Jake Deitchler News

A very proud Angelina Deitchler, Olympian Jake Deitchler's kid sister, poses with her brother inside her third-grade classroom at Ramsey Elementary School.

Posted on August 27th, 2008 10:51 PM By Roman Augustoviz When Jake Deitchler decided last week he was not going to attend the University of Minnesota, Gophers wrestling coach J Robinson still was unconvinced.

Posted on August 20th, 2008 1:47 PM By Roman Augustoviz Jake Deitchler would have been a big plus for the Gophers wrestling program.

Olympic wrestler Jake Deitchler won't wrestle for the University of Minnesota after all.

Wrestler Jake Deitchler of the United States Wrestling team answers questions during a news conference in the Main Press Centre ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 4, 2008 in Beijing, China.

I feel like a burger right now. I've been eating a lot of McDonald's. Big Macs. Double cheeseburgers.

Admission Possible keeps living up to its name. The college admissions-prep program for low-income high school students just graduated another 566 students from 17 Twin Cities high schools -- 99 percent of whom ...

Steeve Guenot, a railway worker with little government athletic subsidy, won France's first Olympic wrestling gold medal in 84 years Wednesday by taking the Greco-Roman 66-kilogram weight.

Jake Deitchler , a kid wrestling among men, had the period won, and maybe would have won the match shortly after that.

Jake Deitchler of Ramsey wrestled what one of his coaches called "the perfect match." In his redemptive match, after losing his Olympic debut in just two periods, Deitchler outscored his second opponent yet ...

The Americans won their 28th straight Olympic game; the last loss was against the Unified Team in the semifinals of the 1992 Barcelona Games.

Greco-Deitchler,0125 Minn. teen out in Greco-Roman wrestling Eds: APNewsNow; No pronouncer available on 'Kanatbek Begaliev.'. BEIJING Minnesota teen Jake Deitchler lost two tight matches in his Olympic debut, ...

The first matches in Jake Deitchler's weight class begin at 8:30 tonight Twin Cities time.

Jake Deitchler spent Monday going through one of wrestling's trickiest rituals: making weight.

We got to opening ceremony around 6, and we were there for a while. I was dressed by 5:15 and ready to go, so I was in that outfit all night.

Quentin Wright estimated he was punched 15 times in the face during one bout and he ate the same daily combination of rice, vegetables, salad, watermelon and bread.

With all the popular tales swirling around Jake Deitchler, the young wrestler almost seems like a mythical figure, a modern-day mash-up of Paul Bunyan and Hercules with a slingshot in his pocket for good ...

Greco-Roman wrestler Jake Deitchler of Anoka, left, throws workout partner Quincy Osborn of Minneapolis during a workout in the Bierman Athletic Complex at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on Monday ...

The first high schooler to make the U.S. Olympic wrestling team since Mike Farina in 1976, "Kid Dynamite" has been the name on everyone's lips since his stunning triumph at the U.S. trials.

Sport: Greco-Roman wrestling Minnesota connection : Lives in Ramsey and graduated from Anoka High School Accolades : 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion...Second at U.S. Nationals...2008 Junior World Team ...