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Having fielded questions from Sports Illustrated, been interviewed on ESPN2 and featured on the sports cover for Newsday—Long Island’s local newspaper—it seemed that by Sunday afternoon Harvard wrestler Jesse Jantzen was content with the attention he had received for his NCAA title and Most Outstanding Wrestler Award...
...that changed about an hour into his flight from St. Louis, when the captain came over the loudspeaker to announce to the cabin that a certain celebrity—the inconspicuous Jantzen, sporting street clothes and two black eyes—was sitting amongst them...
...pilot went on to explain to the captive audience about Jantzen’s accomplishments, after which the plane burst into applause for the Harvard history maker. And while Jantzen may have been trying to make himself as invisible as possible as the list of his accolades came blaring over the loudspeaker, coach Jay Weiss made sure that everyone on board knew who he was, reaching across the aisle to raise Jantzen’s arm into...
This was just one of several bizarre Hollywood moments that Jantzen experienced during the crazy 24-hour period after his epic performance this weekend, the climax of which came in his final bout as a collegiate wrestler, when he beat Oklahoma State’s No. 2 Zack Esposito in the last round of the NCAA tournament...
...this point it is the pinnacle,” Jantzen said about the title. “This is a goal I set out to do and it’s obviously something [that] doesn’t always happen and I’m real fortunate...