NEW YORK- To some, it's devastating. To others, it's just another match, but to Jenny Wong and Sally Roberts, it meant something.    The two members of the U.S. women's freestyle team had just shaken off semifinal losses in the World Championships of Freestyle Wrestling Sunday morning in Madison Square Garden.    Neither folded in the match following, with Wong, wrestling at 51kg, winning in overtime and Roberts, wrestling at 59kg, scoring a fall at 5:36 as both took home bronze medals in their first World championship.    "This is great, it's more overwhelming though. Being able to come back from that loss was important to me," Wong said.    Wong bested Alena Kareisha of Belarus 3-2 and scored the deciding point when Kareisha broke her grip quickly in the overtime period.     "We work on it (the clinch) on a daily basis," Wong said.    U.S. Women's National team coach Terry Steiner said, "We haven't been in too many (clinches), but we know that's an important area and one of the areas we cover."    Wong was a bit worried after Kareisha displayed a theatrical performance trying to get a point across that she could not clinch over Wong's lock.    "I was kind of worried, I mean you never know what the ref is going to call (in that situation)," Wong said.     The semifinal loss is always one of the most devastating in wrestling, many wrestlers "bag it" and just go home with a lower medal, mainly since there's a feeling of "I can't win gold, so I won't wrestle."    Not the case with the U.S. women.    "You just have to drag yourself away from it and wrestle," Wong said about her semifinal loss to Russia's Natalia Karamchakova.    Roberts' 7-5 semifinal loss to Russia's Natalia Ivashko had it's own ups and downs. Roberts fell behind 7-0, only to rally within 7-5, scoring a flurry of points in the final minute but came up two points short.    "It's really upsetting that people know how hard I've trained and how hard I've worked and I go out and lose," Roberts said.    Roberts is quick to point out a deciding factor in the sport.    "The ability to rebound and be successful and improve on what you can do… that's wrestling," she said.    Roberts choked away any detrimental emotions following her loss.    "All I wanted to do was cry on the phone to my mom. But crying would only make it worse, so I got focused."    Wong, a former cheerleader in high school, won't be cheering for any football players anymore, instead she, and Roberts alike, will be cheered by thousands at Madison Square Garden with their third place medals resting around their necks.    "This is my first medal, but not my last!" exclaimed Roberts.    Third place still shines.