Trio of Wolverines to Compete at US Wresting Olympic Team Trials
4/1/2021 3:12:00 PM | Wrestling
U.S. Wrestling Olympic Team Trials
Fri-Sat., April 2-3 • 10 a.m./Noon CDT
Dickies Arena • Fort Worth, Texas
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U-M at the USA Wrestling Trials
Two current University of Michigan wrestlers and one former Wolverine will vie for spots in Tokyo at the U.S. Wrestling Olympic Team Trials this Friday and Saturday (April 2-3) at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. Sixth-year senior Logan Massa will compete in the 74kg/163-pound freestyle division, while junior Mason Parris will wrestle at 125kg/275-pound freestyle. Former Wolverine great Adam Coon, who still trains in Ann Arbor with the Cliff Keen Wrestling Club, will compete in the 130kg/286-pound Greco-Roman division.
The trials feature 18 Olympic wrestling weight classes in the three Olympic styles (men's freestyle, men's Greco-Roman, women's freestyle) to be contested at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Brackets will be released after weigh-ins on Friday (April 2).
When to Catch Them
Each day will feature two sessions in all weights and styles. Preliminary, quarterfinal and consolation rounds commence at 10 a.m. CDT on Friday, followed by the challenge tournament semifinals and finals at 6:30 p.m. CDT. Saturday's action includes the challenge tournament consolation and third-place matches at noon CDT, while the best-of-three championship series starts at 6:30 p.m. CDT.
Friday, April 2
Session I: 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. CDT
Session II: 6:30-10 p.m. CDT
Saturday, April 3
Session III: Noon-4 p.m. CDT
Session IV: 6:30-10 p.m. CDT
How to Catch the Action
Live results and bracket updates from the trials will be posted on TrackWrestling.com, while full recaps will be available on TheMat.com, the official website of USA Wrestling.
NBC Olympics will provide exclusive live coverage of every match of the Olympic Trials. NBCSN will broadcast the challenge tournament finals 6:30 p.m. CDT on Friday (April 2) and the best-of-three championship series at 6:30 p.m. CDT on Saturday (April 3), while NBC's Peacock streaming platform will air the early sessions both days, starting at 10 a.m. CDT Friday and noon CDT Saturday. Peacock will also cover several mats during the Friday night challenge tournament finals.
Limited tickets are still available for the Olympic Trials and can be purchased online at Ticketmaster.
The Wolverine Representatives
Adam Coon -- Coon enters the Olympic Trials as the No. 1 seed in 130kg Greco. He is a two-time U.S. world team member and captured world silver in 2018, pinning his way into the final with four straight falls before falling to Russia's Sergey Semenov, 9-0, in the gold-medal match. It was the first world medal for an American in Greco-Roman wrestling since 2015 and Coon was the first to reach the world finals since 2009. Coon is cadet, junior and senior world medalist. He captured 2011 Cadet freestyle gold and claimed double bronze in junior freestyle and Greco-Roman in 2014 before winning his senior-level silver. Coon was a three-time NCAA All-American at heavyweight for Michigan (2014-16, '18). [ USA Wrestling Greco Upperweight Preview ]
Logan Massa -- Massa, who enters the trials with the No. 4 seed at 74kg freestyle, is the two-time reigning U.S. Senior Nationals champion at the weight, winning in December 2019 and again in October 2020. He earned a 4-0 win over Iowa State NCAA champion David Carr in the semifinals of the 2020 event, before rolling past Arizona State's Anthony Valencia, 15-2, in the final. He is a former FILA Junior National champion at 70 kg and twice finished top three at the FILA Junior World Teal Trials, taking second plate in 2014 and third in 2015. Massa captured his second NCAA All-America honor, placing fifth at 174 pounds, two weeks ago in St. Louis. [ USA Wrestling Freestyle Lightweight Preview ]
Mason Parris -- Parris is the No. 3 seed at 125kg freestyle. He split matches with the top-seeded Nick Gwiazdowski at the RTC Cup last December, sacrificing an eight-point lead in the first bout before bouncing back with a 10-7 decision to clinch the Cliff Keen Wrestling Club's win in the event's semifinals. Parris captured the U.S. Senior Nationals title at 125kg last October and was a 2019 junior world champion in his first ever international event, pinning Iran's Amir Hossein Abbas Zare (1:20) in the final. Parris claimed heavyweight NCAA runner-up honors two weeks ago in St. Louis, falling to Minnesota's Gable Steveson, the trials' No. 2 seed, in the final. Parris' only losses over the last two collegiate seasons have been to Steveson. [ USA Wrestling Upperweight Freestyle Preview ]
NOTE: Graduate students Myles Amine (86kg) and Stevan Micic (57kg) already are qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games after their fifth-place finishes at the 2019 World Championships. Amine represents San Marino internationally, while Micic wrestles for Serbia. They are the first freestyle wrestling representatives from either country to qualify for the Olympic Games.
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