Past, Present and Future Cowboys Taking the Mat This Weekend at U.S. Open

It’s a fun weekend in the wrestling world, as grapplers from all over the country have convened in Las Vegas for the U.S. Open.

The field features a host of past, present and future Cowboys who are in search of a spot on a world team.

Winners in senior men’s freestyle brackets this weekend will earn a spot at this summer’s Final X. There, they’ll wrestle a best-of-three series for a spot on the world team. If a wrestler doesn’t win it all this weekend, they’ll get another shot at Final X in next month’s Senior World Team Trails. That comes with a pair of exceptions at 57 kg and 61 kg, where returning world/Olympic medalists have already accepted a bid to Final X.

The U20 brackets are in a similar spot. Winning the U.S. Open earns automatic qualification into the best-of-three finals at the U20 World Team Trials in June.

So, here’s a look at the Cowboys who are taking the mat, along with a few wrestlers who didn’t wrestle collegiately in Stillwater but are training at the Cowboy RTC.

Senior Men’s Freestyle (Seed)

Daton Fix (2) — 61 kg
Jax Forrest* (6) — 61 kg
Joey McKenna (1) — 65 kg
Carter Young (7) — 65 kg
Cutter Sheets — 70 kg
Dean Hamiti Jr. (2) — 79 kg
Zahid Valencia (2) — 86 kg
Brayden Thompson (7) — 86 kg
Benjamin Mower — 86 kg
Jersey Robb — 86 kg
Dustin Plott (5) — 92 kg
Gary Traub (4) — 97 kg
Wyatt Hendrickson (2) — 125 kg
*indicates class of 2026 recruit

U20 Freestyle

Ronnie Ramirez+ — 57 kg
JJ McComas — 61 kg
Kellen Wolbert* — 61 kg
Kolter Burton — 65 kg
Sergio Vega+ — 65 kg
Ishmael Guerrero+ — 70 kg
Beau Hickman+ — 70 kg
Landon Robideau+ — 70 kg
LaDarion Lockett+ — 74 kg
Colin Young — 74 kg
Ethan Teague+ — 79 kg
Cody Merrill — 92 kg
Austin Johnson+ — 97 kg
Dreshaun Ross* — 125 kg
+indicates class of 2025 recruit
*indicates class of 2026 recruit

U17 Freestyle

Rocklin Zinkin* — 55 kg
*indicates class of 2026 recruit

Schedule (Times are Central)

Friday:
12 p.m. — Senior Men’s Freestyle preliminaries, quarterfinals and consolations
6 p.m. — Senior Men’s Freestyle semifinals and consolations

Saturday:
12 p.m. — Senior Men’s Freestyle consolations and medal matches/U20 Freestyle preliminaries and consolations
6 p.m. — U20 Freestyle preliminaries and consolations
8 p.m. — Senior Men’s Freestyle championship finals

Sunday:
12 p.m. — U20 Freestyle quarterfinals, semifinals and consolations
2 p.m. — U20 Freestyle championship finals and medal matches

Brackets

USA Bracketing

Watch

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