Austin DeSanto of the Hawkeye Wrestling Club won a silver medal at the Poland Open in Warsaw, Poland today. DeSanto won his first match over Abdaladze of Georgia by a 11-0 tech fall. He then topped Rzazade of Azerbaijan in the semifinals, 4-3.
In the 61 KG finals DeSanto dropped a hard fought 6-3 decision to Daton Fix to place second.
Team USA was 1-2-3 at 61 KG with Fix-DeSanto-Nahshon Garrett.
Pat Lugo of the HWC competed at 65 KG where he went 0-2 and did not place.
Team USA won the team title by a large margin.
For complete results:
Five U.S. men’s freestyle champions crowned on final day of Waclaw Ziolkowski Memorial (teamusa.org)
USA Wrestling had Kylie Welker of the University of Iowa listed to compete and I had her listed in my blog earlier this week. I do not see where Welker competed at this tournament.
Poland Open in Warsaw, Poland
61 kg – Austin DeSanto (Reading, Pa./Hawkeye WC), Silver medal
WIN Daviti Abdaladze (Georgia), tech. fall, 11-0
WIN Aliabbas Rzazade (Azerbaijan), 4-3
LOSS Daton Fix (United States), 6-3
65 kg – Pat Lugo (Homestead, Fla./Hawkeye WC), dnp
LOSS Joshua Finesilver (Israel), 8-2
LOSS Giorgi Shonia (Georgia), 11-9
It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.
Go Hawks!
