LINCOLN, Neb. — The Cliff Keen Wrestling Club’s Adam Coon qualified for his second straight U.S. Greco-Roman World Team at 130kg/286 pounds, sweeping the best-of-three final against Cohlton Schultz, 8-0 and 5-1, at Final X on Saturday evening (June 15) at Nebraska’s Bob Devaney Sports Center.
After cruising in the first match, Coon had to rally from an initial deficit in the second after Schultz was granted a passivity point in the first period. Coon scored five unanswered points in the final 90 seconds of the period to surge ahead, taking the lead with a takedown on the edge before earning a passivity point of his own. The passivity put Schultz down on the mat, and Coon used a gut wrench to ice the bout late.
Coon needed less than two minutes to roll to an 8-0 technical superiority win in the series’ first match, countering a Schultz headlock attempt for a takedown before using three guts to end it in 1:42.
Coon has now made six U.S. world teams over his career. He took world silver at 130kg Greco last year, earned double bronze in junior freestyle and Greco in 2014 and captured Cadet freestyle gold after making both the freestyle and Greco teams in 2011.
He is also the third Michigan wrestler to make a U.S. world team this summer, joining Mason Parris, who made the junior freestyle team at 125kg/275 pounds, and recent CKWC addition Alec Pantaleo, who qualified for the U23 freestyle team at 70kg/154 pounds.
The Senior World Championships is slated for September 14-22 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
