High School Senior Jake Deitchler Upsets Harry Lester to Make Olympic Team

Monday, June 16, 2008 Wrestling News, Greco-Roman Wrestling 0 comments

Jake Deitchler Celebrates Olympic Trials Win - image by Jonathan Ferrey, Getty ImagesJake Deitchler has done what many had thought impossible .. he has made the Olympic Greco-Roman team, which heads to Beijing in August.  Not only did he do it as a recent high school graduate (he is 18 and graduated in April), but he also beat Harry Lester -- considered one of the best Greco-Roman wrestlers in the world at any weight.

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