Cortez, Black, Adams highlight Greco-Roman champions at U20 World Team Trials
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by Richard Immel, USA Wrestling
2025 U20 World Team Trials Greco-Roman champions.
GENEVA, Ohio – Three age-group World medalists—Isaiah Cortez, Otto Black and Joel Adams—captain a talented lineup on the newly set U20 U.S. World Team in Greco-Roman.
SPIRE Academy played host to the 2025 U20 World Team Trials in the Greco-Roman division on Friday, with 10 individual champions cementing spots on the Team USA squad that will compete at the 2025 U20 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, this August.
Cortez and Black both collected a silver medal at last year’s U20 Worlds held in Pontevedra, Spain. The pair looked sharp throughout the day, each going through the challenge tournament bracket before securing best-of-three series wins against tough opponents.
At 60 kg, U20 Nationals champion Manuel Saldate did not enter the field, leaving the door open for Cortez, who posted four technical fall wins and outscored his opponents a combined 35-2. He scored a pair of 8-0 techs in the challenge tournament to set up a championship series matchup against U20 Nationals runner-up Treygen Morin. Cortez topped Morin convincingly, 10-2 and 9-0.
It was a 5-0 day for the always-exciting Black at 67 kg. He collected three technical falls and a pair of decisions on his way to the title. Black was pushed by U20 Nationals champion Pierson Manville in the best-of-three finals, but ultimately emerged in straight sets, 10-1 and 7-5.
Adams navigated to his fourth-straight age-group World Team berth, and third-straight at the U20 level, with an impressive showing at 72 kg. He was a U17 World champion in 2022 before jumping up to the U20 division.
In a similar situation to Cortez, Adams did not have to face the U20 Nationals champion in the best-of-three finals. Wyatt Medlin, who was supposed to sit out to the finals, did not compete on Friday, giving Adams a clear path to the title. Adams went 4-0 on the day with three technical falls, defeating U20 Nationals runner-up Jude Randall in the championship series, 5-1 and 11-0.
Also qualifying for his fourth-straight age-group World Team was 82 kg champion Arvin Khosravy. He was on the U17 World Team in 2022 and 2023, and the U20 World Team last year. 97 kg champion Soren Herzog rounds out this list of 2024 U20 World Team members who qualified in 2025. Both Khosravy and Herzog are current service academy cadets, Khosravy at Army West Point and Herzog at Air Force Academy.
2023 U20 World Team member Landon Drury adds to the experienced depth of this year’s U20 World Team. Drury, who earned the 63 kg title with a pair of decisions over Carter Nogle, was fifth at the 2023 U20 Worlds.
Five U20 Nationals champions from the U.S. Open Champions held in Las Vegas, Nev., in April, punched through to the U20 World Team—Drury, Caleb Noble at 55 kg, Leister Bowling IV at 77 kg, Nick Nosler at 87 kg and Shilo Jones at 130 kg.
Scores from the best-of-three championship series and the challenge tournament placement matches can be found below. Complete brackets and match-by-match results can are available on USA Bracketing.
The action from Ohio continues on Saturday with the men’s freestyle division of the U20 World Team Trials, plus the first day of the men’s freestyle U23 Nationals. Both tournaments begin at 9:30 a.m. (ET), with the U20 freestyle finals scheduled for 4 p.m. (ET). A complete schedule of events is available at usawrestlingevents.com.
Watch every match from the 2025 U23 Nationals and U20 World Team Trials live or on-demand at FloWrestling.com.
2025 U20 World Team Trials #
May 30-June 1, SPIRE Academy, Geneva, Ohio #
Quick Links #
U20 Greco-Roman Results #
Best-of-Three Championship Series #
55 kg #
Caleb Noble (Toss Em Up Wrestling Academy) defeated Nicolas Enzminger (MatPac), two matches to none
Round 1 – Noble dec. Enzminger, 5-3
Round 2 – Noble dec. Enzminger, 8-5
60 kg #
Isaiah Cortez (Gilroy) defeated Treygen Morin (Suples WC), two matches to none
Round 1 – Cortez tech. fall Morin, 10-2
Round 2 – Cortez tech. fall Morin, 9-0
63 kg #
Landon Drury (NMU-National Training Center) defeated Carter Nogle (Air Force RTC), two matches to none
Round 1 – Drury dec. Nogle, 5-2
Round 2 – Drury dec. Nogle, 4-3
67 kg #
Otto Black (New York AC/NMU) defeated Pierson Manville (Atreus WC), two matches to none
Round 1 – Black tech. fall Manville, 10-1
Round 2 – Black dec. Manville, 7-5
72 kg #
Joel Adams (Beaver Dam Wrestling RTC) defeated Jude Randall (Bellator Pro Deus Wrestling), two matches to none
Round 1 – Adams dec. Randall, 5-1
Round 2 – Adams tech. fall Randall, 11-0
77 kg #
Leister Bowling IV (Hawkeye WC) defeated Julian Slaastad (Beat the Streets Chicago-Midway), two matches to none
Round 1 – Bowling IV fall Slaastad,1:59
Round 2 – Bowling IV fall Slaastad, 6:00
82 kg #
Arvin Khosravy (West Point WC) defeated Gavin Ricketts (Kentucky), two matches to none
Round 1 – Khosravy dec. Ricketts, 8-1
Round 2 – Khosravy tech. fall Ricketts, 9-0
87 kg #
Nick Nosler (Southern Illinois RTC) defeated Aidan Squier (Combat W.C. School of Wrestling), two matches to one
Round 1 – Squier dec. Nosler, 6-1
Round 2 – Nosler tech. fall Squier, 8-0
Round 3 – Nosler dec. Squier, 2-1
97 kg #
Soren Herzog (Air Force RTC) defeated Quinlan Morgan (Jackrabbit WC), two matches to none
Round 1 – Herzog tech. fall Morgan, 9-0
Round 2 – Herzog tech. fall Morgan, 10-1
130 kg #
Shilo Jones (Bison WC) defeated Trayvn Boger (Protos WC), two matches to none
Round 1 – Jones tech. fall Boger, 8-0
Round 2 – Jones dec. Boger, 4-3
Challenge Tournament Placement Matches #
55 kg #
1st – Nicolas Enzminger (MatPac) tech. fall Titan Friederichs (No Nonsense Wrestling), 9-0
3rd – Ezekiel Witt (Bison WC) dec. Jeremiah Wachsmuth (Cobra All-Stars/Cobra Wrestling Systems LLC), 6-1
60 kg #
1st – Isaiah Cortez (Gilroy) and Treygen Morin (Suples WC) advance to best-of-three series
3rd – Dillon Cooper (Arkansas RTC) tech. fall Aaron Lucio (Southeastern WC), 14-5
63 kg #
1st – Carter Nogle (Air Force RTC) dec. Elijah Cortez (Gilroy), 10-6
3rd – Brian Grabner (Interior Grappling Academy) tech. fall William Anderson (Minion Training Center), 10-0
67 kg #
1st – Otto Black (New York AC/NMU) dec. Amryn Nutter (Combat W.C. School of Wrestling), 6-1
3rd – Valentine Popadiuc (505 Wrestling Club) dec. Brandon Dean (Betterman Elite Wrestling), 6-3
72 kg #
1st – Joel Adams (Beaver Dam Wrestling RTC) and Jude Randall (Bellator Pro Deus Wrestling) advance to best-of-three series
3rd – Billy Greenwood (GRIT Athletics WC) fall Will Scherer (Combat W.C. School of Wrestling), 1:04
77 kg #
1st – Julian Slaastad (Beat the Streets Chicago-Midway) dec. Omaury Alvarez (Tar Heel WC), 4-1
3rd – Aliaksandr Kikiniou Jr (California) tech. fall Cael Miller (Knights RTC), 9-0
82 kg #
1st – Arvin Khosravy (West Point WC) dec. Konlin Weaver (Lucha RTC), 7-0
3rd – Brent Slade, Jr. (Moen Wrestling Academy) tech. fall Michael Baldwin (Ragnarok WC), 9-1
87 kg #
1st – Aidan Squier (Combat W.C. School of Wrestling) tech. fall Ruben Karapetyan (Dubuque RTC), 8-0
3rd – Henry Baronowski (NMU-National Training Center) received a bye
97 kg #
1st – Soren Herzog (Air Force RTC) tech. fall Jayden Tadeo-Gosal (NMU-National Training Center), 8-0
3rd – Evan Grazzini (Knights RTC) received a bye
130 kg #
1st – Trayvn Boger (Protos WC) fall Torin Forsyth (Kansas), 1:47
3rd – Cameron Geuther (Panther WC-RTC) dec. Kaden Darwin (Arkansas RTC), 8-3
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