2008 Olympics - Beijing, China
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UPDATED: Link to live video of Jake Deitchlers opening round matches
UPDATED: Jake Deitchlers 1st round match will be at 9:00pm MN time against 2006 World Silver medalist Kanatbek Begaliev of Kyrgyzstan. He will wrestle on Mat A which will be video feed number 1 in the wrestling on nbcolympics.com. If Deitchler wins that bout, he will face the winner of the match between 2004 Olympic champion and reigning World Champion Farid Mansurov of Azerbaijan and Armen Vardanyan of Ukraine at approximately 9:40 our time on mat A. Also in Deitchler's half of the bracket are 2005 World champion Nikolay Gergov of Bulgaria and 1997 World champion Seref Eroglu of Turkey
Link to Ali Bernard opening round matches live video
Ali Bernards opening round matches will be contested in the session of WFS 72KG that begins at 8:30PM on Saturday evening HERE IN MN...that is 9:30am on Sunday morning in China. Click on this link to be taken to the nbcolympics.com live video feed of these matches. This site will be updated to include the exact time of his 1st round match as well as the mat it will be on as soon as the pairings are released on Saturday morning MN time.
Official Olympic Results Page
Results for 2008 Olympic wrestling as well as draws, mat assignments, etc.
Jake and Ali in Beijing
A few random photos of our Minnesota wrestlers at the Olympics. Photos courtesy of themat.com.
Minnesota's 2008 Olympians!
Congratulations to Jake Deitchler and Ali Bernard and good luck in Beijing! Opening Ceremonies are 8/8/08...watch for these two stars on NBC that night! To order your Jake Deitchler or Ali Bernard t-shirts click on their website links. www.jake2008olympian.com www.alibernard.com
1996 Olympic Silver Medalist Brandon Paulson
Brandon Paulson is a former MN Storm wrestler who won both World and Olympic Silver Medals. Growing up in Anoka, MN Brandon competed in youth tournaments at all levels within the MN/USA organization. Brandon won both Freestyle and Greco-Roman State titles at every level to go along with his 15 National Championships.
