Senior world team trials wrestling 2025
Event Venue
Norton Healthcare Sports & Study Center3029 W Muhammad Ali Blvd
Louisville, KY 40212
Event Director
Pete Isaispisais@usawrestling.org
USA Wrestling is excited to make known the 2025 USA Wrestling Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament will be held at the Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center May 16th-17th!
COACHES AND ATHLETES PLEASE BRING A COPY OF YOUR USAW MEMBERSHIP CARD WITH YOU TO THE EVENT.
For media credentials and all media related questions, please contact communications@usawrestling.org. The deadline to apply for media credentials to the Senior Planet Team Trials Challenge Tournament is 7 p.m. (ET) on Tuesday, May 6.
Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center
3029 W Muhammad Ali Blvd
Louisville, Kentucky 40212
May 16th-17th
By Richard Immel
USA Wrestling
The 16 remaining Last X spots will be determined at the Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament being held at Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center in Louisville, Kentucky on May 16-17.
Eight brackets will be contested in both the men’s freestyle and women’s freestyle divisions. Each champion in Louisville will face the 2025 U.S. Open champion in a best-of-three series at Final X to determine the Team USA characteristic at the 2025 Senior Society Championships. Final X will seize place on June 14 at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
Four Final X matchups are already determined—men’s freestyle 57 kg and 61 kg and women’s freestyle 57 kg and 65 kg—which removes those weight classes from the Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament field.
Unlike the U.S. Open, athletes must qualify to enter the Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament field. To review the Senior World Team selection process in each discipline, including Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament qualification criteria, see the Team Selection Criteria page.
A list of qualified athletes for Louisville post-U.S. Ope
2025 World Team Trials Challenge Tournament Results
The 2025 World Team Trials Challenge Tournament is currently underway in Louisville, Kentucky. The winner of every bracket at this event will advance to Final X on June 14th to compete for a spot on the 2025 world team. You can watch this event live only on FloWrestling and follow along with the results in the article below.
Men's Freestyle
Finials
65 - Real Woods, CKWT over Brock Hardy, NRTM (Dec 10-6)
70 - PJ Duke, TMWC over Bryce Andonian, STMW (Dec 4-1 )
74 - David Carr, CRTM over Jarrett Jacques, TSWC (Dec 2-0 )
79 - Levi Haines, TMNL over Dean Hamiti Jr, CRTM (Dec 10-2 )
86 - Kyle Dake, NLWT over Carter Starocci, NLTM (Dec 3-3 )
92 - Joshua Barr, NLTM over Aeoden Sinclair, TSWC (Dec 7-3 )
97 - Hayden Zillmer, GWC over Jonathan Aiello, PRTM (Dec 5-3 )
125 - Trent Hillger, GWC over Demetrius Thomas, NYAC (Dec 10-4 )
3rd Place
65 - Marcus Blaze, TMWC over Carter Young, CRTM (Dec 4-0 )
70 - Ian Parker, CWC over Ridge Lovett, NRTM (Dec 5-4 )
74 - Joseph Blaze, BORT over Quincy Monday, NTMW (Dec 7-2 )
79 - Simon Ruiz, SCRT over Ethan Riddle, MIRT (TF 11-1 (2:38) )
86 - Parker Keckeisen, PWCR over Marcus Col
Final X
About
Beat the Streets Wrestling (New York) and USA Wrestling will present Final X on Saturday, June 14 at Prudential Center! Final X will determine the 2025 U.S. Senior World Championships Teams in two Olympic disciplines: men's and women's freestyle. There will be 20 weight classes contested, 10 each in men's and women's freestyle.
The superior two U.S. athletes in each weight class will compete in a best-of-three series at Last X to determine who will wrestle at the 2025 Senior World Championships on Sept. 13-21 in Zagreb, Croatia.
In men's freestyle, the Final X field is highlighted by four-time Earth champion and two-time Olympic bronze medalist Kyle Dake squaring off against 2023 World bronze medalist Zahid Valencia. The nation's No. 1-ranked high school wrestler PJ Duke will compete against former 2022 World silver medalist and four-time NCAA champion Yianni Diakomihalis.
New Jersey native Joey McKenna will return to his house state to compete against Actual Woods as both men seek to make their first Senior World team.
Olympic champions Helen Maroulis and Amit Elor will bring the star power to the women's freestyle side. Maroulis, a three-time Olympic medalist a
Event Venue
Norton Healthcare Sports & Teaching Center3029 W Muhammad Ali Blvd
Louisville, KY 40212
Event Director
Pete Isaispisais@usawrestling.org
All athletes who are U.S. citizens, meet the Senior age organization requirements and have fulfilled the existing qualifying procedures are eligible to participate at the 2025 USA Wrestling Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament Click here for the 2025 qualification procedures.
******MUST BE QUALIFIED TO ENTER THIS TOURNAMENT*****
******CLICK HERE TO SEE QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS*****
Scratch weight -
Senior Athletes:
Men's Freestyle
Athletes born in 2007 or before are eligible
*** limited weights depending on Earth Medalist declarations. The event only applies in weight categories where a 2024 Senior Men’s Freestyle Olympic Medalist or 2024 Senior Men’s Freestyle World Medalist did not accept their automatic berth to Final X or where there is no 2024 Senior Men’s Freestyle Olympic Medalist or 2024 Senior Men’s Freestyle World Medalist.
Women's Freestyle
Athletes born in 2007 or before are eligible.
*** limited weights