Provisor doubles up on Pan Am medals with freestyle gold
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by Taylor Miller, USA Wrestling
LIMA – USA’s two men’s freestyle athletes of the day followed up an impressive U.S. women’s performance with a pair of gold medals from Mark Hall and Ben Provisor.
Two-time Greco Olympian Provisor stepped into the U.S. freestyle lineup at 92 kg after World and Olympic bronze medalist J’den Cox became sick and was unable to compete.
Just one day after claiming Pan Am bronze in Greco-Roman, Provisor teched his way through the 92 bracket, which is six kilograms heavier than where he competed the previous day. In his final bout of round-robin action, the 2017 World Team member served up a 10-0 victory over Mexico’s Esdras Lopez to seal the gold.
2017 Junior World champion won his first Pan Am medal, winning the 79 kg bracket. In the finals the Nittany Lion wrestler went head-to-head with another NCAA athlete, Puerto Rico’s Ethan Ramos, an All-American for North Carolina who just wrapped up his collegiate career.
Hall shut out Tar Heel with a 6-0 decision to claim his third win of the day.
Pan American competition continues with the remaining men’s freestyle weights (57, 61, 65, 70, 74, 86, 97 and 125). Action begins at 10 a.m. ET live on Trackwrestling.com.
SENIOR PAN-AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
At Lima, Peru, May 3-6
Men’s freestyle results
79 kg
GOLD - Mark John HALL II (USA) df. Ethan Adrian RAMOS (PUR), 6-0
BRONZE - Santiago MARTINEZ RESTREPO (COL) win by forfeit Rashji Leonardo MACKEY (BAH)
BRONZE - Shawn Kenneth DAYE FINLEY (CAN) df. Marcos Roberto QUESADA MARTINEZ (PER), fall 1:13
92 kg
GOLD - Benjamin Errol PROVISOR (USA)
SILVER - Esdras Carlos LOPEZ PEREZ (MEX)
BRONZE - Dalton James WEBB (CAN)
U.S. men’s freestyle results
79 kg/174 lbs. – Mark Hall (Apple Valley, Minn./Nittany Lion WC) - GOLD
WIN Rashji Mackey (Bahamas), win by forfeit
WIN Santiago Martinez Restrepo (Colombia), 10-1
WIN Ethan Ramos (Puerto Rico), 6-0
92 kg/202 lbs. – Ben Provisor (State College, Pa. /New York AC/Nittany Lion WC) - GOLD
WIN Dalton Webb (Canada), 11-0
WIN Fabio Conceicao Rodrigues (Brazil), 11-0
WIN Grajales (Peru), win by forfeit
WIN Esdras Lopez Perez (Mexico), 10-0
