For the first time since 2008, the U.S. Olympic Team will have an Iowa flavor -- former Iowa wrestler Dan Dennis, a two-time All-American at 133 lbs, beat Tony Ramos, 2-1 and 10-0, in the Best-of-Three Championship Series at 57 KG. The wins mean that Dennis will be the United States wrestler at 57 KG at the Summer Olympics in Rio this August.
Dennis' win was bittersweet, which was always going to be the case after an Iowa versus Iowa match-up in the finals -- one man would earn the opportunity of a lifetime, while the other would miss out on something he'd been working towards for years -- but it became even moreso in the aftermath of the matches when Ramos made some very contentious comments after his losses.