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Iowa State Set For 2018 US Marine Corps U.S. Open
04.25.2018 | Wrestling
AMES, Iowa – The Nation's top Freestyle and Greco talent is set to descend on Las Vegas this weekend for the 2018 Marine Corps U.S. Open. The event will take place at South Point Arena, April 26-28.
Iowa State will be sending six wrestlers on its current roster to compete in the UWW Junior Freestyle tournament. The top-eight finishers in each bracket will earn a shot to make the Junior World Team at the UWW Junior World Team Trials in Rochester, Minn., May 18-19.
Freshmen Austin Gomez (61 kg), Ryan Leisure (65 kg), Marcus Coleman (79 kg), Tucker Morrison (79 kg) Alec McDowell (86 kg) and Gannon Gremmel (125 kg) are all set to represent the Cardinal and Gold in Las Vegas.
Last summer, Gomez came one match short of qualifying for the Junior World Team, falling to Minnesota's Mitch McKee in a best-of-three series for the spot at 60 kg, 2-1. He's been a member of the Junior National Team the past two years and has won gold at the Pan-American games twice.
The Cyclones will also have two future grapplers at the tournament in David Carr (70 kg) and Hunter DeJong (97 kg).
Both Carr and DeJong have seen experience at the international level. Carr was a member of the Cadet World Team and earned a bronze medal for the United States. Last summer, DeJong was a member of the Cadet Pan-American team and won gold in Freestyle and silver in Greco.
The tournament is set to begin Friday at 11 a.m. CT. The tournament will resume on Saturday at 11 a.m. CT with semifinal and medal round action, followed by the finals at 12:30 p.m. CT. You can stream the event life through flowrestling.org and follow the brackets through FloArena.
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