NEW DELHI: After several protesting wrestlers pulled out of the Zagreb Open, the remaining lot of the men and women freestyle and greco-roman grapplers selected for the season's first ranking series event have been finding it difficult to secure visas for Croatia owing to multiple factors, including a very little gap between the start of the tournament on Wednesday and the processing of their applications at the European nation's VFS centre here.
It's been learnt that five men's freestyle wrestlers – Aman (57kg), Pankaj Malik (61kg), Sagar Jaglan (74kg), Sahil Sehrawat (97kg), Dinesh Dhankar (125kg) — and chief coach Jagminder Singh, along with some female freestyle participants, flew out of India in the wee hours of Tuesday for Croatia. Those who didn't get visas included Vicky (86kg), Sujeet (65kg) and Jonty Kumar (86kg).
