Celebrating Wyatt Medlin's Double-Gold U17 Pan Am Championships!

 

By the end of it, Wyatt Medlin needed a whole hospital to care for him. After Greco his head was bandaged up in the style of Rocky Balboa. After Freestyle, he had added a bloody nose. But along with those medical drawbacks came great achievements: Gold Medals in both the Freestyle and Greco disciplines at the U17 Pan Am Championships. 

Below, you see his entire first-round match in Freestyle:

Music Credit to Queens of the Stone Age for their rocker, Go with the Flow; video credit to UWW and FloWrestling for this and the video below. Neither video is to be monetized.

After a couple of additional wins, Medlin would face Canada in the Freestyle Championship Finals. The video below doesn't show all ten of the points he scored, just the big four-pointer:

Here are the USA Wrestling articles about how the American teams did in the U17 tournament, including mentions of Medlin's Golds: The Greco event, and the Freestyle event. They posted the following in the Freestyle article, and the picture after that is a snippet of the photograph that accompanies the Greco post (with some editorializing):

"Saldate was one of four American men to pick up gold medals in both Greco-Roman and freestyle this week. Illinois’ Wyatt Medlin achieved the feat at 65 kg, Oklahoma’s Joseph Jeter did so at 71 kg, and Utah's Trayvn Boger pulled the double at 110 kg."  

Original photo by Kelli Shuffler

Now that Wyatt has become an official UWW wrestler, it was time to view his official UWW wrestling page. It looks pretty sweet so far, although it could use a picture:

Congratulations to Wyatt Medlin, his proud Papa, and Washington wrestling, which keeps sending Gold Medalists to the Pan Am Championships!