The 2016 United States Olympic Team Trials for wrestling were held at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena of Iowa City, Iowa, on April 8–10, 2016.^[1] This event determined the representative of the United States of America for the 2016 Summer Olympics at each Olympic weight class.^[2]

Tournament format

1. Challenge tournament (single elimination) – The first part of the trials determined who advanced over to the best–of–three finale and it took place in the first day of competition.
2. Championship series (best‐of‐3 match final wrestle‐off) – In the second part of the trials, the finals which determined the ultimate winner took place, in the second day of competition.^[3]

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg	Daniel Dennis	Tony Ramos	Tyler Graff
65 kg	Frank Molinaro	Aaron Pico	Zain Retherford
74 kg	Jordan Burroughs	Andrew Howe	Alex Dieringer
86 kg	J'den Cox	Kyle Dake	David Taylor
97 kg	Kyle Snyder	Jake Varner	Dustin Kilgore
125 kg	Tervel Dlagnev	Zach Rey	Dom Bradley

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Haley Augello	Victoria Anthony	Clarissa Chun
53 kg	Helen Maroulis	Whitney Conder	Katherine Fulp-Allen
58 kg	Kelsey Campbell	Alli Ragan	Randyll Beltz
63 kg	Elena Pirozhkova	Erin Clodgo	Mallory Velte
69 kg	Tamyra Mensah-Stock	Brittney Roberts	Randi Miller
76 kg	Adeline Gray	Victoria Francis	Forrest Molinari

Men's Greco–Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
59 kg	Ildar Hafizov	Jesse Thielke	Ryan Mango
66 kg	RaVaughn Perkins	Pat Smith	Alejandro Sancho
75 kg	Geordan Speiller	Cheney Haight	Corey Hope
85 kg	Ben Provisor	Jake Clark	Hayden Zillmer
98 kg	Joe Rau	Caylor Williams	G'Angelo Hancock
130 kg	Robby Smith	Adam Coon	Toby Erickson

Source:^[4]

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