This weekend in Rochester, Minnesota, 10 young men's freestyler's will earn the right to represent America at the Junior world championships. Starting on Friday, May 18th, and culminating with the finals on Saturday, May 19th, the UWW Junior world team trials will be used to determine who gets to go to Trnava, Slovakia this September.

If you've never watched the Junior WTT, or have been hibernating since folkstyle season ended, here is a helpful overview to read up on before this weekend starts. The UWW Junior age group is for 18-20 year olds, or those born between 1998 and 2000.

A few notes before we start. First, the 10 U.S. Open champs have to make weight on both days, even though they don't have to wrestle until the best-of-three finals on Saturday night. Second, it is very likely that Daton Fix requests a wrestle-off for the 57kg spot, which he earned by being a returning world champ AND placing in the top three of the Open for seniors.

Thursday May 17

UWW Jr. FS Seeding Meeting: 7:00pm

Friday May 18

UWW JR Freestyle Medical and Weigh-in: 8:00 am - 8:30 am

Session I

UWW Junior Freestyle: 1st Round, Quarterfinals and Consolation

10:00 am – 2:00 pm – UWW JR Freestyle – Fieldhouse

Session II

UWW Junior Freestyle: Semi-Finals, Finals, 3rd Place, Consolation

4:00 pm – 7:30 pm – UWW JR Freestyle – Fieldhouse

Saturday May 19

UWW JR Freestyle Medical Check and Weigh-in (+2kg): 8:30 am - 8:45 am

Session IV

UWW Junior Freestyle: Best 2 out of 3 Championship: 1:00 pm – 4:45 pm

JUNIOR PREVIEW + PREDICTIONS

Entries

Below are the entries from FloArena

57kg

Sitting in Finals: Brandon Courtney

Gage Curry

Joey Melendez

Malik Heinselman

Patrick McKee

Paul Bianchi

Rayvon Foley

Sidney Flores

Ty Smith

61kg

Sitting in Finals: Austin Gomez

Drew Mattin

Gabriel Tagg

Jack Skudlarczyk

Jordan Decatur

Joshua Saunders

McGwire Midkiff

Nick Farro

Vitali Arujau

65kg

Sitting in Finals: Dom Demas

Andrew Alirez

Ben Freeman

Chad Red

Jakob Bergeland

Jarod Verkleeren

Kaden Gfeller

Kanen Storr

Max Murin

Michael Blockhus

Nick Lee

Nikolas Chavez

Parker Filius

Sammy Sasso

Yahya Thomas

70kg

Sitting in Finals: Austin O'Connor

AJ Jaffe

Brady Berge

Brayton Lee

Brock Mauller

David Carr

Jacori Teemer

Jaden Van Maanen

Peyton Robb

Will Lewan

74kg

Sitting in Finals: Jeremiah Moody

Alex Marinelli

Hayden Hastings

Jarrett Jacques

Jeremiah Moody

Kaleb Romero

Max Wohlabaugh

Mekhi Lewis

Travis Wittlake

79kg

Sitting in Finals: Aaron Brooks

Beau Breske

Ethan Smith

Jacob Covaciu

Matthew Finesilver

Michael Labriola

Travis Stefanik

Trent Hidlay

86kg

Sitting in Finals: Louie Deprez

Cameron Caffey

Jelani Embree

Kordell Norfleet

Max Lyon

Myles Wilson

Nino Bonaccorsi

Owen Webster

Tyrell Gordon

92kg

Sitting in Finals: Jacob Warner

Alexander Hopkins

Cade Belshay

Danny Salas

Jacob Raschka

John Borst

Lucas Davison

97kg

Sitting in Finals: Daniel Kerkvliet

Cale Davidson

Hunter DeJong

Quinn Miller

Zach Elam

125kg

Sitting in Finals: Gannon Gremmel

Anthony Cassioppi

Bobby Heald

Brandon Metz

Christian Rebottaro

Gable Steveson

Max Darrah

Robert Winters

Trent Hillger