2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/155112We show that an immersed thrice-punctured sphere in a cusped orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold is either embedded or has a single clasp in a manifold obtained by hyperbolic Dehn filling on a cusp of the Whitehead link complement.12 pages, 4 figuresGeometric Topology57Mtext