IMPORTANT NOTE* – The wrestlers listed immediately below are members of this year’s Cadet/Junior World Teams who would have been eligible to compete, but have been intentionally omitted from the AWP’s Fargo predictions. The Cadet World Championships will be held in Slovakia from July 15th-20th, and Junior competition will take place in Croatia from August 5th-10th. In the past some wrestlers have competed in Fargo as well as the World Championships, and hypothetically that remains a possibility for this year’s event. However, given the close proximity of dates this year, we are choosing to limit these predictions to non-World Team Members only in the interest of most accurately portraying the contenders at each respective weight class.
Cadet World Team Members: Jason Holmes (Arizona), Gavin Teasdale (Pennsylvania), Cade Olivas (California), Dack Punke (Illinois), Spencer Lee (Pennsylvania), Drew West (Iowa), Daton Fix (Oklahoma), Jacob Spiess (Ohio), Carter Happel (Iowa), Taylor Lamont (Utah), Dominick Demas (Ohio), Jared Verkleeren (Pennsylvania), Mason Manville (New Jersey), Mark Hall (Minnesota), Nick Reenan (Pennsylvania), Hunter Ritter (Maryland), Timothy Young (Illinois), Ethan Andersen (Iowa), Jordan Wood (Pennsylvania), Jacob Marnin (Iowa), Tate Orndorff (Washington)
Junior World Team Members: Jabari Moody (Illinois), Joey McKenna (New Jersey), Dante Rodriguez (Nebraska), Aaron Pico (California), Jon Jay Chavez (Idaho), Kyle Snyder (Maryland)
CADETS
88lbs – Trey Keeley (Illinois) over Nathan Rankin (Texas)
94lbs – Peter Ogunsanya (Illinois) over Cody Phippen (Kansas)
100lbs – Dom Lajoie (Michigan) over Matt Parker (Pennsylvania)
106lbs – Kaden Gfeller (Oklahoma) over Drew Mattin (Ohio)
113lbs – Austin Gomez (Illinois) over Jason Renteria (Illinois)
120lbs – Austin O’Connor (Illinois) over Jacob Greenwood (Colorado)
126lbs – Chad Red (Indiana) over Corey Shie (Ohio)
132lbs – Jaden Enriquez (California) over Jaron Jensen (Utah)
138lbs – Ethan Karsten (Missouri) over Devin Bahr (Wisconsin)
145lbs – Lenny Merkin (New York) over Riley Seward (Washington)
152lbs – Owen Webster (Minnesota) over Johnny Blankenship (Missouri)
160lbs – Jacob Warner (Illinois) over Ben Darmstadt (Ohio)
170lbs – Kamal Bey (Illinois) over Brandon Dallavia (New Jersey)
182lbs – Wyatt Koelling (Utah) over Zane Black (Pennsylvania)
195lbs – Kobe Woods (Indiana) over George Bessette (Illinois)
220lbs – Gannon Gremmel (Iowa) over Luke Ready (Michigan)
285lbs – Kevin Vough (Ohio) over Nick Boykin (Tennessee)
JUNIORS
100lbs – Louie Hayes (Illinois) over Randon Miranda (California)
106lbs – Kirk Johansen (Illinois) over Breandan Coughlin (Maryland)
113lbs – Joey Prata (Virginia) over Brock George (Utah)
120lbs – Skylar Petry (Minnesota) over Isaac Jimenez (Texas)
126lbs – Mitchell McKee (Minnesota) over Jonathan Marmolejo (Illinois)
132lbs – Ke-Shawn Hayes (Missouri) over Jordan Shearer (North Dakota)
138lbs – Blake Celvenger (Missouri) over Griffin Parriott (Minnesota)
145lbs – Isaiah White (Illinois) over Matt Findlay (Utah)
152lbs – Larry Early (Illinois) over Colston DiBlasi (Missouri)
160lbs – Joey Gunther (Illinois) over Izaec Quintanilla (Washington)
170lbs – Chandler Rogers (Oklahoma) over Kimball Bastian (Utah)
182lbs – Dylan Wisman (Virginia) over Justan Rivera (Georgia)
195lbs – Bobby Steveson (Minnesota) over Sammy Colbray (Oregon)
220lbs – Roy Nash (Utah) over Jeramy Sweany (California)
285lbs – Adarios Jones (Illinois) over Luis Pinto (Minnesota)
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