Team USA continued its dominant run in men's freestyle on Saturday night at the 2026 U20 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, collecting four more medals and pushing its tournament total to six through the first six weight classes.

Virginia Tech incoming freshman Bo Bassett supplied the latest gold, rallying past Japan's Takuto Osedo for an 8-2 victory in the 65-kilogram championship match. Bassett trailed 2-1 in the second period before taking control, scoring seven unanswered points to pull away. It was his first match of the tournament that lasted the full six minutes. His previous four bouts ended by fall or technical superiority.

Bassett now owns three age-group world medals, including two world championships. He captured U17 world gold in 2021 in Budapest before adding a U20 world bronze medal in 2024 in Pontevedra, Spain. His international schedule is far from finished. Bassett has accepted a position on the U23 world team and is expected to meet 2025 world bronze medalist Real Woods in a wrestle-off for the U.S. senior world team spot in the coming weeks. He will begin his college career at Virginia Tech this fall, joining a Hokies room that already produced another world champion this week in Aaron Seidel, who won the 61-kilogram title Friday. Missouri's Aeoden Sinclair claimed gold at 86 kilograms on the same night. All three --Bassett, Seidel and Sinclair -- will compete collegiately next season.

Cornell's Isaiah Cortez gave the U.S. another finalist at 57 kilograms but came up short in an 8-4 loss to 2023 U17 European champion Magomed Magomedov of Russia. Cortez created scoring opportunities throughout but Magomedov answered with timely counters to claim the title. The result gave Cortez his second U20 world silver medal in two different styles. He was the Greco-Roman runner-up in 2024 before reaching the freestyle final this week. The Big Red freshman joins a small group of Americans to medal at the U20 World Championships in both disciplines. Adam Coon was the most recent to accomplish the feat, earning medals in freestyle and Greco-Roman at heavyweight in 2014 before becoming a senior world silver medalist and Olympian in Greco-Roman.

The U.S. added two more medals in the bronze medal round. Virginia Tech's Ryan Burton erased an early deficit and surged past Eljan Ismayilzada of Azerbaijan 10-4 at 79 kilograms, becoming the third medalist of the week with Virginia Tech ties. Iowa State commit Jimmy Mastny delivered another late comeback at 92 kilograms, edging U20 Asian silver medalist Beibarys Yergali of Kazakhstan 3-2 to secure bronze.

James, Boyle, Ross reach finals

Team USA put together a strong semifinal session Saturday night at the 2026 U20 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, advancing Jayden James, Michael Boyle and Dreshaun Ross to the gold-medal round. Landon Robideau will wrestle for bronze.

James is headed back to an age-group world final after pulling away from 2023 U17 world bronze medalist Nurdaulet Seilbekov of Kazakhstan for a 13-4 victory in the 74-kilogram semifinals. He scored takedowns at both ends of the opening period to carry a 4-0 lead into the break before continuing to widen the gap in the second.

James, the reigning U17 world champion and an incoming Penn State freshman, reached the semifinals with victories over Samuel Vokal of Slovakia, Alessio Perentin of Italy and Artsiom Bolsun of Belarus. He will face 2025 U20 Asian silver medalist Ariya Yoshida of Japan in the gold-medal match.

Boyle delivered one of the most commanding performances of the semifinal round at 97 kilograms, repeatedly driving Azamat Tsarikaev of Belarus out of bounds to pile up six step-out points in the first period before putting Tsarikaev on his back and securing the fall in 2:37.

The Ohio State commit opened the tournament with technical superiorities over returning U20 world bronze medalist Samir Dursunov of Kazakhstan and 2023 U17 Asian bronze medalist Noah Leibowitz of Japan. Boyle will face 2024 U17 world silver medalist Rodion Sanakoev of Russia for gold.

Ross ground out a 4-1 decision over returning U20 world bronze medalist Yusif Dursunov of Azerbaijan in the 125-kilogram semifinals. Neither wrestler generated much offense early, but Ross broke through with 1:25 remaining and added another takedown in the final 20 seconds to seal the victory.

The incoming Oklahoma State freshman cruised through his first three matches with first-period technical superiorities over 2026 U20 Asian bronze medalist Baejoon Jang of Korea, 2025 U17 Asian bronze medalist Riza Izakhar of Kazakhstan and three-time U20 European bronze medalist Aleksandre Abramishvili of Georgia.

Ross will face Iran's Abolfazl Mohammad Nezhad, a three-time age-group world medalist and the 2025 U23 world champion, for gold.

Robideau was the lone American semifinalist unable to advance, falling 3-2 to Iran's Sina Khalili at 70 kilograms. The 2026 NCAA champion held a 2-1 lead late in the match before Khalili, a 2025 U23 world silver medalist and two-time senior Asian bronze medalist, converted a double-leg takedown with 43 seconds remaining.

Robideau will wrestle for bronze against either U23 Asian silver medalist Zalkarbek Tabaldiev of Kyrgyzstan or 2023 U17 European silver medalist Remzi Temur of Turkey.

With one day of competition remaining, the United States leads the men's freestyle team standings with 125 points after producing a medal in all six completed weight classes -- three golds, one silver and two bronzes. Russia is second with 106 points, followed by Japan with 84, Kazakhstan with 63 and Iran with 51.