The Budapest ranking series tournament will begin on June 6th and continue to the 9th. This is the last tournament were competitors can earn seeding points for the Olympic Games in Paris.
Team USA is sending 16 wrestling total which include 6 Olympians.
Team USA Squad:
Men’s Freestyle-
61kg- Nahshon Garrett
70kg- Evan Henderson
86kg- Trent Hidlay
125kg- Mason Parris
Greco-Roman-
60kg- Dalton Roberts
72kg- Alejandro Sancho
77kg- Jesse Porter
82kg- Spencer Woods
87kg- Payton Jacobsen
97kg- Josef Rau
130kg- Adam Coon
Women’s-
50kg- Audrey Jiminez
53kg- Haley Augello
55kg- Amanda Martinez
57kg- Helen Maroulis
62kg- Kayla Miracle
Notes:
Team USA is not sending a representative at the 57kg weight class, but it should be a fun one to watch with Rei Higuchi, Aman Sehrawat, Aliabbas Rzazade and Gulomjon Abdullaev.
61kg weight class is headlines by Armenia’s Arsen Harutyunyan
65kg weight class is stacked with Vazgen Tevanyan, Ismail Musukaev, Haji Aliyev, and Kotaro Kiyooka (wrestler who overtook Otoguro)
74kg will have Turan Bayramov, Razambek Zhamalov, as well as Bekzod Abdurakhmonov
Hassan Yazdani will be competing at 86kgs, he will most likely face Myles Amine or Kazakhstan’s Azamat Dauletbekov in the finals if brackets permit
A few big names at 97kg which include Magomedkhan Magomedov, Rizabek Aitmukhan, and Batyrbek Tsakulov.
No Zare at 125kg as Iran is sending Amirreza Masoumi who has had phenomenal results so far in his career. Possible that we see a Mason Parris vs Geno Petriashvili rematch from last years world semis.
At 130kg Riza Kayaalp will be in the field but no Amin Mirzazadeh for Iran.
Japan does not look to have any entries in women’s freestyle.