An Updated Entrants List For ADCC East Coast Trials: Who's In?

Check out who will be in New Jersey for East Coast Trials, with over 25 world ranked grapplers in action!

Oct 3, 2023 by Joe Gilpin

An Updated Entrants List For ADCC East Coast Trials: Who's In?

Every few years, the ADCC Trials offers anyone the opportunity to punch their ticket to the ADCC World Championships, and the first North American Trials is packed with talent. Here is a current list of notable entrants for each weight. All of the action will be streamed live exclusively on FloGrappling, October 14th & 15th.

-66kg

Richard Alarcon - ADCC World Championships veteran
Anthony Birchak
Valor Boyer
Jon Calestine
Dylan Cameron
#8 Deandre Corbe
Gavin Corbe
#7 (at 155) Ethan Crelinsten - ADCC World Championships veteran
#10 (at 135) Andrew DeGraff
Joey Diehl
Landon Elmore
#5 Gianni Grippo - ADCC World Championships veteran
#11 (at 135) Emilio Hernandez
Zach Kaina
#7 Keith Krikorian - ADCC World Championships veteran
Reese Lafever
Dominic Meija
Dorian Olivarez
Hufthayah Penney
Fabian Ramirez
David Weintraub

-77kg

Sergio Ardilla-Ibarra
Jon Blank - ADCC World Championships veteran
John Combs - ADCC World Championships veteran
Elijah Dorsey
#15 (at 155) Max Hanson
Kieran Kichuk
Pierre-Olivier Leclerc
Michael Liera
Nick Newell
Ernesto Rivera
Nick Ronan
Troy Russell
#9 Nicky Ryan - ADCC World Championships veteran
Diego Sanchez - ADCC World Championships veteran
Danny Stolfi
#5 Andrew Tackett
#12 Oliver Taza - ADCC World Championships veteran
Chris Wojcik

-88kg

Dory Aoun
Ryan Aitken
JB Bechtloff
Nick Calvanese
Kyle Chambers
Angelo Claiborne
Sloan Clymer
#15 Hunter Colvin
#14 Jacob Couch
#11 Elder Cruz - ADCC World Championships veteran (-99kg)
David Garmo
Magid Hage - ADCC World Championships veteran (-77kg)
Sam Kilmer
Abraham La Montagne
Stephen Martinez
Clay Mayfield
Dylan Melton
Chuck O'Neil
Michael Rakshan
Jason Rau
Achilles Rocha
#14 (at 170) Jacob Rodriguez - ADCC World Championships veteran
#13 (at 185) Sebastian Rodriguez
Stanley Rosa
Benji Silva
Rene Sousa
#12 (at 185) William Tackett - ADCC World Championships veteran (-77kg)
Sean Yadimarco

-99kg

Kevin Berbrich
Adam Bradley
Kyle Daukaus
Joe Dierkhising
Daishi Goto
Breylor Grout
Tanner Hall
Devhonte Johnson - ADCC World Championships veteran
Eliot Kelly - ADCC World Championships veteran
Michael Pixley

+99kg

Amir Allam
Mario Gonzales
#14 John Hansen - ADCC World Championships veteran
Daniel Manasoiu - ADCC World Championships veteran
Damon Ramos - ADCC World Championships veteran
Pat Shahgholi

The women's divisions will also be competing, with the debut of the new weights at the North American Trials. However, no qualifying spots will be up for grabs until the second set of Trials, West Coast.