The men's freestyle wrestling eleminations of the 2007 Junior World Wrestling Championships were held today as top seed Iran had laughter and tears in the 50, 60, 74 and 96kg events.

Mehdi Taghavi, champion of the 60kg event last year, beat Jabrayil Hasanov of Azerbaijan 2-1, 1-0 to cruise into the final and will take on Redzhep Ismail of Bulgaria for the title.

Turk Ahmet Peker, who won both the 2006 World Junior Championships and the 2007 European Championships, lost to Dashpuntsag Tulga of Mongolia 2-1 in the 50kg quarterfinals.

Later Dashpuntsag Tulga beat Hassan Rahimi of Iran in the semi, sending Ahmet Peker into the revival.

Giorgi Makishvili, runner up of the 2006 Junior World Championships, lost to German Samet Duelger with two 1-0 in the 60kg 1/8 round and was ejected from the event with Samet Duelger's loss in the quarterfinals.

Turk Riza Yildirim, silver medalist of the 2005 Junior World Championships and bronze medalist of the 2006 junior worlds, fell to Valerii Andriitsev of Ukraine 2-1 in the men's freestyle 96kg class.

Russia had two wrestlers in the finals as Denis Tsargush and Alen Zaseev made to the 74kg and 96kg respectively.

Host China only got Zhong Tengxi qualifying for the 50kg bronze-medal match while Su Lide, Zhan Zhaoquan and Jiang Weishou all failed to go further in the 60kg, 74kg and 96kg classes.

2006 junior worlds runners-up Iran and bronze medalists Turkey each sent one wrestler into the final phase with Ayhan Sucu of Turkey in the 74kg and Mehdi Taghavi of Iran in the 60kg.

Finals slated for this evening:

50kg:
Ohan Gikinyan (Armenia) vs. Dashpuntsag Tulga (Mongolia)

60kg:
Mehdi Taghavi (Iran) vs. Redzep Ismail (Bulgaria)

74kg:
Denis Tsargush (Russia) vs. Ahan Sucu (Turkey)

96kg:
Alen Zaseev (Russia) vs. Valerii Andriitsev (Ukraine)