- Dake beats Burroughs in two straight matches to win 74lb spot
- 2012 Olympic and four-time world champion to miss Olympics
- J’den Cox, 2016 Olympic bronze winner, disqualified from trials
Kyle Dake ended Jordan Burroughs’ decade of dominance in American wrestling, making the Olympics for the first time with a sweep in the men’s freestyle 74kg finals at the US trials Saturday night.
Dake posted 3-0 and 3-2 decisions over the 2012 Olympic gold medalist and four-time world champion who had dominated his weight division.