The Cliff Keen Wrestling Club continues to be one of the premiere senior-level RTCs in the US. Just several hours after Alec Pantaleo brought home gold from the Zagreb Ranking Series tournament, the club announced the addition of NCAA champion, 4X All-American, and 2X Senior National Team member Nathan Tomasello.

The 2022 World Team Trials are set to go down in Coralville, Iowa May 21-22. This tournament will set the top two wrestlers at every weight who will wrestle-off for the world team spot in June at Final X. Seeds for the trials likely won't be released until a few days prior to the tournament, but because of its importance, we decided to predict what the top 7-8 seeds at each weight will look like. Take a look at those projections for men's freestyle below.

In which we provide a quick guide to the men's freestyle weight classes at the USMC US Open.

The World Team Trials will take place September 11-12 to determine the team that will compete in Oslo, Norway October 2-10. In this article we’ll explore what the top 8 seeds might look like for the competitors at 61kg in men’s freestyle.

Andy Hamilton warned us just prior to the 2021 Olympic Trials, “Trials History Says Expect Something Unexpected.” However, most or all these things almost nobody could have predicted. That’s part of what made this Olympic Trials and every World/Olympic Team Trials so memorable. The things we never saw coming.

Olympic Trials week is finally here! Before official seeds come out later in the week, I wanted to take my best guess at how the seeding committee will see things. 

“Nate was a true gladiator.”

Another Buckeye is joining the coaching profession. Four-time All-American and 2015 NCAA champion Nathan Tomasello is joining the wrestling staff at Duke University as an assistant coach, becoming the ninth Ohio State alumnus on staff at a collegiate program this season.

For a number of reasons, there has been a huge uptick in the past 10 years in the number of freshmen having success at the Division I level. From 2000-2009, there were four freshmen NCAA champions. From 2010-2019, there 13. That's over a 300% increase! We're now averaging more than one freshman champion per year. Anyway, I love ranking things, and I think many people enjoy critiquing my rankings, so I decided to rank every D1 NCAA title run made by a freshman, true or redshirted, from the past 11 years.

Coach Myers is back with another strength and conditioning video this week. If you missed last week’s make sure to check it out here. 

The 2010s were pretty good to the Ohio State wrestling program. Tom Ryan’s teams captured the 2015 NCAA championship and finished as national runner-up in 2017, 2018, and 2019, capping a five-year streak of top-three finishes at the tournament.

Ohio State’s wrestling program staked its claim as one of the premier destinations for young wrestlers with elite aspirations on the freestyle stage over the past decade. Since 2012, wrestlers affiliated with the Ohio Regional Training Center filled 16 world team spots, and nine current Buckeyes and alumni will start their quest for a world team berth at this weekend’s Senior Nationals in Fort Worth, Texas.

Every weight at the Senior Nationals - US Olympic Trials Qualifier will be outstanding, but the intrigue surrounding how Spencer Lee fits into this already-loaded field just might make 57kg the most compelling weight to watch in Fort Worth.

As far as we can tell, we’re starring down the barrel of a Seth Gross vs. Nathan Tomasello showdown at the Midlands Championships in just a few short days. You know, just your typical fifth-year senior vs. post-grad final. NBD. Hows it going to go? We’ll have to wait until Sunday to find out for sure, but I’ll give you a few different positions to look out for.