The competition held with an elimination system of three or four wrestlers in each pool, with the winners qualifying for the quarterfinals, semifinals and the final by way of direct elimination.
^ abcTied on the number of wins by fall and superiority. Technical points were used to determine the pool winner. Galstyan and Semenov were ranked by their head-to-head result: ARM 3–1 RUS.
Manuchar Kvirkvelia was ejected from the competition for unsportsmanlike conduct after he started a brawl following the end of his first round bout with Şeref Eroğlu.
Kim In-sub and Parviz Zeidvand were disqualified after they both failed to appear for the fifth-place match.