Poland Open results/thread (RECAP STORY INCLUDED)

[Tanner Lafever]

Quite a few Hawkeyes are competing across the pond this weekend - started off by Macey Kilty’s runner up effort at 62kg today.

Kilty crushed three-consecutive foes by a combined margin of 30-2 to reach the final:
- 2024 Olympian Johanna Lindborg (Sweden)
- 9th place 2025 World Championships finisher Alicja Wojewodzka (Poland)
- European Championships bronze medalist Leistner Naemi (Germany)

But in the final - leading 1-0 against 2022 World bronze medalist Ilona Prokopevniuk (Ukraine) - the match swung just before the break when a seeming stepout for Kilty was overturned upon a challenge, resulting in a 4pt move for her Ukrainian opponent. Kilty would ultimately lose the match, 6-1.

Men’s action gets underway on Saturday with Stephen Buchanan (and former Hawkeye Mo Endene) at 97kg.

Then on Sunday it’ll be real busy, with four Hawkeye alums + a fellow HWC member taking the mat:

- Dean Peterson (57kg)
- Austin DeSanto (61kg)
- Michael Caliendo (74kg)
- Patrick Kennedy (79kg)
- Crew Howard (125kg)

 

[azchief32]

Basch provides the easy button to follow this:

2026 Poland Open & Ziolkowski Memorial: Team USA Tracker | Baschamania

63 Americans in Warsaw. Retherford, Green, Haines and Hendrickson headline a 29-man freestyle squad. Live results and all three mats streaming.

www.baschamania.com

 

[Corby2]

Buchanan lost twice.Kalashnikov beat him 3-1 and he lost to Baranowski 6-5 . Endene has Baranowski in the finals

Howard went 1-3 he beat Bullock and lost 7-3 to Cole Mirasola

 

[Tanner Lafever]

Both Buchanan matches were razor close.

He led Baranowki - a 2x Olympian and 8x World teamer (5th in 2025) - 3-0 early in the second, then gave up a go-behind and an exposure off his own shots + an ankle pick.

As for the second loss to Kalashnokov - a 4x World teamer who placed 15th at 92kg last year - let’s just say that some ‘curious’ officiating played a major part in the result.

Buchanan led 1-0 at the break on a shot clock point, then trailed 1-1 on criteria after getting put on the clock himself early in the 2nd. Despite being the far more offensive wrestler, Buchanan was put on the clock again with 0:49 remaining - and still had Kalashnikov in quad pod with 0:06 left but couldn’t break him down before time expired.

(A YOLO challenge brick made the final score 3-1.)

 

[Pakman770]

Basch provides the easy button to follow this:

2026 Poland Open & Ziolkowski Memorial: Team USA Tracker | Baschamania

63 Americans in Warsaw. Retherford, Green, Haines and Hendrickson headline a 29-man freestyle squad. Live results and all three mats streaming.

www.baschamania.com

Thanks for posting, really enjoying the matches, plus pretty cool watching the guys and ladies on the podium with their coaches. Saw Keckeisen exchanging cell numbers with the German wrestler.

 

[Corby2]

Thanks for posting, really enjoying the matches, plus pretty cool watching the guys and ladies on the podium with their coaches. Saw Keckeisen exchanging cell numbers with the German wrestler.

Schaefle Germany wrestled at Buffalo 2019-20 as a true freshman he was 21-9 and was 9-8 D1. He beat 3 time NQ Cory Day and 2 time NQ Jared McGill. He had never wrestled folkstyle before and did well. He's a talented kid

 

[Pakman770]

Schaefle Germany wrestled at Buffalo 2019-20 as a true freshman he was 21-9 and was 9-8 D1. He beat 3 time NQ Cory Day and 2 time NQ Jared McGill. He had never wrestled folkstyle before and did well. He's a talented kid

That's cool, thanks for the insight. As I'm in Europe, I should attend one of these tourneys.

 

[mvattivo]

Did anyone catch the Haines-Kennedy or Blaze-Desanto results?

 

[RockySmith]

Did anyone catch the Haines-Kennedy or Blaze-Desanto results?

Haines by tech, maybe 12-2, Blaze won 5-0.

 

[VakAttack]

Haines by tech, maybe 12-2, Blaze won 5-0.

Pretty sure he already knew.

 

[dtripp26]

Did anyone catch the Haines-Kennedy or Blaze-Desanto results?

 

[SpacemanSpifff]

Did anyone catch the Haines-Kennedy or Blaze-Desanto results?

Go away.

 

[Tanner Lafever]

Caliendo (74kg) has reached the final - where he’ll face SR World Team rep James Green.

DeSanto (61kg) and Kennedy (79kg) will go for bronze.

Peterson (57kg) won his first bout, but was seemingly knocked unconscious moments into his second. He was helped off with the assistance of medical personnel and did not wrestle again.

 

[Tanner Lafever]

 

[mvattivo]

Pretty sure he already knew.

I was just looking for results. I can barely understand anything these announcers or people at the event are saying.

 

[Tanner Lafever]

Caliendo falls via 2-0 decision in the finals to James Green.

Green scored an early takedown that held up as the winner, though I thought Mikey grew into the match nicely after the break.

Meanwhile, Patrick Kennedy picks up an impressive 9-0 win to secure bronze at 79kg:

 

[dt21]

pk looks great

 

[Tanner Lafever]

Here's my recap story of the past few days across the pond:

Caliendo, Kilty among four Hawkeye medalists in Poland - On3

Also of note: I traded messages with Dean Peterson - who confirmed that he did suffer a concussion that briefly left him unconscious during his second bout today. Thankfully, aside from some head/neck pain he said he's doing well - having since passed several neurological tests - and is already on the road to recovery.