The Zain Train is starting down the coaching track.

By USA Wrestling

Zain Retherford will wrestle in the 65 kg weight class at the Paris Olympics. Retherford will start his tournament on Saturday, August 10 with the opening rounds starting at 5:00 am (ET). Check out the below article for a full breakdown of Zain Retherford’s draw in the 65 kg Olympic bracket.

The Last Chance World Olympic Qualifier is underway in Istanbul, Turkiye. Zain Retherford and Spencer Lee are trying to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games by placing top three at 57 kg and 65 kg respectively. You can find a full schedule

There is a substantial number of wrestlers with experience at American college wrestling programs in the World Olympic Games Qualifier's men's freestyle brackets this weekend in Istanbul.

Spencer Lee and Zain Retherford won the 2024 Olympic Trials tournament. However, Team USA still has yet to qualify 57 kg and 65 kg for the Paris Olympic Games. So, Lee and Retherford will travel to Istanbul, Turkiye to compete in the Last Chance Olympic Qualifier on May 11th and 12th. If they fail to place top-three, then they will not compete at the Olympic Games. It will be streamed live on FloWrestling.

Every four years, the Olympic Team Trials attracts one of the greatest collections of active American wrestlers under one roof. Just how great will the 2024 Trials in State College be? Keep reading and we will tell you!

Below is a comprehensive list of the wrestlers who competed at the 2023 World Championships, results from the tournament, and the colleges they attended. Some wrestlers are listed twice since they attended multiple schools.

The 2023 Senior World Championships are set to go down in Belgrade, Serbia, September 16-24. The men’s freestyle portion of the tournament will take place from September 16-19. Check out the below article for a complete breakdown with predictions for the 70 kg weight class at the 2023 World Championships.

The 2023 Senior World Championships will occur in Belgrad, Serbia, September 16-24. Team USA will send 10 wrestlers per style to Belgrade to compete against the best wrestlers in the world. Check out the below article to see every world team representative for men’s freestyle, women’s freestyle, and men’s Greco-Roman.

I would like to start off this article by saying that I hope Team USA goes 10 for 10 at Worlds and dominates the entire way and that USA Wrestling has become so good in the past handful of years that just making the team automatically makes you a medal threat at the World Championships. Look at how many medalists are sitting home this year. That being said, I’m trying to provide information to help fans set realistic expectations. At weights where I did not predict a gold medal, I’m not saying that wrestler isn’t capable, just looking at data including past results and international fields.

Before Final X, many wrestling fans expected the US to send a veteran squad to Serbia for the World Championships in hopes of repeating as World Champs and adding to sky-high individual medal counts. While a team title and individual medals are of course on the table, the World Team that emerged on Saturday night has a mix of veterans and unexpected newcomers. All-told, six out of ten men's freestylers will join four veterans to compete in their first World Championships this September. One of the six newcomers, Gable Steveson, is an Olympic gold medalist, so while this will be his first World Championships, he's been on this kind of stage before.

Zain Retherford made his way to the gold-medal match in Serbia but lost to Japan's Taishi Narikuni.

The road to the 70 kg US World Team spot runs through Zain Retherford. The 2022 World silver medalist is looking to secure his fourth senior World Team spot overall and his second consecutive spot at the weight. To do so, he'll need to win a best-of-three series against 2019 NCAA finalist Tyler Berger.

2022 World silver medalist Zain Retherford (State College, Pa./Titan Mercury WC/Nittany Lion WC) has officially accepted his berth in Final X. He will battle for the 70 kg spot on the 2023 U.S. World Team in men’s freestyle wrestling in Final X, presented by Tezos, on Saturday, June 10 at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.