The wrestling event at the 2025 Junior Pan Am Games witnessed a few nail-biting faceoffs with American wrestlers, including Bo Bassett and Mitchell Mesenbrink, topping the freestyle categories on Day 3 of the event (wrestling). Six out of five freestyle wrestling categories were dominated by the American wrestlers.
Bassett outpowered Puerto Rico's Eligh Rivera in the 65kg with an 11-0 win. Mesenbrink defeated U23 Pan American champion Orislandy Perdomo Brooks to secure the 74kg title. Rocco Welsh, Tommy Dineen, and Lucas Stoddard clinched the 86kg, 97kg, and 125kg categories, respectively. Dineen defeated Darrell Lee Galloso in a striking 10-0 technical fall.
Men's freestyle wrestling results at the 2025 Junior Pan Am Games
The results of the men's freestyle wrestling event at the 2025 Junior Pan Am Games are given below.
57 kg
Gold – Vladimir Vila Frometa (Cuba)
Silver – Charlie Farmer (United States)
Bronze – Adrian Samano (Puerto Rico)
4th – Javier Tonita Charriez (Canada)
5th – Jose Falcon Reyes (Venezuela)
6th – Juan Valerio Delgado (Dominican Republic)
7th – Juan Montiel Montiel (Paraguay)
65 kg
Gold – Bo Bassett (United States)
Silver – Eligh Rivera (Puerto Rico)
Bronze – Victor Parra Roman (Venezuela)
Bronze – Diego Peraza Aguilar (Mexico)
5th – Diego Villalba Pereira (Paraguay)
5th – Juset Martinez Deprestre (Cuba)
7th – Wilfredo Lopez (Paraguay)
8th – Jose Benites Vasquez (Peru)
74 kg
Gold – Mitchell Mesenbrink (United States)
Silver – Orislandy Perdomo Brooks (Cuba)
Bronze – Tyler Tracy (Jamaica)
Bronze – Arnoldo Proboste (Argentina)
5th – Joao Maldonado Romero (Paraguay)
5th – Ricardo Oyoque Vasquez (Venezuela)
7th – Tanner Peake (Puerto Rico)
8th – Jhon Zambrano Encalada (Ecuador)
9th – Juan Gomez Hernandez (Dominican Republic)
86 kg
Gold – Rocco Welsh (United States)
Silver – Geannis Garzon Tamayo (Cuba)
Bronze – Max Franca Magalhaes De Almeida (Brazil)
Bronze – Cesar Ubico Estrada (Guatemala)
5th – Juan Cardozo Ibata (Colombia)
5th – Jeremy Urrieta Velasquez (Venezuela)
7th – Ricardo Salinas (Puerto Rico)
8th – Fernando Ramos Arce (Paraguay)
97 kg
Gold – Tommy Dineen (United States)
Silver – Darrell Lee Galloso (Cuba)
Bronze – Juan Iturriza Ruiz (Mexico)
4th – Juan Andres (Dominican Republic)
5th – Alek Ortiz Roman (Puerto Rico)
6th – Lucas Imbernon Da Silva (Brazil)
7th – Nelson Villarreal Berttis (Venezuela)
125 kg
Gold – Lucas Stoddard (United States)
Silver – Gabriel De Sousa Silva (Brazil)
Bronze – Ethan Vergara (Puerto Rico)
Bronze – Victor Perez Genere (Dominican Republic)
5th – Ivan Gomez Piris (Paraguay)
6th – Rizieri Chavez Ledesma (Mexico)
7th – Jaydon Alleyne (Barbados)
Medal Tally at the 2025 Junior Pan Am Games
Following the wrestling events at the Junior Pan Am Games, Brazil has surpassed the American squad in medal tally with 172 medals (including 69 gold, 49 silver, and 54 bronze medals). Team USA is sitting in second place with 138 medals, with 52 gold, 42 silver, and 44 bronze medals.