2025 World Championship Seeds - Men's Freestyle
- J.R. McNair
- Sep 4
- 4 min read
The 2025 Senior World Championships are set to take place in Zagreb, Croatia, from September 13-21. Check out the seeds below for the men's freestyle division recently released by United World Wrestling.
2025 Senior World Championships
United World Wrestling Seeds Explained
The following seeds are all based on Ranking Points earned by participation in either the 2024 Olympics, the 2024 World Championships, the 2025 Continental Championships, and the four Ranking Series Tournaments held by United World Wrestling this year. Click here for a more in-depth break down on how United World Wrestling determines these seeds.
57kg
Spencer LEE (USA)
Gulomjon ABDULLAEV (UZB)
AMAN (IND)
Roman BRAVO YOUNG (MEX)
Darian CRUZ (PUR)
Bekzat ALMAZ UULU (KGZ)
Islam BAZARGANOV (AZE)
Munkh Erdene BATKHUYAG (MGL)
Unseeded
Salah KATEB (ALG)
Arsen HARUTYUNYAN (ARM)
Ivaylo TISOV (BUL)
Garette SAUNDERS (CAN)
Chengtao WANG (CHN)
Roland TAMBI NFORSONG (CMR)
Rabby KILANDI (COD)
Peter HAMMER CUDE (CRC)
Guesseppe REA VILLARROEL (ECU)
Roberti DINGASHVILI (GEO)
Niklas STECHELE (GER)
Ali Hossein MOMENI (IRI)
Husein ALBEHADILALBORS (IRQ)
Rin SAKAMOTO (JPN)
Adilet ALMUKHAMEDOV (KAZ)
Sunggwon KIM (KOR)
Vladimir EGOROV (MKD)
Chongsong HAN (PRK)
Azamat TUSKAEV (SRB)
Thomas EPP (SUI)
Aiaal BELOLYUBSKII (TJK)
Yusuf DEMIR (TUR)
Vladyslav ABRAMOV (UKR)
Musa MEKHTIKHANOV (UWW)
Aryan TSIUTRYN (UWW)
61kg
Zavur UGUEV (UWW)
Giorgi GONIASHVILI (GEO)
Takara SUDA (JPN)
UDIT (IND)
Leomid COLESNIC (MDA)
Dzmitry SHAMELA (UWW)
Nils LEUTERT (SUI)
Joshua KRAMER (ECU)
Unseeded
Zelimkhan ABAKAROV (ALB)
Manvel KHNDZRTSYAN (ARM)
Georgii OKOROKOVV (AUS)
Jeyhun ALLAHVERDIYEV (AZE)
Jianhao LIU (CHN)
Ndjidda BOUBA (CMR)
Godefroid KALUBI (COD)
Ahmad JAVAN (IRI)
Simone PIRODDU (ITA)
Adil OSPANOV (KAZ)
Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (KGZ)
Sangboum HAN (KOR)
Tuvshintulga TUMENBILEG (MGL)
Besir ALILI (MKD)
Ali ABURUMAILA (PLE)
Kum Hyok KIM (PRK)
Dylan SHAWVER (PUR)
Emrah ORMANOGLU (TUR)
Kamil KERYMOV (UKR)
Jaxen FORREST (USA)
Ibrahim GUZAN (YEM)
65kg
Rahman AMOUZAD (IRI)
Kotaro KIYOOKA (JPN)
Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM)
Ali RAHIMZADA (AZE)
Khamzat ARSAMERZOUEV (FRA)
Sebastian RIVERA (PUR)
Ibragim IBRAGIMOV (UWW)
SUJEET (IND)
Unseeded
Ayub MUSAEV (BEL)
Alibeg ALIBEGOV (BRN)
Mikyay NAIM (BUL)
Peiman BIABANI (CAN)
Tao WEI (CHN)
Roland KALAMBAYI (COD)
Goderdzi DZEBISASHVILI (GEO)
Nico MEGERLE (GER)
Mohammed KAREEM (IRQ)
Colin REALBUTO (ITA)
Nachyn KUULAR (KAZ)
Ikromzhon KHADZHIMURODOV (KGZ)
Junsik YUN (KOR)
Maxim SACULTAN (MDA)
Gantulga BATBAATAR (MGL)
Stephen IZOLO (NGR)
Abdullah ASSAF (PLE)
Krzysztof BIENKOWSKI (POL)
Kwang Jin KIM (PRK)
Daniel SANDU (ROU)
Nino LEUTERT (SUI)
Abdulmazhid KUDIEV (TJK)
Cabbar DUYUM (TUR)
Andrii BILIICHUK (UKR)
Real WOODS (USA)
Islam GUSEINOV (UWW)
Umidjon JALOLOV (UZB)
Wilfredo RODRIGUEZ (VEN)
70kg
Yoshinosuke AOYAGI (JPN)
Akaki KEMERTELIDZE (GEO)
Nurkozha KAIPANOV (KAZ)
Kanan HEYBATOV (AZE)
Arman ANDREASYAN (ARM)
Austin GOMEZ (MEX)
Vasile DIACON (MDA)
Iszmail MUSZUKAJEV (HUN)
Unseeded
Islam DUDAEV (ALB)
Shannon HANNA (BAH)
Mihail GEORGIEV (BUL)
Michael ZALE (CAN)
Jorge GATICA (CHI)
Shuang CHEN (CHN)
Gabriel MUANDA (COD)
Anthony WESLEY (CPV)
ROHIT (IND)
Amirmohammad YAZDANI (IRI)
Ernazar AKMATALIEV (KGZ)
Yongseok JEONG (KOR)
Tulga TUMUR OCHIR (MGL)
Viktor VOINOVIC (SRB)
Viktor RASSADIN (TJK)
Khairiddine BEN TLILI (TUN)
Haydar YAVUZ (TUR)
Oleksii BORUTA (UKR)
PJ DUKE (USA)
Saiyn KAZYRYK (UWW)
Begijon KULDASHEV (UZB)
74kg
Chermen VALIEV (ALB)
Taimuraz SALKAZANOV (SVK)
Yones EMAMI (IRI)
Orozobek TOKTOMAMBETOV (KGZ)
Murad KURAMAGOMEDOV (HUN)
Giorgi ELBAKIDZE (GEO)
Magomedrasul ASLUEV (BRN)
Feng LU (CHN)
Unseeded
Hrayr ALIKHANYAN (ARM)
Turan BAYRAMOV (AZE)
Ibragim VELIEV (BEL)
Renato DA SILVA (BRA)
Ramazan RAMAZANOV (BUL)
Adam THOMSON (CAN)
Norvil BUKASA (COD)
Vedran LUKETIN (CRO)
Mohammad MOTTAGHINIA (ESP)
Vikash KUMAR (IND)
Luca FINIZIO (ITA)
Kota TAKAHASHI (JPN)
Alibek ABDIKASSYMOV (KAZ)
Daegil HAN (KOR)
Egzon XHONI (KOS)
Ion MARCU (MDA)
Cristian SANTIAGO (MEX)
Tugsjargal ERDENEBAT (MGL)
Rasul SHAPIEV (MKD)
Kamil RYBICKI (POL)
Ok Chol HAN (PRK)
Soner DEMIRTAS (TUR)
Ivan KUSYAK (UKR)
David CARR (USA)
Vitali IHNATOVICH (UWW)
Zaurbek SIDAKOV (UWW)
Mirzo KHAYITOV (UZB)
Anthony MONTERO (VEN)
79kg
Akhsarbek GULAEV (SVK)
Suldkhuu OLONBAYAR (MGL)
Vladimeri GAMKRELIDZE (GEO)
Magomet EVLOEV (TJK)
Mohammad NOKHODI (IRI)
Daulet YERGESH (KAZ)
Khidir SAIPUDINOV (BRN)
Zelimkhan KHADJIEV (FRA)
Unseeded
Abdelkader IKKAL (ALG)
Dzhabrail GADZHIEV (AZE)
Patrik LEDER (CAN)
Tu Erxun AHEIYOU (CHN)
Andy MUKENDI (COD)
Marko NIKOLIC (CRO)
Georgios KOUGIOUMTSIDIS (GRE)
AMIT (IND)
Ryunosuke KAMIYA (JPN)
Bumgue SEO (KOR)
Alans AMIROVS (LAT)
Vlad STRATAN (MDA)
Dejan MITROV (MKD)
Michael LABRIOLA (PUR)
Iakub SHIKHDZHAMALOV (ROU)
Alfred DANIEL (SLE)
Azymberdi SAPAROV (TKM)
Ibrahim YAPRAK (TUR)
Vasyl MYKHAILOV (UKR)
Levi HAINES (USA)
Akhmed USMANOV (UWW)
86kg
Osman GOCEN (TUR)
Arsenii DZHIOEV (AZE)
Mahamedkhabib KADZIMAHAMEDAU (UWW)
Zahid VALENCIA (USA)
Rakhim MAGAMADOV (FRA)
Hayato ISHIGURO (JPN)
Batbilguun NAADAMBAT (MGL)
Gyeongyeon LEE (KOR)
Unseeded
Fateh BENFERDJALLAH (ALG)
Simon MARCHL (AUT)
Hade AYIDUSI (CHN)
Matteo MONTEIRO FURTADO (CPV)
Kreso SKUGOR (CRO)
Ahmed MAHMOUD (EGY)
Gabriel IGLESIAS RAMOS (ESP)
Avtandil KENTCHADZE (GEO)
Joshua MORODION (GER)
Mukul DAHIYA (IND)
Kamran GHASEMPOUR (IRI)
Azamat DAULETBEKOV (KAZ)
Mukhammad ABDULLAEV (KGZ)
Ivars SAMUSONOK (LAT)
Paulius LESCAUSKAS (LTU)
Traian CAPATINA (MDA)
Cezary SADOWSKI (POL)
Ethan RAMOS (PUR)
Weng CHOW (SGP)
Boris MAKOEV (SVK)
Mukhammed ALIIEV (UKR)
Ibragim KADIEV (UWW)
92kg
Miriani MAISURADZE (GEO)
Benjamin HONIS (ITA)
Batyrbek TSAKULOV (SVK)
Osman NURMAGOMEDOV (AZE)
Dauren KURUGLIEV (GRE)
Amirhossein FIROUZPOUR (IRI)
Lars SCHAEFLE (GER)
Trent HIDLAY (USA)
Unseeded
Benjamin GREIL (AUT)
Magomed SHARIPOV (BRN)
Ahmed BATAEV (BUL)
Andrew JOHNSON (CAN)
Jumabayi AERGEN (CHN)
Cedric ABOSSOLO (CMR)
Barthelemy TSHOSHA (COD)
Deepak PUNIA (IND)
Uri KALASHNIKOV (ISR)
Takashi ISHIGURO (JPN)
Nurdaulet BEKENOV (KAZ)
Gwanuk KIM (KOR)
Andrian GROSUL (MDA)
Demchigdorj TUMURBAATAR (MGL)
Redjep HAJDARI (MKD)
Samuel SCHERRER (SUI)
Alperen TOKGOZ (TUR)
Ivan CHORNOHUZ (UKR)
Amanula GADZHIMAGOMEDOV (UWW)
Yaraslau IADKOUSKI (UWW)
97kg
Akhmed TAZHUDINOV (BRN)
Givi MATCHARASHVILI (GEO)
Kyle SNYDER (USA)
Magomedkhan MAGOMEDOV (AZE)
Amirali AZARPIRA (IRI)
Zbigniew BARANOWSKI (POL)
Arash YOSHIDA (JPN)
Richard VEGH (HUN)
Unseeded
Akhmed MAGAMAEV (BUL)
Nishan Preet RANDHAWA (CAN)
Awusayiman HABILA (CHN)
Filip HUKLEK (CRO)
Arturo SILOT TORRES (CUB)
Adlan VISKHANOV (FRA)
Ertugrul AGCA (GER)
VICKY (IND)
Rizabek AITMUKHAN (KAZ)
Juhwan SEO (KOR)
Domantas PAULIUSCENKO (LTU)
Radu LEFTER (MDA)
Gankhuyag GANBAATAR (MGL)
Magomedgadji NUROV (MKD)
Adam JAKSIK (SVK)
Shatlyk HEMELYAYEV (TKM)
Resul GUNE (TUR)
David MCHEDLIDZE (UKR)
Aliaksandr HUSHTYN (UWW)
Abdulrashid SADULAEV (UWW)
Cristian SARCO (VEN)
125kg
Giorgi MESHVILDISHVILI (AZE)
Amir Hossein ZARE (IRI)
Dzianis KHRAMIANKOU (UWW)
Robert BARAN (POL)
Lkhagvagerel MUNKHTUR (MGL)
Shamil SHARIPOV (BRN)
Solomon MANASHVILI (GEO)
Jonovan SMITH (PUR)
Unseeded
Johannes LUDESCHER (AUT)
Gabriel DE SOUSA (BRA)
Alen KHUBULOV (BUL)
BUHEEERDUN (CHN)
Filip KOSCIC (CRO)
Mohsen SIYAR (GER)
Azamat KHOSONOV (GRE)
Milan KORCSOG (HUN)
Rajat RUHAL (IND)
Taiki YAMAMOTO (JPN)
Alisher YERGALI (KAZ)
Gyeongmin KIM (KOR)
Dmitrii DUSCOV (MDA)
Omar SAREM (ROU)
Zyyamuhammet SAPAROV (TKM)
Hakan BUYUKCINGIL (TUR)
Murazi MCHEDLIDZE (UKR)
Wyatt HENDRICKSON (USA)
Abdulla KURBANOV (UWW)
Khasanboy RAKHIMOV (UZB)
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