Nationality/Passport requirements:

• The World Team Trials process is open to all athletes eligible to represent the United States of America at the World Championships as governed by United World Wrestling (UWW) and USA Wrestling (USAW) rules.
• Athlete must have completed USA sporting nationality with UWW prior to the athlete's World Team Tryout event.

Contestants are randomly drawn by computer.
 

The current rules of UWW will govern the event and the competition (except bracketing procedures).  Tech falls will be a difference of 10 points for freestyle and 8 points for Greco.

** An injured athlete will have until one hour after the end of his first day of competition to announce his injury to the UWW Doctor.  For all the other type of injuries or diseases that happen out of competition, the concerned athlete will have to attend the second weigh-in otherwise he will be eliminated of the competition and the ranked last, without rank.

Click here to review the current rules of UWW.

Video Review will be conducted on quarterfinals, semi-finals, finals, medal matches, and consolation semi-finals.  

U23 Division: Wrestlers from the same club will be separated. This division will employ double-elimination line bracketing with wrestle-backs to third place. 

• At weigh-ins and registration, please check to make sure that the level listed is correct. If it is not, be sure to tell the head table workers and the problem will be resolved.
• U20 will wrestle two - 3 minute periods with 30 second rest as per UWW rules.

For U23 Pan American selection, team selection will be determined by following rank order (1-8) results at the U23 Nationals (Geneva, OH).