The 2024 Olympic Wrestling Trials will take place on April 19-20 in State College, Pennsylvania. Check out the article below for real-time updates from the trials on the biggest stories from this event.
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Session 2 – Semi-Finals (Starting at 6:00 pm ET)
Session 1 is in the books but we’ll be starting back up with session 2 at 6:00 pm (ET). In the meantime, check out the semi-final matchups below:
Men’s Freestyle
57 kg – Zane Richards vs Spencer Lee
57 kg – Thomas Gilman vs Daton Fix
65 kg – Nick Lee vs Andrew Alirez
65 kg – Zain Retherford vs winner of Yianni Diakomihalis/Jesse Mendez
74 kg – Jordan Burroughs vs Mitchell Mesenbrink
74 kg – Jason Nolf vs Jarrett Jacques
86 kg – Aaron Brooks vs Alex Dieringer
86 kg – Zahid Valencia vs winner of Chance Marsteller/Trent Hidlay
97 kg – J’den Cox vs Kollin Moore
97 kg – Isaac Trumble vs Jay Aiello
125 kg – Hayden Zillmer vs Dom Bradley
125 kg – Nick Gwiazdowski vs Greg Kerkvliet
Women’s Freestyle
50 kg – Audrey Jimenez vs Erin Golston
50 kg – Sage Mortimer vs Samara Chavez
53 kg – Vayle Baker vs Areana Villaescusa
53 kg – Katie Gomez vs Haley Augello
57 kg – Xochitl Mota-Pettis vs Alex Hedrick
57 kg – Jacarra Winchester vs winner of Abby Nette/Cristelle Rodriguez
62 kg – Jen Page vs winner of Mallor Velte/Ashlynn Ortega
62 kg – Macey Kilty vs winner of Katie Lange/Adaugo Nwachukwu
68 kg – Forrest Molinari vs Aine Drury
68 kg – Alex Glaude vs Reese Larramendy
76 kg – Kennedy Blades vs Dymond Guilford
76 kg – Kylie Welker vs Yelena Makoyed
Greco-Roman
60 kg – Ildar Hafizov vs Sammy Jones
60 kg – Max Black vs Dalton Roberts
67 kg – Alejandro Sancho vs Pat Smith
67 kg – Ellis Coleman vs Xavier Johnson
77 kg – Kamal Bey vs Ravaughn Perkins
77 kg – Aliaksandr Kikinou vs Benji Peak
87 kg – Mahmoud Sebie vs John Stefanowicz
87 kg – Payton Jacobson vs Zac Braunagel
97 kg – Josef Rau vs Tate Orndorff
97 kg – Nicholas Boykin vs Diante Cooper
130 kg – Adam Coon vs Donny Longendyke
130 kg – Courtney Freeman vs Aden Attao
Session 1 – Quarter-Finals
Men’s Freestyle 65 kg
We’re already rolling into the quarters with Alec Pantaleo taking on top-seeded Nick Lee and Jesse Mendez wrestling James Green. Not a ton of action in the first, Lee gets a passivity point to hold a 1-0 lead into the break. Now early in the second, Lee gets a takedown and goes to work on top with 3 turns to lead 9-0. Pantaleo hits a slick duck to get a takedown to make it 9-2 but he’ll need a lot of offense quick if he hopes to erase this deficit. Pantaleo can’t do it and Lee wins with a dominant 9-2 victory.
Uneventful first period between Green and Mendez – 1-0 Green leading at the break. Green gets a takedown in the second to extend his lead but Mendez counters to cut it to 3-2. Mendez gets another takedown and this time transition right to a gut to lead 6-3 with 30 seconds left. Green is spent and Mendez is gonna win this one – 6-3.
Now Yianni Diakomihalis is up against Kaleb Larkin. This could be an interesting one – Larkin is a good head taller than Yianni. Diakomihalis looks to be in control early – he gets a step out and takedown to take an early, 3-0 lead. Larkin gets a takedown and has a lace locked up tight! Wow, Larkin could ended here but Yianni defends and only goes over once. Wow – I can’t believe Yianni didn’t go over more than once. Yianni gets back to his offense and gets a takedown to a turn to lead 7-4.
WOAH! Things are getting wild in the Yianni-Larkin match. Larkin gets another takedown and has another lace locked up tight! Larkin’s only able to get Yiann over once making the score 8-7 in Larkin’s favor. Yianni gets a step out to tie it at 8 but Larkin still holds criteria so Yianni needs another point. Yianni gets to a single leg and has Larkin in the quad-pod position but time’s running out. Yianni steps through to expose Larkin and points go on the board for Yianni. Time runs out with Yianni leading 10-8 but Larkins corner is challenging the…
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