| Event: | Men's freestyle 90 kg |
| Games: | 1972 Summer |
| Venue: | Messe München |
| Dates: | 27–31 August |
| Competitors: | 23 |
| Nations: | 23 |
| Gold: | Ben Peterson |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Gennadi Strakhov |
| Silvernoc: | URS |
| Bronze: | Károly Bajkó |
| Bronzenoc: | HUN |
| Prev: | 1968 |
| Next: | 1976 |
The Men's Freestyle 90 kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall.[1]
The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler. When only two or three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 5:50 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0:53 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 4 | 4 | 2:11 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 1:59 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 0.5 | 0.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 4 | 1:42 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 4 | 3:41 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 0 | Bye |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 4 | 0 | 1:38 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 8 | ||
| 4 | 4 | 8:09 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 4 | 2:45 | 0 | 0.5 | ||
| bgcolor=pink | 6.5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
| bgcolor=pink | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 5 | 2 | 2 | bgcolor=pink | 6 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| 3 | Bye |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=pink | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 1.5 | 0.5 | 3.5 | bgcolor=pink | 7.5 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 7.5 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 4.5 | ||||
| 3 | 2 | 2 | 2.5 | |||||
| 2 | 0 | 1:00 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 9 | |||
| 3.5 | 0.5 | 3.5 | bgcolor=pink | 8.5 | ||||
| 5.5 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | |||||
| 4 | Bye | |||||||
| bgcolor=pink | 3 | DNA | ||||||
| bgcolor=pink | 3 | DNA |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 4 | 8:25 | 0 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| bgcolor=pink | 8.5 | 4 | 1:52 | 0 | 2.5 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 3 | bgcolor=pink | 8.5 | |||
| 4.5 | 1 | 3 | 4.5 |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2 | 2 | bgcolor=pink | 7 | |||
| 4 | 0 | 5:24 | 4 | bgcolor=pink | 7 | ||
| 3 | 0.5 | 3.5 | bgcolor=pink | 8 | |||
| 4.5 | Bye |
| TPP | MPP | Time | MPP | TPP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=pink | 8.5 | 4 | 2:41 | 0 | 4 | |||
| bgcolor=pink | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).
The tie was broken by comparing the finalists' falls records. Peterson had 3, while Strakhov had 2.