Tiger Style Wrestling Takes on 2025 U.S. Open
4/23/2025 12:44:00 PM | Wrestling
COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri wrestling will have four competitors in the 2025 U.S. Open competing under Tiger Style Wrestling Club at The Expo at World Market Center in Las Vegas. The U20 division will take place on April 25-26, with the Senior division competition being held on April 26-27.
Mack Mauger (57kg) and Jarrett Stoner (125kg) will be competing for a U20 freestyle crown, while Jarrett Jacques (74kg) will return to Senior-level competition. Aeoden Sinclair will be doubling up for the weekend, competing at both the U20 and Senior levels. Winners of each Senior-level weight class will earn a spot in Final X on June 14, one step closer to making a Senior World Team. For the U20 division, a high finish will qualify wrestlers for the World Team Trials from May 30 to June 1.
U20 DIVISION
Stoner, Mauger and Sinclair are all currently on the active roster for Mizzou. Stoner, a Rockwall, Texas native, recently finished his redshirt freshman season at 285 pounds for the Tigers. He finished his season with a 12-7 record, in a year highlighted by a runner-up finish at the Cyclone Open and two dual-clinching wins, coming against Utah Valley and West Virginia. Mauger recently completed his redshirt season with Missouri, going 12-6 and placing second at the Soldier Salute. The Blackfoot, Idaho native, was a five-time Fargo Champion and two-time Triple Crown winner, securing folkstyle, freestyle and greco-roman national titles prior to his time in Columbia.
AEODEN SINCLAIR
Sinclair rounds out the current Tigers competing, preparing for action at both the U20 and Senior level. Only one other competitor will be competing at both levels, that being high schooler Jayden Raney, at 57 kilograms. Sinclair will compete at 86kg in the U20 division, while simultaneously chasing a Senior title at 92kg. Due to his past accomplishments, Sinclair has earned the No. 3 seed for the Senior 92kg bracket, with his path to a title littered with former NCAA Champions and All-Americans and age-level world team members. The Edgerton, Wisconsin native, is coming off a redshirt season for Missouri in which he finished 7-4, highlighted by a win over a returning All-American at the Soldier Salute, and his only losses coming to past national qualifiers. On the freestyle scene, he was a member of the U17 World Team in 2023 and won a U20 Pan-American Gold in 2024.
JARRETT JACQUES
Making a return to freestyle competition, Jacques will enter the 74kg Senior-level field. Spending nine-combined high school and collegiate seasons in CoMo, the Father Tolton High School graduate won four Missouri State Championships before tallying 102 wins in the Black and Gold and qualifying for the NCAA Championships five times. He now serves as Tiger Style's recruiting coordinator. Jacques is set to return to the 74kg weight class for the first time since the 2024 Olympic Team Trials, where he finished in fourth place, earning a spot on the 2024 National Team. For this upcoming weekend, he received the No. 4 seed, putting him on a collision course with two-time NCAA champion David Carr and possibly Mitchell Messenbrink, to whom he dropped the third-place bout at the 2024 Olympic Team Trials. In action at 70kg, he placed fourth at the 2023 U.S. Open and knocked off 2023 World Champion Ismail Musukaev of Hungary at the 2025 Zagreb Open Ranking Series in his most recent competition.
INCOMING TIGERS
Four future Tigers from all across the country will also hit the mat, all competing at the U20 level. Kollin Rath, Dominic Bambinelli, Danny Heiser and Peyton Westpfahl prepare to push for a World Team before starting their college careers in Columbia.
At 70kg, Rath will enter the field as the No. 18 ranked pound-for-pound high school wrestler and the second-best man at 157 pounds. He represented Bethlehem Catholic High School and won two individual state titles in Pennsylvania Class AAA. With a 107-4 record, the Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania native, passed up on his senior year at Bethlehem Catholic, electing to train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado as part of USA Wrestling's Elite Accelerator Program. The former Golden Hawk now trains with Steller Trained Wrestling, coached by 2023 Senior World Team member Chance Marsteller, with Rath's freestyle career highlighted by recent wins at the OTC.
Two of the four incoming recruits will be in the 74kg bracket, with Bambinelli representing Roundtree Wrestling Academy in Georgia and Danny Heiser wrestling for Wisconsin's Askren Wrestling Academy. This past March, Bambinelli became the first four-time Georgia State Champion from Mill Creek High School and was honored as Georgia's winner of the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award. Similarly, Heiser won the same award this past season for the State of Wisconsin, where he also won his fourth state title for Evansville High School. Continuing the pipeline between Mizzou legend Ben Askren's club in Wisconsin and collegiate Tigers, Heiser has placed multiple times at Fargo and placed fifth at the U.S. Open in the past on the freestyle circuit.
The only Missouri native of the bunch, Westpfahl, rounds out the new Tigers in the competition at 79kg. Finishing his high school career with a second Class 4 title out of Liberty High School, his training now comes out of Victory Wrestling Club in Liberty, Missouri. In addition to training on-and-off at Tiger Style WC, Westpfahl has also represented the state of Missouri as a first team athletic and academic honoree.
HOW TO WATCH
The action can be streamed in its entirety on FloWrestling. Streaming requires a subscription but allows access to all matches throughout the tournament, beginning on April 23 and running through April 27.
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