placewinner #58 - Offensive Line: Taylor Fox (East Buchanan, IA) 2019 Iowa 1A State 4th Place #59 - Offensive Line: Griffin Liddle (Bettendorf, IA) 2x Iowa 3A State Champion #67 - Offensive Line: Gennings Dunker (Lena-Winslow, IL) #70 - Offensive Line: Beau Stephens (Blue Springs, MO) #72 - Offensive Line: Kale Krogh (Ballard, IA) #73 - Offensive Line: David Davidkov (New Trier, IL) #76 - Offensive Line: Tyler Elsbury (Byron, IL) 2x Illinois 1A State Runner-Up #85 - Defensive Line: Logan Lee (Orion, IL) 2x Illinois 1A State Champion #93 - Defensive Line: Anu Dokun (Iowa City West, IA) 2020 Iowa 3A State Qualifier #95 - Defensive Line: Aaron Graves (Southeast Valley, IA) 2x Iowa 2A State 4th Place Maryland #29 - Linebacker: Ian Maloney (Belle Vernon, PA) #41 - Defensive Back: Rex Fleming (Northern, MD) #51 - Offensive Line: Coltin Deery (Malvern Prep, PA) 2x National Prep Champion Michigan #55 - Defensive Line: Mason Graham (Servite, CA) Michigan State #27 - Linebacker: Cal Haladay (Southern Columbia, PA) #42 - Linebacker: Carson Casteel (Florence, AL) 2019 Alabama 7A State Qualifier #50 - Offensive Line: Brian Greene (Eisenhower, WA) #56 - Offensive Guard: Matt Carrick (Perry, OH) Minnesota #60 - Offensive Line: John Michael Schmitz (Flossmoor, IL) #92 - Defensive Line: Danny Striggow (Orono, MN) 2019 Minnesota AA State Champ #99 - Defensive Line: Lorenza Surgers (Panther Creek, NC) Nebraska #44 - Edge Rusher: Garrett Nelson (Scottsbluff, NE) 2018 Nebraska Class B State Champion #54 - Offensive Line: Bryce Benhart (Lakeville North, MN) 2019 Minnesota AAA State Champion #72 - Defensive Line: Nash Hutmacher (Chamberlain, SD) 4x South Dakota State Champion #75 - Offensive Line: Trent Hixson (Skutt Catholic, NE) 2016 Nebraska Class 5 State 5th Place #76 - Offensive Line: Beau Schaller (Waukee, IA) Northwestern #26 - Running Back: Evan Hull (Maple Grove, MN) 2019 Minnesota AAA State Qualifier #40 - Linebacker: Jason Reynolds II (Eagles Landing Christian, GA) #46 - Defensive Line: Devin O'Rourke (Lincoln Way East, IL) 2018 Illinois 3A State 5th Place #69 - Offensive Line: Charlie Schmidt (Libertyville, IL) 2018 Illinois 3A State Qualifier #74 - Offensive Line: Nick Herzog (Blue Valley, KS) 2021 Kansas 6A State 5th Place Ohio State #42 - Cornerback: Lloyd McFarquhar (Brush, OH) #53 - Offensive Line: Luke Wypler (St. Joseph's, NJ) #81 - Tight End: Sam Hart (Cherokee Trail, CO) 2020 Colorado 5A State Champion #86 - Defensive Tackle: Jerron Cage (Winton Woods, OH) #94 - Long Snapper: Mason Arnold (Carrollwood Day, FL) 2x Florida 2A State Runner-Up Penn State #41 - Linebacker: Kobe King (Cass Tech, MI) #48 - Linebacker: Cody Romano (Blair Academy, NJ) #55 - Defensive Tackle: Fatorma Mulbah (Susquehanna Township, PA) #77 - Offensive Line: Sal Wormley (Smyrna, DE) #78 - Offensive Line: Golden Israel-Achumba (Dematha, MD) #94 - Defensive End: Jake Wilson (Nazareth, PA) #97 - Defensive Tackle: PJ Mustipher (McDonogh School, MD) 2017 National Prep Runner-Up Purdue #32 - Safety: Joseph Jefferson II (Pike, IN) #92 - Defensive Tackle: Mo Omonode (West Lafayette, IN) 2021 Indiana State Runner-Up Rutgers #27 - Defensive Back - Timmy Ward (Canton, PA) 2020 PIAA AA State 6th Place #40 - Defensive Back - Sebastian Jusma (Teaneck, NJ) #43 - Defensive Back - Andrew Vargas (Ridgefield Park, NJ) #48 - Defensive Line: Kyonte Hamilton (Georgetown Prep, MD) 2020 National Prep Champion #50 - Defensive Line: Jordan Augustine (Weequahic, NJ) #55 - Defensive Line: Zaire Angoy (Irvington, NJ) #73 - Offensive Line: Terrance Salami (Holy Cross, NJ) 2021 New Jersey State Qualifier Wisconsin #14 - Safety: Preston Zachman (Southern Columbia, PA) 2020 PIAA AA State 3rd Place #45 - Linebacker: Garrison Solliday (St. Thomas Academy, MN) #59 - Linebacker: Aaron Witt (Winona, MN) #65 - Offensive Line: Tyler Beach (Port Washington, WI) #95 - Nose Tackle: Keeanu Benton (Craig, WI) 2018 Wisconsin D1 State Runner-Up

2022 EIWA champion Mickey O'Malley (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com) Mickey O'Malley may be the current face of the Drexel wrestling program, but he does not like to see it that way. "I do not like to think about that. I just go out there and wrestle" he said. "I do not like to be hyped up and stuff like that." This has been his attitude ever since he was an accomplished high school wrestler in the state of New Jersey. With a Fargo freestyle silver medal, a high school state gold, and a Pan Am Championship in freestyle, his attitude towards the sport seems to be working quite well. I wanted to take a deeper dive into his personality, to see if it was as loose as it is on the mat. When competing, he is as calm and collected as anyone I've seen, with never an ounce of panic. You'll never see him celebrate after a big win, and he does not like to talk about himself. It took some time for him to be familiar with his role as a leader, even if it was only by example. "It took a little while to get used to" was his reaction when I asked about him being the main guy all his teammates looked up to. "I'm not very vocal, I just go out and do my thing - hoping everyone else follows suit." O'Malley is very humble, knowing his skills are top-notch on the mat. He also understands that "it's just wrestling" in the end. He likes to have fun and not take it too seriously. In fact, this season he started "testing his opponent's gangster." To him, it simply means "let's go upper body and see who wins." This is one aspect that makes him dangerous to wrestle, but entertaining to watch! He will change his style for no one. But why should you when you win your go-to position 99.9% of the time? The 3x NCAA Qualifier, and reigning EIWA Champion at 174lbs, has only ever considered Drexel as a serious contender for college after high school. His older brother, Sean, committed to the Dragons. Fortunately, a few close friends from his local club committed as well. This would make it easier for Mickey to decide. "McLaughlin, Barczak, and my brother all committed a year or two before me" O'Malley claimed. McLaughlin recently ended his career as a two-time NCAA Qualifier, Barczak is returning for his final year of eligibility with two trips to NCAAs already under his belt. Mickey was excited to be teammates with this special incoming class. Coincidentally, the Dragons have a grad-student transfer from Columbia, named Brian Bonino, who will fill in nicely at 184lbs. He was also part of the famous Apex Wrestling Club out of New Jersey. "We've all been wrestling together since like middle school. It will be fun to have Brian this year." Bonino was an EIWA place finisher last season at 184lbs for the Lions of Columbia. Being from New Jersey, Rutgers was an obvious suitor. The Ivy League schools were knocking on his door as well. The sell for Drexel, besides the friendship connections, was also the co-op system that separates the university from others. "I was on my visit, and I had these smart kids on the team telling me about the 'bread' they are making," Mickey said with a smile. I am still young enough to know that 'bread' is not a baking term when used in this scenario. O'Malley was excited about the financial possibilities one can make while attending school. He continued with a laugh, "turns out I'm not as smart as them, but having a job that pays well is awesome." Agreeing with him, as I'm a Drexel alum myself, it is a great feeling knowing you can make money while getting credits for school, so you can have extra spending money. It makes you grow up quickly, as these are not internships that are handed to you, as most other programs have. You compete against other students for a chance to interview and earn the job just like the "real world." O'Malley has been studying finance, with a minor in real estate. Philadelphia is a great opportunity for a young professional with this background. With his main agenda of being in real estate post-graduation, he landed the perfect co-op with a real estate firm based in Philly called Streamline. "We renovate and build brand new housing developments from the ground up all around the city." In a booming market, he is doing some project management for them. "We buy lots, design the buildings, and build them from the ground up." If you have been in a major city in the last decade, this is happening everywhere in all parts of the city. Some of the landscape in the city is changing, the coaching staff at Drexel is no exception. O'Malley came in with a completely different set of assistant coaches, although the Head Coach, Matt Azevedo, is still at the helm. With a different set of assistants in the latter half of his career, he is taking the opportunity to continue to learn and improve every year. In addition to the fast-improving Pennsylvania Regional Training Center (PRTC), new Drexel coaches CJ LaFragola and David McFadden are fantastic workout partners helping O'Malley improve his skills on the mat and achieve his goal of becoming an All-American. "I don't have specific goals; I just want to improve every year" is what he explained to me. 2022 EIWA champion Mickey O'Malley (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com) I talked to Coach Azevedo about his star wrestler, in O'Malley. "He needs to get better on top." Coach Azevedo said without much hesitation. "He needs to make it a dominating position for him like he did in high school." Among other things Azevedo listed out was for Mickey to "Believe in himself" and "wrestle to his strengths." Knowing Mickey's style, and he will admit this himself, he does not have much offense on his feet. He is mostly a defensive, or reactionary wrestler when not in the upper body position. "Finding another attack is something else we are working on. A few minor tweaks are all he needs. He's right there (to reach the podium)." Two seasons ago, he finished the season in the round of 16 at NCAAs losing to Logan Massa of Michigan - a sixth-year senior at the time. Last year, his season ended in the blood round to 5X All-American in Michael Kemerer of Iowa - a seventh-year senior at the time. If O'Malley's goal of improving continues, he will inevitably earn All-American status. He would only become Drexel's third ever in school history, and first under coach Azevedo. Coach Azevedo's thoughts on coaching his first All-American at Drexel - "Any time you can get an All-American at a small school like Drexel, it is a huge deal. I honestly believe it's tougher to be an All-American now than it ever has been." When you think about why - I believe he's right. For example, we've never seen 6th and 7th-year seniors coming back until now, the transfer portal is more active than ever, and the qualifying system nearly guarantees the best 33 guys are at the NCAA tournament. All of these combinations make the NCAA tournament, a higher quality, and overall better product. The situation puts a load of pressure on Mickey that I'm not sure he even realizes is there. As mentioned, the school is looking for their 3rd All-American ever (first since 2007) and Coach Azevedo is looking for his first as a head coach ever, beginning in 2011. "The only pressure Mickey feels, is the pressure he puts on himself" Coach Azevedo exclaimed. "Mickey has two more years left to prove himself to the NCAA." Does this drought of coaching an All-American worry or bother Azevedo? Absolutely not! He stated "I came here to produce All-Americans. That has not happened yet. But Mickey can be that guy who helps the program kick the door open, after knocking on it for so long…" After hearing that, I think the question is not "Will Mickey O'Malley be Azevedo's first AA at Drexel?" but "How many AA's will come after Mickey?" If I'm allowing bias to sneak into this story, this is where it pops up - also I am not exactly sure how to end the article! Matt Azevedo was my coach over a decade ago when I was a Drexel Dragon wrestler myself. He has changed that program for the better in all aspects and has been so close to getting his first All-American. Being one of my favorite coaches in the entire sport, I cannot help but root for him. He's now had four wrestlers compete in the infamous bloodround (round of 12) while at the helm of the Dragon program, with no wins to show for it. Someday this win will come, and I truly hope that I will be there to see it. If so, I can guarantee that I'll be one of the first people in that tunnel congratulating him and his staff.

2x NCAA champion Nick Lee (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com) Welcome to a new, regular feature for InterMat! Every day, for the next few months, we'll look into the recent history of a DI wrestling program with our "Ten Years of…" feature. Even if you're a die-hard supporter of a particular school, there will be good information you may have forgotten. For others, it's a quick way to learn about a program you may not be familiar with. We're going in alphabetical order for this one, so next up is...Penn State! NCAA Qualifiers (88) 2022 #16 Drew Hildebrandt (125 lbs), #1 Roman Bravo-Young (133 lbs), #1 Nick Lee (141 lbs), #13 Beau Bartlett (149 lbs), #16 Brady Berge (157 lbs), #1 Carter Starocci (174 lbs), #2 Aaron Brooks (184 lbs), #1 Max Dean (197 lbs), #4 Greg Kerkvliet (285 lbs) 2021 #23 Robbie Howard (125 lbs), #2 Roman Bravo-Young (133 lbs), #2 Nick Lee (141 lbs), #12 Brady Berge (157 lbs), #23 Joe Lee (165 lbs), #3 Carter Starocci (174 lbs), #1 Aaron Brooks (184 lbs), #15 Michael Beard (197 lbs), #9 Greg Kerkvliet (285 lbs) 2020 #5 Roman Bravo-Young (133 lbs), #2 Nick Lee (141 lbs), #19 Jarod Verkleeren (149 lbs), #2 Vincenzo Joseph (165 lbs), #1 Mark Hall (174 lbs), #3 Aaron Brooks (184 lbs), #21 Shakur Rasheed (197 lbs) 2019 #10 Roman Bravo-Young (133 lbs), #3 Nick Lee (141 lbs), #12 Brady Berge (149 lbs), #1 Jason Nolf (157 lbs), #2 Vincenzo Joseph (165 lbs), #1 Mark Hall (174 lbs), #2 Shakur Rasheed (184 lbs), #1 Bo Nickal (197 lbs), #2 Anthony Cassar (285 lbs) 2018 Corey Keener (133 lbs), #8 Nick Lee (141 lbs), #1 Zain Retherford (149 lbs), #3 Jason Nolf (157 lbs), #3 Vincenzo Joseph (165 lbs), #2 Mark Hall (174 lbs), #1 Bo Nickal (184 lbs), #5 Shakur Rasheed (197 lbs), #3 Nick Nevills (285 lbs) 2017 #3 Nick Suriano (125 lbs), Jimmy Gulibon (141 lbs), #1 Zain Retherford (149 lbs), #1 Jason Nolf (157 lbs), #3 Vincenzo Joseph (165 lbs), #5 Mark Hall (174 lbs), #2 Bo Nickal (184 lbs), #5 Matt McCutheon (197 lbs), #5 Nick Nevills (285 lbs) 2016 #3 Nico Megaludis (125 lbs), #5 Jordan Conaway (133 lbs), Jimmy Gulibon (141 lbs), #1 Zain Retherford (149 lbs), #3 Jason Nolf (157 lbs), Geno Morelli (165 lbs), #1 Bo Nickal (174 lbs), #16 Matt McCutheon (184 lbs), #1 Morgan McIntosh (197 lbs) 2015 #11 Jordan Conaway (125 lbs), #7 Jimmy Gulibon (133 lbs), #12 Zack Beitz (149 lbs), #2 Matt Brown (174 lbs), #14 Matt McCutheon (184 lbs), #2 Morgan McIntosh (197 lbs), #8 Jimmy Lawson (285 lbs) 2014 #3 Nico Megaludis (125 lbs), Jimmy Gulibon (133 lbs), #3 Zain Retherford (141 lbs), James English (149 lbs), #13 Dylan Alton (157 lbs), #1 David Taylor (165 lbs), #5 Matt Brown (174 lbs), #2 Ed Ruth (184 lbs), #3 Morgan McIntosh (197 lbs), #14 Jon Gingrich (285 lbs) 2013 #4 Nico Megaludis (125 lbs), #12 Jordan Conaway (133 lbs), Bryan Pearsall (141 lbs), #11 Andrew Alton (149 lbs), #8 Dylan Alton (157 lbs), #2 David Taylor (165 lbs), #2 Matt Brown (174 lbs), #1 Ed Ruth (184 lbs), #2 Quentin Wright (197 lbs), Jimmy Lawson (285 lbs) NCAA Champions Roman Bravo-Young (133 - 2021, 2022) Nick Lee (141 - 2021, 2022) Carter Starocci (174 - 2021, 2022) Aaron Brooks (184 - 2021, 2022) Max Dean (197 - 2022) Jason Nolf (157 - 2017, 2018, 2019) Bo Nickal (184/197 - 2017, 2018, 2019) Anthony Cassar (285 - 2019) Zain Retherford (149 - 2016, 2017, 2018) Vincenzo Joseph (165 - 2017, 2018) Mark Hall (174 - 2017) Nico Megaludis (125 - 2016) Matt Brown (174 - 2015) David Taylor (165 - 2014) Ed Ruth (184 - 2013, 2014) Quentin Wright (197 - 2013) NCAA All-Americans 2022: Roman Bravo-Young (133 - 1st), Nick Lee (141 - 1st), Carter Starocci (174 - 1st), Aaron Brooks (184 - 1st), Max Dean (197 - 1st), Greg Kerkvliet (285 - 4th) 2021: Roman Bravo-Young (133 - 1st), Nick Lee (141 - 1st), Carter Starocci (174 - 1st), Aaron Brooks (184 - 1st), Michael Beard (197 - 7th), Greg Kerkvliet (285 - 7th) 2019: Roman Bravo-Young (133 - 8th), Nick Lee (141 - 5th), Jason Nolf (157 - 1st), Vincenzo Joseph (165 - 2nd), Mark Hall (174 - 2nd), Bo Nickal (197 - 1st), Anthony Cassar (285 - 1st) 2018: Nick Lee (141 - 5th), Zain Retherford (149 - 1st), Jason Nolf (157 - 1st), Vincenzo Joseph (165 - 1st), Mark Hall (174 - 2nd), Bo Nickal (184 - 1st), Shakur Rasheed (197 - 7th), Nick Nevills (285 - 7th) 2017: Zain Retherford (149 - 1st), Jason Nolf (157 - 1st), Vincenzo Joseph (165 - 1st), Mark Hall (174 - 1st), Bo Nickal (184 - 1st), Nick Nevills (285 - 5th) 2016: Nico Megaludis (125 - 1st), Jordan Conaway (133 - 6th), Zain Retherford (149 - 1st), Jason Nolf (157 - 2nd), Bo Nickal (174 - 2nd), Morgan McIntosh (197 - 2nd) 2015: Jordan Conaway (125 - 8th), Jimmy Gulibon (133 - 5th), Matt Brown (174 - 1st), Morgan McIntosh (197 - 3rd), Jimmy Lawson (285 - 6th) 2014: Nico Megaludis (125 - 3rd), Zain Retherford (141 - 5th), James English (149 - 7th), David Taylor (165 - 1st), Matt Brown (174 - 5th), Ed Ruth (184 - 1st), Morgan McIntosh (197 - 7th) 2013: Nico Megaludis (125 - 2nd), David Taylor (165 - 2nd), Matt Brown (174 - 2nd), Ed Ruth (184 - 1st), Quentin Wright (197 - 1st) NWCA All-Americans Roman Bravo-Young (133 - First Team) Nick Lee (141 - First Team) Vincenzo Joseph (165 - First Team) Mark Hall (174 - First Team) Aaron Brooks (184 - First Team) NCAA Round of 12 Finishers Brady Berge (2021 - 157) Jimmy Gulibon (2017 - 141) Matt McCutheon (2015/184 - 2017/197) Jordan Conaway (2013 - 133) Dylan Alton (2013 - 157) Big Ten Conference Champions 2022: Roman Bravo-Young (133), Nick Lee (141), Carter Starocci (174), Max Dean (197) 2021: Roman Bravo-Young (133), Aaron Brooks (184) 2020: Mark Hall (174), Aaron Brooks (184) 2019: Jason Nolf (157), Mark Hall (174), Bo Nickal (197), Anthony Cassar (285) 2018: Zain Retherford (149), Mark Hall (174), Bo Nickal (184) 2017: Zain Retherford (149), Jason Nolf (157) 2016: Zain Retherford (149), Bo Nickal (174), Morgan McIntosh (197) 2015: Morgan McIntosh (197) 2014: David Taylor (165), Ed Ruth (184) 2013: David Taylor (165), Matt Brown (174), Ed Ruth (184), Quentin Wright (197) Dual Record 2021-22: 17-0 2021: 6-0 2019-20: 12-2 2018-19: 14-0 2017-18: 14-0 2016-17: 14-0 2015-16: 16-0 2014-15: 11-4 2013-14: 15-1 2012-13: 13-1 Big Ten Tournament Placement 2021-22: 2nd 2021: 2nd 2019-20: 4th 2018-19: 1st 2017-18: 2nd 2016-17: 2nd 2015-16: 1st 2014-15: 5th 2013-14: 1st 2012-13: 1st NCAA Tournament Team Placement 2021-22: 1st (131.5 points) 2021: 2nd (113.5 points) 2019-20: No Tournament 2018-19: 1st (137.5 points) 2017-18: 1st (141.5 points) 2016-17: 1st (146.5 points) 2015-16: 1st (123 points) 2014-15: 6th (67.5 points) 2013-14: 1st (109.5 points) 2012-13: 1st (123.5 points) Head Coaching History Cael Sanderson (2009-Present) Best Lineup (Comprised of wrestlers from 2013-22) 125 - Nico Megaludis: 4x NCAA All-American (1st, 3rd, 2nd, 2nd), 2016 NCAA Champion, 2x Big Ten Runner-Up 133 - Roman Bravo-Young: 3x NCAA All-American (1st, 1st, 8th), 2020 NWCA First Team All-American, 2x Big Ten Champion 141 - Nick Lee: 4x NCAA All-American (1st, 1st, 5th, 5th), 2x NCAA Champion, 2020 NWCA First-Team All-American, 2022 Big Ten Champion 149 - Zain Retherford: 4x NCAA All-American (1st, 1st, 1st, 5th), 3x NCAA Champion, 2x Hodge Trophy Winner, 3x Big Ten Champion 157 - Jason Nolf: 4x NCAA All-American (1st, 1st, 1st, 2nd), 3x NCAA Champion, 2x Big Ten Champion 165 - David Taylor: 4x NCAA All-American (1st, 2nd, 1st, 2nd), 2x NCAA Champion, 2x Hodge Trophy Winner, 4x Big Ten Champion 174 - Ed Ruth: 4x NCAA All-American (1st, 1st, 1st, 3rd), 3x NCAA Champion, 4x Big Ten Champion 184 - Aaron Brooks: 2x NCAA Champion, 2020 NWCA First Team All-American, 2x Big Ten Champion 197 - Bo Nickal: 4x NCAA Champion (1st, 1st, 1st, 2nd), 3x NCAA Champion, 3x Big Ten Champion, 2019 Hodge Trophy Winner 285 - Anthony Cassar: 2019 NCAA Champion, 2019 Big Ten Champion Recruiting Number of Big Boarder's Per Year 2022: #7 Levi Haines (PA) 2021: #2 Alex Facundo (MI), #5 Shayne Van Ness (NJ), #55 Gary Steen (PA), #76 Luke Cochran (UT) 2020: #5 Beau Bartlett (AZ), #9 Robbie Howard (NJ), #19 Austin Boone (MI), #75 Matt Lee (IN) 2019: #10 Carter Starocci (PA) 2018: #5 Aaron Brooks (MD), #9 Gavin Teasdale (PA), #12 Michael Beard (PA), #15 Roman Bravo-Young (AZ), #17 Seth Nevills (CA), #19 Brody Teske (IA), #24 Joe Lee (IN), #95 Jack Davis (PA) 2017: #6 Brady Berge (MN), #9 Nick Leen (IN), #20 Jarod Verkleeren (PA) 2016: #1 Mark Hall (MN), #3 Nick Suriano (NJ), #10 Mason Manville (VA), #88 AJ Nevills (CA) 2015: #5 Vincenzo Joseph (PA), #35 Kellan Stout (PA) 2014: #4 Jason Nolf (PA), #5 Nick Nevills (PA), #7 Bo Nickal (TX), #43 Shakur Rasheed (NY), #90 Gary Dinmore (NJ) 2013: #3 Zain Retherford (PA), #32 Matt McCutcheon (PA), #41 Garett Hammond (PA), #71 Cody Law (PA) For past teams: Air Force American Appalachian State Arizona State Army West Point Binghamton Bloomsburg Brown Bucknell Buffalo Cal Poly Campbell Central Michigan Chattanooga Clarion Cleveland State Columbia Cornell CSU Bakersfield Davidson Drexel Duke Edinboro Franklin & Marshall Gardner-Webb George Mason Harvard Hofstra Illinois Indiana Iowa Iowa State Kent State Lehigh Lock Haven Maryland Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Missouri Navy NC State Nebraska North Carolina North Dakota State Northern Colorado Northern Illinois Northern Iowa Northwestern Ohio Ohio State Oklahoma Oklahoma State Oregon State Penn

2x U20 World Champion Amit Elor (photo courtesy of Kadir Caliskan; UWW) Following the success of the U17 World Team, Team USA sent a strong team to the U20 edition of the event. The squad finished with 11 medals across all three styles. The following looks at the team's performance overall and some of the top performers. Collectively, Team USA outscored their opposition 578 to 404 in terms of match points. The highest-scoring wrestler on the team was Bennett Berge. On his path to a silver medal at 86kg. He scored at least nine points in his first four matches prior to the finals. Even in the final match, which he ultimately lost against Rakhim Magamadov (France), he scored five points on a pair of takedowns and a reversal. Men's freestyle scored the most points for Team USA across all three styles. They outscored their opposition 273 to 186. Women's freestyle was next with a 205 to 111 edge. On the women's side, the top scorer was Amit Elor who put up 41 points on her march to the title at 72kg. Perhaps more impressively, she only allowed her opponents to score a single point. The only score she allowed came in her 12-1 semifinal victory over Reetika (India) who managed to score an early step out before Elor broke things wide open and finished with over 30 seconds left in the first period. The USA Greco team was slightly outscored by their opposition. They scored 100 match points in the tournament but allowed their opponents to score 107 points. The top scorer on the USA squad was Aden Attao. The heavyweight scored 30 points and finished with a bronze medal. He was the only member of the team to medal on the Greco side. Team USA scored the majority of its match points off takedowns. 312 of the 578 points came off takedowns (54%), while opponents scored 212 of their 404 via takedowns as well (52%). One might expect a U20 team from the U.S. to excel in the takedown department since it is the element of freestyle and Greco that meshes best with the folkstyle. However, Team USA also outscored their opponents on exposure points. Collectively Team USA outscored their opponents 190 to 128 on exposures. The women's team led the way on this front. The squad scored 74 points via exposures while allowing only 22. Katie Gomez who brought home a bronze medal at 53kg scored the most exposure points on the team with 20. All 20 of her exposure points came via her leg lace. Reese Larramendy had perhaps the most diverse exposure offense. She scored 10 points via exposures, but she scored with a pair of chest wraps, a crotch lift, a gut wrench and even a bow and arrow. The Greco team had some trouble in this area. The squad only scored 40 points on exposure, collectively, with 14 coming from Attao at heavyweight. The team allowed 50. Given the importance of par terre wrestling in Greco, it can be hard to be successful with that type of ratio. On the other hand, there could be signs of development on this front. While the 40 to 50 exposure ratio is not ideal, it is a sizable improvement over this year's U17 Greco team. That squad was outscored 44 to 25 on exposure points. Ben Kueter, who won the title at 97kg in freestyle, was right behind Berge for the most points scored on the team. He finished with 45 in under 18 minutes for 2.56 points per minute rate. He scored 24 points off takedowns and 20 points off exposures. Interestingly enough, Kueter only scored the first points in one of his four matches. Despite this, he still outscored his opposition 31 to 12 in the first period and 14 to five in the second. Team USA's other men's freestyle champion, Jore Volk, was the only American wrestler in the style to score more points via exposures than takedowns. He scored 30 points overall on his campaign to the title at 57kg with 10 points scored on takedowns and 16 points scored by exposures. Volk scored via exposures in all three of his matches leading to the finals, but against Merey Bazarbayer (Kazakhstan), he took the 3-2 victory on the back of a takedown and a step out.

The top seed at 50 kg Sarah Hildebrandt (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com) The Senior World Championships are less than a month away, as they will take place September 10th-18th from Belgrade, Serbia. Today, UWW announced the top-eight seeds at each women's freestyle weight. 7 of the 10 American entrants have received a seed and two are seeded number one. Here is the full release and article from UWW, below are the seeds themselves. 50kg seeds: No. 1 Sarah Ann HILDEBRANDT (USA) No. 2 Yui SUSAKI (JPN) No. 3 Miglena Georgieva SELISHKA (BUL) No. 4 Emilia Alina VUC (ROU) No. 5 Otgonjargal DOLGORJAV (MGL) No. 6 Madison Bianca PARKS (CAN) No. 7 Mariya STADNIK (AZE) No. 8 Evin DEMIRHAN (TUR) 53kg seeds: No. 1 Akari FUJINAMI (JPN) No. 2 Iulia LEORDA (MDA) No. 3 Samantha Leigh STEWART (CAN) No. 4 Katarzyna KRAWCZYK (POL) No. 5 Emma Jonna Denise MALMGREN (SWE) No. 6 Zeynep YETGIL (TUR) No. 7 Dominique Olivia PARRISH (USA) No. 8 Maria PREVOLARAKI (GRE) 55kg seeds No. 1 Nina HEMMER (GER) No. 2 Oleksandra KHOMENETS (UKR) No. 3 Andreea Beatrice ANA (ROU) No. 4 Jacarra Gwenisha WINCHESTER (USA) No. 5 Roksana Marta ZASINA (POL) No. 6 Karla Lorena GODINEZ GONZALEZ (CAN) No. 7 Sushma SHOKEEN (IND) No. 8 Marina SEDNEVA (KAZ) 57kg seeds: No. 1 Helen Louise MAROULIS (USA) No. 2 Evelina NIKOLOVA (BUL) No. 3 Giullia RODRIGUES PENALBER DE OLIVEIRA (BRA) No. 4 Alma Jane VALENCIA ESCOTO (MEX) No. 5 Sandra PARUSZEWSKI (GER) No. 6 Mansi MANSI (IND) No. 7 Alina HRUSHYNA AKOBIIA (UKR) No. 8 Anhelina LYSAK (POL) 59kg seeds: No. 1 Sarita SARITA (IND) No. 2 Shoovdor BAATARJAV (MGL) No. 3 Jowita Maria WRZESIEN (POL) No. 4 Alyona KOLESNIK (AZE) No. 5 Anastasia NICHITA (MDA) No. 6 Grace Jacob BULLEN (NOR) No. 7 Diana KAYUMOVA (KAZ) No. 8 Elena Heike BRUGGER (GER) 62kg seeds: No. 1 Aisuluu TYNYBEKOVA (KGZ) No. 2 Lais NUNES (BRA) No. 3 Kayla Colleen Kiyoko MIRACLE (USA) No. 4 Nonoka OZAKI (JPN) No. 5 Ilona PROKOPEVNIUK (UKR) No. 6 Marwa AMRI (TUN) No. 7 Ana Paula GODINEZ GONZALEZ (CAN) No. 8 Luisa Helga Gerda NIEMESCH (GER) 65kg seeds: No. 1 Miwa MORIKAWA (JPN) No. 2 Elis MANOLOVA (AZE) No. 3 Kriszta Tunde INCZE (ROU) No. 4 Mimi Nikolova HRISTOVA (BUL) No. 5 Tetiana RIZHKO (UKR) No. 6 Koumba Selene Fanta LARROQUE (FRA) No. 7 Asli DEMIR (TUR) No. 8 Mallory Maxine VELTE (USA) 68kg seeds No. 1 Meerim ZHUMANAZAROVA (KGZ) No. 2 Tamyra Mariama MENSAH STOCK (USA) No. 3 Blessing OBORUDUDU (NGR) No. 4 Adela HANZLICKOVA (CZE) No. 5 Natalia Iwona STRZALKA (POL) No. 6 Irina RINGACI (MDA) No. 7 ZHOU Feng (CHN) No. 8 Pauline Denise LECARPENTIER (FRA) 72kg seeds: No. 1 Zhamila BAKBERGENOVA (KAZ) No. 2 Buse CAVUSOGLU TOSUN (TUR) No. 3 Masako FURUICHI (JPN) No. 4 Davaanasan ENKH AMAR (MGL) No. 5 Alexandra Nicoleta ANGHEL (ROU) No. 6 Bipasha BIPASHA (IND) No. 7 Kendra Augustine Jocelyne DACHER (FRA) No. 8 Anastasiya ALPYEYEVA (UKR) 76kg seeds: No. 1 Aiperi MEDET KYZY (KGZ) No. 2 Samar Amer Ibrahim HAMZA (EGY) No. 3 Epp MAEE (EST) No. 4 Yasemin ADAR (TUR) No. 5 Francy RAEDELT (GER) No. 6 Anastasiia OSNIACH SHUSTO)VA (UKR) No. 7 Martina KUENZ (AUT No. 8 Catalina AXENTE (ROU)

2022 Big Ten runner-up and NCAA All-American Will Lewan (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com) Welcome to the first edition of the All-330 Projections of the 2022-23 season! The All-330 displays our projections for the 330 wrestlers that will take the mat at the 2023 NCAA Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma. So, we've already put out preseason rankings, what's the difference between this and national rankings? Glad you asked, national rankings are amassed based on past performance and no true freshmen are included. Basically, it's what these wrestlers have already earned. The All-330 is a look into the future. For the most realistic results, we have to include true freshmen. Also, there are other wrestlers that we predict may rise or fall, but don't have evidence to back it up, like when compiling rankings. Remember, these are for late-August, lots we can't foresee like injuries and/or redshirt decisions may change between now and March. 125: One of the in-room competitions at any weight could come at 125 lbs for Virginia Tech. For now, we have Cooper Flynn over Eddie Ventresca, though that could change and Ventresca did win last season. The Big Ten typically has one or two weights where they get an absurd amount of qualifiers. 125 will be the weight this year. For now, we have 125 qualifiers. Looking at the list, it's hard to eliminate any, barring injury. Competition for those final few qualifying spots could be intense in the Big 12 and MAC, as both conferences have two wrestlers in the "just missed" category. For the full article, Subscribe to InterMat's Rokfin Page.

3x World Champion Kyle Dake (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com) On Monday, United World Wrestling released seeds for men's freestyle for the 2022 Senior World Championships. Later today, women's freestyle seeds will be made public. Before then, UWW has posted a list of all entries, across all three styles. The important aspect to remember is that a country can change its entry any time until 24 hours before the draw of their style. Freestyle 57kg Zelimkhan ABAKAROV (ALB) Manvel KHNDZRTSYAN (ARM) Georgii OKOROKOV (AUS) Aliabbas RZAZADE (AZE) Darthe CAPELLAN (CAN) Wanhao ZOU (CHN) Rabby KILANDI (COD) Oscar TIGREROS (COL) Levan VARTANOV (ESP) Valentin DAMOUR (FRA) Diamantino IUNA FAFE (GBS) Beka BUJIASHVILI (GEO) Horst LEHR (GER) Edwin SEGURA GUERRA (GUA) Ravi KUMAR (IND) Alireza SARLAK (IRI) Toshihiro HASEGAWA (JPN) Rakhat KALZHAN (KAZ) Bekbolot MYRZANAZAR UULU (KGZ) Sunggwon KIM (KOR) Zanabazar ZANDANBUD (MGL) Vladimir EGOROV (MKD) Ali ABURUMAILA (PLE) Darian CRUZ (PUR) Razvan KOVACS (ROU) Jakobo TAU (RSA) Stevan MICIC (SRB) Muhamad IKROMOV (TJK) Muhammet KARAVUS (TUR) Kamil KERYMOV (UKR) Thomas GILMAN (USA) Gulomjon ABDULLAEV (UZB) 61kg Islam DUDAEV (ALB) Arsen HARUTYUNYAN (ARM) Intigam VALIZADA (AZE) Georgi VANGELOV (BUL) Jason LUNEAU (CAN) Minghu LIU (CHN) Jordan KABONGO (COD) Reineri ANDREU ORTEGA (CUB) Khamzat ARSAMERZOUEV (FRA) Teimuraz VANISHVILI (GEO) UDIT (IND) Reza ATRI (IRI) Rei HIGUCHI (JPN) Assyl AITAKYN (KAZ) Ulukbek ZHOLDOSHBEKOV (KGZ) Insang CHOI (KOR) Igor CHICHIOI (MDA) Narankhuu NARMANDAKH (MGL) Besir ALILI (MKD) Eduard GRIGOREV (POL) Joseph SILVA (PUR) Nikolai OKHLOPKOV (ROU) Jafar FASHER (SUD) Hikmatullo VOHIDOV (TJK) Suleyman ATLI (TUR) Andrii DZHELEP (UKR) Seth GROSS (USA) Jahongirmirza TUROBOV (UZB) 65kg Agustin DESTRIBATS (ARG) Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM) Haji ALIYEV (AZE) Haji ALI (BRN) Vladimir DUBOV (BUL) Lachlan MCNEIL (CAN) Raby BAPELEKIA (CGO) Shaohua YUAN (CHN) Norva BUKASA (COD) Alejandro VALDES (CUB) Arman ELOYAN (FRA) Mbunde CUMBA MBALI (GBS) Beka LOMTADZE (GEO) Alexander SEMISOROW (GER) Iszmail MUSZUKAJEV (HUN) Bajrang PUNIA (IND) Rahman AMOUZAD (IRI) Kaiki YAMAGUCHI (JPN) Adil OSPANOV (KAZ) Alibek OSMONOV (KGZ) Junsik YUN (KOR) Vitalie BUNICI (MDA) Tsogbadrakh TSEVEENSUREN (MGL) Jean BANDOU (MRI) Krzysztof BIENKOWSKI (POL) Sebastian RIVERA (PUR) Stefan COMAN (ROU) Munir AKTAS (TUR) Erik ARUSHANIAN (UKR) John DIAKOMIHALIS (USA) Abbos RAKHMONOV (UZB) 70kg Arman ANDREASYAN (ARM) Joshgun AZIMOV (AZE) Ramazan RAMAZANOV (BUL) Vincent DE MARINIS (CAN) Elie DJEKOUNDAKOM DJERAYOM (CHA) Nuerlanbieke WURENIBAI (CHN) Anthony WESLEY (CPV) Bacar NDUM (GBS) Zurabi IAKOBISHVILI (GEO) Kevin HENKEL (GER) Daniel ANTAL (HUN) Karan MOR (IND) Amirmohammad YAZDANI (IRI) Joshua FINESILVER (ISR) Gianluca TALAMO (ITA) Taishi NARIKUNI (JPN) Syrbaz TALGAT (KAZ) Ernazar AKMATALIEV (KGZ) Yongseok JEONG (KOR) Maxim SACULTAN (MDA) Temuulen ENKHTUYA (MGL) Fati VEJSELI (MKD) Marc DIETSCHE (SUI) Daniel CHOMANIC (SVK) Selahattin KILICSALLAYAN (TUR) Oleksii BORUTA (UKR) Zain RETHERFORD (USA) Nodir RAKHIMOV (UZB) 74kg Hrayr ALIKHANYAN (ARM) Simon MARCHL (AUT) Turan BAYRAMOV (AZE) Cesar ALVAN (BRA) Miroslav KIROV (BUL) Patrik LEDER (CAN) Menghejigan MENGHEJIGAN (CHN) Redy MUPOMPA (COD) Franklin MAREN CASTILLO (CUB) Mohammad MOTTAGHINIA (ESP) Aimar ANDRUSE (EST) Giorgi SULAVA (GEO) Enrique PEREZ CASTELLANOS (GUA) Sagar JAGLAN (IND) Yones EMAMI (IRI) Mitchell FINESILVER (ISR) Frank CHAMIZO (ITA) Daichi TAKATANI (JPN) Nurkozha KAIPANOV (KAZ) Mathayo MAHABILA (KEN) Islambek OROZBEKOV (KGZ) Byungmin GONG (KOR) Vasile DIACON (MDA) Suldkhuu OLONBAYAR (MGL) Jean STE MARIE (MRI) Kamil RYBICKI (POL) Franklin GOMEZ (PUR) Maxim VASILIOGLO (ROU) Malik AMINE (SMR) Hetik CABOLOV (SRB) Tajmuraz SALKAZANOV (SVK) Soner DEMIRTAS (TUR) Zielimkhan TOHUZOV (UKR) Kyle DAKE (USA) Asomiddin HASANOV (UZB) 79kg Arman AVAGYAN (ARM) Gadzhimurad OMAROV (AZE) Ali UMARPASHAEV (BUL) Samuel BARMISH (CAN) Shengsong XIA (CHN) Assane BALLO (CIV) Andy MUKENDI (COD) Erik REINBOK (EST) Saifedine ALEKMA (FRA) Vladimeri GAMKRELIDZE (GEO) Georgios KOUGIOUMTSIDIS (GRE) Csaba VIDA (HUN) Gourav BALIYAN (IND) Mohammad NOKHODI (IRI) Dan TSESARSKY (ISR) Yudai TAKAHASHI (JPN) Bolat SAKAYEV (KAZ) Brian OLOO (KEN) Arsalan BUDAZHAPOV (KGZ) Bumgue SEO (KOR) Alans AMIROVS (LAT) Eugeniu MIHALCEAN (MDA) Dulguun ALTANZUL (MGL) Dejan MITROV (MKD) Iakub SHIKHDZHAMALOV (ROU) Akhsarbek GULAEV (SVK) Shuhrat BOZOROV (TJK) Sahergeldi SAPARMYRADOV (TKM) Muhammet AKDENIZ (TUR) Vasyl MYKHAILOV (UKR) Jordan BURROUGHS (USA) Bekzod ABDURAKHMONOV (UZB) 86kg Benjamin GREIL (AUT) Abubakr ABAKAROV (AZE) Akhmed MAGAMAEV (BUL) Alexander MOORE (CAN) Zushen LIN (CHN) Barthelemy TSHOSHA (COD) Yurieski TORREBLANCA (CUB) Taimuraz FRIEV (ESP) Rakhim MAGAMADOV (FRA) Tarzan MAISURADZE (GEO) Lars SCHAEFLE (GER) Patrik PUESPOEKI (HUN) Deepak PUNIA (IND) Hassan YAZDANI (IRI) Aron CANEVA (ITA) Shota SHIRAI (JPN) Azamat DAULETBEKOV (KAZ) Gwanuk KIM (KOR) Ivars SAMUSONOKS (LAT) Kornelijus STULGINSKAS (LTU) Ivan ICHIZLI (MDA) Bat BYAMBASUREN (MGL) Sebastian JEZIERZANSKI (POL) Ethan RAMOS (PUR) Myles AMINE (SMR) Stefan REICHMUTH (SUI) Boris MAKOEV (SVK) Dovletmyrat ORAZGYLYJOV (TKM) Fatih ERDIN (TUR) Mukhammed ALIIEV (UKR) David TAYLOR (USA) Bobur ISLOMOV (UZB) 92kg Osman NURMAGOMEDOV (AZE) Ahmed BATAEV (BUL) Richard DESCHATELETS (CAN) Yuxiang BI (CHN) Aron MBO (COD) Maxwell LACEY (CRC) Miriani MAISURADZE (GEO) Johannes MAYER (GER) Viky CHAHAR (IND) Kamran GHASEMPOUR (IRI) Simone IANNATTONI (ITA) Sohsuke TAKATANI (JPN) Adilet DAVLUMBAYEV (KAZ) Jinmyeong KIM (KOR) Georgii RUBAEV (MDA) Orgilokh DAGVADORJ (MGL) Radoslaw MARCINKIEWICZ (POL) Johan MOSTERT (RSA) Strahinja DESPIC (SRB) Feyzullah AKTURK (TUR) Andrii VLASOV (UKR) Jden COX (USA) 97kg Magomedkhan MAGOMEDOV (AZE) Nishan RANDHAWA (CAN) Tuerxunbieke MUHEITE (CHN) Ulrich MANOUAN (CIV) Givi MATCHARASHVILI (GEO) Erik THIELE (GER) Vladislav BAITSAEV (HUN) Deepak NEHRA (IND) Mohammadhossein MOHAMMADIAN (IRI) Benjamin HONIS (ITA) Takashi ISHIGURO (JPN) Mamed IBRAGIMOV (KAZ) Minwon SEO (KOR) Lukas KRASAUSKAS (LTU) Batzul ULZIISAIKHAN (MGL) Magomedgadji NUROV (MKD) Zbigniew BARANOWSKI (POL) Samuel SCHERRER (SUI) Batyrbek TSAKULOV (SVK) Burak SAHIN (TUR) Mahamed ZAKARIIEV (UKR) Kyle SNYDER (USA) 125kg Catriel MURIEL (ARG) Aydin AHMADOV (AZE) Amarveer DHESI (CAN) Zhiwei DENG (CHN) Reineris SALAS PEREZ (CUB) Youssif HEMIDA (EGY) Jere HEINO (FIN) Geno PETRIASHVILI (GEO) Gennadij CUDINOVIC (GER) Azamat KHOSONOV (GRE) Daniel LIGETI (HUN) Mohit GREWAL (IND) Amir Hossein ZARE (IRI) Abraham CONYEDO (ITA) Taiki YAMAMOTO (JPN) Alisher YERGALI (KAZ) Yeihyun JUNG (KOR) Alexandr ROMANOV (MDA) Lkhagvagerel MUNKHTUR (MGL) Robert BARAN (POL) Magomedgadzhi NURASULOV (SRB) Abdullah KARIM (SYR) Zyyamuhammet SAPAROV (TKM) Taha AKGUL (TUR) Oleksandr KHOTSIANIVSKYI (UKR) Hayden ZILLMER (USA) Khasanboy RAKHIMOV (UZB) Women's wrestling 50kg Patricia BERMUDEZ (ARG) Mariya STADNIK (AZE) Kamila BARBOSA (BRA) Miglena SELISHKA (BUL) Madison PARKS (CAN) Ziqi FENG (CHN) Julie SABATIE (FRA) Lisa ERSEL (GER) Szimonetta SZEKER (HUN) Pooja GEHLOT (IND) Yui SUSAKI (JPN) Svetlana ANKICHEVA (KZ) Miran CHEON (KOR) Otgonjargal DOLGORJAV (MGL) Mercy GENESIS (NGR) Anna LUKASIAK (POL) Emilia VUC (ROU) Evin DEMIRHAN (TUR) Oksana LIVACH (UKR) Sarah HILDEBRANDT (USA) Jasmina IMMAEVA (UZB) Thi NGUYEN (VIE) 53kg Leyla GURBANOVA (AZE) Samantha STEWART (CAN) Yuhong ZHONG (CHN) Nogona BAKAYOKO (CIV) Laura HERIN AVILA (CUB) Lucia YEPEZ GUZMAN (ECU) Marina RUEDA FLORES (ESP) Tatiana SALAH (FRA) Maria PREVOLARAKI (GRE) Mercedesz DENES (HUN) Vinesh PHOGAT (IND) Akari FUJINAMI (JPN) Zhuldyz ESHIMOVA (KAZ) Hyunyoung OH (KOR) Iulia LEORDA (MDA) Khulan BATKHUYAG (MGL) Katarzyna KRAWCZYK (POL) Jonna MALMGREN (SWE) Zeynep YETGIL (TUR) Liliia MALANCHUK (UKR) Dominique PARRISH (USA) Aktenge KEUNIMJAEVA (UZB) Thi KIEU (VIE) 55kg Karla GODINEZ (CAN) Mengyu XIE (CHN) Yaynelis SANZ VERDECIA (CUB) Luisa VALVERDE (ECU) Nina HEMMER (GER) Sushma SHOKEEN (IND) Mayu SHIDOCHI MUKAIDA (JPN) Marina SEDNEVA (KAZ) Mariana DRAGUTAN (MDA) Otgonjargal GANBAATAR (MGL) Roksana ZASINA (POL) Andreea ANA (ROU) Elvira KAMALOGLU (TUR) Oleksandra KHOMENETS (UKR) Jacarra WINCHESTER (USA) Shokhida AKHMEDOVA (UZB) Thi NGUYEN (VIE) 57kg Zhala ALIYEVA (AZE) Giullia PENALBER (BRA) Evelina NIKOLOVA (BUL) Hannah TAYLOR (CAN) Yongxin FENG (CHN) Sandra PARUSZEWSKI (GER) Tamara DOLLAK (HUN) Mansi AHLAWAT (IND) Tsugumi SAKURAI (JPN) Emma TISSINA (KAZ) Hyungjoo KIM (KOR) Alma VALENCIA ESCOTO (MEX) Bolortuya BAT-OCHIR (MGL) Esther KOLAWOLE (NGR) Anhelina LYSAK (POL) Bediha GUN (TUR) Alina HRUSHYNA (UKR) Helen MAROULIS (USA) Laylokhon SOBIROVA (UZB) Thi NGUYEN (UZB) 59kg Alyona KOLESNIK (AZE) Fatme SHABAN (BUL) Diana WEICKER (CAN) Parfaite MAMBOU (CGO) Qi ZHANG (CHN) Elena BRUGGER (GER) Sarita MOR (IND) Sakura MOTOKI (JPN) Diana KAYUMOVA (KAZ) Anastasia NICHITA (MDA) Shoovdor BAATARJAV (MGL) Grace BULLEN (NOR) Jowita WRZESIEN (POL) Ebru DAGBASI (TUR) Solomiia VYNNYK (UKR) Abigail NETTE (USA) 62kg Tetiana OMELCHENKO (AZE) Lais DE OLIVEIRA (BRA) Bilyana DUDOVA (BUL) Ana GODINEZ (CAN) Xiaojuan LUO (CHN) Lydia PEREZ (ESP) Ameline DOUARRE (FRA) Luisa NIEMESCH (GER) Anna SZEL (HUN) Sonam MALIK (IND) Nataliia SHAFIR (ISR) Nonoka OZAKI (JPN) Ayaulym KASSYMOVA (KAZ) Aisuluu TYNYBEKOVA (KGZ) Hanbit LEE (KOR) Tserenchimed SUKHEE (MGL) Anna FABIAN (SRB) Sara LINDBORG (SWE) Marwa AMRI (TUN) Yagmur CAKMAK (TUR) Ilona PROKOPEVNIUK (UKR) Kayla MIRACLE (USA) Ariukhan JUMABAEVA (UZB) Thi NGUYEN (VIE) 65kg Elis MANOLOVA (AZE) Mimi HRISTOVA (BUL) Aleah NICKEL (CAN) Jia LONG (CHN) Koumba LARROQUE (FRA) Sakshi MALIK (IND) Miwa MORIKAWA (JPN) Yelena SHALYGINA (KAZ) Purevsuren ULZIISAIKHAN (MGL) Kriszta INCZE (ROU) Asli DEMIR (TUR) Tetiana RIZHKO (UKR) Mallory VELTE (USA) Dinora RUSTAMOVA (UZB) 68kg Grabriela DA ROCHA (BRA) Sofiya GEORGIEVA (BUL) Linda MORAIS (CAN) Feng ZHOU (CHN) Rosie TABORA (COD) Adela HANZLICKOVA (CZE) Pauline LECARPENTIER (FRA) Noemi SZABADOS (HUN) Divya KAKRAN (IND) Dalma CANEVA (ITA) Ami ISHII (JPN) Madina BAKBERGENOVA (KAZ) Meerim ZHUMANAZAROVA (KGZ) Sujin PARK (KOR) Danute DOMIKAITYTE (LTU) Irina RINGACI (MDA) Delgermaa ENKHSAIKHAN (MGL) Blessing OBORUDUDU (NGR) Natalia STRZALKA (POL) Patricia ELNOUR (SUD) Nesrin BAS (TUR) Alla BELINSKA (UKR) Tamyra MENSAH STOCK (USA) Dieu LAI (VIE) 72kg Shauna KUEBECK (CAN) Erica NGAKALI (CGO) Qiandegenchagan QIANDEGENCHAGAN (CHN) Kendra DACHER (FRA) Lilly SCHNEIDER (GER) BIPASHA (IND) Masako FURUICHI (JPN) Zhamila BAKBERGENOVA (KAZ) Davaanasan ENKH AMAR (MGL) Patrycja SPERKA (POL) Alexandra ANGHEL (ROU) Buse TOSUN (TUR) Anastasiya ALPYEYEVA (UKR) Amit ELOR (USA) Svetlana OKNAZAROVA (UZB) 76kg Martina KUENZ (AUT) Justina DI STASIO (CAN) Juan WANG (CHN) Amy YOUIN (CIV) Tatiana RENTERIA (COL) Milaimys POTRILLE (CUB) Genesis VALDEZ (ECU) Samar HAMZA (EGY) Epp MAE (EST) Francy RAEDELT (GER) Jemima NYARKO OFORI (GHA) Pooja SIHAG (IND) Enrica RINALDI (ITA) Yuka KAGAMI (JPN) Gulmaral YERKEBAYEVA (KAZ) Aiperi MEDET KYZY (KGZ) Seoyeon JEONG (KOR) Kamile GAUCAITE (LTU) Ariunjargal GANBAT (MGL) Catalina AXENTE (ROU) Fanni NAGY NAD (SRB) Yasemin ADAR (TUR) Anastasiia SHUSTOVA (UKR) Dymond GUILFORD (USA) Thi DANG (VIE) Greco-Roman 55kg Rudik MKRTCHYAN (ARM) Eldaniz AZIZLI (AZE) Nedyalko PETROV (BUL) Jiahao LIU (CHN) Rabby KILANDI (COD) Nugzari TSURTSUMIA (GEO) Fabian SCHMITT (GER) Arjun HALAKURKI (IND) Poya DAD MARZ (IRI) Giovanni FRENI (ITA) Mostafa ALQADE (JOR) Yu SHIOTANI (JPN) Amangali BEKBOLATOV (KAZ) Hyeokjin JEON (KOR) Artiom DELEANU (MDA) Florin TITA (ROU) Sabolc LOSONC (SRB) Ekrem OZTURK (TUR) Koriun SAHRADIAN (UKR) Max NOWRY (USA) Jasurbek ORTIKBOEV (UZB) 60kg Abdelkarim FERGAT (ALG) Gevorg GHARIBYAN (ARM) Murad MAMMADOV (AZE) Marat GARIPOV (BRA) Edmond NAZARYAN (BUL) Liguo CAO (CHN) Simeon MABIALA (COD) Dicther TORO CASTANEDA (COL) Kevin DE ARMAS (CUB) Haithem MAHMOUD (EGY) Helary MAEGISALU (EST) Leo TUDEZCA (FRA) Pridon ABULADZE (GEO) Etienne KINSINGER (GER) Krisztian KECSKEMETI (HUN) Gyanender DAHIYA (IND) Mehdi MOHSEN NEJAD (IRI) Kenichiro FUMITA (JPN) Aidos SULTANGALI (KAZ) Zholaman SHARSHENBEKOV (KGZ) Hanjae CHUNG (KOR) Justas PETRAVICIUS (LTU) Michal TRACZ (POL) Alexandru TRANDAFIR (ROU) Aleksandar BERAROV (SRB) Sebastian KOLOMPAR (SRB) Ardit FAZLJIJA (SWE) Kerem KAMAL (TUR) Viktor PETRYK (UKR) Ildar HAFIZOV (USA) Ilkhom BAKHROMOV (UZB) 63kg Abdeldjebar DJEBBARI (ALG) Hrachya POGHOSYAN (ARM) Taleh MAMMADOV (AZE) Nikolay VICHEV (BUL) Cristobal TORRES (CHI) Erbatu TUO (CHN) Jordan KABONGO (COD) Ivan LIZATOVIC (CRO) Luis ORTA SANCHEZ (CUB) Leri ABULADZE (GEO) Abdolmohammad PAPI (GER) Emerson FELIPE ORDONEZ (GUA) Erik TORBA (HUN) NEERAJ (IND) Ali Reza NEJATI (IRI) Ryuto IKEDA (JPN) Galym KABDUNASSAROV (KAZ) Tynar SHARSHENBEKOV (KGZ) Jinseub SONG (KOR) Aleksandrs JURKJANS (LAT) Victor CIOBANU (MDA) Razvan ARNAUT (ROU) Sebastian NAD (SRB) Virgil BICA (SWE) Ahmet UYAR (TUR) Oleksandr HRUSHYN (UKR) Samuel JONES (USA) Aker AL OBAIDI (UWW) Turabek TIRKASHEV (UZB) 67kg Ishak GHAIOU (ALG) Slavik GALSTYAN (ARM) Hasrat JAFAROV (AZE) Kenedy MORAES PEDROSA (BRA) Nestor ALMANZA TRUYOL (CHI) Husiyuetu HUSIYUETU (CHN) Norva BUKASA (COD) Julian HORTA ACEVEDO (COL) Mohamed ELSAYED (EGY) Mamadassa SYLLA (FRA) Joni KHETSURIANI (GEO) Witalis LAZOVSKI (GER) Krisztian VANCZA (HUN) Sachin SAHRAWAT (IND) Mohammadreza GERAEI (IRI) Katsuaki ENDO (JPN) Din KOSHKAR (KAZ) Amantur ISMAILOV (KGZ) Hansu RYU (KOR) Donior ISLAMOV (MDA) Diego MARTINEZ DE LEIJA (MEX) Morten THORESEN (NOR) Mateusz BERNATEK (POL) Pedro DE MATOS OLIVEIRA DE MORAIS (POR) Mihai MIHUT (ROU) Mate NEMES (SRB) Andreas VETSCH (SUI) Murat FIRAT (TUR) Oleksii MASYK (UKR) Alejandro SANCHO (USA) Abror ATABAEV (UZB) 72kg Ulvu GANIZADE (AZE) Deyvid DIMITROV (BUL) Arnaud MAMBOU (CGO) Reangan NDOMBASI (COD) Pavel PUKLAVEC (CRO) Jakub BIELESZ (CZE) Matias LIPASTI (FIN) Ibrahim GHANEM (FRA) Shmagi BOLKVADZE (GEO) Samuel BELLSCHEIDT (GER) Jose VARELA GARCIA (GUA) Robert FRITSCH (HUN) VIKAS (IND) Mohammad Reza MOKHTARI (IRI) Taishi HORIE (JPN) Ibragim MAGOMADOV (KAZ) Jiyeon LEE (KOR) Kristupas SLEIVA (LTU) Valentin PETIC (MDA) Gevorg SAHAKYAN (POL) Ali ARSALAN (SRB) Selcuk CAN (TUR) Andrii KULYK (UKR) Benjamin PEAK (USA) Mirzobek RAKHMATOV (UZB) 77kg Malkhas AMOYAN (ARM) Rohan KALISCH (AUS) Sanan SULEYMANOV (AZE) Joilson DE BRITO (BRA) Aik MNATSAKANIAN (BUL) Jean ATONGUI (CGO) Rui LIU (CHN) Redy MUPOMPA (COD) Antonio KAMENJASEVIC (CRO) Yosvanys PENA FLORES (CUB) Oldrich VARGA (CZE) Oliver KRUEGER (DEN) Artem SHAPOVALOV (FIN) Johnny BUR (FRA) Iuri LOMADZE (GEO) Idris IBAEV (GER) Georgios PREVOLARAKIS (GRE) David CHOC HUOC (GUA) Zoltan LEVAI (HUN) Sajan BHANWALA (IND) Mohammadali GERAEI (IRI) Riccardo ABBRESCIA (ITA) Shohei YABIKU (JPN) Tamerlan SHADUKAYEV (KAZ) Akzhol MAKHMUDOV (KGZ) Hyeonwoo KIM (KOR) Paulius GALKINAS (LTU) Per KURE (NOR) Viktor NEMES (SRB) Fabio DIETSCHE (SUI) Per OLOFSSON (SWE) Yunus BASAR (TUR) Yasaf ZEINALOV (UKR) Kamal BEY (USA) Aram VARDANYAN (UZB) 82kg Karapet CHALYAN (ARM) Rafig HUSEYNOV (AZE) Rosian DERMANSKI (BUL) Chengwu WANG (CHN) Andy MUKENDI (COD) Bozo STARCEVIC (CRO) Petr NOVAK (CZE) Ranet KALJOLA (EST) Gela BOLKVADZE (GEO) Roland SCHWARZ (GER) Tamas LEVAI (HUN) Harpreet SINGH (IND) Pejman POSHTAM (IRI) David ZHYTOMYRSKY (ISR) Matteo MAFFEZZOLI (ITA) Sultan EID (JOR) Yuya OKAJIMA (JPN) Dias KALEN (KAZ) Sejin YANG (KOR) Mihail BRADU (MDA) Kristijan CERMAK (SRB) Aleksa ILIC (SRB) Milos PEROVIC (SRB) Denis HORVATH (SVK) Burhan AKBUDAK (TUR) Yaroslav FILCHAKOV (UKR) Spencer WOODS (USA) Jalgasbay BERDIMURATOV (UZB) 87kg Bachir SID AZARA (ALG) Michael WAGNER (AUT) Islam ABBASOV (AZE) Ronisson BRANDAO SANTIAGO (BRA) Yoan DIMITROV (BUL) Haitao QIAN (CHN) Barthelemy TSHOSHA (COD) Matej MANDIC (CRO) Turpal BISULTANOV (DEN) Mohamed METWALLY (EGY) Roberti KOBLIASHVILI (GEO) Hannes WAGNER (GER) David LOSONCZI (HUN) Sunil KUMAR (IND) Naser ALIZADEH (IRI) Mirco MINGUZZI (ITA) Masato SUMI (JPN) Nursultan TURSYNOV (KAZ) Atabek AZISBEKOV (KGZ) Jinhyeok KIM (KOR) Viorel BURDUJA (MDA) Szymon SZYMONOWICZ (POL) Nicu OJOG (ROU) Zurabi DATUNASHVILI (SRB) Zarko DICKOV (SRB) Mario VUKOVIC (SRB) Damian VON EUW (SUI) Alex KESSIDIS (SWE) Ali CENGIZ (TUR) Vitalii ANDRIIOVYCH (UKR) Alan GARCIA (USA) Nurbek KHASHIMBEKOV (UZB) 97kg Artur ALEKSANYAN (ARM) Daniel GASTL (AUT) Arif NIFTULLAYEV (AZE) Igor ALVES DE QUEIROZ (BRA) Kiril MILOV (BUL) Yan LIU (CHN) Aron MBO (COD) Juan CONDE IBANEZ (CUB) Artur OMAROV (CZE) Mathias BAK (DEN) Giorgi MELIA (GEO) Lucas LAZOGIANIS (GER) Alex SZOKE (HUN) DEEPANSHU (IND) Mohammadhadi SARAVI (IRI) Nikoloz KAKHELASHVILI (ITA) Takahiro TSURUDA (JPN) Yerulan ISKAKOV (KAZ) Beksultan MAKHMUDOV (KGZ) Seyeol LEE (KOR) Vilius LAURINAITIS (LTU) Felix BALDAUF (NOR) Tadeusz MICHALIK (POL) Mihail KAJAIA (SRB) Luka KATIC (SRB) Aleksandar STJEPANETIC (SWE) Metehan BASAR (TUR) Vladlen KOZLIUK (UKR) Braxton AMOS (USA) Rustam ASSAKALOV (UZB) 130kg David OVASAPYAN (ARM) Sabah SHARIATI (AZE) Eduard SOGHOMONYAN (BRA) Yasmani ACOSTA FERNANDEZ (CHI) Lingzhe MENG (CHN) Oscar PINO HINDS (CUB) Abdellatif MOHAMED (EGY) Konsta MAEENPAEAE (FIN) Iakobi KAJAIA (GEO) Jello KRAHMER (GER) Dariusz VITEK (HUN) NAVEEN (IND) Amin MIRZAZADEH (IRI) Danila SOTNIKOV (ITA) Arata SONODA (JPN) Anton SAVENKO (KAZ) Minseok KIM (KOR) Mantas KNYSTAUTAS (LTU) Oskar MARVIK (NOR) Rafal KRAJEWSKI (POL) Alin ALEXUC CIURARIU (ROU) Boris PETRUSIC (SRB) Delian ALISHAHI (SUI) Riza KAYAALP (TUR) Mykhailo VYSHNYVETSKYI (UKR) Cohlton SCHULTZ (USA) Muminjon ABDULLAEV (UZB)

Nasir Bailey at the 2021 Walsh Ironman (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com) Little Rock got some great news on the recruiting front today as they received a verbal commitment from Nasir Bailey (Rich Township, IL), #28 overall in the Class of 2023 and currently ranked fourth in the nation at 138 lbs. Should that ranking amongst his class hold up, or perhaps improve, it would make Bailey the highest ranked recruit to sign with the Trojans in the short history. This afternoon Bailey made his intentions public via social media. Bailey initially was committed to North Carolina. Bailey is a two-time Illinois state champion, winning as a freshman and junior. During the 2020-21 season, one where Illinois did not have an official state tournament, Bailey won another in Texas. On the national scene, Bailey won a Fargo stop sign last summer in the Junior age group at 132 lbs. He followed that with a title at the Walsh Ironman at the same weight class. It was his second time placing at the Ironman, he was fifth in 2019. This spring, Bailey was fourth at the U20 World Team Trials in freestyle. Up next for Bailey is a meeting with this Junior Freestyle champion from Fargo in #1 Ryder Block (Waverly-Shell Rock, IA), an Iowa recruit. In addition to Nasir, his older brother Bilal has already transferred to Little Rock from Campbell. Though Bilal was 3-4 last season for the Camels, his record is a bit deceiving. All four of his losses came by a single point and two were to eventual national qualifiers. Nasir projects between 141 and 149 lbs for the Trojans. Little Rock's recruiting efforts should be lauded as they identified and signed one of Fargo's bigger surprises #45 Kyle Dutton (Liberty, MO). Dutton won a loaded 145 lb weight class and was named Outstanding Wrestler. Another signee, #54 Brennan Van Hoecke (Palmetto Ridge, FL), won the Greco tournament. For all of the up-to-date commitments, check out InterMat's commitment page.

A 2021 Collegiate Duals meeting between Chris Foca (Cornell; left) and Carter Starocci (Penn State) (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickPhoto.com) Monday morning on "The First Word," Willie Saylor announced the teams that will participate in the 2022 National Collegiate Duals. The site of this year's location was also revealed to be New Orleans, Louisiana, which is a change from the 2021 event in Destin, Florida. The dates for the event will be December 19th and 20th. Since New Orleans is typically a hot tourist destination, but not one used often for wrestling, it will be interesting to see the potential fan turnout. The teams for the Collegiate Duals, by conference, with InterMat's Preseason Dual rankings are: ACC: #12 NC State, #19 North Carolina Big 12: #13 Iowa State, #14 Northern Iowa Big Ten: #1 Penn State, #4 Ohio State EIWA: #5 Cornell, #21 Lehigh MAC: Central Michigan, Lock Haven Pac-12: #28 Cal Poly, Oregon State Pools will be created so that teams in the same conference do not meet and schools that are already slated to wrestle in dual competition do not cross paths, either. The format will be the same as last year's event. Four, three-team pools will be created. After wrestling the other two teams in a pool, teams will crossover to another pool to wrestle a team with a similar record. Based off of current national rankings, this event will feature 9 top-30 teams and three of the top-five nationally. Five 2022 NCAA champions are expected two compete, along with two others from 2021. The 2021 Collegiate Duals were the site of one of the season's best duals with Iowa edging NC State, so with these types of teams in attendance, something similar could happen again.

The top seed at 57 kg Thomas Gilman (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com) The Senior World Championships are less than a month away, as they will take place September 10th-18th from Belgrade, Serbia. Today, UWW announced the top-eight seeds at each men's freestyle weight. 7 of the 10 American entrants have received a seed and four are seeded number one. Here is the full release and article from UWW, below are the seeds themselves. 57kg SEEDS: No. 1 Thomas GILMAN (USA) No. 2 Ravi KUMAR (IND) No. 3 Horst LEHR (GER) No. 4 Alireza SARLAK (IRI) No. 5 Vladimir EGOROV (MKD) No. 6 Beka BUJIASHVILI (GEO) No. 7 Oscar TIGREROS URBANO (COL) No. 8 Muhammet KARAVUS (TUR) 61kg Seeds: No. 1 Arsen HARUTYUNYAN (ARM) No. 2 Georgi Valentinov VANGELOV (BUL) No. 3 Ulukbek ZHOLDOSHBEKOV (KGZ) No. 4 Suleyman ATLI (TUR) No. 5 Eduard GRIGOREV (POL) No. 6 Teimuraz VANISHVILI (GEO) No. 7 Islam BAZARGANOV (AZE) No. 8 Rei HIGUCHI (JPN) 65kg Seeds: No. 1 Haji ALIYEV (AZE) No. 2 Bajrang BAJRANG (IND) No. 3 Sebastian C RIVERA (PUR) No. 4 Iszmail MUSZUKAJEV (HUN) No. 5 Alibek OSMONOV (KGZ) No. 6 Krzysztof BIENKOWSKI (POL) No. 7 Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM) No. 8 Munir Recep AKTAS (TUR) 70kg Seeds: No. 1 Ernazar AKMATALIEV (KGZ) No. 2 Zurabi IAKOBISHVILI (GEO) No. 3 Arman ANDREASYAN (ARM) No. 4 Syrbaz TALGAT (KAZ) No. 5 Amirmohammad Babak YAZDANICHERATI (IRI) No. 6 Zain Allen RETHERFORD (USA) No. 7 Selahattin KILICSALLAYAN (TUR) No. 8 Bacar NDUM (GBS) 74kg Seeds: No. 1 Kyle Douglas DAKE (USA) No. 2 Tajmuraz SALKAZANOV (SVK) No. 3 Frank CHAMIZO MARQUEZ (ITA) No. 4 Turan BAYRAMOV (AZE) No. 5 Yones Aliakbar EMAMICHOGHAEI (IRI) No. 6 Hetik CABOLOV (SRB) No. 7 Soner DEMIRTAS (TUR) No. 8 Mitchell Louis FINESILVER (ISR) 79kg Seeds: No .1 Jordan Ernest BURROUGHS (USA) No. 2 Mohammad Ashghar NOKHODILARIMI (IRI) No. 3 Georgios KOUGIOUMTSIDIS (GRE) No. 4 Arman AVAGYAN (ARM) No. 5 Vladimeri GAMKRELIDZE (GEO) No. 6 Muhammet AKDENIZ (TUR) No. 7 Saifedine ALEKMA (FRA) No. 8 Baliyan GOURAV (IND) 86kg Seeds: No. 1 Hassan YAZDANICHARATI (IRI) No. 2 David Morris TAYLOR III (USA) No. 3 Myles Nazem AMINE (SMR) No. 4 Abubakr ABAKAROV (AZE) No. 5 Boris MAKOEV (SVK) No. 6 Azamat DAULETBEKOV (KAZ) No. 7 Deepak PUNIA (IND) No. 8 Ethan Adrian RAMOS (PUR) 92kg Seeds: No. 1 Kamran GHASEMPOUR (IRI) No. 2 Osman NURMAGOMEDOV (AZE) No. 3 Jden COX (USA) No. 4 Andrii VLASOV (UKR) No. 5 Viky VIKY (IND) No. 6 Adilet DAVLUMBAYEV (KAZ) No. 7 Miriani MAISURADZE (GEO) No. 8 Orgilokh DAGVADORJ (MGL) 97kg Seeds: No. 1 Kyle Frederick SNYDER (USA) No. 2 Magomedgadji Omardibirovich NUROV (MKD) No. 3 Batzul ULZIISAIKHAN (MGL) No. 4 Mahamed ZAKARIIEV (UKR) No. 5 Mohammadhossein Askari MOHAMMADIAN (IRI) No. 6 Batyrbek TSAKULOV (SVK) No. 7 Radu LEFTER (MDA) No. 8 Mamed IBRAGIMOV (KAZ) 125kg Seeds: No. 1 Geno PETRIASHVILI (GEO) No. 2 Taha AKGUL (TUR) No. 3 Amir Hossein Abbas ZARE (IRI) No. 4 Lkhagvagerel MUNKHTUR (MGL) No. 5 Gennadij CUDINOVIC (GER) No. 6 Robert BARAN (POL) No. 7 Zhiwei DENG (CHN) No. 8 Amarveer DHESI (CAN)

FROSTBURG, Md. – Frostburg State Director of Athletics Troy Dell has announced the addition of men's and women's wrestling programs, which will join the 22 sports currently at FSU in the Fall of 2023. The last sport Frostburg State added was acrobatics & tumbling in 2019. Since adding A&T it has grown from an NCAA emerging sport with 30 teams competing to having the 46th institution announce the addition of the sport earlier this year. The Bobcats originally added a men's wrestling program in the 1962-1963 season. Currently the Mountain East Conference has seven member institutions with men's wrestling. FSU will join Alderson Broaddus as the second MEC school to add women's wrestling. There are currently 23 NCAA Division II schools that offer women's wrestling. "We are excited to announce the addition of Men's and Women's Wrestling to our sport offerings," said Dell. "The growth of women's wrestling over the last decade has spurred us to make the decision to offer this sport for both genders on our campus. Women's wrestling provides us the opportunity to continue our sports offering for females, while supporting the NCAA Emerging Sports Program and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Title IX." "The return of Men's Wrestling to Frostburg State University after a long absence is very exciting. The sport of wrestling continues to grow at every level for both men and women. We receive regular and ongoing inquiries regarding the sport of wrestling, so we know there is interest throughout Maryland and the surrounding region for this sport. In addition, adding two sports that utilize many of the same resources is a sound financial and enrollment strategy that will help our university meet the changing landscape of college demographics." - Troy Dell FSU has consulted with the National Wrestling Coaches Association to better understand the current landscape of the growing sports and how it could be beneficial to add the programs. "I know I speak on behalf of our NWCA Board of Directors when I congratulate the administration at Frostburg State for their efforts to be the FIRST to add an intercollegiate men's and women's wrestling program in Maryland. It's pioneering efforts like this that create so many opportunities for young, aspiring men and women to pursue their academic and wrestling careers at the intercollegiate level." Mike Moyer, NWCA Executive Director Frostburg will immediately begin a national search for coaches to lead each of the new programs.

2x NCAA qualifier Doug Zapf (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com) Welcome to a new, regular feature for InterMat! Every day, for the next few months, we'll look into the recent history of a DI wrestling program with our "Ten Years of…" feature. Even if you're a die-hard supporter of a particular school, there will be good information you may have forgotten. For others, it's a quick way to learn about a program you may not be familiar with. We're going in alphabetical order for this one, so next up is...Penn! NCAA Qualifiers (42) 2022 #22 Ryan Miller (125 lbs), #9 Michael Colaiocco (133 lbs), #12 CJ Composto (141 lbs), #18 Anthony Artalona (149 lbs), #24 Doug Zapf (157 lbs), #26 Lucas Revano (165 lbs), #17 Nick Incontrera (174 lbs), #30 Cole Urbas (197 lbs), #26 Ben Goldin (285 lbs) 2020 #11 Michael Colaiocco (125 lbs), #24 Doug Zapf (141 lbs), #30 Cole Urbas (197 lbs) 2019 #23 Carmen Ferrante (125 lbs), #13 Anthony Artalona (149 lbs) 2018 Joe Velliquette (157 lbs), Maaziah Bethea (165 lbs), Joe Heyob (184 lbs), #7 Frank Mattiace (197 lbs) 2017 Maaziah Bethea (157 lbs), Brooks Martino (165 lbs), #12 Casey Kent (174 lbs), Joe Heyob (184 lbs), #12 Frank Mattiace (197 lbs) 2016 Caleb Richardson (133 lbs), Maaziah Bethea (157 lbs), Casey Kent (174 lbs), #11 Lorenzo Thomas (184 lbs) 2015 Caleb Richardson (133 lbs), #13 CJ Cobb (149 lbs), Brooks Martino (157 lbs), #10 Lorenzo Thomas (184 lbs), #16 Canaan Bethea (197 lbs) 2014 Caleb Richardson (125 lbs), Casey Kent (165 lbs), Brad Wukie (174 lbs), #11 Lorenzo Thomas (184 lbs) 2013 Mark Rappo (125 lbs), #10 CJ Cobb (141 lbs), Ian Korb (174 lbs), Canaan Bethea (184 lbs), #8 Micah Burak (197 lbs), Steven Graziano (285 lbs) NCAA Champions None NCAA All-Americans 2022: CJ Composto (141 - 8th) 2016: Casey Kent (174 - 4th) 2014: Lorenzo Thomas (184 - 6th) NWCA All-Americans Michael Colaiocco (125 - Second Team) NCAA Round of 12 Finishers Anthony Artalona (2019, 2022 - 149) Frank Mattiace (2018 - 197) Maaziah Bethea (2017 - 157) Lorenzo Thomas (2016 - 184) CJ Cobb (2015 - 149) Canaan Bethea (2015 - 197) Micah Burak (2013 - 197) EIWA Conference Champions 2022: Michael Colaiocco (133) 2019: Anthony Artalona (149) 2017: Frank Mattiace (197) 2013: Micah Burak (197) Dual Record 2021-22: 8-2 2021: No Season 2019-20: 6-9 2018-19: 5-9 2017-18: 9-8 2016-17: 6-8 2015-16: 6-5 2014-15: 9-4 2013-14: 8-7 2012-13: 10-3 EIWA Tournament Placement 2021-22: 2nd 2021: No Season 2019-20: 8th 2018-19: 10th 2017-18: 12th 2016-17: 11th 2015-16: 10th 2014-15: 5th 2013-14: 10th 2012-13: 3rd NCAA Tournament Team Placement 2021-22: 27th (15.5 points) 2021: No Season 2019-20: No Tournament 2018-19: 45th-tie (3.5 points) 2017-18: 40th-tie (5 points) 2016-17: 37th (8 points) 2015-16: 20th (23.5 points) 2014-15: 38th (6.5 points) 2013-14: 36th (10 points) 2012-13: 35th-tie (7.5 points) Head Coaching History Roger Reina (2017-present) Alex Tirapelle (2014-17) Rob Eiter (2008-14) Best Lineup (Comprised of wrestlers from 2013-22) 125 - Mark Rappo: 2x NCAA Qualifier, 2x EIWA Runner-Up 133 - Michael Colaiocco: 2x NCAA Qualifier (#9 and #11 seed), 2020 NWCA Second-Team All-American, 2022 EIWA Champion 141 - CJ Composto: 2022 NCAA Qualifier (#12 seed), 2022 NCAA All-American (8th), 2022 EIWA Runner-Up 149 - Anthony Artalona: 2x NCAA Qualifier (#13 and #18 seeds), 2x NCAA Round of 12 Finisher, 2019 EIWA Champion 157 - Doug Zapf: 2x NCAA Qualifier 165 - Maaziah Bethea: 3x NCAA Qualifier, 2017 NCAA Round of 12 Finisher 174 - Casey Kent: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#12 seed), 2016 NCAA All-American (4th) 184 - Lorenzo Thomas: 3x NCAA Qualifier (#10 and #11 x2 seeds), 2014 NCAA All-American (6th), 2014 EIWA Runner-Up 197 - Micah Burak: 4x NCAA Qualifier (#6 and #11 seed), 2012 NCAA All-American (7th), 2x NCAA Round of 12 Finisher, 2013 EIWA Champion, 4x EIWA Finalist 285 - Ben Goldin: 2022 NCAA Qualifier Recruiting Number of Big Boarder's Per Year 2022: #26 Martin Cosgrove (NJ), #61 Andrew Troczynski (NJ), #120 Evan Mougalian (NJ), #146 Jackson Polo (NY), #192 Alex Almeyda (NJ), #202 Brady Pruett (MD), #218 Jude Swisher (PA) 2021: #84 Nico Nardone (NJ), #85 Cole Spencer (PA), #96 Kyle Hauserman (PA), #111 Kelly Dunnigan (NJ), #249 Hunter Gandy (NJ) 2020: #102 Jackson Dean (DE), #103 Ryan Miller (PA) 2019: #15 Michael Colaiocco (NJ), #43 Lucas Revano (NJ), #57 Cole Urbas (PA) 2018: #27 Anthony Artalona (FL), #63 Grant Aronoff (FL), #91 Ben Goldin (FL) 2017: #80 Khamari Whimper (TN) 2014: #134 Joe Velliquette (MO) 2013: #43 Frank Mattiace (NJ), #140 Ken Bade (MI) For past teams: Air Force American Appalachian State Arizona State Army West Point Binghamton Bloomsburg Brown Bucknell Buffalo Cal Poly Campbell Central Michigan Chattanooga Clarion Cleveland State Columbia Cornell CSU Bakersfield Davidson Drexel Duke Edinboro Franklin & Marshall Gardner-Webb George Mason Harvard Hofstra Illinois Indiana Iowa Iowa State Kent State Lehigh Lock Haven Maryland Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Missouri Navy NC State Nebraska North Carolina North Dakota State Northern Colorado Northern Illinois Northern Iowa Northwestern Ohio Ohio State Oklahoma Oklahoma State Oregon State

2x NCAA Champion Roman Bravo-Young (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com) Every offseason, schools are making significant changes and additions. While it's easy to focus on overall recruiting classes, there are plenty of under the radar moves being made: transfers, recruiting stories, freestyle/Greco success, and other program improvements. With the season rapidly approaching, I thought it'd be good to take a look at some of the moves in Intermat's preseason top 15. 1) Penn State - Bringing back Roman Bravo-Young While I thought about going with Cael Sanderson's contract extension, getting RBY back for a final season is huge as well. Him returning for a final season means that PSU returns four champs and is the large favorite to win their 10th national title. 2) Iowa - Breaking ground on new facilities While the facility was originally approved in 2020, construction was delayed until this summer. The impressive two-story, 38,500 square foot facility is expected to be completed in 2024 and will house the men and new women's teams. 3) Arizona State - Extending Zeke Jones Fresh off winning back-to-back team trophies, head coach Zeke Jones was signed to a five-year contract extension through the 2026-2027 season. Jones has also been a top recruiter, with multiple top-ten classes since taking over. 4) Ohio State - Historic 2022 recruiting class Ohio State is one of just five teams to win an NCAA title since 1988, and they're bringing recruits that could put them back on top. The team is coming off their lowest NCAA finish in over a decade but are reloading with four wrestlers in the top 25, including three of the top five pound-for-pound recruits. 5) Missouri - Late recruiting grabs Normally in the spring there is little recruiting news, but Coach Smith and staff were still busy. They already had six on the Big Board but added #107 Cam Steed and #229 Jerrod Fisher, both multi-time state champs late in the cycle. 6) Michigan - #16 Matt Finesilver With the graduation of Olympian Myles Amine, 184lbs looked like it could be a hole for the Wolverines. However, they got a great transfer in former Duke wrestler Matt Finesilver. Finesilver is a three-time national qualifier at 174lbs who is moving up and looking to make the podium as a 6th year senior. 7) Minnesota - Michial Foy and Aaron Nagao making U23 team Gable Steveson has teased a second semester comeback for the Gophers, but let's focus on some other freestyle success for the team. Michial Foy was a national qualifier at 197lbs, and Aaron Nagao had an impressive redshirt season at 133lbs. Both wrestlers made the U23 team; Nagao in freestyle at 61kg and Foy in Greco at 87kg. 8) Cornell - Freestyle dominance Cornell is one of the strongest schools in the international styles, and it's shown again in 2022. Not including graduates, they have wrestlers on the U23 Greco team (Phillip Moomey - 60kg), U20 Freestyle team (Vince Cornella - 65kg), and three on the U23 Freestyle team (Vito Arujau - 57kg, Yianni Diakomihalis - 65kg, and Jacob Cardenas - 92kg). Yianni is pulling double duty too, representing the USA on the senior team as well. 9) Nebraska - Top 10 Recruiting Class After their highest NCAA finish since 2009 (5th), the Huskers bring in their 8th consecutive top-ten class. The epitome of consistency, the team is bringing in three wrestlers in the top 100. It seems likely that the class will have opportunities to redshirt, so keep an eye on them in the future. 10) Wisconsin - James Rowley Every year there are high ranking freshmen who appear to be more “college ready” than others. James Rowley has a strong chance to show that this year as he steps into a Wisconsin lineup that just graduated national qualifiers Andrew McNally and Chris Weiler. The four-time state champ and cadet world silver medalist projects as a potential 174/184lber. 11) Oklahoma State - Releasing AJ Ferrari While losing a national champ may not normally be a beneficial move, it seems like the team will be better off in the long run. Since being released from the team the former Cowboy has been mired in controversy and legal battles. This was a necessary move that the team culture will hopefully improve from. 12) Iowa State - David Carr moving up Last year, David Carr was the top seed and returning champ at 157lbs but suffered a shocking second round upset. He has discussed moving up in weight since coming to Iowa State. With two years of eligibility left, he joins Shane Griffith and Keegan O'Toole as national champs in what is a stacked 165lbs weight class. 13) Northwestern - Mike McMullan to the Athletics HOF After another top ten finish at NCAA's, Northwestern has had a quiet offseason so far. They are bringing in a top recruit, #56 Joseph Martin out of California. Additionally, Northwestern will have the opportunity to celebrate four-time All-American Mike McMullan becoming the third ever wrestler to be inducted into the school's Athletic HOF. He never finished lower than 3rd at NCAA's, and was a 2015 Big 10 Champ. 14) Princeton - Top 20 Recruiting Class The Tiger's are returning two finalists and five total national qualifiers. They're bringing in a strong recruiting class to add onto it as well. With four of these recruits on the Big Board, including three in the top 100, there's a chance some of them could see the lineup as true freshmen. 15) Pittsburgh - Extending Keith Gavin Pitt is another team that focused on stability this offseason by extending their head coach Keith Gavin's contract through the 2027 season. With Micky Phillipi and Nino Bonaccorsi returning, the team is in place to have another high finish in 2023. 15) Virginia Tech - TJ Stewart Virginia Tech is bringing in the #7 ranked recruiting class overall with two in the top 20. However, the gem of the class is TJ Stewart who is originally from Virginia. Keeping top talent in state is one of the keys to having a successful program. While Hunter Bolen has another season, Stewart can use the opportunity to redshirt before taking over at 184lbs or 197lbs.

Virginia Tech coaches (from left) Jared Frayer, Tony Robie, and Cody Brewer (photo courtesy of Sam Janicki; SJanickiPhoto.com) Last week, the #17 ranked dual meet team, Virginia Tech, released their schedule for the 2022-23 season. The ever-increasing ACC makes for a tough built-in schedule with teams like NC State, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and Virginia. Head Coach Tony Robie and staff have found other schools outside of the league to make for a very imposing slate. The Hokies are set to take on the preseason #3, #4, and #5 teams in dual competition with Missouri, Ohio State, and Cornell. In addition to Virginia Tech's duals, they are set to enter the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational, which will likely be the toughest in-season tournament this year. For a school that has typically had difficulty finding Big Ten schools to agree to meet in a dual setting, the Hokie staff has provided their team with many challenging events that will prepare them for the 2023 postseason. Virginia Tech initially had a dual event scheduled for mid-December, which has since been canceled. There may be an addition to the schedule based on this development. Before getting into the actual schedule, here are some notes regarding the teams on the dual portion. One Big Ten Team: Ohio State One Big 12 Team: Missouri Two EIWA Teams: American, Cornell Two other teams from Virginia: George Mason, Virginia Eight teams that finished in the Top-30 at the 2022 NCAA Championships: #7 Cornell, #9 Missouri, #10 NC State, #13 Ohio State, #18 North Carolina, #24 Pittsburgh, #29 Appalachian State, #30 Virginia Home Slate: Cornell, Missouri, NC State, Pittsburgh, Virginia Away Duals: American, Appalachian State, Duke, George Mason, North Carolina, Ohio State November 6th - Southeast Open @ Salem, Virginia The Southeast Open has typically been the season-opener for the Hokies. Thus far, Columbia and VMI have this event on their schedule. It usually draws from other schools in the ACC, along with the DI schools in North Carolina and Virginia. November 11th - #4 Ohio State @ Columbus, Ohio Virginia Tech might get their most difficult dual of the year in their opening contest. Last year, the Buckeyes traveled south, so the Hokies will return the favor. In his first match at 133 lbs, #13 Sam Latona could meet up with much-heralded true freshman Nic Bouzakis. The back half of the dual could feature matchups between All-Americans at 174 and 184 lbs. #2 Mekhi Lewis and #6 Ethan Smith, before #12 Hunter Bolen and #4 Kaleb Romero. Lewis prevailed in a close match during the 2021-22 dual and Bolen/Romero did not meet. November 20th - Keystone Classic @ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania A new event for the Hokies comes in the form of the Keystone Classic. #16 Penn, just ahead of Tech in a tournament format, hosts a solid group of teams. Along with the hosts, Appalachian State and Rider could be two of the better teams in the field. December 2nd/3rd - Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational @ Las Vegas, Nevada The CKLV Invitational is routinely in the mix for the best individual, regular season tournament in all the land. This tournament should take the crown in 2022, as plenty of star power is expected out west. #4 Ohio State, #6 Michigan, #7 Minnesota, #8 Cornell, #9 Nebraska, #12 Northwestern, #14 Princeton are the top-20 teams that have registered. This is a great opportunity for Hokie wrestlers to move up or solidify their national rankings. December 11th - #3 Missouri @ Home One of the best duals of the 2021-22 season was when Virginia Tech traveled to Mizzou to take on the Tigers. It should be a great one this year, too. One of the most exciting matches of the dual took place at 174 lbs where Lewis was pushed into tiebreakers by #10 Peyton Mocco. True freshman Caleb Henson is expected to start at 149 and he'll get to deal with one of the Tigers best grapplers, two-time NCAA All-American, #5 Brock Mauller. Another difficult match for Virginia Tech occurs at 165, where Chattanooga transfer, Drew Nicholson, meets defending NCAA champion Keegan O'Toole. January 6th - #5 Cornell @ Home A staple of Virginia Tech wrestling has been hosting a dual meet in the Moss Arts Center. And what a dual it could be! Last year, the teams met at the Collegiate Duals and Cornell got by with an 18-15 win. Once again, Mekhi has another opponent that pushed him into extra time with #11 Chris Foca. The All-Americans at 184 are no strangers, either. Bolen defeated Jonathan Loew in their 2020 dual, but Loew returned the favor in Florida. This one could come down to the big men with Tech's #21 Hunter Catka and #9 Lewis Fernandes for Cornell. January 8th - George Mason @ Fairfax, Virginia Virginia Tech heads up north to take on George Mason in the first leg of a Sunday twinbill that ends with a dual at American. Two of the Patriots most promising wrestlers are Josh Jones (133) and Kaden Cassidy (141). That could make for some competitive bouts with Latona and Collin Gerardi. GMU is also strong at 174 and 184, with Logan Messer and Kyle Davis; however, the Virginia Tech duo will be heavy favorites. January 8th - American @ Washington DC AU should be strong right off the bat with their 125 and 133 lbers, which makes sense because they are led by Tech alum Joey Dance, a two-time AA at 125 lbs. 125 lber Max Leete had a good freshman campaign with 17 wins in 26 matches. He'll take on one of the Virginia Tech redshirt freshman tandem of Cooper Flynn and Eddie Ventresca. At 133 lbs is 2022 EIWA fourth-place finisher Jack Maida, who could test Latona. At the other end of the lineup, Isaac Righter picked up 14 wins in his first year as a starter and should only get better. He'll get Catka at 285 lbs. January 13th - Appalachian State @ Boone, North Carolina Virginia Tech will go into a hostile atmosphere in their last test before the conference slate, as App State's alumni gym tends to get rowdy. The 165 lb bout should feature a pair of familiar faces, Nicholson and #15 Will Formato. The pair have clashed four times in the past, when Nicholson was at Chattanooga. Though Formato has gotten the best of Nicholson (3 wins to 2), the new Hokie did win the most recent matches. App State's best wrestler is two-time AA Jonathan Millner at 149 lbs. Half of Millner's four 2021-22 losses came at the hands of Bryce Andonian at the NCAA Championships. With Andonian moving up, expect to see Millner and true freshman Henson. January 20th - #12 NC State @ Home Whether you're an ACC fan or not, this dual has had to make its way onto your "must watch" list. While there are typically fireworks up and down this card, 157 is guaranteed to have some excellent action. Andonian moves up to challenge the returning ACC champion from 2022, Ed Scott. The Hokie All-American won both of their 2021 meetings, but Scott has improved greatly since. What about round six in Bolen versus Trent Hidlay? Bolen started the series with three consecutive wins; however, Hidlay has recorded wins in their most recent two contests. Again, this is one that could come down to Catka and Tyrie Houghton. The two split matches in 2021-22 with Catka grabbing a sudden victory win at the Wolfpack Open, while Houghton evened the score with a major decision at the Southern Scuffle. January 27th - Pittsburgh @ Home The Pittsburgh dual has a handful of enticing matchup possibilities. Barring something at an open tournament, it would be the first meeting between Latona and two-time ACC champion Micky Phillippi. Up a weight, we'll see if Cole Matthews maintains his #1 ranking by match time. Either way, he'll have Collin Gerardi, who fought him to a 2-0 loss at the 2022 ACC Championships. Like Henson for the Hokies, Pitt is excited about the prospects of their freshman, Brock McMillen. February 3rd - Duke @ Durham, North Carolina We'll have to see how the Duke lineup develops as the year progresses. Based on the 2021-22 season, heavyweight Jonah Neisenbaum could be the Blue Devils top wrestler. He has a history with Catka, who had his number with a pair of wins via tech fall in 2021. February 10th - North Carolina @ Chapel Hill, North Carolina There are plenty of interesting matchups with UNC/VT, starting at 133 lbs. Latona has Jaime Hernandez, who has been very good, when healthy. All-American Zach Sherman is awaiting Henson at 149 lbs. 157 has a mammoth collision between Andonian and 2021 NCAA Champion Austin O'Connor. The pair had a classic 2021 ACC final, where Andonian jumped out to a big lead, but was run down by O'Connor. All-Americans Lewis and Clay Lautt will renew acquaintances at 174 lbs. Lewis won both meetings last season, but each was competitive. The Tar Heels Gavin Kane put the rest of the nation on notice with his win over Bolen in dual competition. He proved it was no fluke by doing it again at the conference meet. February 17th - Virginia @ Home Rivalry weekend to close out the regular season! The Hokies will seek to extend their winning streak over UVA to 11 duals. As usual, expect fireworks at 157 lbs. Andonian always looks to put points on the board and the same can be said for Keating. Jake was the #14 seed at nationals and third at a rough 157 lb ACC bracket in 2022. We'll see if NCAA qualifier Michael Battista can keep the momentum going from a strong freestyle season. He'll move up to 197 lbs and should see Hokie fan favorite Cody Howard. UVA also signed a highly-touted recruiting Class of 2022, so by the time February rolls around one or two of them could have supplanted returners in the starting lineup. March 5th - ACC Championships @ Raleigh, North Carolina The ACC Tournament is my personal favorite to attend/follow. While we'd all like to see more ACC schools with wrestling, a six-team tournament makes every match count. The inevitable upset rocks the balance of the team scores. Knowing what we know now, Virginia Tech will certainly be in the mix for a title. If their freshmen develop as expected, the Hokies could establish themselves as favorites.

2022 U20 World bronze medalist Aden Attao (photo courtesy of Kostadin Andonov/UWW) The United States U20 Greco-Roman team wrapped up competition on Sunday as Max Black (60 kg) dropped his repechage bout and was eliminated. The other four wrestlers who started their tournaments on Saturday were already knocked out of medal contention. The high note from the Greco portion was that heavyweight Aden Attao won his bronze medal match on Saturday. Attao started the tournament in dominant fashion with back-to-back falls, before running into the eventual champion Mykhailo Vyshnyvetskyi of Ukraine in the semifinals. Because he advanced to the semis, Attao dropped down to Saturday's bronze medal match. There he would meet Egypt's Fekry Eissa, after an 8-0 win over South Korea's Junho Park in repechage. For the bronze medal, Attao started the scoring early in the first period with four points from a headpinch, to which Eissa countered with two points of his own. Still in the opening stanza, Attao added four more with a headlock to Eissa's back. The second period was a bit more methodical as Attao scored with a push-out and after countering a failed headlock attempt from Eissa. The final takedown made the score 11-3 and pushed the bout into match termination status. While the Greco-Roman side of the American U20 competitions has not matched its freestyle counterparts, Attao's bronze medal gives the United States at least one medal at this competition every year since 2016. Upperweights have primarily been responsible for those medals as Attao is the third heavyweight to medal during that span (Cohlton Schultz - 2nd/2019, 3rd/2018) and five have come at the final two weights (Braxton Amos - 3rd/2021, G'Angelo Hancock - 3rd/2016). Attao has been busy for the last month-plus. He won both styles in Fargo at the Junior level, after winning a gold medal at the Pan-American Junior Championships in early July. Greco-Roman 130 kg Bronze medal match - Aden Attao over Fekry Eissa 11-3 Greco-Roman 60 kg Qualification - Saeid Esmaeili Leivesi (Iran) over Max Black 9-0 Repechage - Koto Gomi (Japan) over Max Black 9-0 Greco-Roman 67 kg Qualification - Robert Perez III over Shon Nadorgin (Israel) 8-0 Round of 16 - Robert Perez III over Zsolt Takacs (Hungary) 8-0 Quarterfinals - Din Koshkar (Kazakhstan) over Robert Perez III 3-3 Greco-Roman 72 kg Qualification - Richard Fedalen over Matthias Hauthaler (Austria) Fall Round of 16 - Georgios Barbanos (Sweden) over Richard Fedalen 13-4 Greco-Roman 82 kg Qualification - Adrian Artsisheuskiy over Odysseas Roungeris (Greece) Fall Round of 16 - Leon Rivalta (Italy) over Adrian Artsisheuskiy Fall Greco-Roman 97 kg Round of 16 - Nurmanbet Raimaly Uulu (Kyrgyzstan) over Christian Carroll 9-7

2022 U20 World Champion Jore Volk (photo courtesy of Kadir Caliskan/UWW) The U20 World Championships took place this past week in Sofia, Bulgaria. The United States men finished with four medals and a second-place team finish. The best performances of the tournament came from a group of young/future Big 12 stars. Wyoming freshman Jore Volk(57KG) brought home one of the two championships won by the Americans here. Volk defeated Ahmad Mohammadnezhadjavan (Iran), 7-5 in an absolute nail-biter of a first-round match on a late challenge. He then defeated Azizbek Naimov (Uzbekistan), 7-2, Luka Gvinjilia (Georgia), 13-6, and Merey Bazarbayev (Kazakhstan), 3-2 in the finals to bring home the World Championship. Mitchell Mesenbrink looks like he could quickly be a superstar for the newest Big 12 wrestling program, Cal Baptist. Mesenbrink won silver at 70 KG. He opened with tech falls over Belgium and Kyrgyzstan before defeating Iran's Hossein Mohammad Aghaei, 9-7. He followed that up with a 6-3 decision over Armenia's Hayk Papikyan to make the finals where he fell to Azerbaijan's Kanan Heybatov. This is the kind of wrestler that Cal Baptist will need to make an early splash in their new division (DI) and conference (Big 12). Bennett Berge was the other medal winner from the Big 12. The soon-to-be freshman at South Dakota State took home silver at 86 KG. He got three techs in a row over Armenia, Hungary, and Ukraine to make the semifinals. There he beat Turkey's Ismail Kucuksolak, 9-7. In the finals he met France's Rakhim Magamadov and fell 10-5, finishing with a silver medal. One other future Big 12 wrestler made the team here with Oklahoma State commit Brayden Thompson(79 KG). He fell in his first match to eventual champion Sobhan Yari of Iran. He dropped his repechage match 2-1 to finish in ninth. Overall, three of the four medals won by the United States were won by current or soon-to-be Big 12 wrestlers and four of the ten overall spots were represented by the future of the Big 12. It's a good sign for the conference and for those programs moving forward.

2x U20 World Champion Amit Elor (photo courtesy of Kadir Caliskan/UWW) The women's freestyle portion of the U20 World Championships from Sofia, Bulgaria got off to a bit of a rocky start on Wednesday. Friday saw the conclusion of the women's competition and the squad finished strong with four of the five women in action finishing with medals. As expected, leading the way for the women's team was Amit Elor at 72 kg. Last year, Elor captured gold medals at both the U17 and U20 World Championships. All that stood between her and a second U20 title was Kazakhstan's Anastassiya Panassovich. Elor made short work of Panassovich with a first-period tech 10-0. None of her four matches in Sofia lasted until the second period and she outscored the field 32-1, not including a fall in her first bout. Amit's second U20 world title makes her only the third US woman to accomplish the feat and the first since Victoria Anthony in 2009 and 10. Elor has a chance to add more hardware to her collection this year as she has made the Senior and U23 World teams. The other finalist on the day was Sofia Macaluso at 57 kg. Macaluso notched three falls on the way to the finals, where she'd meet Japan's Ruka Natami, a past U17 world champion. In what was mostly a tactical affair, Natami was able to keep the dangerous Macaluso under wraps and held a 2-1 lead for most of the second period. Natami tacked on four points as Macaluso was pushing the pace, attempting to take the lead, yet was countered to her back. There was no such drama at 53 and 62 kg, as both Katie Gomez (53) and Adaugo Nwachukwu (62) earned bronze with little trouble. Gomez posted a 12-2 first-period tech on Egypt's Shaimaa Mohamed and Nwachukwu prevailed 10-0 against Kyrgyzstan's Bermet Nuridin Kyzy. Reece Larremendy was also in action at 65 kg, but was stopped in her quest for the bronze by Tunisia's Khadija Jlassi, 9-2. With the four medals on the day, combined with two from the first set of women, the United States finished the tournament with six medalists. In addition to the women wrapping up their competition, the Greco-Roman team took the mat for the first team. Big man Aden Attao was the standout for the US team, garnering a pair of falls on his way to the semifinals. Attao was stopped in the semis by Ukraine's Mykhailo Vyshnyvetskyi, 10-0. The loss drops Attao into a bronze medal bout tomorrow and his opponent will be decided during the repechage session. The only other Greco wrestler to pick up a win on the day was Oregon State's Kodiak Stephens at 87 kg. Stephens teched India's Surjett Singh, before falling by a point to Estonia's Robin Uspenski, 2-1. A match later Uspenski lost, which dashed any medal hopes for Stephens. 53 kg Women's Freestyle Bronze Medal Match - Katie Gomez over Shaimaa Mohamed (Egypt) 12-2 57 kg Women's Freestyle Gold Medal Match - Ruka Natami (Japan) over Sofia Macaluso 6-1 62 kg Women's Freestyle Bronze Medal Match - Adaugo Nwachukwu over Bermet Nuridin Kyzy (Kyrgyzstan) 10-0 65 kg Women's Freestyle Bronze Medal Match - Khadija Jlassi (Tunisia) over Reese Larramendy 9-2 72 kg Women's Freestyle Gold Medal Match - Amit Elor vs. Anastassiya Panassovich (Kazakhstan) 10-0 55 kg Greco-Roman Round of 16 - Nuristan Suiorkulov (Kyrgyzstan) over Jonathan Gurule 7-2 63 kg Greco-Roman Round of 16 - Ziya Babashov (Azerbaijan) over Haiden Drury 8-0 77 kg Greco-Roman Round of 16 - Yuksel Saricicek (Turkey) over Payton Jacobson 9-1 87 kg Greco-Roman Qualification: Kodiak Stephens over Surjett Singh (India) 8-0 Round of 16: Robin Uspenski (Estonia) over Kodiak Stephens 2-1 130 kg Greco-Roman Round of 16 - Aden Attao over Parvesh (India) Fall Quarterfinals - Aden Attao over Adolf Bazso (Hungary) Fall Semifinals - Mykhailo Vyshnyvetskyi (Ukraine) over Aden Attao 10-0 Bronze Medal Match - Aden Attao vs. Junho Park (South Korea)/Fekry Eissa (Egypt)

2012 NCAA All-American Austin Trotman (photo courtesy of Tony Rotundo; WrestlersAreWarriors.com) While this weekend does not have as many former wrestlers in action, there are still plenty of fights as always. The slate this weekend includes several former wrestlers who have already made their names in the sport as well as some hoping to break through and make it to the next level. Friday: LFA 139 Gavin Teasdale vs. Freddie Rodriguez Teasdale was a four-time Pennsylvania state champion in high school and finished his run with a 162-2 record. He spent time at both Penn State and Iowa before eventually moving on from wrestling. Teasdale made his amateur MMA debut in February and scored a decision victory over Tyler Fry. He was originally scheduled to make his professional debut that same month but the bout fell apart. He will now face Rodriguez in his first professional fight. Rodriguez won an NJCAA title at Iowa Lake Community College, spent some time at Oklahoma and eventually became a two-time NCAA qualifier for Southern Illinois Edwardsville. He fought seven times as an amateur, including a bout while he was an active college wrestler, before making his professional debut earlier this year. Rodriguez defeated Moshun Scott in his debut in February and followed that up with a stoppage over Victor Guarriello last month. The bout will headline the preliminary portion of LFA 139, which is set to begin at 8:00pm on the promotion's Facebook page. Saturday: Combat Night Pro: Tallahassee Austin Trotman vs. J.P. Saint Louis Trotman was a four-time NCAA qualifier and three-time SoCon champ for Appalachian State. He won 129 matches in his college career and finished third at the 2012 NCAA tournament. Trotman made his MMA debut in 2020 and has built a 3-1 record. This will be his first fight since he dropped a fight against Joseph Pyfer via second-round knockout last December. Saint Louis has been fighting professionally since 2015 and has a 7-4 record. The event will be available via Internet pay-per-view at 5:00pm ET. Saturday: PFL 9 2022 Bubba Jenkins vs. Ryoji Kudo For the second year in a row, Jenkins finds himself in the semifinals of PFL's featherweight tournament. This year he picked up victories over Kyle Bochniak and Reinaldo Ekson to advance out of the regular season. Since turning professional in 2011, he has built an 18-5 record. Jenkins began his collegiate wrestling career at Penn State. For the Nittany Lions, he qualified for three NCAA tournaments and finished second in 2008 to become an All-American. For his final year, he transferred to Arizona State and won an NCAA title in 2011. In the finals, he scored a dramatic fall over Penn State's David Taylor. Kudo came up in Japan's Shooto organization and signed with PFL for this season. He split his two regular season bouts and currently holds an 11-3-1 record. The bout will kick off the main card of PFL 9 2002, which will air live from London on ESPN at 3:00pm ET. Saturday: UFC 278 Kamaru Usman vs. Leon Edwards Usman started wrestling as a sophomore in high school. By the time he was a senior, he was placing in the Texas state tournament. Usman then continued his wrestling career on the collegiate level. He spent his freshman season at NAIA William Penn before settling in at Nebraska Kearney. At the Division II school, he was a three-time All-American and won the 174-pound title in 2010. In the main event of UFC 278, Usman will put his welterweight title on the line against Edwards. The two fought previously in 2015 with Usman taking a decision victory. Since that loss, Edwards has won nine-straight fights. Merab Dvalishvili vs. Jose Aldo Dvalishvili moved to the U.S. to train for MMA and did not compete in wrestling at the collegiate level, but he is perhaps the most brazen wrestler in the sport today. He averages a whopping 7.30 takedowns per 15 minutes, which is by far the highest takedown rate among top fighters. Wrestling fans will likely appreciate his gameplan even if it might not work out for him against Aldo. The former featherweight champion has stopped 90% of the takedowns he has faced in the UFC, but that will certainly be put to the test here. Alexander Romanov vs. Marcin Tybura Romanov wrestled extensively for his native Moldova on the international level. He won a bronze medal at the 2016 World University Championships and represented the country at both the 2014 and 2019 World Championships. Despite making his UFC debut in 2020, Romanov attempted to qualify for the last Olympics via the Olympic Qualification Tournament but came up short. In the Octagon he has won all five of his fights including his last bout against Chase Sherman where he did not absorb a single strike before finishing via submission. Tybura will represent a step up in competition for Romanov. He has been competing in the UFC since 2016 and has a 22-7 record overall. In his last fight, Tybura dropped a decision against former Bellator champion Alexander Volkov. Prior to that loss, Tybura has won five-straight fights. All three of these fights will be part of the main card of UFC 278, which airs live on ESPN+ pay-per-view at 10:00pm ET.