Daton Fix wins gold at Poland Open, Dustin Plott takes third

familiar foe.

Fix represented the U.S. at the Ziolkowski, Pytlasinski, Poland Open in Warsaw, Poland, this weekend, and Fix took on Iowa’s Austin DeSanto in the 61 kg finals on Sunday. The two have faced off three times in college and once on the national stage, including the Final X True Third wrestle-off in in June, and Fix had won each bout.

early 1-0 deficit to DeSanto. Later, after a gutwrench, Fix took a 4-1 lead and never gave it up on the way to a 6-3 victory, earning the gold medal and pushing his record to 5-0 against the All-American Hawkeye.

against neutral athlete Iman Mahdavi, 10-0. Plott is already an U23 World Team member after winning the freestyle national championship earlier this summer.

Daton Fix owns another freestyle gold medal, and he did it against a

Fix took out Ramaz Turmanidze and Georgi Vangelov to advance to the all-U.S. finals but started with an

Another Cowboy, Dustin Plott, traveled to Poland and wrestled in the 79 kg bracket. Plott cruised through the bracket until a run-in with Mihail Georgiev, who defeated Plott 3-2 and sent him to the bronze medal match. There, Plott scored a technical fall sports.ed@ocolly.com

Brayden Thompson, an incoming OSU freshman and the No. 2 170-pound recruit in the 2023 class, also competed but went 0-2 in the 86 kg field. He, like Plott, had success earlier this summer, finishing runner-up at the U20 world team trials.