Who Qualified For An Olympic Redshirt At 2020 Senior Nationals?
Who Qualified For An Olympic Redshirt At 2020 Senior Nationals?
Check out which college wrestlers earned Olympic redshirts this weekend as well as a full updated list of those eligible.
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Outside of getting much-needed mat time in these unprecedented times, Senior Nationals didn’t hold much weight for the Olympic process like Senior Nationals and US Opens of the past. That was until USA Wrestling announced that Senior Nationals had been added to the criteria list for 2020 Olympic redshirt qualification.
2020 Senior Nationals added to criteria list for 2020 Olympic redshirt qualification@ThinkIowaCity @NCAAwrestling
— USA Wrestling (@USAWrestling) July 30, 2020
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Some teams and individuals took full advantage of this. Nebraska brought almost their entire team and five wrestlers earned Olympic redshirts across both freestyle and Greco. Take a look at the full list of athletes who earned themselves Olympic redshirts below.
Freestyle
Dylan Ragusin, Michigan - 2nd place 57 kg
Sam Latona, Virginia Tech - 6th place 57 kg
Jakob Comacho, NC State - 7th place 57 kg
Andrew Alirez, Northern Colorado - 1st place 65 kg
Yahya Thomas, Northwestern - 4th place 65 kg
Hayden Hidlay, NC State - 3rd place 74 kg
Danny Braunagel, Illinois - 7th place 74 kg
Rocky Elam, Missouri - 5th place 86 kg
Eric Schultz, Nebraska - 5th place 97 kg
Trent Hillger, Wisconsin - 4th place at 125 kg
Christian Lance, Nebraska - 7th place at 125 kg
Greco-Roman
Alex Thomsen, Nebraska - 1st place 60 kg
Mosha Schwartz, Northern Colorado - 2nd place 60 kg
Chance Rich, CSU Bakersfield - 4th place at 60 kg
Dylan Koontz, Ohio State - 6th place at 60 kg
Jasiah Williams, CSU Pueblo - 7th place at 67 kg
Peyton Robb, Nebraska - 4th place at 77 kg
Fritz Schierl, Ohio State - 7th place at 77 kg
Zach Braunagel, Illinois - 3rd place at 87 kg
Chad Porter, Arizona State - 2nd place at 97 kg
Braxton Amos, Wisconsin - 3rd place at 97 kg
Denzel Mabry, San Francisco State - 7th place at 97 kg
Nino Bonaccorsi, Pittsburgh - 8th place at 97 kg
Luke Luffman, Illinois - 5th place at 130 kg
Zach Schrader, California Baptist - 7th place at 130 kg
Austin Emerson, Nebraska - 8th place at 130 kg
Athletes Already Qualified
If there is a Junior World Championships, that will be the last chance for an athlete to qualify. An announcement from UWW is expected this week. Let’s take a look at every criteria. There are six that qualify an athlete, but they only need to meet one.
Past National Team member (top three from the World or Olympic Team Trials)
Top eight at the April 2019 Senior US Open
Top eight at the December 2019 Senior US Nationals Olympic Trials Qualifier
Top eight at the October 2020 Senior US Nationals
Top three at the 2019 NCAA Wrestling Championships or NCAA Champion from a previous year AND top two from the 2019 U23 World Team Trials (must accomplish both)
Previous Cadet, Junior, U23, World Medalist
Qualifiers of #1 - Past national team members (top three from the World or Olympic Team Trials)
Mason Manville, Penn State - 2017 Greco-Roman World Team Member at 75kg
Nick Reenan, NC State - 2018 National Team, second place at 86kg
Jaydin Eierman, Missouri - 2018 National Team, third place at 65kg
Tate Orndorff, Utah Valley - 2018 National Team, third place at 130kg (Greco)
Brady Koontz, Ohio State - 2019 National Team, second place at 55kg (Greco)
Qualifiers of #2 - Top 8 at the 2019 Senior U.S. Open
Matthew Schmitt, Missouri- 2019 US Open, 6th Place at 60kg (Greco)
Dylan Gregerson, Utah Valley - 2019 US Open, 7th Place at 63kg (Greco)
Lenny Merkin, Princeton - 2019 US Open, 4th Place at 72kg (Greco)
Tyler Dow, Wisconsin - 2019 US Open, 7th Place at 77kg (Greco)
Haydn Maley, Stanford - 2019 US Open, 4th Place at 130kg (Greco)
Tommy Helton, SIU Edwardsville - 2019 US Open, 7th Place at 130kg (Greco)
Kanen Storr, Michigan - 2019 US Open, 7th Place at 65kg
Anthony Valencia, Arizona State - 2019 US Open, 3rd place at 74kg
Logan Massa, Michigan - 2019 US Open, 4th Place at 74kg
Matt Finesilver, Duke - 2019 US Open, 4th Place at 79kg
Max Dean, Cornell - 2019 US Open, 8th Place at 86kg
Qualifiers of #3 - Top 8 at the December 2019 Senior US Nationals Olympic Trials Qualifier
Nick Suriano, Rutgers - 4th place at 57 kg
Nick Lee, Penn State - 3rd place at 65 kg
Josh Saunders, Cornell - 8th place at 65 kg
Evan Wick, Wisconsin - 4th place 74 kg
Anthony Cassar, Penn State - 6th place at 125 kg
Qualifiers of #6 - Previous Cadet, Junior, U23 World Medalist
Jordan Wood, Lehigh - silver medal, 2014 Cadet World Championships
Owen Webster, Minnesota - bronze medal, 2015 Cadet World Championships
Jarod Verkleeren, Penn State - gold medal, 2015 Cadet World Championships
Yianni Diakomihalis, Cornell - gold medal, 2015 Cadet World Championships
Spencer Lee, Iowa - gold medal, 2016 Junior World Championships
Daton Fix, Oklahoma State - bronze medal, 2016 Junior World Championships
Taylor LaMont, Utah Valley - bronze medal, 2016 Junior World Championships (Greco)
Travis Wittlake, Oklahoma State - bronze medal, 2016 Cadet World Championships
Jacob Warner, Iowa - bronze medal, 2016 Cadet World Championships
Kurt McHenry, Michigan - gold medal, 2016 Cadet World Championships
David Carr, Iowa State - bronze medal, 2016 Cadet World Championships
Vito Arujau, Cornell - silver medal, 2016 Cadet World Championships
Mitch McKee, Minnesota - silver medal, 2017 Junior World Championships
Ryan Deakin, Northwestern - silver medal, 2017 Junior World Championships
Gable Steveson, Minnesota - gold medal, 2017 Junior World Championships
Cevion Severado, Missouri - silver medal, 2017 Junior World Championships (Greco)
Jacori Teemer, Arizona State - bronze medal, 2017 Cadet World Championships
Will Lewan, Michigan - gold medal, 2017 Cadet World Championships
Daniel Gregory Kerkvliet, Ohio State - gold medal, 2017 Cadet World Championships
Aaron Brooks, Penn State - gold medal, 2017 Cadet World Championships
Gavin Hoffman, Ohio State - bronze medal, 2017 Cadet World Championships
Cohlton Schultz, Arizona State - gold medal, 2017 Junior World Championships (Greco)
Andrew Berreyesa, Cornell - silver medal, 2018 Junior World Championships (Greco)
Zach Elam, Missouri - silver medal, 2018 Junior World Championships
Mekhi Lewis, Virginia Tech - gold medal, 2018 Junior World Championships
Brady Berge, Penn State - bronze medal, 2018 Junior World Championships
Abe Assad, Iowa - bronze medal, 2018 Cadet World Championships
Matt Ramos, Minnesota - gold medal, 2018 Cadet World Championships
Gabe Tagg, North Carolina - bronze medal, 2019 Junior World Championships
Trent Hidlay, NC State - bronze medal, 2019 Junior World Championships
Lucas Davison, Northwestern - silver medal, 2019 Junior World Championships
Mason Parris, Michigan - gold medal, 2019 Junior World Championships
Peyton Omania, Michigan State - bronze medal, 2019 Junior World Championships