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- Susaki pins her way to a fifth World title
Yui Susaki went through the 50kg bracket in Astana without giving up a single point, outscoring five opponents 34-0 and finishing the final by fall. Helen Maroulis took bronze at 57kg for her 12th career World or Olympic medal.
- Nagamoto stuns Maroulis for 57kg world title
Sena Nagamoto scored a late takedown to beat Olympic champion Helen Maroulis 3-2 in Astana. GlobalWrestOrder calls it one of the biggest upsets in women's wrestling history, and it costs the US a world title at 57kg.
- Ono's eligibility clock stopped while Penn State sues
Pat Mineo reports Penn State's court fight over Ono's eligibility has frozen his clock, which could hand him a free redshirt year. Meanwhile Mikey Caliendo beat Jordan Burroughs at RAF 14.
- Schultz out, six of seven US Greco men gone
Six of the seven Team USA Greco wrestlers who have gone in Astana are already eliminated, Cohlton Schultz on 1-1 criteria at 130kg. Iran has 130 team points through two days. The US has no medalists.
- Caliendo beats Jordan Burroughs at RAF 14
Mikey Caliendo handed Jordan Burroughs a loss in Las Vegas, the biggest win of his career against a seven-time world and Olympic champion. Ridge Lovett took the vacant lightweight belt by tech fall on the same card.
- Suriano and Kerkvliet off RAF 14, and 11 days begin
Nick Suriano and Greg Kerkvliet are both off tonight's RAF 14 card, the opening night of 11 straight days of wrestling that run through Worlds and college opening weekend.
- Mendez cleared, Haines ineligible, per Pat Mineo
Two NCAA champions got opposite answers from the eligibility process: Jesse Mendez is good to go at Ohio State, Levi Haines is not at Penn State, per Pat Mineo. Both lineups change days before the season.
- Snyder, Dake, Bo Bassett: USA's Astana schedule is set
A teenager in Bo Bassett opens Team USA's World Championships at 65kg on the same day Kyle Snyder goes at 97kg. Justin Basch laid out when every American wrestles in Astana.
- UWW to enforce against clippers before Senior Worlds
United World Wrestling says every clip from its events, past or future, needs written consent, and Pat Mineo is asking whether squeezing media revenue is now costing the sport fans.
- Welker goes 38-0 at U23s, US men's 74kg melts down
Kylie Welker won her third straight U23 title without surrendering a single point, outscoring the field 38-0, while Jayden James blew a 3-0 lead in the 74kg final and gave up back exposure in the closing seconds to lose 5-3 to Russia. Team USA's women took six medals in Vegas, but the men's freestyle squad is already facing questions about depth at the U23 level heading into Senior Worlds.
- Ben Davino wins U23 World gold at 61kg
Ben Davino outscored four opponents 32-2 to win 61kg gold in Las Vegas, Team USA's first men's freestyle title of the tournament. Jayden James took silver at 74kg and Coby Merrill bronze at 125kg.
- Rodriguez-Dobler pins for U23 World gold at 53kg
Cristelle Rodriguez-Dobler needed less than a minute to pin Turkey's Sevval Cayir for U23 gold, and she is headed to Senior Worlds in Astana. Hours later Bo Bassett got hit with a four-point move inside 10 seconds and the US men's bracket fell apart.
- Welker wins third straight U23 World title, 38-0
Kylie Welker went through the entire U23 World Championships at 76kg without giving up a single point, 38-0, and needed 48 seconds to tech her way to gold. No American woman had ever won three in a row.
- Welker into a third straight U23 World final
Kylie Welker went tech, pin, tech to reach the U23 World final at 76kg for the third year running, with gold on the line tonight. Meanwhile Jesse Mendez quietly reappeared on Ohio State's roster as a fifth-year.
- Sadulaev beats Kurbanov 5-3, back on Russia's World team
Abdulrashid Sadulaev took the 97kg wrestle-off 5-3 and dropped himself into a bracket that now holds four Olympic champions. Kyle Snyder is one of them.
- Crosby, Attao teched out of U23 Greco quarterfinals
Four Americans reached the Greco quarterfinals in Las Vegas and all four lost by tech fall, three of them without scoring. Also: the All-Star Classic is headed to Rec Hall without Oklahoma State.
- Robert Morris adds D1 wrestling, first since Morgan State
Jason Bryant counts 35 new wrestling programs announced in 2026, and Robert Morris is the first D1 school to start or reinstate since Morgan State. The Colonials wrestle in 2027-28.
- Five Americans open U23 Worlds Greco Monday in Vegas
Ryder Rogotzke was added to the U23 Greco team this week and wrestles at 97kg Monday afternoon in Las Vegas. Greco goes first, with medals decided Tuesday night.
- Rogotzke takes 97kg Greco spot as U23 Worlds open
Oklahoma State's de facto wrestle-offs will not be streamed, per Justin Basch, so the Cowboy lineup gets sorted out where nobody outside Stillwater can see it. Plus a late Greco swap hours before U23 Worlds.
- Robert Morris adds D1 men's wrestling for 2027-28
Robert Morris will launch a Division I men's wrestling program in Moon Township, the first D1 school to start or reinstate the sport since Morgan State. Jason Bryant counts it as the 35th new program announced in 2026.
- Sadulaev wrestles off Kurbanov Oct 10-15 for 97kg
Angelo Ferrari beat Mitchell Mesenbrink 3-2 in the consolation rounds of the 2021 Super 32, and FloWrestling says Ferrari still has not given up a college takedown. A 2027 meeting at 174 is suddenly the argument of the day.
- Bassett's Final X run, all-access from Virginia Tech
"I'm willing to die." That is the line Virginia Tech leads with in its all-access film of Bo Bassett making his first Senior World Team at Final X.
- Amit Elor is out of U23 Worlds
World and Olympic champion Amit Elor will not wrestle the U23 World Championships, and Taylor Graveman steps in. Plus a $1.2 million National Duals purse and Burroughs vs Nurykau again.
- Fujinami pinned: 155-match streak is over
Akari Fujinami had not lost a wrestling match in nine years. Il Sim Son of North Korea built a 10-0 lead at 57kg and then pinned her, and the longest active streak in the sport is gone.