The loser is eliminated and ranked according to the classification points marked, except wrestlers who lost against one of the finalists as they take part in the repechage for the 3rd or 5th places.

After the weigh-in, in case a wrestler, without medical advice signed by the UWW doctor or the competition's doctor and without advising the competition secretariat, does not present himself to his opponent when his name is called, he will be disqualified and not placed. His opponent will win the match.

If the UWW doctors can prove that a wrestler simulates an injury for political reasons to avoid competing against his opponent, he will be disqualified and not placed.

If a wrestler commits an obvious offence against fair play within the spirit and concept of total and universal wrestling enunciated by UWW, and openly cheats, commits a serious error or engages in brutality, he will be disqualified immediately from the competition and eliminated by a unanimous decision of the officiating team. In this situation, he will automatically be placed last in the ranking, whiteout any rank and the note "Dsq" near to his name.

If two wrestlers are disqualified for brutality during the same match, they will be eliminated as above. The pairing for the following round will not be modified. The wrestler supposed to meet one of the disqualified wrestlers wins the match.

If two semi-finalists are disqualified for brutality during same match, they will be eliminated and their losers in quarter-final will compete in semi-final and repechage group will be modified regarding result of this semifinal match.

If this qualification perturbs the ranking in a final match, the following wrestlers will move up the table to establish the final classification.

If the two finalists are disqualified, then it will be necessary to make the bout between the two bronze medallists to determine the 1st and the 2nd place. All others participants will go up in the ranking, the two in 5th position will become 3rd.

In the case where a wrestler is disqualified for the entire competition, all his upcoming matches will be lost by default and he will be automatically placed last of his category or group without rank.

Ranking in the event of doping violations

In case of positive doping control, the wrestler will be disqualified, and he will automatically be placed last in the ranking, without any rank and the note "DSQ" near to his name.

If the 1st or 2nd ranked wrestler is disqualified for doping, the bronze medallist who lost by elimination from the repechage group of that particular finalist shall move up to second place.

The loser of the repechage group from the finalist disqualified shall move up and will receive the bronze medal. In this particular case, only one wrestler will be ranked in the 5th place in the ranking. For the rest of the ranking, the other wrestlers will move up in placing according to the ranking system.