Outside of getting much-needed mat time in these unprecedented times, Senior Nationals didn’t hold much weight for the Olympic process like Senior Nationals and US Opens of the past. That was until USA Wrestling announced that Senior Nationals had been added to the criteria list for 2020 Olympic redshirt qualification.

2020 Senior Nationals added to criteria list for 2020 Olympic redshirt qualification@ThinkIowaCity @NCAAwrestling

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— USA Wrestling (@USAWrestling) July 30, 2020

Some teams and individuals took full advantage of this. Nebraska brought almost their entire team and five wrestlers earned Olympic redshirts across both freestyle and Greco. Take a look at the full list of athletes who earned themselves Olympic redshirts below. 

Freestyle

Dylan Ragusin, Michigan - 2nd place 57 kg

Sam Latona, Virginia Tech - 6th place 57 kg

Jakob Comacho, NC State - 7th place 57 kg

Andrew Alirez, Northern Colorado - 1st place 65 kg

Yahya Thomas, Northwestern - 4th place 65 kg

Hayden Hidlay, NC State - 3rd place 74 kg

Danny Braunagel, Illinois - 7th place 74 kg

Rocky Elam, Missouri - 5th place 86 kg

Eric Schultz, Nebraska - 5th place 97 kg

Trent Hillger, Wisconsin - 4th place at 125 kg

Christian Lance, Nebraska - 7th place at 125 kg

Greco-Roman

Alex Thomsen, Nebraska - 1st place 60 kg

Mosha Schwartz, Northern Colorado - 2nd place 60 kg

Chance Rich, CSU Bakersfield - 4th place at 60 kg

Dylan Koontz, Ohio State - 6th place at 60 kg

Jasiah Williams, CSU Pueblo - 7th place at 67 kg

Peyton Robb, Nebraska - 4th place at 77 kg

Fritz Schierl, Ohio State - 7th place at 77 kg

Zach Braunagel, Illinois - 3rd place at 87 kg

Chad Porter, Arizona State - 2nd place at 97 kg

Braxton Amos, Wisconsin - 3rd place at 97 kg

Denzel Mabry, San Francisco State - 7th place at 97 kg

Nino Bonaccorsi, Pittsburgh - 8th place at 97 kg

Luke Luffman, Illinois - 5th place at 130 kg

Zach Schrader, California Baptist - 7th place at 130 kg

Austin Emerson, Nebraska - 8th place at 130 kg

Athletes Already Qualified

If there is a Junior World Championships, that will be the last chance for an athlete to qualify. An announcement from UWW is expected this week. Let’s take a look at every criteria. There are six that qualify an athlete, but they only need to meet one.  

1. Past National Team member (top three from the World or Olympic Team Trials)

2. Top eight at the April 2019 Senior US Open

3. Top eight at the December 2019 Senior US Nationals Olympic Trials Qualifier

4. Top eight at the October 2020 Senior US Nationals

5. Top three at the 2019 NCAA Wrestling Championships or NCAA Champion from a previous year AND top two from the 2019 U23 World Team Trials (must accomplish both)

6. Previous Cadet, Junior, U23, World Medalist

Qualifiers of #1 - Past national team members (top three from the World or Olympic Team Trials)

Mason Manville, Penn State - 2017 Greco-Roman World Team Member at 75kg

Nick Reenan, NC State - 2018 National Team, second place at 86kg

Jaydin Eierman, Missouri - 2018 National Team, third place at 65kg

Tate Orndorff, Utah Valley - 2018 National Team, third place at 130kg (Greco)

Brady Koontz, Ohio State - 2019 National Team, second place at 55kg (Greco)

Qualifiers of #2 - Top 8 at the 2019 Senior U.S. Open

Matthew Schmitt, Missouri- 2019 US Open, 6th Place at 60kg (Greco)

Dylan Gregerson, Utah Valley - 2019 US Open, 7th Place at 63kg (Greco)

Lenny Merkin, Princeton - 2019 US Open, 4th Place at 72kg (Greco)

Tyler Dow, Wisconsin - 2019 US Open, 7th Place at 77kg (Greco)

Haydn Maley, Stanford - 2019 US Open, 4th Place at 130kg (Greco)

Tommy Helton, SIU Edwardsville - 2019 US Open, 7th Place at 130kg (Greco)

Kanen Storr, Michigan - 2019 US Open, 7th Place at 65kg

Anthony Valencia, Arizona State - 2019 US Open, 3rd place at 74kg

Logan Massa, Michigan - 2019 US Open, 4th Place at 74kg

Matt Finesilver, Duke - 2019 US Open, 4th Place at 79kg

Max Dean, Cornell - 2019 US Open, 8th Place at 86kg

Qualifiers of #3 - Top 8 at the December 2019 Senior US Nationals Olympic Trials Qualifier

Nick Suriano, Rutgers - 4th place at 57 kg

Nick Lee, Penn State - 3rd place at 65 kg

Josh Saunders, Cornell - 8th place at 65 kg

Evan Wick, Wisconsin - 4th place 74 kg

Anthony Cassar, Penn State - 6th place at 125 kg

Qualifiers of #6 - Previous Cadet, Junior, U23 World Medalist

Jordan Wood, Lehigh - silver medal, 2014 Cadet World Championships

Owen Webster, Minnesota - bronze medal, 2015 Cadet World Championships

Jarod Verkleeren, Penn State - gold medal, 2015 Cadet World Championships

Yianni Diakomihalis, Cornell - gold medal, 2015 Cadet World Championships

Spencer Lee, Iowa - gold medal, 2016 Junior World Championships

Daton Fix, Oklahoma State - bronze medal, 2016 Junior World Championships

Taylor LaMont, Utah Valley - bronze medal, 2016 Junior World Championships (Greco)

Travis Wittlake, Oklahoma State - bronze medal, 2016 Cadet World Championships

Jacob Warner, Iowa - bronze medal, 2016 Cadet World Championships

Kurt McHenry, Michigan - gold medal, 2016 Cadet World Championships

David Carr, Iowa State - bronze medal, 2016 Cadet World Championships

Vito Arujau, Cornell - silver medal, 2016 Cadet World Championships

Mitch McKee, Minnesota - silver medal, 2017 Junior World Championships

Ryan Deakin, Northwestern - silver medal, 2017 Junior World Championships

Gable Steveson, Minnesota - gold medal, 2017 Junior World Championships

Cevion Severado, Missouri - silver medal, 2017 Junior World Championships (Greco)

Jacori Teemer, Arizona State - bronze medal, 2017 Cadet World Championships

Will Lewan, Michigan - gold medal, 2017 Cadet World Championships

Daniel Gregory Kerkvliet, Ohio State - gold medal, 2017 Cadet World Championships

Aaron Brooks, Penn State - gold medal, 2017 Cadet World Championships

Gavin Hoffman, Ohio State - bronze medal, 2017 Cadet World Championships

Cohlton Schultz, Arizona State - gold medal, 2017 Junior World Championships (Greco)

Andrew Berreyesa, Cornell - silver medal, 2018 Junior World Championships (Greco)

Zach Elam, Missouri - silver medal, 2018 Junior World Championships

Mekhi Lewis, Virginia Tech - gold medal, 2018 Junior World Championships

Brady Berge, Penn State - bronze medal, 2018 Junior World Championships

Abe Assad, Iowa - bronze medal, 2018 Cadet World Championships

Matt Ramos, Minnesota - gold medal, 2018 Cadet World Championships

Gabe Tagg, North Carolina - bronze medal, 2019 Junior World Championships

Trent Hidlay, NC State - bronze medal, 2019 Junior World Championships

Lucas Davison, Northwestern - silver medal, 2019 Junior World Championships

Mason Parris, Michigan - gold medal, 2019 Junior World Championships

Peyton Omania, Michigan State - bronze medal, 2019 Junior World Championships