Bisek ranked No. 5 in World, the top U.S. Greco-Roman wrestler in UWW May rankings
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by Joe Mehling, USA Wrestling
2016 Olympic Team member Andy Bisek is the highest ranked American in the UWW May rankings. Photo by John Sachs, Techfall.com.
2016 Olympic Team member Andy Bisek (Colorado Springs, Colo./Minnesota Storm) highlights the four Americans listed in the United World Wrestling May rankings for Greco-Roman.
Bisek came in at No. 5 at 75 kg and will be making the trip to the Rio Olympic Games after a hard fought victory over No. 17 Geordan Speiller (Oviedo, Fla./Florida Jets) in the finals at U.S. Olympic Team Trials.
Speiller won the bronze medal at the Hungarian Grand Prix in February and followed that up with a Gold medal at the Pan American Championships.
Two-time World bronze medalist Justin Lester (Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Army WCAP) ranks No. 15 at 71 kg. Lester won gold at the Armed Forces Championships at 75 kg, but did not wrestle at the Olympic Trials.
No. 20 Cheney Haight (Colorado Springs, Colo./NYAC) makes an appearance in the rankings at 80 kg after being unranked in April. Haight won the Pan American Championships back in February. He competed at 75 kg at the Olympic Trials.
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U.S. Greco-Roman wrestlers ranked in the UWW May rankings
No. 5 at 75 kg – Andy Bisek, Colorado Springs, Colo. (Minnesota Storm)
No. 15 at 71 kg – Justin Lester, Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Army WCAP)
No. 17 at 75 kg – Geordan Speiller, Oviedo, Fla. (Florida Jets)
No. 20 at 80 kg – Cheney Haight, Colorado Springs, Colo. (New York AC)
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