Cowboy RTC Returning from Pan American Championships with a Lot of Gold

Five of the six Cowboy RTC wrestlers who went to Mexico for the Pan American Championships this weekend are returning home with gold around their necks. The other has silver.

Roman Bravo-Young, Jax Forrest, LaDarion Lockett, Zahid Valencia and Wyatt Hendrickson all won their respective weight classes at the event in Monterrey, Mexico. Joey McKenna won silver.

Forrest, a high school junior committed to wrestle at Oklahoma State, earned his spot at Pan Ams after winning the Senior U.S. Open. He stormed through the 61 kg bracket in Mexico, beating his opponents by a combined score of 31-0.

Lockett, who will be a freshman at OSU next season, had a scary moment in his semifinal. As he was trying to pull Cuba’s Geannis Garzon Tamayo off the mat, Garzon Tamayo did an Undertaker-esque tombstone piledriver to Lockett, who landed awkwardly on his neck. Garzon Tamayo was disqualified for the maneuver.

Not sure I’ve seen this one before…Lockett wins by DQ pic.twitter.com/tL2ghvHtvC

— Jon Kozak (@KozakJon) May 10, 2025

Lockett was able to wrestle the final, though, where he beat Venezuela’s Anthony Jose Montero Chirinos 11-0.

Hendrickson, who closed his college career out this past season with a national championship, also cruised through the 125 kg bracket. He pinned two of his three opponents, including a huge slam and pin in the final.

WOW!! 😱 Wyatt Hendrickson ends Pan-Ams with a bang!

Massive 5-point throw and secures the pin over Canada to win gold at 125kg. 🥇🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/wQQSB9xR7g

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Bravo-Young, McKenna and Valencia didn’t do their college wrestling in Stillwater but train at the Cowboy RTC. Bravo-Young, who wrestled collegiately at Penn State, won the 57 kg bracket for Mexico. Valencia dominated the 86 kg bracket, winning all three of his bouts via tech fall. McKenna took silver at 65 kg. He fell to Argentina’s Agustin Destribats 5-4 in the final, a bout that had some controversy.