Mason Parris to Compete for Spot on USA World Team

Parris will face a familiar foe as he attempts to make the team.

Mason Parris. Photo by UM Athletics.

(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) - Mason Parris will get another shot at Gable Steveson. 

Parris, a Lawrenceburg native and recent NCAA National Champion, will compete at Final X on Saturday, June 10 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. 

He is among 60 of the top wrestlers in the U.S. that will be competing to determine the 2023 U.S. Senior World Teams in all three Olympic disciplines. 

The top two U.S. athletes in each weight class will compete in a best-of-three series in Final X to determine who will wrestle at the 2023 Senior World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. 

For Parris, he will meet a familiar foe in Gable Steveson in the Men's Freestyle 125 kg weight class. 

Steveson, an Olympic gold medalist, is 5-0 against Parris, including a win in the 2021 National Championship. 

Parris is coming off the best year of his wrestling career. He went 33-0 as a fifth-year senior and captured the NCAA heavyweight title for the first time in his college career. Of his 33 win, 17 came against nationally ranked opponents. He earned 21 bonus wins with 11 falls, three technical falls and seven major decisions.

In March, Parris won the Hodge Trophy, which is college wrestling's equivalent of the Heisman Trophy. 

There are a variety of options for Final X wrestling-only event tickets, with prices starting at $40 on Ticketmaster.

Benefit tickets and sponsorship packages (wrestling event plus exclusive after-party celebration access), that also provide the best wrestling-event seats, are available at give.btsny.org/beatthestreetsbenefit2023. For more information on ticket packages, email Katrin Pokalyukhin at katrin@btsny.org.

Proceeds from Benefit tickets and sponsorship packages will directly help BTSNY, which provides a safe, positive atmosphere for student-athletes to learn the essential life lessons of discipline, perseverance, self-reliance, humility and a strong work ethic through wrestling.

Final X, presented by Tezos
At Prudential Center, Newark, N.J., Saturday, June 10

Men’s Freestyle Matchups At 2023 Final X
57 kg: *Thomas Gilman vs Zane Richards
61 kg: Vito Arujau vs Nahshon Garrett
65 kg: *Yianni Diakomihalis vs Nick Lee
70 kg: *Zain Retherford vs Tyler Berger
74 kg: *Kyle Dake vs Jason Nolf
79 kg: *Jordan Burroughs vs Chance Marsteller
86 kg: *David Taylor vs Aaron Brooks
92 kg: Michael Macchiavello vs Zahid Valencia
97kg: *Kyle Snyder vs J’den Cox
125 kg: Gable Steveson vs Mason Parris
*Denotes 2022 World Medalist

Women’s Freestyle Matchups At 2023 Final X
50 kg: *Sarah Hildebrandt vs Audrey Jimenez
53 kg: *Dominique Parrish vs Katie Gomez
55 kg: Alisha Howk vs Jacarra Winchester
57 kg: *Helen Maroulis vs Xochitl Mota-Pettis
59 kg: Michaela Beck vs Jennifer Page
62 kg: *Kayla Miracle vs Adaugo Nwachukwu
65 kg: Mallory Velte vs Macey Kilty
68 kg: Forrest Molinari vs Emma Bruntil
72 kg: *Amit Elor vs Joye Levendusky
76 kg: Kennedy Blades vs Adeline Gray
*Denotes 2022 World Medalist

Men’s Greco-Roman Matchups At 2023 Final X
55 kg: Brady Koontz vs Dalton Duffield
60 kg: Dalton Roberts vs Ildar Hafizov
63 kg: Hayden Tuma vs Xavier Johnson
67 kg: Robert Perez III vs Alejandro Sancho
72 kg: Justus Scott vs Patrick Smith
77 kg: Kamal Bey vs Aliaksandr Kikiniou
82 kg: Spencer Woods vs Ryan Epps
87 kg: Alan Vera vs Zachary Braunagel
97 kg: Josef Rau vs Christian Dulaney
130 kg: Cohlton Schultz vs Adam Coon