Casey Cunningham

2026 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!

U23 World Champions! Secret weapon behind it all at USA Wrestling is Coach Joe Russell. Serves the athletes and coaches, is selfless, loves wrestling and just gets it. He is the man. Congrats Coach!

With that our 2024-25 season has come to a close. Penn State and the NLWC represented the United States in 15 of the 30 weight classes for the U20, U23, and Senior World Championships winning 11 medals-6 Gold, 2 Silver, and 3 Bronze medals. Folkstyle season is here!

PJ! 🥉🇺🇸

Luke! 🥇🇺🇸

U23 WORLD CHAMPION! Levi Haines rolls to an 11-1 technical superiority over Turkey's Ibrahim Yaprak in the title bout! Haines goes 4-0 to win the U23 Championship, Penn State's fourth medal at the event! #PSUwr

U23 WORLD CHAMPION! Mitchell Mesenbrink with the 12-2 first period technical superiority over Turkey's Ozmus in the Gold Medal match at 74 kg! Mesenbrink goes 5-0 in Serbia to win U23 Gold and bring another world title back to Happy Valley! #PSUwr

That's 4X WORLD CHAMPION KYLE SNYDER! Snyder downs Iran's Amiri Azapria 4-2 to claim the 2025 Senior World Championship at 97 kg! #PSUwr

Kyle Snyder - Champion of the World at 97kg! 🥇🇺🇸

Levi Haines - World Silver Medalist at 79kg! 🥈🇺🇸

One day out for Snyderman. Excited to watch him let it rip! @Snyder_man45⁩ ⁦@JakeVarner211⁩

8 days out for this Beast! Excited to watch PJ get after it. ⁦@NickLee141⁩ ⁦@pj__duke⁩

Excited to watch Levi at the World Championships-9 days out. Thankful for Josh and his willingness to serve. @barr1josh

Mitchell Mesenbrink - U23 Pan-American Games Gold Medalist at 74kg! 🇺🇸🥇

Rocco Welsh - U23 Pan-American Games Gold Medalist at 86kg! 🇺🇸🥇

Marcus Blaze - U20 World Champion at 61kg! 🇺🇸🥇

Penn State/NLWC had 5 representing them at U20 World Championships this week. They went 5/5 with medals: 61kg: Marcus Blaze 🥇/ 🥈 70kg: PJ Duke 🥇 79kg: Will Henckel 🥈 92kg: Connor MIrasola 🥉 125kg: Cole Mirasola 🥉

Connor Mirasola!

Will Henckel!

Cole Mirasola - U20 World Bronze Medalist at 125kg! 🇺🇸🥇