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Assistant coach Jared Frayer, former captain Dawid Rechul ’02 and Danielle Hobeika ’01 have all qualified for the U.S. Olympic team trials, which begin today in Indianapolis. Though there are two styles of Olympic wrestling, all three wrestlers will be competing in the freestyle competition. This type of wrestling is more similar to collegiate wrestling than Greco-Roman, the other Olympic style...
...while Rechul (96 kg.) and Hobeika (55 kg.) are considered long shots to make the American team, Frayer (60 kg.) stands as one of the favorites after placing third at the U.S. Nationals tournament in Las Vegas last month...
...Though Hobeika normally competes at the 112 lb. category—she recently took third at the U.S. National Championships in this bracket—this is not an Olympic weight class, and she has had to move...
...DANIELLE HOBEIKA...
...while Hobeika admits that the gain in weight has eliminated the pain from competing, the step up to the larger weight class has made it so that all of her competitors are bigger as well, and Hobeika admits that her chances of making the Olympic team are slim...