The U.S. men's team—Dylan Akers, Alex Buscaglia, Jake Dalton, Bryan Del Castillo, Wes Haagensen and Glen Ishino—topped the Pan American Gymnastics Championships standings in Guadalajara, Mexico tonight. Team USA bested Brazil and Canada to claim the top spot with a 352.15. (Canada and Brazil tied with 343.95 each.)

The top seven teams, which also included Columbia, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Argentina, advance to the 2011 Pan Am Games, which will also be held in Guadalajara.

The U.S. men earned nine event finals spots. Dalton, second after qualifying, and Ishino will compete on floor. Ishino leads the pommel standings (followed by former NCAA champ, Canadian Casey Sandy), where Cal teammate Del Castillo also qualified. Haagensen is the USA's lone rings finalist, while Dalton and Buscaglia advanced on vault. Buscaliga and Haagensen went one-two on high bar. (Ishino and Del Castillo, also both in the top eight, were bumped due to the two-per-country rule.) The only event the U.S. men didn't earn a finals spot was on parallel bars, where Dalton, currently 11th is the second reserve.

Top all-around honors went to the host country's Daniel Corral Barron, with  Ishino claiming silver and Brazil's Jorge Giraldo Lopez third. 2009 World team members Haagensen and Dalton finished fourth (tie) and eighth, respectively.

The women's competition begins tomorrow and the young U.S. women—Gabrielle Douglas, Brenna Dowell, Sarah Finnegan, McKayla Maroney, Sabrina Vega and two-time junior national champ Kyla Ross—are the heavy favorites in the team and all-around competitions.

USA Gymnastics announced the 12 finalists for the 2010 World Championships team on Tuesday.

The field includes all current U.S. National Team members except Vanessa Zamarripa (UCLA), who declined the World selection camp invite (see "U.S. National Team News," below, for details). Cincinnati Gymnastics' Amanda Jetter, who withdrew from Championships due to injury, successfully petitioned to the National Team and World selection camp.

Also set to attend the first of two selection camps September 13-18 at the Karolyi Ranch near Houston …

National Champ Rebecca Bross (WOGA, pictured), Mackenzie Caquatto (Legacy Elite), Chelsea Davis (Texas Dreams), Kytra Hunter (Hill's), Mattie Larson (AOGC), Aly Raisman (Brestyan's), Alicia Sacramone (Brestyan's), Samantha Shapiro (AOGC), defending World Champ Bridget Sloan (Sharp's), Morgan Smith (Brandy Johnson's) and Cassie Whitcomb (CGA).

Based on performances at the September camp, a field of no less than 8 of the 12 athletes above will be invited to the second and final selection camp, October 3-6. (Theoretically all could be back for camp two.) The women's team and coaching staff will be announced following the final camp assessment. The U.S. delegations are set to depart for the Netherlands October 9.

The men's World team was named at the Championships and will consist of: Chris Brooks (Oklahoma), Chris Cameron (Michigan), Jonathan Horton (Cypress), Steven Legendre (Oklahoma), Danell Leyva (Universal) and Brandon Wynn (Ohio State). Paul Ruggeri (Illinois) is the alternate. The men's coaching staff will be Vitaly Marinich (head coach) and Tom Meadows (asst. coach).

NCAA National Champ, and newly minted U.S. National Team member, Vanessa Zamarripa, will not vie for a 2010 World team spot, UCLA coach Valorie Kondos Field announced Wednesday.

"Vanessa has qualified for U.S. National Team and we have thoroughly gone over the packet of what the responsibilities are for accepting the position on the team," Kondos Field said. "We have discussed with [National Team Coordinator] Martha (Karolyi) that she is really not in a position to, gymnastically even, go to the World training camp and to make a run for that team because we need to work on her Start Values."

Zamarripa performed a new Cheng Fei vault (round-off, half-on, layout Rudi off) at the Championships and is continuing to train a Yurchenko double twist as a planned second effort for event final scenarios, potentially giving her Team USA's highest Start Values on that event.

Zamarripa successfully made the 6.5 Start Value effort—the highest D-score in the competition, on any event—on day one (one tenth out of bounds deduction), but put a knee down on her day two effort. The UCLA junior finished second on vault and eighth overall at USAs.

"It isn't as consistent, obviously, as Martha would want it to be to take her to Worlds," Kondos Field said of Zamarripa’s vault. "Martha was very up front and clear with us about that, which [associate head coach] Chris (Waller) and I greatly appreciate. There was no gray area. Martha said she needs a good six months now training that vault and doing it in pressure situations … and we feel exactly the same way."

Zamarripa, a former Level 10 Champion, is planning to attend the November National Team camp prior to the start of the 2011 NCAA season and continue her Elite quest alongside UCLA teammates Lichelle Wong (sophomore) and incoming freshmen Olivia Courtney and 2008 Olympian Samantha Peszek, all of whom hope to continue their Elite careers while competing in college. (UCLA signee Mattie Larson, the silver medalist at USAs, has decided to defer college competition for the time being.)

"We had a very good discussion with [USA Gymnastics staff members] Martha, Kathy Kelly and Steve Rybacki about this," Kondos Field said of her furthering her team's Elite goals. "Martha was very enthusiastic about discussing the NCAA rules and how we could work together to make sure young athletes don't have to choose between college and Elite competition. I think Martha was actually excited about working together towards this goal.”

In men's National Team news …

In addition to the 15 athletes selected for the U.S. senior National Team following the U.S National Championships in Hartford, Conn., 2008 Olympic medalists Joey Hagerty and Kevin Tan were added to the U.S. National Team by the Men's Program Committee in "unranked and unfunded" positions last week.

Championships was Hagerty's first major test following December shoulder surgery, while Tan, who also underwent shoulder surgery in 2009, has struggled with a series of problems this season, including a forearm issue and a minor ankle sprain suffered during Championships training that prevented him from performing on floor and vault.

Tan and Hagerty, now 28, are currently the oldest members of the U.S. National Team. (Tan will be 29 on September 24.)