Aug 27
Dennis Hall, a 1995 World Champion and 1996 Olympic Silver Medalist, has been named the new head coach at the U.S. Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan. Hall, a stalwart on the Greco-Roman scene through the 1990s, will lead the Greco-Roman athletes in a post vacated earlier this year by Ivan Ivanov.
For Hall, a Wisconsin native, the journey is two-fold. First is to continue to build world-level Greco-Roman athletes from the USOEC, and the second, to finish his degree.
List to what Hall has to say about his new post.
R.C. Johnson was set to head to Augsburg College to wrestle and play football after graduating high school in the Twin Cities. Then, four days before school started, he got some information from Northern Michigan about its fledgling USOEC Greco-Roman program. 
Coming out of high school, Spenser Mango was set to go to Division II Truman State. Then Ivan Ivanov started pestering Mango. Then he started doing it more. Then more. Of course, all this was taking place in Fargo, N.D., at the Junior Nationals. When Ivanov got a chance to show Mango what Northern Michigan had to offer, the career of the St. Louis native changed forever. 
Brandon Paulson took home the silver medal in the 1996 Olympic Games and later, a silver in the 2001 World Championships. At the World Team Trials, Paulson was named USA Wrestling’s Greco-Roman Coach of the Year. What does Paulson have to say about Greco wrestling in Minnesota, his career and his coaching prowess?
In 2002, Dremiel Byers won a Greco-Roman World Championshp. In 2007, his bronze medal match at 120kg helped the U.S. win the team title at the World Championships. In 2008, Byers made his first Olympic team. Now it’s 2009 and Byers is fresh off making yet another world team. But who is Dremiel Byers? Why does the Army’s World Class Athlete Program have success? Byers explains it all with a big smile. 
Steve Fraser modestly states that he was only the first U.S. wrestler to win an Olympic Gold in Greco-Roman because he “was the only one wrestling that day.” Now, 25 years after winning the country’s first gold in Greco, Fraser is the head coach of the U.S. Greco-Roman National Team and preps to see who will be representing the nation at the World Championships in Denmark in September. 
Jason Bryant of Wrestling 411 sat down with 2008 Greco-Roman Olympian Jake Deitchler on Friday at Augsburg College as the soon-to-be Golden Gopher talked about his decision to return to Minnesota and become a full-time college athlete. 
Hi everyone, my name is Nate Engel, I train at the United States Olympic Education Center in Marquette, Mich., and I’m representing the USA at 55kg in Greco-Roman in the Pan American Championships in Maracaibo, Venezuela. 
Fresh off a championship in Greco-Roman at the U.S. Nationals, Harry Lester joined Wrestling 411 on Thursday to talk about his comeback, the move up in weight and his decision to focus on Greco rather than chase the “glory” of freestyle and NCAA wrestling. Lester, surrounded by friends in Las Vegas, gave wrestling fans a great insight on how his mind works. 
Chris Pendleton, assistant coach at Oklahoma State, talks about his career in Stillwater, coaching and the season gone by for the Cowboys. Pendleton provided a spirited commentary on wrestling, his toughest opponents and the best Mexican restaurant in Stillwater. 
