The U.S. Open Wrestling Championships are the annual national championships for Senior-level athletes in the three Olympic styles of wrestling: men’s freestyle, women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman. The nation’s best international wrestlers will be showcased.
USA Wrestling is once again calling the event by the name it has been commonly referred to for decades, the U.S. Open.
The Senior competition format has been changed, with all three styles competing over two days, Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24.
On Friday, the men’s freestyle Qualification Tournament will be held, along with the preliminaries in the U.S. Open in women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman. On Saturday morning, the U.S. Open for men’s freestyle will begin. All three styles at the U.S. Open will be completed on Saturday.
The format has been changed so that all of the gold-medal championship matches in all three styles will be held in one session, at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday evening.
The Men’s FILA Junior National Championships feature the nation’s top 17-20 year-old wrestlers competing in Greco-Roman and freestyle.
The FILA Junior Greco-Roman Championships will be held on Thursday, April 22. The FILA Junior Freestyle Championships will be held on Sunday, April 25.
The top seven athletes in each weight class at the U.S. Open Wrestling Championships qualify to compete at the 2010 U.S. Senior World Team Trials in Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 10-12. The Men’s FILA Junior National Championships is a qualifying event for the FILA Junior World Team Trials in Colorado Springs, Colo., May 21-22.
The Cleveland Local Organizing Committee will include the following organizations:
• USA Wrestling – Ohio
• Greater Cleveland Wrestling Coaches & Officials Association
• Cleveland State University
• Mid-American Conference
• City of Cleveland
• Greater Cleveland Sports Commission
• Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland