Hayden Zillmer

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 2 at 97 kg/214 pounds

Years on Team USA: 6 (2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2022-23, 2024-25, 2025-26)

Residence: Deerwood, Minn.

Regional Training Center: Gopher WC 

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coach: Dustin Schlatter

High School: Crosby, Minn. (Crosby-Ironton High School)

Born: July 16, 1992

Senior World Teams 

2022 Senior Worlds (Seventh at 125 kg)

Career Highlights 

• 2022 World Team member
• Final X champion
• U.S. Open champion
• Three-time U.S. Open runner-up (twice in freestyle, once in Greco-Roman)
• NCAA All-American
• Two-time NCAA Regional champion

Career Biography

2025: Bronze medalist at Zagreb Open Ranking Series event in Croatia … Final X runner-up … Senior World Team Trials Challenge champion … Placed fourth in U.S. Open

2024: Gold medalist at Henri Deglane Grand Prix of France … U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up

2022: Placed seventh at World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia … Gold medalist at Bill Farrell Memorial International … World Cup team member … Silver medalist at Zouhaier Sghaier Tournament Ranking Series event in Tunis, Tunisia … Final X champion … U.S. Open champion

2021: Bronze medalist at Matteo Pellicone Tournament Ranking Series event in Rome, Italy … Placed third at Senior World Team Trials

2020: Bronze medalist at Granma y Cerro Pelado in La Habana, Cuba … Placed third at Senior Nationals

2019: Silver medalist at Intercontinental Cup in Khasavyurt, Russia … World Cup team member … Bronze medalist at Bill Farrell Memorial International … Senior Nationals champion … U.S. Open runner-up … Senior World Team Trials runner-up

2018: Gold medalist at Cerro Pelado International Rankings Series event in freestyle in La Habana, Cuba, fifth in Greco-Roman … World Cup team member … Placed fifth at Alexander Medved Prizes Ranking Series event in Minsk, Belarus … Final X runner-up … Senior World Team Trials Challenge champion … U.S. Open runner-up

2017: Gold medalist at November’s Dave Schultz Memorial International in Greco-Roman, fourth in freestyle … Silver medalist at January’s Dave Schultz Memorial International in Greco-Roman … Silver medalist at Herman Kare Tournament in Kouvola, Finland in Greco-Roman … Ljubomir Ivanovic Gedza International bronze medalist in Greco-Roman in Kragujevac, Serbia … Placed fifth in Greco-Roman at Grand Prix of Zagreb in Croatia … Senior World Team Trials runner-up … Last Chance World Team Trials Qualifier champion … U.S. Open runner-up in Greco-Roman

2016: Silver medalist in Greco-Roman at Bill Farrell Memorial International … Placed third in Greco-Roman at U.S. Olympic Trials … Greco-Roman Nationals runner-up … Bronze medalist in Greco-Roman at University Nationals … Last Chance Olympic Team Trials Qualifier champion in Greco-Roman

2015: University Nationals champion

2013: University Nationals champion in Greco-Roman

College: NCAA All-American … Three-time NCAA National Championships qualifier … Two-time NCAA West Region … 2016 Big 12 Championships runner-up … Two-time First Team All-Western Wrestling Conference

High School: Three-time Minnesota state champion … Holds Crosby-Ironton High School’s all-time wins record

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2011 Junior Greco-Roman Nationals bronze medalist … 2011 Southern Plains Regional freestyle runner-up, third in Greco-Roman … 2011 Northern Plains Freestyle and Greco-Roman Regional champion … 2010 Southern Plains Regional Greco-Roman champion … 2010 Central Regional Greco-Roman runner-up … 2010 Northern Plains Regional Greco-Roman runner-up, third in freestyle … 2009 Junior Folkstyle Nationals champion …2007 and 2008 Cadet Freestyle and Greco-Roman Nationals champion … 2008 Central Regional Greco-Roman and freestyle champion … 2008 Northern Plains Regional freestyle bronze medalist … 2007 Cadet Folkstyle Nationals champion … Bronze medalist at 2006 Kids Folkstyle Nationals … Finished fourth at 2006 Kids Freestyle and Greco-Roman Nationals … 2006 Northern Plains Regional freestyle champion, runner-up in Greco-Roman … Placed fourth at 2005 Kids Freestyle Nationals

Personal: Son of Nick and Mary Zillmer … Has one older sister, Megan … Father played collegiate basketball

Awards: 2015 Western Wrestling Conference Wrestler of the Year